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Pictures from some recent gigs we've hosted:

29 March 2013 - Brixton, London

Viv Albertine, VuVuVultures, Left Leg, Mickey Gloss, Big Wave, No Cars, Arthur Gunn, Simon Love (Pictures)

8 March 2013 - Lexington, London

R.Ring, Golden Grrrls, Slushy Guts and Equinox (Pictures)

On Our iPod

Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold (album)

Hard Skin - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

R Ring - Fallout and Fire 7”

Royal Headache - self-titled (album)

The Mariner’s Children - Sycamore EP

Can’s Ege Bamyasi played by Stephen Malkmus and Friends(album)

The Fall - Sir William Wray 7"

Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams (album)

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Conjure Man 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

Robyn Hitchcock - There Goes The Ice (2x 12")

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Frankie Rose
Thee Only One Slumberland 7”

Article written by Ged M - Oct 30, 2009

Ex-member of Shitstorm and the Vivian Girls, current member of Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose is ground zero for all musical good things to come out of Brooklyn. When I add that her solo single was recorded by Gary Olsen at Marlborough Farms and features Kyle Forrester and JB Townsend of Crystal Stilts, there are so many plus points in the first 50 words of this review that the single can’t fail to woo us – and doesn’t. ‘Thee Only One’ is fast, punky and heavy on the reverb but there’s less fuzz, more pop, combining a 60s girl group feel with a touch of Cramps-style wickedness. In contrast, ‘Hollow Life’ is spacey psychedelia, a ghostly organ droning as if playing in a deconsecrated church. She’s managed to modify her style from band to band without losing what makes it so distinctive, which is why this is so good.

Links:
http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/124
http://www.myspace.com/saintoftherose