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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)

Antony Harding - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear (album)

Black Angels - Indigo Meadow (album)

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (album)

Still Corners - Strange Pleasures (album)

Savages - Silence Yourself (album)

Mikal Cronin - MC II (album)

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

Victoria and Jacob - Festival 7"

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City (album)

Sauna Youth - False Jesii Part II 7”

Lightning Bolt - Oblivion Hunter

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

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Single/Download Review

The School/ George Washington Brown
split single

Article written by Ged M - Aug 18, 2009

Slumberland’s Searching For the Now series, reaching vol 6, focuses on the UK. The School’s version of the Left Banke’s ‘And Suddenly’ is like sherbet on the tongue, a fizzy burst of multi-layered pop topped with Liz's honeyed cooing. It has the orchestrated elegance of the 60s combined with a contemporary verve that makes it the best thing they've done to date.

George Washington Brown is Pete Gofton, aka J Xaverre, aka Johnny X from Kenickie, on his lonesome on ‘End of the…’ and making a thrashy and scratchy indiepop noise, like an English relative of Wavves and No Age. The whirring synths on the more thoughtful ‘The Twin Towers’ remind you of his more experimental edge, with touches of his North Eastern muckers The Week Than Was.

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/theschoolband
http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/
http://www.myspace.com/georgewashingtonbrown