Spotlight – 26: Dum Dum Girls
This is a hot tip from NYC’s Bust magazine. And I am sure as hell going to be following up tips like that. Dum Dum Girls play fuzzed-up blissed-down beautifully harmonic sun-drenched femme fuzz… have I used that word yet?… pop. The ladies understand Joey and Dee Dee because Dee Dee and Joey always understood […]
Spotlight – 25: Pens
Q. How can I resist a description like “Pens are the British girl No Age, but maybe even better” from Jessica Hopper on Twitter? A. I can’t. For now, you can go check out their MySpace page while I figure out a way to embed videos on Blogger. Here you go.
Spotlight – 24: Witch Hats
Where are my home-boys now I need them gathered around me? Where are Stevie Chick, Ben Myers, Steve Gullick, John Robb? Where are my home-girls? Where’s Jennifer Maerz, Kathleen Wilson, Jessica Hopper, Cathi Unsworth? I want to shout this band’s name from the treetops, proclaim in every fetid barroom and unfinished street in the land, […]
Spotlight – 23: No Anchor
I’ll be blunt here. These guys praised me, so I thought I’d check their shit out. Seems like I’ve been yearning for a little of this recently. My iTunes has been flickering between Pissed Jeans and Wavves, Crocodiles, recs of the flesh, Melbourne’s Witch Hats (who are Australia’s greatest rock band when The Drones are […]
Spotlight – 22: Town Bike
Um. Oh. Wait a sec… I was going to wholeheartedly recommend this, because every decade needs a new Helen Love, a new Bangs – plus, this bunch match the sheer 60s pop ramalama delight of Ramones to the gorgeously outdated harmonies of Redd Kross or Teenage Fanclub on a song like ‘Hey Hey Ho’ or […]
Spotlight – 21: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
They’re a little bit Singing Loins. They’re a little bit Tiger Lillies (except I really didn’t like their act when I caught them at the Spiegeltent last year in Brisbane). They’re a little bit… what’s that band… Gogol Bordello. Very smart, very droll lyrics. Very theatrical. Very philanthropic. Lots of accordion and background shouting and roustabout […]
Spotlight – 20: Hello Cuca
You know already, of course. At least, I expect you know already. I mean, you must know already. Don’t you? Whatever. Even if you do know already, you might not be prepared for the following video, which rocks so fucking hard it’s raising blisters on my fingers as I type. (Taken from Plan B #45) Hello […]
Spotlight – 19: Las Kellies
“Horses are running everywhere/While I eat my cornflakes/I prepare to go to the beach/Which one I will choose?” This morning, a package arrived from Nottingham, from a former Plan B writer. I love shit like this. Makes life totally worthwhile, when friends you haven’t even ever met send you stuff just cos they think you […]
Spotlight – 18: Super Wild Horses
By Bangs, there’s so much great stuff out there waiting to be unearthed. A reader sent me the link through to this – primal garage rock, played just the way I like it. Vim, vigour, vitality, with viccisitude and a little bit of Bo Diddley, good and grungy (in the old-fashioned, 1988 Happy Mondays/1957 Johnny Burnette, […]
