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Posts by Jake McGowan


New breed : his clancyness & banjo or freakout

Posted on on 22/09/09 by Jake McGowan
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Eavesdropping on a phone call with these two Italian musicians, discussing a time where it was harder to be heard in the wider world, but where you were more likely to create musical bonds over a bowl of pasta.

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The new breed – no pain in pop / underwater peoples

Posted on on 27/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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We got our favorite purveyors of music from our own shores ‘No Pain In Pop’ to converse with our favorite jam-out label in the US ‘Underwater Peoples’ via the old interweb; The boys discuss having your heart in the right place for putting out deserved decent music.

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Gang gang dance – a day out in brixton

Posted on on 24/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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We caught up with Gang Gang Dance ahead of their show with Animal Collective and took them on a stroll around the rumbustious streets of Brixton, where they seemed very much at home.

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Studio visit – french

Posted on on 18/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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We took a visit to French’s illustration studio where his days are fueled by tea and only the most brutal of death metal.

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Teengirl fantasy – portofino

Posted on on 13/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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This song immediately gives me that all encompassing feeling that tends to set in at about six in the morning.

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Gentle friendly – rip static/clean breaker

Posted on on 12/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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Here is a wee taster of the vast sound this duo have been producing on their South London sound farm.

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Abe vigoda – don’t lie

Posted on on 11/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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Much like this particularly awe-inspiring kid I went to school with, “Don’t Lie” was his catchphrase – he would hold you by the ears and command you not to lie, before eating multi-coloured biros and running out the classroom to scale up the walls of the corridor.

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Smith westerns – be my girl

Posted on on 04/08/09 by Jake McGowan
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Be My Girl – Giving more then just a little nod to T-Rex and the guy we are not aloud to talk about anymore, you know… perfectly rhymes with shitter and bitter!

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Sian alice group – close to the ground

Posted on on 29/07/09 by Jake McGowan
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‘Close to The Ground’ is destined to find its place in a psychological horror movie in a scene involving possessed and rabid wild boar running through the dusk toward the orphanage. That’s my prediction anyway.

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R stevie moore

Posted on on 23/07/09 by Jake McGowan
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Famous for not being famous and as baffled as the rest of us as to why.

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