The Whiskers: "Gold Fury"

The Whiskers, one of my favourite bands to keep an eye on, have just posted a new track on their site.

Get it here

Puregroove: Shred Yr Face Special Instore

As part of the powerful combo tour of Los Campesinos, No Age and Times New Viking, one of the bands will play at Pure Groove records at 3PM on Sunday. Another band will play at Beyond Retro at 5PM and then the remaining band will play Rough Trade East at 7PM!

The tour dates (C&P from Pitchfork) below:

10-14 Brighton, England - Komedia
10-15 Liverpool, England - Academy 2
10-16 Leeds, England - Irish Centre
10-17 Dublin, Ireland - Whelans
10-18 Glasgow, Scotland - School of Arts
10-20 London, England - Electric Ballroom
10-21 Bristol, England - Fleece
10-22 Manchester, England - Academy 3

Ponytail: Officially Baltimore's Best Band

Ponytail are getting a lot of well deserved attention this year, especially in their home city of Baltimore where they've been named Best Band for the 2nd year running.

I'm not sure if I can, but if you can you should go along to see them at one of their london gigs this weekend:

20 Sep 2008 20:00	Amsersham Arms	London
22 Sep 2008 20:00	The End	London

The Information: on Vinyl

I never managed to get my hands on a copy of Becks "The Information" when it came out. I suppose I wasn't paying attention, and my flatmate had bought it anyway. But now that he's released a vinyl package...

Dead Confederate: Free MP3 online

Showing their openness, Brantley from Dead Confederate has posted a new song on their official blog hours after recording it.

I haven't listened yet (I have to leave for work shortly) but I guess he's giving it away because of the difference he outlines from their normal style.

Download - Mob Scene.mp3 (192 kbs)

Shearwater @ Rough Trade East today

Anyone free this today should try to get themselves down to Rough Trade East to catch Shearwater for free. FACT

Gigs this week -

Just got back from End of the Road festival, and realised that I need to build some blogging tempo. Still working on it, but in the meantime, here's a list of gigs for the week:

Tuesday    Sep 16         

The Dodos @ ULU
Rosie & The Goldbug @ Soho Revue
DECLAN BENNETT @ The Slaughtered Lamb
The Young Republic - 100 Club

Wednesday Sep 17         

Shearwater | The Constantines @ Bush Hall
Jim Jones Revue @ Undersolo
SMOKE FEATHERS + JACK CHESHIRE @ The Slaughtered Lamb

Thursday Sep 18         

Silhouette @ Proud Galleries
Bob Log III 100 Club

Friday    Sep 19         

ADAM MCBRIDE SMITH + THOMAS DENVER JONSSON @ The Slaughtered Lamb
Black Affair @ Fabric
Florence & The Machine @ Spitalfields
Silhouette @ The Victoria, Mile End
Sam Isaac @ Airwaves
Pete & The Pirates @ KoKo

Saturday Sep 20         

Environmental Photographer of the Year 2008 Exhibition - The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park
Marmaduke Dando @ The Black Gardenia
Trash Fashion @ Albany Theatre
Ponytail @ Astoria