If Stephen Malkmus had formed fIREHOSE with Mike Watt and George Hurley, they may have made music akin to Glasgow's COVERGIRLS. Yes, they're that good.
As names go, Ming Ming and the Ching Chings is pretty questionable. I think it's the fact that it manages to be similar to both The Ting Tings and Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong that makes it grate so.
Tom Norton reckons we'd all enjoy a Mouthful of Bees. Not literally, obviously...
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Felix Maccabee recommends the half crazed performance poet Derek Mains.
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Lewis Hingston profiles Immoral, who sound like early 90s punk rock a la Bad Religion, right down to the buzzy bee guitars.
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Ric recommends the Ed Wood style surf madness of Monsters from Mars...
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The Be Be See give us 'Artmocker' as promised in the current edition of the mag. " Our agenda is to make people dance, think, fight, fuck, laugh and cry"...
I love this tune. Like Jason Lowenstein fronting The Thermals covering Sweet Jane, with Steve Albini at the controls. In their blurb, they state "we play with passion, and that's...
Editorial incompetence at artrocker.com meant that the wrong Grates track was post earlier.
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Now then, Devendra Banhart. I've always liked his beard, but not his music. However, his new collaboration with Greg Rogrove - called Megapuss - is rather good.
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THE COVERGIRLS
Best new band in Glasgow, by a mile!
...Francis Bacon
Any more snooker cliches?
...Q65 “Revival”
Second track sounds like a more snarly mid-60s Who. Excellent.
...Q65 “Revival”
First one sounds like Sean Ryder having a flashback but second track is a killer.
...Only By The Night
once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copehagen?
...Francis Bacon
The more I watch it, the more I like it.
...Only By The Night
Sex on Fire is good once you've drunk a bottle of Maker's Mark in Copenhagen
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