October 13, 2008

Foals / Holy Fuck Covers

Author: Jade - Categories: Artists, Mp3 - Tags: ,

Holy Fuck are currently supporting Foals on their UK tour and in celebration of this meet each band have covered one of the other’s songs.

Foals have covered ‘Super Inuit’ and Holy Fuck have covered ‘Balloons’.

If you caught them on tour you could have snapped one of these bad boy 12″ along the way or you can buy one buy clicking here for a fiver.

Foals seem to have played just about every festival going this summer but iIf you haven’t seen them live then try and blag yourself a ticket for the last few days of their UK tour.

Listen To:
Holy Fuck - Balloons (Foals Cover).mp3
Foals - Super Unuit (Holy Fuck Cover).mp3

Foals On: Myspace // last.fm
Holy Fuck On: Myspace // last.fm

JLP

October 10, 2008

2008: Matt’s Favourites

Author: Matt - Categories: 2008 Roundup, Mp3 - Tags: , , , ,

Kicking off our 2008 feature, celebrating what has been another remarkable year for music, Matt explains how his tastes have widened this year.

Ok, as a relatively new music fan, I have not had a lot of experience of truly outstanding bands blowing me away. But now, thanks to NME and likesounds.com, my taste in music has completely changed and drastically widened from my favourite band of two years ago (fall out boy – no laughing please) to my many favourite bands of today. I think the best of these bands need talking about, so I’ve listed my five favourite for you here so enjoy!

The Maccabees – This quintet have been around for ages, but I only really listened to them about two months ago. They write genuinely uplifting, catchy indie songs that are capable of turning that frown upside down!
Best Track – Lego [mp3] [myspace] [Colour It In - amazon.co.uk]

Foals – These oxford dropouts have been making waves on the indie scene in 2008 and have played almost every major festival this year. They make danceable indie songs that are perfect for relaxing to after a crap day at school/work/life in general.
Best Track – Cassius [mp3] [myspace] [Antidotes - amazon.co.uk]

You Me At Six – These pop punker’s have been around for a while and are still going strong, and have recently released their debut full length LP – Take Off Your Colours – (available on slam dunk records) and are touring the country as we speak.
Best Track – The Rumour [myspace] [Take Off Your Clothes - amazon.co.uk]

Kate Nash – This very talented singer songwriter, with a very unique and confident style to her singing. Currently residing with Ryan Jarman of The Cribs (definitely not making the list) and luckily, Mr Jarman’s distinct lack of vocal ability has not rubbed off on his squeeze.
Best Track – Mariella [mp3] [myspace] [Made Of Bricks - amazon.co.uk]

The Gaslight Anthem – a very talented rock and roll/punk band from America, with influences ranging from Bruce Springsteen to 1980’s Punk. Probably the only band I have ever heard of that has received 9/10 in NME and 5/5 in Kerrang! Either they have a lot of money for journalists, or are they are very, very good. I believe it’s the latter as they really are very, very good.
Best Track – Great Expectations [mp3] [myspace] [The '59 Sound - amazon.co.uk]

If you have any opinions, or bands you think should be on this list, please leave me a comment. See You Soon!

September 15, 2008

My Radio Show Last Night

Author: Ashley - Categories: Blurb, Mp3 - Tags: , , , , ,

Firstly, good morning if your viewing this on hypem.com! Yesterday the blog aggregator accepted our site onto their list meaning that even more people can now enjoy our reviews and music (for sampling purposes of course).

Secondly, the show worked quite well last night. Here are some highlights:

Tom Williams & The Boat - Bumble Bee.mp3 (from the Got Fuel EP, www.wireboatrecordings.co.uk)
Iglu & Hartley - Jump Out Of Your Car.mp3
Little Boots - Meddle.mp3

We found out that producer Jacob would “go gay” and choose Yannis Philippakis (Foals) if he had to fall in love with someone from his iTunes. You’d think, since she’s posted on his bedroom wall, that he’d choose Hayley Williams from Paramore.

There were “bugs” in the system - Spongebob, Homer & Simon Cowell were found to be lurking between songs.

Catch the whole thing every Sunday night from 7pm (GMT) @ www.mtjr.co.uk.

May 14, 2008

Jade @ Radio One’s Big Weekend - Mote Park, Maidstone - Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th May.

Author: Jade - Categories: Artists, Gigs - Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Radio\'s Big Weekend In Maidstone

When I opened my emails a week ago it turned out that I was one of those lucky few to get tickets for Big Weekend at Mote Park Maidstone.
I actually ended up getting tickets for both Saturday and Sunday…

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