starlings of the slipstream.

their myspace background is epileptic fit enducing but i reckon their songs more than make up for that. Darlings Of The Splitscreen are a three piece from Sheffield. they make bleepy bloopy music. like a darker, sexier, more sinister To My Boy. and it's fucking addictive. they've just re-recorded forthcoming single 'Hiroshima' and put that along with the b-side 'Turn Around' up for freeeeeeeee download on their myspace page and they're sounding bloody brilliant. it's like someone's left Blondie and Hot Chip in a blender then drank the contents. check them out while you can!

Darlings Of The Splitscreen - Turn Around
Darlings Of The Splitscreen - Touched By Telepathy (Modernaire Remix)

black truths.

i guess black is the new.. erm.. black.

aside from the slightly cringey matching outfits White Lies gave a pretty stellar performance on Jools Holland last week. there's been an insane amount of hype about the band over the past couple of months and i've never really understood why until now.. ish. i was pleasently surprised with how well they came across on TV (or rather, on BBC iPlayer) because i feel they sound a bit flat on record. i'm not totally convinced but it's a start.

White Lies - Unfinished Business (live on Jools Holland)
White Lies - Death (live on Jools Holland)

bonjour.

clearly should have won for the golf cart action alone!

does anyone ever think their country is seriously going to win? i'm surprised England even came last. we should have been relegated.

drowning.

band splittttt.

Help She Can't Swim have run out of energy waiting for a lifeboat to come and rescue them.

the Brighton four piece have said they're going to continue making music post-HSCS, just not together. read the myspace blog here.

i guess doggy paddling isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Help She Can't Swim - Are You Feeling Fashionable?

sigh.

and so in the wake of American Idol season 7 another excruitiatingly boooooooring 'RAAAAAAAWK STAAAAAR' decends upon the world.

lucky for you and me the US of A does spout out numerous bands worthy of deafening your ear drums just that little bit more.

last Saturday i went off to Leeds to Nastyfest avec Carl @ Illegal Tender who has done a write up hereeee. i managed to miss Spondi Pradlo (who i've heard were mentaaaal) because i was busy getting lost trying to find the venue. i did however catch the rest of the bands mentioned. the one band missing are of course No Age!

there's two of them. they come from LA. blah blah blah. the point i'm trying to make is that they were fantastic on the night. and the new album 'Nouns' is amazing.

the band rattled through their set, playing a wonderfully structured set list (i was just happy as long as they played 'Boy Void'). the crowd obviously loved them as the room pretty much erupted into one giant bobbing mosh pit. it got sweaty and the band seemed to get more fraught with energy towards the end of their set.

my mum says No Age "just sound like noise" but fuck me it's a beautiful noise. if you can, go and see them. buy Nouns here.

No Age - Eraser
No Age - Sleeper Hold

OK at blogging?

tomorrow night sees the incredible Les Savy Fav descend on Kingston Upon Thames. supporting Tim Harrington and co. at the New Slang/Banquet curated event are We Are The Physics.

We Are The Physics' debut album, titled 'We Are The Physics Are OK At Music', was released this Monday. all twelve tracks are rattled through in just under half an hour. splitting at the seams with ferocious guitars and insanely catchy choruses, We Are The Physics combine their influences and talent into one hell of a brilliant album. think Ex Models' noise thrown into Devo's quirkiness, and finally glued together with the tight playing of The Futureheads.

We Are The Physics - Fear Of Words [YSI]
We Are The Physics - Networking [YSI]

if abrupt endings and a mouth watering amount of witty lyrics tickle your fancy, you'll probably love this album as much as i do. buy it here.

get nasty.

in a week and a half (roughly) the city of Leeds will be playing host to an insane amount of good bands at the one and only Nastyfest.

the line up is pant-wettingly good, and it is all costing the ridiculous sum of £12. twelve pounds for twelve hours of insanely amazing music. bargains really don't come better than that.

one of the first bands on the day's bill is hey! Panda.

hey! Panda hail from Halifax (home of the fantastic Eureka! museum), and manage to create an explosion of jerky, fast paced, post-punk/no wave noise. the four-piece accurately self describe as "dancepunk", taking influence from bands such as Death From Above, LCD Soundsystem and Q & Not U. their live demos are laced with bleeting synths and a good dose of hi-hat abuse.

hey! Panda - fingerPainting (live) [YSI]

i am rather excited to see them play! along with practically every single other band playing. what a day it's going to be. get along to it if you can. buy tickets for Nastyfest here. you can download more songs from hey! Panda at their myspace here.

hahaha.

okay okay. i promise to do proper posts again after Monday but i have GOT to tide you over with this:

i found my dad's old band on myspace. 'nuff said!

sex sells.

i WILL get round to posting about Camden Crawl. except i'm 1500 words into the 4000 i have to have finished for next Monday. so as you can imagine i'm utilising all modes of procrastination very well (wtf is that Facebook Chat thing?) and hoping the essays will do themselves. after that's done i'm 100% university free until mid September so expect a flurry of posts to keep you going through the sunshine!

for the time being..

Santogold's very charismatic frontlady (Santi White) is the epitome of cool in my eyes at the moment. i got my hands on an EP called 'Sex Sells' by her former pop-punk band Stiffed. it's very The Noisettes a la retro sounding basslines with Santi's voice smoothed out over the top and a definite dub influence. it's pretty good stuff!

Stiffed - Night-time lovin' [ysi]

i know the Santogold album has leaked. i haven't had a chance to listen yet but i've heard it's very very good!

crawling.

anyone got any recommendations as to bands i should definitely try and check out at Camden Crawl on Friday & Saturday?