http://www.pinglewood.com RSS feed from Pinglewood.com 5 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2872.jpg It's Bleak Week so of course we are going to write about a spooky juke band named after the noise ghosts make. oOoOO cheerfully told us, "2010 is gonna be all about despair." We can't wait. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/In_A_Glass_Darkly.html 11/08/2009 13:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2871.jpg When Dan from Cough Cool and Nude Beach sent this song over we thought maybe he just likes dice, but no. It's a request for ruination. Remember, the game of life is hard to play and you're going to lose it anyway... http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/The_Sea_Inside.html 11/07/2009 18:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2870.jpg Don't lie, dude. We know He doesn't exist. There is only darkness. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/The_Blind_Watchmaker.html 11/05/2009 12:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2869.jpg Life at Pinglewood is fun. We anxiously fret away our every waking hour then plunge exhausted into grisly nightmares detailing the million different ways we will inevitably die. Did you know you are never more than half a mile from an unexploded bomb? It's true. Thanks a lot for reminding us, Secret Tones. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/The_Teardrop_Explodes.html 11/04/2009 21:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2868.jpg Me and my goth friends like to hang out in four foot deep, blood-splattered snowdrifts wearing giant leather platform boots fixed with huge slabs of iron. We do a lot of trudging. Brent from Rapid Youth knows our deal. Trudgers is his awesome solo project. Cali goths must be a lot like the Spanish goths in Camden. Black-hearted doom-mongers with excellent tans. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/Walk_A_Mile_In_My_Shoes.html 11/03/2009 21:00:00 Video : Vladislav Delay - Toive : In which ice dances and slowly dies. Catch Mr Delay at the Uni on Chapel on 12/11. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/Meltdown.html 11/03/2009 20:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2866.jpg Under the numb November night, Dirty Beaches crawl slowly from our static-tuned television, drag their wretched bones towards us, and mutter dark, urgent warnings. This song is scary, dudes. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/The_Cruel_Sea.html 11/02/2009 21:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/images/2865.jpg Bleak week begins. Feel our pain. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/November/Blues_Skies_For_Black_Hearts.html 11/02/2009 20:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2864.jpg Apologies for the lack of action here this week. We've been temporarily dragged out of the internet. Normal service will resume on Monday. In the meantime, listen to my radio debut on the BBC Radio 1 Review Show with the awesome Nihal, Example and Dev. Sorry Joy, did my best. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Brief_Respite.html 10/29/2009 10:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2863.jpg Tonight, I'm a guest on the BBC Radio 1 Review Show hosted by Nihal. It's live at 9pm. Tune in and hear me try desperately not to swear. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Talk_Talk.html 10/27/2009 10:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2862.jpg Because I am so intensely awesome in all ways vanity is my favourite sin and, yes, I do think this song is about me. Celestial Bodies is Ferry from Semifinalists' new band and their songs twinkle like tiny galaxies. He and the cosmos are one, but what's that giant space baby floating behind him? Don't worry, dudes, it's just my ego. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Ocean_Of_Emptiness.html 10/22/2009 19:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2861.jpg The name Warm Hands is a little misleading here. Instead of holding you tight as the cold sets in, he proffers creepy, skeletal jams with foreboding titles like Darker and Anxiety. When me and my chainsaw are sitting alone in a cabin at the end of the world waiting for the zombies to attack again, this is what we'll listen to. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Last_Embrace.html 10/21/2009 10:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2858.jpg When His Clancyness sends us songs they invariably end up on here, such is their unswerving awesomeness. And this summer we visited a pretty place called Malsescine on his recommendation. He's a woozy troubadour and our personal travel adviser. He basically rules. Here is his latest offering, which lilts and laps at your toes like vast and gentle waters. You can catch His Clancyness's live UK debut at best bud Banjo Or Freakout's single launch on 27/10 and listen to those two old pals shooting the breeze over at Platform. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Luce_Solare.html 10/19/2009 10:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2857.jpg Dan Svizeny is our kind of dude. As Cough Cool he writes woozy songs for sweethearts and epic jams for the rest of us. This track is from a Woven Tones split with the amazing Wild Safari. After the jump Dan extols the many virtues of Ween. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/321_Cough_Cool.html 10/15/2009 15:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2856.jpg Blood Orange is a playful new project from the ever-dexterous Dev Hynes. He sent us two new tracks for your delectation, a six-stringed flight through the neon-stripped night, and a sunrise cruise through the catacombs of Queens. He calls this a "wanky experiment" and the results are empirically awesome. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Sip_The_Juice.html 10/14/2009 19:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2855.jpg For this week's D2P I caught up with the fantastic Fair Ohs. We spoke about dude culture and a variety of dudes. Read it and listen to their awesome Almost Island at The FADER. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/My_Friends_Are_Tough.html 10/13/2009 14:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2854.jpg This song opens with a Matthew McConaughey sample so of course we're going to love it, but its charm doesn't end with the romcom Brando. It sounds like the best high school party ever, and Assassins 88 only came to do two things, kick some ass and drink some beer. Looks like we're almost out of beer. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/L_I_V_I_N.html 10/13/2009 14:00:00 http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/images/2853.jpg We're not sure why The Muslims changed their once awesome name to The Soft Pack, nor why this is called a remix when it's clearly a cover. Maybe it's what Phoenix would sound like had they grown up in leathers gargling gin instead of quaffing chamomile in chinos. There are tons more of these Phoenix remixes forthcoming. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/From_The_Ashes.html 10/09/2009 18:00:00 It could be the sheet rain, the dead raven on our doorstep or the fact that we've broken out the winter coats, but music is starting to feel a bit like the end of Ghostbusters. Before they even strike a note Blessure Grave warn of serious injury and they do not shy from this pitch black broadcast. Stumble into the darkness below then wallow in the mixtape they made for Actual Pain. Zoooool. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/A_Midnight_Dreary.html 10/07/2009 08:00:00 As Campfires are from Chicago this song is probably not about Bargain Hunt or Loose Women, so we will have to wait a little longer for our favourite shows to ignite musical inspiration. What we do have is stacked high with tottering, tumble-down charm, and blazing with a wild, ashy warmth that will sting your eyes. Their songs don't last long, but the embers glow a while after. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/Just_Blazed.html 10/06/2009 22:00:00 We have no idea who the mysterious Silver Columns is/are but this song sounds like Jimmy Somerville playing Mario Kart and that can only be a good thing. After the jump he/they talk dog shit and "the MP3 equivalent of AIDS." http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/321_Silver_Columns.html 10/02/2009 20:00:00 If you'd asked us yesterday what a Becoming Real remix of Banjo Or Freakout might sound like we wouldn't have said xylophone club banger, yet here it is. But then yesterday we didn't know Mr Real is busy writing his dissertation about 9/11 and its representation in art, and today we do. Learn much more about this fantastic weirdo at the FADER. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/October/De_Facto.html 10/01/2009 23:00:00 Since Salem officially closed down Summer '09 with their anti-beach jam Frost, a chill has spread throughout the internets. Luke Jarvis, the lascivious young fellow behind the sordid Sexbeat record-and-party machine has teamed up with some dudes from Hush Arbors to create a band whose name helpfully explains the type of jams you will be listening to and the optimum season required to appreciate said jams. Their rad debut album, Blood In The Coffin, is out soon and look, they write songs about Kevin Arnold's girl's skeleton. Awesome. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Our_Discontent.html 09/30/2009 15:00:00 After a little break, D2P is back at FADER. This week, Hyperdub's solar surfers, Darkstar. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Thermostellar_Bomb_20.html 09/29/2009 16:00:00 Here is something special. If you've ever stared broken-hearted from a train window as frowning forests fly by then you already know what it sounds like. Phoenix usually soar, but this is full of sorrow. Banhart adds his own tear stained vocals and stretches the original's melancholy middle eight into something poignant. Natalie Portman, you have a lot to answer for. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/After_The_Fall.html 09/28/2009 16:00:00 Tonight we bring to a close our two day festival of Awesome Producers Remixing Mediocre Songs. Here the amazing Kwes pushes drums down a stairwell and pulls sense through a keyhole. Screaming Lights dudes, "the 21st Century is a modern whore" is not a good opening gambit, but look! Kwes made the name of his remix look like a ghettoblaster. That's pretty cool. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Modern_Life_Is_Rubbish.html 09/24/2009 23:59:00 We're not suggesting Gold Panda is the kind of dude who touches himself, but he clearly has Midas-like powers so you never know. Here he fondles berserk Bergenites Ungdomskulen into an explosive disco frenzy. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/The_Alchemist.html 09/23/2009 19:00:00 A long time ago in a city far, far away... Midnight Juggernauts watched Space Camp and a dream was born. But these Australians did not become astronauts, instead they travelled the intergalactic audiowaves evolving into a kind of Hi-NRG, zero gravity Tears For Fears. A limited 7" will be released soon by our ace pals at Acephale. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/A_Space_Odyssey.html 09/22/2009 19:00:00 Nanotechnology is not a word you hear very often in songs, but as you can see from the picture, German Measles are not regular dudes. This ramshackle paen to perpetuity is taken from their new EP, Wild, out soon on the eternally excellent Cap Tracks. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Live_Forever.html 09/21/2009 19:00:00 Jacques Audiard's new movie Un Prophete is the anti-Shawshank, a brutal and eloquent prison saga about what you really learn behind bars. The soundtrack is amazing too. From it, here's Jimmie Dale Gilmore's serene stab at a standard. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Inside_Story.html 09/21/2009 14:00:00 Thanks to the awesomeness of No Age approximately 85% of bands now sound like they record inside untuned televisions using upturned skips as a microphones. They are fathers of the Summer Of Rad and as such, the last 321 of summer. (Let's just pretend today is the last day of summer). We spoke to Dean about OMD, medical marijuana and motherfuckers. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/321_No_Age.html 09/19/2009 14:00:00 Metronomy - awesome. Male Bonding - awesome. Your Twenties - awesome. Drums Of Death - awesome. So a night full of awesome at The Forum tomorrow night. We have tickets to give away. Email us now if you'd like some. New Metronomy EP is out on Monday. BUY IT. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Competition_Win_Metronomy_Tickets.html 09/19/2009 13:00:00 Any song that begins with an alarm-fuelled yawn chorus and ends with a cheery good night is all right with us. Austin's Fach Idiot fill the space between with whispered seducto raps, weird spoken samples and whirling, freshly flipped classic soul, suggesting they're anything but one-trick ponies. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Jack_Of_All_Trades.html 09/15/2009 16:00:00 What's that, tiny battle-weary elf guy? Your gigantic feet hurt? You're about to reach the crest of a cloud-cloaked mountain range and you need a suitably epic and ancient score? Meet the amazing Among The Bones, he will hook you up. But steel yourself, little dude. Your quest continues and this is only part one of a projected trilogy. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Dungeon_Master.html 09/14/2009 23:00:00 For last week's D2P I spoke to the wonderful Othello Woolf about auto-tune and stuff. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Whos_Afraid.html 09/14/2009 10:00:00 Tune-Yards is Merrill Garbus who we went to see in Paris the other day. Her one-woman sampling-assed, ukulele-owning, Aretha-by-way-of-Sister-Gertrude-Morgan show is amazing. You should try and see her this week and next across the UK. Check out her crazy album BiRd-BrAiNs and look forward to the next which we are told will be "like Mary J Blige, but crazy." After the jump Merrill schools us on DROC, fairy houses and shape notes. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/321_Tune_Yards.html 09/11/2009 17:00:00 Bombay Bicycle Club look like nice, clean indie boys, but they don't sound like it here. Paul White sucks them into his hall of mirrors and spits out a macabre mob of wild-eyed, doom-stepping stalkers. [Note to all nice, clean indie boys: get Paul White to produce your album.] http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/999.html 09/09/2009 09:09:09 As this song roars out of the blocks it's easy to imagine Not Cool as a band possessed. But as they thunder wonderfully through their 79th awesome rhythmic change it's clear the beast in these dudes just needs to be exercised, not exorcised. Get their limited-edition single now. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Devils_Music.html 09/08/2009 16:00:00 Just when we were starting to worry about the lack of quality oompah music sung by wacky cartoon Euro-munchins, here is Barcelona's brilliantly named Internet 2 to plug that Godi-shaped gap. Get the album here. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Cool_World.html 09/08/2009 14:00:00 On Saturday we went to the awesome Offset festival. We can't remember any of it, but we do know we arrived too late to see Spectrals, a wonderful one-man wall of sound from Leeds. We are idiots, learn from our mistakes and revel in his bombastic surf-psych throughout October when he plays shows with The Big Pink, Sick Alps and Crocodiles. Here is a track from his new EP on Suplex Cassettes. It rules. We spoke to him about Diana Ross, swagger and doo-wop. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/321_Spectrals.html 09/07/2009 14:00:00 We would've posted this creepy slice of crepuscular Eurotech by Denton's Customer based on the title alone. Its awesomeness is just a bonus. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Always_Right.html 09/07/2009 10:00:00 Video: HEALTH - Die Slow : In which HEALTH go boomtime with a slick clip featuring all the things we love like hot models, crowd surfing, multiple Buddhas, formation dancing that looks like slow marching, slim microphones, fringes combined with hoodies, giant vinyl pictures of Japanese women, toll phone lines and blood, lots of blood. Awesome. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Bleed_To_Death.html 09/04/2009 14:00:00 Some bands are so busy running around dark beaches they only have time to give the briefest of answers to our 321 questions. The Drums are one such band, but like their punchy, uber-rad surf anthem, these answers prove there is no direct correlation between size and potential for awesomeness. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/321_The_Drums.html 09/03/2009 14:00:00 "Heart racing. Shooting straight up. In bed. 3:30pm. It's hot. The fan isn't working, and yesterday, the AC exploded. If you get out of bed you have to get out of bed. To get out of bed you have to get out of bed." This is the beginning of a mail from Tearist's awesome Yasmine Kittles. She's talking about their claustrophobic fever dream Closest Furthest, a piece of conceptual punk-art wrapped in unsettling honesty. "This song happened exactly the way I sing it," she says. "Every line." http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Faraway_So_Close.html 09/03/2009 13:00:00 We don't know if Perfume Genius's chick on the side said she got one on the way or if he near cried when he got that phone call, but his brittle, baleful ballads contain countless other confessions. Alone at his piano he sings about sex and death like Sufjan with all the pep punched out of him. After the jump he tell us about "a wet dream with Freddy Krueger in it." http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/321_Perfume_Genius.html 09/02/2009 13:00:00 We have just gotten a wake-up call from the Nintendo Generation. This is Computer Lab's world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. Yes, they are criminals. Their crime is that of curiosity. Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Spandex: it's a privilege, not a right. Hope you don't screw like you type. Hack the planet. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Crash_Override.html 09/01/2009 13:00:00 It may be September now, but the Summer Of Rad continues. Here are Beachniks with a fun-kissed tribute to Surf Avenues's sideshows by the seashore. Roll up! http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/September/Mermaid_Parade.html 09/01/2009 10:00:00 As we wind down to a long weekend of cultural activity and fine dining, here is one last August hurrah, a fantastic and fascinating 321 from Alan Palomo, the pop wizard behind Ghosthustler, Vega and now the woozy and wonderful Neon Indian. Find out about gaseous Japanese islands, Alan's awesome dad and the ultimate high school make-out song after the jump. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/321_Neon_Indian.html 08/28/2009 18:00:00 This week's D2P is one of my favourites. Forest Swords talks about the Wirral and Aaliyah and it's a million times more entertaining than that sounds. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Another_Place.html 08/26/2009 23:00:00 Three Trapped Tigers play like oil derricks, all thundering, pumping pistons, but they don't go in for the usual stuff like song titles or photos with their faces in them. There's a lot to be said for the life less ordinary, especially when it throws up exotic oddities like this awesome and surprisingly carefree remix from noiseniks Rolo Tomassi. Catch TTT at White Heat in about four hours time with the amazing Gold Panda. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/One_Time.html 08/25/2009 17:00:00 Last week Romy from The xx told us her favourite kind of music is "upbeat songs with sad lyrics." That might explain this gorgeous, heavy-hearted new take on Kyla's funky anthem, the first of their songs to feature live drumming from Jamie. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Dont_Be_Shy.html 08/25/2009 13:00:00 Chicago's White Car play spooky soul music that is more bloodshot than blue-eyed. It's soul music as seance. Morose, mechanized and macabre, these are loveless ballads for guilty ghouls. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Haunted_Heart.html 08/25/2009 11:00:00 Becoming Real's mutant hypersoul is the kind of amazingness we'd expect from Blank Dogs had he grown up on a strict diet of Dilla and dubstep. It's weird, sexy, post-Joker purple pop that's two parts awesome to one part terrifying. Now he's covered one of our favourite songs and written another about the best movie we've seen this year. Wow. "Let The Right One In started by being about the left side of my brain talking to the right side of my brain, but i kinda thought the two kids out of the vampire flick were a nice(r) metaphor for the conflicting sides," says Mr BR, Toby Ridler. After the jump he does the 321. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/321_Becoming_Real.html 08/24/2009 14:00:00 What happens if you feed Terror Danjah after midnight? This. Zumpi Huntah ripped apart with impish glee. You can buy this amazing VIP on Monday, Industry Standard 4, a preview of Mu's awesome Danjah instrumental retrospective, Gremlinz. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Bright_Light_Bright_Light.html 08/21/2009 17:00:00 For this week's Dollars To Pounds I spoke to the amazing Trailer Trash Tracys. Their debut single Candy Girl is out soon on No Pain In Pop. Head down to the Lexington on 11/09 for what's shaping up to be an epic launch party. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Sweet_And_Lowdown.html 08/18/2009 22:00:00 Video : The Drums - Let's Go Surfing : In which dudes take a run down to the beach. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Waves_At_Night.html 08/18/2009 22:00:00 It's HEALTH day! First a competition, now an exclusive remix of Die Slow from Black Moth Super Rainbow boss, Tobacco. After the jump, Jupiter from the band talks about R Kelly, astrological data and his penis. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/321_HEALTH.html 08/17/2009 14:00:00 HEALTH's new album Get Color sounds like iron and ghosts and a thousand stampeding horses. Like it's made of sheet metal and blowtorchs and heavy machinery. The only thing better than listening to this album is seeing the band play it live. On Wednesday 26/08 HEALTH will play a very special show at a secret London location. Almost the only way to get tickets is by pre-ordering the album from Rough Trade. Almost, because we have five pairs to give away. If you'd like a pair send us an email. Winners will be notified later this week. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Competition_Win_Tickets_For_Secret_HEALTH_Concert.html 08/17/2009 11:00:00 Fergus and Geronimo are from Denton, Texas, a place with more fuzzy beards and ramshackle rock bands per capita than anywhere else on earth, and yet they still manage to stand out. The duo have a single out soon on the awesome (and inspiring) Transparent. We spoke to the band's Andrew Savage and Jason Kelly about three two one things. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/321_Fergus_And_Geronimo.html 08/14/2009 14:00:00 Video : Golden Silvers - Please Venus : In which a lot of black and white photographs take a sweet and occasionally colourful trip down the coast. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Shes_Got_It.html 08/13/2009 14:00:00 Memory Cassette's Call and Response EP is an experiment of sorts, a misty daydream where half-remembered harmonies converse with their newfangled neighbours. Here is the nostalgic new video for a brace of tracks. After the jump Mr MC tells us about cookies, cherry trees and country music. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/321_Memory_Cassette.html 08/12/2009 23:00:00 This week's Dollars To Pounds with Pens is awesome fun, and it turns out Yeah Baby I'll Take You To Bagel Town really is a song about bagels. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Swan_Songs.html 08/12/2009 21:00:00 A Joyful Noise is a 1980 documentary about Sun Ra and an accurate description of these amazing songs from Gentle Friendly's forthcoming album. While this crackpot pair don't share the astral obsessions of Saturn's son they do possess some of his manic energy, playing like a bagful of bees let loose in a junk shop. Ride Slow is going to be one ecstatic racket. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/The_Kindly_Ones.html 08/11/2009 11:00:00 I've made my first ever mixtape. It's full of strange music from sweet dudes like HEALTH, Gentle Friendly, Forest Swords and Pens, as well as an exclusive Mount Kimbie remix of current sweethearts, The xx. Also, there is lots of bad mixing. Full tracklisting after the jump. Come and see me DJ/embarrass myself in Hackney next Wednesday. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/The_Unlimited_Dream_Company.html 08/10/2009 11:00:00 I drunkenly agreed to DJ at this awesome party on Wednesday 19/8/09. The Strange Boys, Male Bonding and Deep Shit are playing as well as some real DJs. It will be amazing. You should come. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Surf_Party.html 08/10/2009 09:00:00 We've been shortlisted for a Dazed Raw Blog Award. Vote for us at Dazed Digital and we might win some jeans. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Yes_We_Can.html 08/07/2009 19:00:00 Video : The xx - Basic Space : In which the world's nicest young band become stars. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Space_Is_The_Place.html 08/07/2009 19:00:00 When I was six my family moved, briefly, to St Albans. My Suffolk accent was so thick a teacher forced me to take elocution lessons. Now I talk like this guy. Rob Lee AKA Wax Stag is from St Albans and he makes wordless, wonderful songs like Leith. He told me about his parents, metal and a girl called Emily. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/321_Wax_Stag.html 08/07/2009 16:00:00 Video : Stairs To Korea - Boy Bear It In Mind : In which Mr Stairs attends a too-fast Internet Forever house party and drops by The Shakespeare, an awesome pub near the Tower Of Pingle. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/The_Hermit_Kingdom.html 08/05/2009 21:00:00 If you've been lucky enough to hear The xx's bewitching debut album or the killer mix they made for Fact then you'll know they are a band who understand what Debussy meant about music being the space between the notes. But here is Micachu to ruin all that. Her mischievous mixup bulldozes through their elemental expanses with a claustrophobic clatter, replacing infinite space with Brobdingnagian bass. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Open_Air.html 08/04/2009 19:00:00 For this week's Dollars To Pounds I spoke to the new kings of Mancunia, Delphic. Head over to FADER to grab the epic Parallels remix of new single This Momentary. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/So_Predictable.html 08/04/2009 15:00:00 Our dudes Male Bonding recently signed to Sub Pop. To celebrate this merging of the awesome and the epic there's a huge party next Saturday (08/08/09). The line-up reads like a list titled Rad Bands Who Like To Rage... Male Bonding! Fair Ohs! Teen Sheikhs! Pens! Mazes! Rad Guillotine! Wait, who is that last one? IT'S SIMON FROM TEETH!!! AND LOOK HE'S COVERED PENS! To join the shitcrunk shenanigans and discover the secret venue add yourself to the bookFace group or email Mr Rad Guillotine himself. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/August/Party_Hard.html 08/03/2009 23:00:00 London trio Is Tropical wear masks. They are the kind of dudes who enlist a Mystery Jet to help them bash out a rampaging Fela Kuti cover. They also steal boats. After the jump they talk cocktails, Jim Morrison and sonic booms. http://www.pinglewood.com/2009/July/321_Is_Tropical.html 07/30/2009 14:00:00