Archive for April, 2008

I-Can’t-Believe-They-Don’t-Eat-Meat! #1: Fiona Apple

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

First up: Fiona Apple
PeTA may use celebrity culture in the hopes of wooing the impressionable masses, which I can sort of see the value in, but it is a bit of a double-edged sword (who’s going to take Steve-O srsly?)
I’m not going to insult anybody’s intelligence or preach to the (sadly minority of) thinking [...]

..and now you’re old enough I think that you should know (the new Sugar Army EP is out)

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Ok so I’m a bit late with this but hey. It has to be said, better now than never.
I’m a big fan of these guys, ever since I saw them at the big day out ’07. So when I saw them playing with Little Birdy in Forrest Chase early last year, I bought their first [...]

Hello Sweden

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I’m probably biased in favour of Swedish bands but oh well, two for you today.
Firstly let’s have a look at the adorable Hello Saferide.
Honestly you couldn’t much sweeter even if you tried really, really hard. Her voice is candy and the music is just lovely
Have a listen to The best Night of your Life (mp3) [...]

“Veganising” the veal

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Anthony Bourdain
Timeline of important events in this man’s life:
2000 – Jackass chef above compares vegans to the Hezbollah in his book, says he believes a life without veal, stinky cheese and pork isn’t worth living and veg*ns are an affront to the enjoyment of food. Some vegans take offense, everyone else roll eyes and ignore [...]

Agrofuels: not a cool response to global warming

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Skip reading this article and go straight to FoodFirst’s brief and petition to hold a Moratorium on agrofuels

‘Sif we don’t have enough problem feeding the world’s people, now they want to feed food to our cars as well. Ethanol-laced petrol is a growing sector of the fuel market, and is made industrially by fermenting the [...]

The Tigers

Monday, April 7th, 2008

The Tigers’ newest release ‘Beautiful Forest’ is an oh so delicious cake. Songs firmly grounded in twiny guitar and complimented by brass make up the majority of the tracks, but in no way does this limit the artists’ capacity for a large spectra of variety in both the subject matter and tone of each slice [...]

We’re all gonna die; Strangely comforting.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Your beat kicks back like death. Wouldn’t have thought so huh? When I first heard this song I thought it must have been by the Smiths, so similar is it in style esp. vocals.
So it’s no wonder that Jens Lekman often gets compared to Morrisey.
Your beat kicks back like death is truly a strange song, [...]