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VIDEO THRWBCK: The Verve - History (1995)
We're as excited as the next Anglophile about the whole Verve reunion thing, and we're sure the new songs are fine, but remember when they used to do truckloads of ecstasy, Richard Ashcroft refused to wear shoes, every song had approximately 16 string tracks on it, and the Answer to the Universe could be read in Nick McCabe's hair? Yeah, us too.
VIDEO: The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (Live at Coachella 2008)
Well, it has finally come to an end, and while we're sure the speculation on next year's lineup has already begun, we can officially put Coachella 2008 to rest. By now, we all know that Prince covered "Creep" (that'll be Radiohead, not TLC, though the latter would have been so much more appealing) and Tegan and Sarah are downright comedians, but let's go out on a limb and say that the best moment of the festival HAD to be when the Verve busted out "Bitter Sweet Symphony". Yeah, it was totally expected but whatever, we get chills just by watching it from the middle of the crowd on a 4-inch YouTube screen. The Verve have always seemed a little dwarfed in comparison to their musical cousins Oasis, but as anyone who owns A Northern Soul and Urban Hymns can attest, they are legends in their own right. Let's hope that their next album will be up to snuff...
VIDEO: Make Model - The LSB
'90s Britpop ahoy! Make Model remind us of all of of favorite Verve, Suede and Blur songs all rolled into one. It's kind of generic, but weirdly in a good way. All we can say is that we're super into the loud, distorted pop guitars, especially during the solo. Check it out!
FEATURED: The Wombats
Full disclosure: we've had a rough weekend. And sometimes, the best remedy for the blues is a really good pop song, and luckily for us we've got The Wombats. We've been listening to their sugary Britpop record A Guide To Love, Loss and Desperation (OK, doesn't sound that uplifting but trust us) on repeat, especially the irony-as-anti-depressant "Let's Dance To Joy Division". Check them out at Get Big, Little Kid.
VIDEO: British Sea Power - No Lucifer
As we've mentioned many times before, modern Britpop heroes British Sea Power are back with their new album Do You Like Rock Music?, and have released the video for their new single, "No Lucifer", via the Rough Trade YouTube channel. And it's the freakiest thing we have ever seen. For real, bloody, dancing, dislocated marionettes? Way to dispel the super happy fun vibes, dudes. The song is magnificent though, truly fuzzy and uplifting, like all things BSP.
FEATURED: The Wombats
What with the Futureheads off trying to regain their crowns as the reigning kings of quirky Britpop, The Wombats crept up behind their backs and made one of the most fun albums of 2007. A Guide to Love, Loss and Desperation features songs ripped from the band’s diaries (literally) and “Backfire at the Disco” is one of them. The tale of a perfect date gone awry, the angular pop riffs (prevalent in all of the Wombats’ material) are great for jumping around bedrooms to, or grinding to on sticky dance floors, etc. A Plague of Angels (always a good place to pick up on stuff like this) featured a few Wombats tracks today, so why not have a look…
FEATURED: Scanners at the Dim Mak RCRD LBL blog
Sometimes that mid-week hump is hard to get over, so the guys at the Dim Mak RCRD LBL blog have posted a new installment of DSCVR Dim Mak, their weekly column pointing to past highlights of the label's catalogue. This week it's an L.A. Riots remix of "Lowlife" by Scanners, a UK-based alterna-pop band Dim Mak signed last year. The original "Lowlife" is a catchy pop song in the vein of an edgier and more fleshed out version of Catatonia (calling all Brit-pop geeks on that one), but the remix sees L.A. Riots using his heavy dance production to transform the song into a Europop club monster. Check out the DSCVR DIM MAK post for the remix, and the Scanners MySpace for the original.
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