EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: The Mae Shi - I Get (Almost) Everything I Want
If you have windows or doors or any fragile items or a roof, you better take this one outside. Disguised as experimental L.A. punk, it's actually a raging girlpower anthem that completely relieves this modern world of its need for Destiny's Child or whoever else. Forget girlpower. It's an everyonepower anthem. Dudes. Watch it define our generation. Seriously. It'll take like two minutes. For real. It's the new National Anthem. Twenty-five guys singing their absolute hearts and heads off only instead of words coming out they're just puking adrenaline all over the place and there are stars and fireworks and everyone's holding sparklers and your sister and her friends are all crying. We dare you not to get married to The Mae Shi. There's just no way you'll be able to resist. Listen to this goddamned song loud right now.
I WANT ALMOST EVERYTHING AND I GET ALMOST EVERYTHING I WANT.
Band Of The Day #18 - HEALTH "Triceratops" (ACID GIRLS Remixes)
When bodies lie in heaps, there’s little dignity in dancing to hardcore. Knees strut, muscles rupture and grind to this awkward racket; ‘til the wallflower goes mad with a blade and then the disco’s all to shit, all at sea among blood and oil spewed like milk and grease have been before in these pages. Obviously though, it’s not quite the same, and nor will the dancefloor ever be again after this twin rhythmic test; even if HEALTH’s rampant ‘Triceratops’ conducts all his menace in bedroom coreography now that the Acid Girls are interested.
Having had glitchers Crystal Castles shifting the bastard behemoth from its rust-ridden docking for a recent re-jig of ‘Glitter Pills’, Lost Angelese noiseniks HEALTH find their shrieking neu-kraut hardcore turmoil again lathered in lubricant for this pair of remixes from California’s fluo-kid affiliated Acid Girls.
Rubbing a Euro-pop stink up against HEALTH’s volatile noise, bleak beats are chewed up and regurgitated with a think-on-your-feet dancefloor ingenuity, putting a still-beating heart under the track’s detached neo-tribal stomp. Ultimately though, you can dress a ‘Triceratops’ up in whatever flimsy finery you want, it’s still gonne be a fucking triceratops.
“Are you broken? Are you leaving? Is your blood red? Are you breathing?”
Feet stomp, still-hearts beaten tonight.
Download: HEALTH - 'Triceratops' (Acid Girls 2Steps2Freedom Mix)
Download: HEALTH - 'Triceratops' (Acid Girls Before Dancefloorasaurases Ruled the Earth Mix)
- Samuel Strang and Kev Kharas
Band Of The Day #5 - ABE VIGODA "Dead City"/"Waste Wilderness"
Like the majority of acts mooching around downtown LA venue the Smell, DiS has become rather enamoured with Abe Vigoda of late. As we head into December, it’s customary to the point of reflex to stop running, turn around and survey the wreckage of the last 12 months; glee and horror and all. First came No Age, in which Randy Randall and Dean Spunt were forced to slim previous outfit Wives and returned looking fitter than ever; pop, but with just enough noise on their bones to give us something to hang on to. Then, in whatever order, Mika Miko, Barr, the Mae Shi and more all stripped off pieces of our collective heart before HEALTH clattered into view in autumn and we thought that, surely, would be our lot.
No – Vigoda are great; self-proclaimed tropical punks lighting up what they claim unashamedly as their scene, lighting up England’s dark, November, concrete days, lighting up Christmas shopping like a Caribbean holiday brochure in the rubble of tack and toy. Full of youth and play, the quartet tune their guitars tight to steel-pan effect, teach drummer Reggie Guerrero to drum soca on turtle shells, record the thing, take it to the beach, bury it in sand and wait.
We’ve dug up this, an exclusive download of the act's forthcoming and still-in-production third album. Heading off into the weekend and the grey and grit of London, we'll be using it to stave off the pangs of pranging down we’re catching from the Burial record and all this inane Christmas lighting. Which hometown are Abe Vigoda tracking? “NAUGHTYVILLE, California, United States”.
Gimme gamelan, fuck Roy Wood.
Drownload: Abe Vigoda - Dead City / Waste Wilderness
http://www.myspace.com/abevigoda
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- Kev Kharas
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