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Man, this band is utterly bewitching. They’re doing everything right, in my opinion.
So original, such a cool vibe and none of it feels pretentious or posed. Can you be earnest and detached at the same time?
This performance is great, and shows how much you can get out of something simple and effective.
Man, I love this song.
The first couple of tunes on the CD didn’t hit me right away, but this one slapped me around and took me home from the first few notes of that riff.
So cool, such contained power in those taut little guitar and bass hooks. I can feel the metal underneath all that indie minimalism and that pulls me deep into this song.
The video is perfect – emotionless British club kid looks with classic shoegazer disaffection and the simplicity of the song is emphasized.
I don’t know anything about The XX, but I want to see them live and I can’t wait to hear their next release. The effortless awesomness of this song and video are a great sign that just when you think you’re not going to hear anything new that you really love, there’s always something to prove you wrong.
New FauxPop FauxCast Podcast – Episode 4
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Sometimes the student is the teacher.
I was skeptical when Anne told me to try this band out.
I asked her what kind of music it was and she said folk-rock then changed her mind, but that was enough for me to be dismissive. All I could think of was Great Big Sea and I am not a fan.
But I gave it a shot and God bless Youtube.
The first song I found was Fast Blood and that guitar was all I neeeded to know I loved the song. Even if the singer’s voice wasn’t so thick with feeling and sp powerfully tremulous, I would have been all over Fast Blood for those jangly, driving chords. I love that guitar sound, love the strength of it, and I love that bass line, which sticks in my head all day and somehow pulls so much of what I love about the bass parts in Joy Division and U2 together.
I listened. And listened. And listened to this song, and it is simply too good not to share.
And PS – every song on that album is strong. Buy it right now. See them live when you can and pick up a T-shirt.
I’ll see you there.
The name of this band had me convinced that they were another one of those bleeps and bloops keyboard bands that have taken over every critic’s fave release list that past few years. You know, all those bands that sound like MGMT, and probably are?
And you can’t blame me for thinking that – Japan, droids, it’s got to be synthesizers, right?
Wrong.
It’s two guys playing big time garage rock and banging it out with all kinds of muscle.
The singer’s never going to sound pretty, but his guitar is sharp and grinding that buzz saw riff out hard enough to make you not care how he sings. Sure it’s a bit repetitive, but it’s catchy as hell.
It’s honest and real and it takes me back forty years makes me think of when I was a kid and running full tilt in every direction, sure that I wanted to do something right now, with no idea what it was.
It’s a great song and I’ll be listening to it for a long while, so I hate to admit it, but get these guys a bass player and I’d love them even more. And that’s a whole lotta love.
Feelings are so exalted in our culture. In some ways they’ve become our gods and we establish our shrines, our temples, our homes, our lives around how something feels. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with feelings it’s just that we place them on the thrones and our lives become subject to them.
I wonder what would happen if we just sat on our own thrones no matter how we felt or agreed or disagreed. What I mean is, if you’re sitting in your life and in a place of peace and authority, then you’re the king or the queen of yourself. Then, no matter how I felt about it – happy,sad,jealous,envious,mad, etc – well, it wouldn’t matter, would it!
I’d be a fool not to support and acknowledge a king or a queen. But I’ll be damned if I’ll bow to some imposter who has set up court and whose name is happy or sad or envy or greed – whose name is only a feeling.
FauxPop FauxCast E04
March 07, 2010
Viagra, Fear, Immortality and Strange Sounds
Man, I used to love this opening when I was a kid.
One night my Grandma let me stay up to watch the opening and I remember her telling me that eating cheese before bed gives you nightmares.
The thing is, I don’t remember eating any cheese. I didn’t like it.
I’m still trying to figure out what she meant.
This opening was pretty cool though.
I was reading the British newspaper site www.telegraph.co.uk like I do, and I saw an article with the headline
“Royal astronomer: ‘Aliens may be staring us in the face’
And then there was a photo underneath that headline that showed us Lord Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society.
This is that photograph.
Lord Martin Rees - The Queen's Astronomer
I don’t think I need to say any more.
Ugh. Have we been so busy that we haven’t been doing anything on the site?
Yes.
Does that upset all of our fans?
Yes. Both of them.
Expect more over the next while, but in the meantime, I feel compelled to share this song with you. I guarantee that you have never heard a more masterful mix of samples (and it was done old school by Grandmaster Flash).
Enjoy.
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FauxPop FauxCast E04
March 07, 2010
Viagra, Fear, Immortality and Strange Sounds
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I like all the separate parts of Couples Retreat.
Every male my age who saw Swingers saw themselves in a combination, with varying percentages, of Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn.
For months after seeing that movie, everything was so money and you didn’t even know it.
Maybe I didn’t go to and see Made, didn’t watch the Van [...]
NEW!! Watch the DragonAge Video from Toronto Fan Expo by clicking here
Why do I look so excited?
Well, it isn’t because I am a little girl in springtime. But it’s close.
Our good friend Gorpybleeder has graced us with his look at Bioware’s latest gift to RPG fanatics, and he has made quite a statement with his [...]
The Naysayer loves the sixth season of Entourage
I have a theory that every boy assumes that some day he will grow up to be a superhero, a war hero, a race car driver, a kung fu master, a billionaire, a rock star, a sex symbol, a mountain man and a deadly sniper.
I know I did.
When [...]
So we’re out here on the California coast, shooting some Ninja Turtles stuff and we end up driving down PC#1, which is a beautiful drive. But it’s hard work, and I’m only a man, in spite of what you’ve heard, and I get thinking that maybe we should stop and check into some place for [...]
The Hurt Locker
dir: Kathryn Bigelow
When I watched Saving Private Ryan, I sat in the theatre behind three old men who watched in utter stillness. At the end, they turned to each other, wiping their eyes and one of them said, “Everything but the smell.” They were pale and drawn, with haunted expressions. They found the [...]
It was right around the time I started touring with Hall and Oates that I started dating Stevie Nicks and Carly Simon at the same time. Man, I thought I had it all figured out. With them being bicoastal, they’d never find out about each other.
So I thought.
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It is Summer and it is hot.
I am young and I am angry.
I don’t know why I’m angry, but I know that I am. No one else would know it to look at me, and most of the time, I don’t even know why, but I know I am. Deep down, in my soul or [...]
At my first job, when I was hosting Texaco’s Warm Tones Teen Tune Theater Hour, I found the hours tough, but never too tough to keep myself looking good..
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This pic was taken by my old pal Chip Muholland down at the Palisades. He was a good man, Chip. Then the 60s came along and he [...]
How can I forget the days back in Downsview, when I would pile my gear into the Camaro, roll out on the 401 and high ball it into Montreal to rock out with Gino Vanelli and the dudes?.
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Well, the answer is that I can’t, not as long as I have this photo.
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