Handsome Furs

Well I never, they just keep coming. I feel like Peter Andre chopping up onions here…Handsome furs are an attractive young couple from Montreal, Canada, who make beautifully dark music. When they’re not blurring the lines between love and hate and listening to black metal, Dan Boeckner plays in Wolf Parade while his wife Alexei Perry is a short story writer. Stripped down and stark, party music this isn’t…
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Vault: Palehorse

Another trip to the vault brings up an interview with Palehorse, this was when they disappeared after ‘Gee, That Ain’t Swell’ and then re-appeared with a new E.P. Here is where the interview kicks off…If you’ve never heard Palehorse – they sound like being raped by two basses, one in the mouth and one in the arse, while two escaped psychopaths babble and scream in the background. It really is as good as it sounds. Their Rick James-influenced EP, ‘Habitual Linestepper’ comes out soon on Eyes of Sound records…
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Vault: Red Stars Parade

For a while we thought we had lost about 70% of all the interviews we had done prior to sobering up. It was a shame and we spent seconds crying over all the lost material, then the hard drive started working again and we found out that not only was our spelling and grammar much (a lot?!?!) better then but we also hit up a lot of good shit. Red Stars Parade were an incredibly tight live outfit from Leeds, if I was Simon Cowell I’d buy them all a happy meal and ask them to reform. Here is the interview we did with them about 2 years ago…
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Local Natives Interview

Why didnt we ever put this up sooner, they’re not even a buzz band anymore, they’re like blown up buzz! They are playing very soon in Leeds you know…Read the interview from May 2009 here.

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You still use Hotmail??

Stupid question but do you use the Internet? Yes? ok, well do you use hotmail? If you answered yes then why?
Let me get all Mystic Meg on you for a moment, your answer will have been one of the following:

a) I’ve always used it
b) It’s free
c) I don’t know what else to use
d) What’s wrong with hotmail?
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J.D. Salinger Dies at 91

I read The Catcher in the Rye in my early twenties. I rushed it a bit because someone had told me how it was a book that had to be read at a certain time in your life to be fully appreciated. I get it now, at the time I thought I was too old. The Catcher in the Rye was J D Sailnger’s only novel and was published in 1951. It gradually achieved a status that made him cringe a little. For a long time, were talking decades here, Salingers book was a kind of universal rite of passage for a million adolescents, a bible for the disenchanted youth.
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Swansea Love Story

Last week VBS sent over this quite saddening documentary about the rise in heroin use in Swansea. Filmed over 6 months, it follows the lives of a mix of young heroin users who are constantly on and off the drug. Directed by Leo Leigh and Andy Capper, Swansea Love Story is the newest installment of the Rule Britannia series. This is really worth watching and will be aired in Feb on their website. Full review to come from us. Read more ›