On The Level

Levelload
Genre: New Wave / Japanese Classic Music / Rock
From: Japan and London

Tokyo/London duo Mariko Doi and Tony Wade collided like a fault line between time zones one night under Tokyo's neon sky, binding over a mutual love of Blondie, Gang of Four and Link Wray.

Already big in Japan (no longer the mocking badge given to bands that fail to shift units in the US and/or the UK) the duo's sneering post-punk scuzz-pop has racked up admirers including the late John Peel, Dirty Sanchez (second single 'HND in RNR' earning them a feature on Dirty Sanchez the Movie)
and Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor.

Their latest single 'I've Been Thinking', scheduled for release in the UK at the end of May on Flightpath Records, is an adrenaline shot of prickly spikiness that's the musical form of the cactus. It's like they've been in a time capsule for the last 30 years occasionally force fed Bis's 'Kandy Pop' and snippets from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and two of the Devil's favourite underground acts Miss Violetta Beauregarde and The Bohays.

It's punchy, it's visceral and it'll make you check your iPod hasn't blown a fuse (do iPod's have a fuse?) what more can you want from a single?

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MP3 - Levelload - Hnd in RNR
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Levelload
Yellow Fever

Got Me Hanging On...

The Ropes
Genre: Rock / Indie / New Wave
From: New York, United States

NYC based duo The Ropes are the beautifully named vocalist/bassist Sharon Shy (love to see her birth certificate) and the less brilliantly monickered multi-instrumentalist Toppy whose party piece is apparently to play drums with his guitar hanging around his neck.

I recently received an email from Natalie a Ropes 'street teamer' and, although bands with a street team are usually big enough to stand on their own two feet without a helping hand from the Devil, I decided to check them out.

Am I glad I did because any band who can start a song with the immortal lines 'you can all go fuck yourself, you can all go burn in hell' like The Ropes do on the outrageously 'I Don't Like To Get Dirty' are all right by the Devil.

Natalie describes the band as something like The Knife meets Chromatics but I'm afraid I have to disagree as they are much closer to Garbage meets The Cardigans at a party thrown by Goldfrapp (original vintage). Check out the band's new single, the catchy as fuck 'Be My Gun', and tell me I'm wrong.

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MP3 -The Ropes - Too Cool For Love
MP3 - The Ropes - I Don't Like To Get Dirty
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The Ropes
Be My Gun

Any Port In A Storm

Stormy Corner
Genre: Indie / Powerpop
From: Skelmersdale, Northwest, United Kingdom

With a singer who looks like the body double of Liam Gallagher and Sergio Pizzorno, Skems Stormy Corner come on like the unwashed progeny of Oasis, Kasabian and The Las (they even have a song called the 'La Song'!), all swaggering arrogance and ruck 'n roll attitude.

Their new single 'The Understanding' is a statement of intent as cock sure of itself as 'Supersonic' and 'Reason Is Treason' with more attitude than a rottweiler with toothache. The other tracks on their myspace site are equally as feisty, if occasionally a little derivative betraying the bands former life as two cover bands.

Man the ramparts Stormy Corner are coming to breathe life into a moribund music scene.

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MP3 - Stormy Corner - The Misunderstanding
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Stormy Corner
Kids of Today

Did You Miss Me Yeah While I Was Away

You may have noticed that the Devil's blog has been quiet over the past few days. I've been spending sometime away in Centerparcs in Cumbria (even the Devil needs a break!) and haven't had time between the laser combat, basketball, adventure golf, short tennis and indian head massages to share news of new and interesting bands. So, feeling guilty at depriving the world of the Devil's views I got up extra early this morning to introduce you to Time.Space.Repeat a young band from London.

Time.Space.Repeat
Genre: Shoegaze / Melodramatic Popular Song / Other
From: London, United Kingdom

With a press release that refers to the band in question as "an ever-shifting gestalt entity of spirits contained within the glass jar of London", and a name that conjures up bunsen burners, laboratories and sixth form science you can guess that Time.Space.Repeat aren't another run of the mill band of tousle haired faux indie charlatans so beloved of the mainstream media.

With a sound that could be pithily tagged as The Dark Side of OK Computer, Time.Space.Repeat skirt dangerously close to that most maligned of music forms prog rock without descending into the over indulgent noodling that gave the genre such a bad name.

The band are giving away two free downloads, 'Under The Waves' and 'The Fear' from their second album 'Lost Transmissions'. The spine chilling vocals and spectral guitars of 'Under The Waves' will test the emotional resolve of even the most resolute of men while live favourite 'The Fear' is a breathtaking helping of melancholic post rock that trembles on the edge of Radiohead's world before hurtling head first into the comforting arms of Spiritualized.

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MP3 - Time.Space.Repeat - The Fear
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Time.Space.Repeat
Under The Waves

Angry Young Things

White Light Parade
Genre: Indie / Punk
From: Bradford, United Kingdom

"We can talk of riots and petrol bombs and revolutions all day long, But if we fail to organize we'll waste our lives on protest songs"
The late, great Joe Strummer

Music usually responds to troubled times in two ways escapism or anger, dressing up or dressing down, becoming more self centred or more politicised. The economic problems of the 70s lead to the angry nihilism of punk while the destructive of the early 80s gave birth to the escapism of the New Romantics.

Ok maybe the world isn't quite as black and white as this simplistic analysis suggests. The escapism of glitterball disco coincided with the rise of punk and the anger of 'Ghost Town', Billy Bragg and The Redskins coincided with the pretty rich boy funk pop of Duran Duran. But it's certainly true that the harder the times the angrier the music.

It's a little early to tell how music will respond to the current troubling economic times but if White Light Parade have anything to do with it then we're heading for an era of righteous anger rather than hedonism. But the four-piece band from Bradford, fronted by brothers Danny and Jono Yates, are not peddling the negative, fuck you all, self absorbed nihilistic anger of the Sex Pistols theirs is the comrades in arms, together we are strong, let's make a difference, let's kick the music business up the arse anger of The Clash (before they signed to CBS naturally !).

The high octane phlegm 'n roll of 'Riot In The City', which you can hear on 'Grand Theft Auto IV' (how punk is that??), is the point at which the Jam and the Clash meet, as you might expect from a title that echoes tracks by each band. By way of contrast last single 'Wait For The Weekend' is a little more commercial and radio friendly bringing to mind a pre-Celebrity Big Brother Ordinary Boys.

There's a touch of the Enemy, a band that unsurprisingly they've supported, about White Light Parade and they've yet to fully find their own angry voice to chronicle the rapid descent from Cool Britannia to Breadline Britain but the Clash started as a pub rock band and look where they ended up!

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MP3 - White Light Parade - Wood For The Trees
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White Light Parade
Riot In The City

Royksopp Video

Check out the video that Röyksopp have uploaded to their website it is officially the best thing you could wish to watch on a sunny weekend. The last two minutes are odd but strangely captivating like Homer Simpson on a treadmill?!!

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Röyksopp
Junior

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A Horse With No Name

Calico Horse
Genre: Indie / Experimental / Psychedelic
From: San Diego, California, United States

Where Calico Horse once sounded like Moloko, Siouxsie & The Banshees and PJ Harvey (check the Devil's thoughts from last year Saddle Up) their sound has matured and they've gone all acoustically indie country on us while we weren't looking. They now sound like they've had a sneak preview of a Rilo Kiley album beamed in from the distant future and decided to beat them to it!

If you don't believe go check out the band's myspace site and listen to 'Sheep' which could easily be an outtake from 'Rabbit Fur Coat' while 'Gold' could be PJ Harvey and the Watson Twins!

Check out the two tracks below which are both brand spanking new, fresh off the press, hot to trot tracks that show how far Calico Horse are cantering off in a new direction.

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MP3 - Calico Horse - Newest Song
MP3 - Calico Horse - Autoharp
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Calico Horse
New Years

Rubber Neckers of the World Unite

Cheer Accident
Genre: Progressive / Experimental / Indie
From: Chicago, Illinois United States

When I first came across Chicago's Cheer Accident (there are various, well ok two, theories about where the band's name come from which for those of you with a forensic mindset can be checked out here) I misread their name as Cher Accident which would have been an even better name than Cheer Accident! It intrigued me enough to check them out and I was surprised to find out that they've been around since 1981 and have released 16 albums, but interestingly only two singles.

They look like homeless serial killers (sorry guys) and their post rock sound is laced with enough eccentricity to have the worlds eminent psychiatrists scratching their heads and consulting their text books. But where a lot of experimental post rock bands come across as po-faced scientists conducting musical experiments Cheer Accident don't take themselves so seriously. Check out Head Works As An Inhibitor which sounds like Satchmo on a merry-go-round with a video to match and ponder whether fellow Chicagoan post rockers Tortoise or Brise-Glace would be so playful.

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MP3 - Cheer Accident - Dismantling The Berlin Waltz
MP3 - Cheer Accident - Sun Dies
MP3 - Cheer Accident - Birdeater
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Cheer Accident
The Head Works As An Inhibitor

If you like these you'll love Cheer Accident...

MP3 - Brise-Glace - Neither Yield Nor Reap
MP3 - The Flying Luttenbachers - The Flotation Method
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Logan's Run

Logan Lynn
Genre: Emotronic / Pop / Indie
From: Portland, Oregon, United States

There are times when you can't improve on what's already been written about an artist and, at the risk of appearing lazy here is what others have been saying about Portland's electro-popper Logan Lynn:

'If the Land of Misfit Toys elected a team of cultural ambassadors, Logan Lynn would be its poet laureate. In Portland's pulsating music scene, he occupies a singular position- an emo prophet with a penchant for electronic beats, preaching the Good Word to drug-damaged crybabies.'

'(Logan Lynn) made me think about what it would sound like if The Magnetic Fields smoked crack.'

'Logan Lynn puts the Disco into 'Discomfort'

Logan has recorded a new album, 'From Pillar To Post' which is coming out later this year on The Dandy Warhols' record label BEAT THE WORLD but the Devil's readers can have a sneak preview with two tracks from the album courtesy of Logan himself.

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MP3 - Logan Lynn - Burning Your Glory
MP3 - Logan Lynn - Feed Me To The Wolves

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Logan Lynn
Burning Your Glory

Spooky Tooth

My First Tooth
Genre: Indie / Folk / Spanish pop
From: Northampton,
United Kingdom

Other than Bauhaus, Maps, a tenuous connection with Radiohead (Thom Yorke was born there) and the famous for 5 minutes band The Departure, Northampton hasn't exactly set the musical world alight.

Could that be about to change? There's a mini scene developing with bands such as the Retro Spankees, Winston Echo, The On Offs, Dirty Sweet, The Artizans and Magic Skool Bus generating more buzz than a hive of bees on speed.

The thing that marks out the scene is it's variety of musical styles and the Northampton candle holder for indie-folk are tonights featured band My First Tooth the creation of singer-songwriter Ross Witt (One Toy Soldier) and violinist Sophie Galpin. Inspired by intelligent pop and folk acts such as Eels, Okkervil River, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Joanna Newsom, My First Tooth craft subtle, beautiful lullabies that locate your heart strings and tug at them gently like a folkie strumming a guitar. You can have your heart melted to a pool of slush later this month when the band's debut EP is issued via Alcopop Records.

Northampton may not be the next Madchester, Liverpool or Seattle but it's certainly a boiling cauldron of creativity that's ready to blow.

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MP3 - My First Tooth - Typewriters
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My First Tooth
Treading Water



If you're interested in the Northampton music scene check out the following...

MP3 - Winston Echo - Nothing Can Stop You When You Get Started
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Pack Your Bags

Turnpike Glow
Genre: Indie / Pop / Japanese Classic Music From: London, United Kingdom

We may only just be seeing the first green shoots of spring but Turnpike Glow's 'Monday Suitcase' is the sound of the summer.

Equal parts Dodgy and The Delays it betrays the band's warm and cosmopolitan birthplace Rome. If Richard Curtis made a remake of Shirley Valentine 'Monday Suitcase' would be playing as the credits rolled.

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MP3 - Turnpike Glow - Monday Suitcase
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Lips Like Sugar

Black Lips
Genre: Garage punk, Psychedelic rock, Flower punk
From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

With both feet planted firmly in the 60s and a sound that recalls The Seeds, The Sonics, The 13th Floor Elevators and The Electric Prunes Atlanta's rowdy, raunchy garage-rock revivalists and self proclaimed flower punkers the Black Lips could easily be the son and heir of Lenny Kaye's Nuggets.

Fresh off the release of their their fifth studio album, '200 Million Thousand' the band are taking their fidgety, ramshackle garage psych to Austin, Texas for a slate of SXSW appearances.

With a reputation for outrageous live appearances that have included homo erotic displays of nudity and band members kissing, power wheel races, fireworks, a chicken!!, and setting guitars on fire if you're heading to SXSW they are the must see band of the festival.

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MP3 - Black Lips - I'll Be With You
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The Black Lips
FAD

Go Wild For Citrus

Lemonwilde
Genre: Alternative / Electroacoustic / Indie
From: Los Angeles, California, United States

I received an email yesterday (the Devil is getting control of his inbox at last!) from LA band Lemonwilde inviting me to take a listen to their new EP. So, as you'd expect from such a diligent blogger, I checked out what other people have been saying about them and they've been frequently compared with Radiohead. So I took a listen to their EP naturally expecting to hear something akin to 'OK Computer' or maybe 'The Bends'.

Well either there are two Lemonwildes and I'd inadvertently stumbled across reviews of the other one or Lemonwilde have left their Radiohead fixation behind in favour of an intriguing blend of Muse without the pyrotechnics, Coldplay without the po faced self importance and 'Ocean Rain' era Echo & The Bunnymen.

It's glum rock for a glum world and a welcome change from boy/girl electro duos, beardy folkies and tousled headed faux indie bands.

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MP3 - Lemonwilde - Just This Ashtray
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It's A Kind Of Magic

Wand

Genre: Folk / Experimental / Psychedelic
From: Tennessee United States

Former Wooden Wand leader James Jackson Toth (first seen on the Devil's blog in June 2007 Jane Air & Wooden Wand ) has dropped the Wooden and announced the release of not one, but two releases under his new nom de music WAND. On March 31st, Toth will release the first album under his newish name WAND via Olympia’s People In A Position To Know Records . This is a limited edition release to set up the pending release of Hard Knox a collection of WAND demos and home recordings to be released on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label on May 26th.

As if that wasn’t enough, Toth has also just completed work in the studio (entertainingly blogged about here) with a brand new supergroup of sorts called The Jescos. The new band features Timothy Bracy, formerly of The Mendoza Line along with members of alt-country faves Glossary and We Were The States.

I'm tired just thinking about how hard Toth is working!

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MP3 - Wand - Arriving
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Wand - Myspace // Blog
Label - Ecstatic Peace // Ecstatic Peace Myspace

Eula Hoops

Eula
Genre: Rock / Showtunes / Thrash From: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

New wave punk revivalists Eula are back with their excellent new EP 'Language Of Threat' . With a sound that hits you like a punch in the brain from a .44 magnum.

The band are in fighting mood on the Devil's favourite track on the EP, 'Fight Riff' so it's apt that the band have answered some fighting and riffing based questions for the Devil Has The Best Tuna...

The Devil - Who would win in a fight: Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Molly of Ponytail, Alyse of Eula?
Eula - Onstage: Karen O; Offstage Dance Fighting: Alyse of Eula

The Devil - Where did "Fight Riff" come from?
Eula - The streets

The Devil - After "Fight Riff", what's the next best riff in music history?
Eula - Tie: Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" and Beatles' "Hey Bulldog"

The Devil - Who would you rather fight: Grandma or Ghandi?
Eula - Ghandi's Grandma

The Devil - "I would have to fight a writer if they every asked me '_____' "
Eula - To shut up.

The Devil - Have you ever had to fight for your right to party? If so, when?
Eula - Yes, every time we're in brooklyn.

The Devil - Lover, or Fighter?
Eula - We love to fight and fight to love.

The Devil - What are your weapons of choice in a street ?
Eula - Alyse: High Kicks; Nathan: Nunchucks; Jeffrey: My Face

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MP3 - Eula - Fight Riff
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Eula
Simple Machine

Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town

Ruby Isle
Genre: Classic Rock / Electronica
From: Athens/Minneapolis, United States

Although Mark Mallman and Dan Geller met at high school it took 10 years and the experience of setting up a label Kindercore and forming the band I Am The World Trade Centre (Geller) and performing Marathon 2 the "longest song in the history of rock" (Mallman) before they joined forces to form Ruby Isle.

They call themselves the 'party band for the apocalypse' and with a track like 'Hey Hey Hey (That Kid’s Okay)' a stomping blast of electro glam pop that's a feel good blend of They Might Be Giants, Slade and Fountains of Wayne it could well be true.

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MP3 - Ruby Isle - Night Shot (Invasion of the Pussy Snatchers Remix)
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Ruby Isle
Teenage Riot (Sonic Youth)




If you like Ruby Isle you'll love Geller's previous band...

MP3 - I Am World Trade Centre - Future Sightings
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For Those With Catholic Tastes

Midnight Masses
Genre: Gospel / Gothic / Religious
From: Brooklyn/Texas, Antarctica

Brooklyn’s Midnight Masses is a side project of Dragons of Zynth's Autry Rene Fulbright & And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's Jason Reece with a supporting cast including Roger Sisters member Miyuki Furtago, Destiny Montague of Shock Cinema, Santogold touring guitarist Eric Rodgers, & Giselle Reiber.

The band formed out of tragedy, when Fulbright’s father passed away. Autry poured his grief into his songwriting, particularly on the beautifully melancholic and haunting 'Heaven' which tugs at your heartstrings until they snap like elastic.

It's particularly poignant for me to be posting about Midnight Masses because my wife's father, Tom, has been seriously ill for some time and is currently in hospital.

This post is dedicated to Tom, you may never see this but you'll always be an old git to me.

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MP3 - Midnight Masses - Deserter Song
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Midnight Masses
Debtors Song (Live)

The Devil Will Make Work

The Idle Hands
Genre: Rock / Rock / Rock
From : Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

The Idle Hands are what happens when two expatriate Irish brothers are moved to America, hole up in the studios of the frozen Midwest, and find themselves making music with their best friends in a city frontman Ciaran has described as "Dr. Zhivago with bands".

The Idles' sound is hard to pigeonhole, combining glam, neo-New Wave, and disco with nods to everyone from Berlin-era Bowie to pre-Dig! Dandy Warhols to the Libertines. Veering from knowing winks at the excesses of hipsterdom to heartbreaking sincerity and back again, and never embarrassed by the Big Pop Song, their sound is equal parts louche hedonism and wistful melancholy.

Blending a love of literate English pop, with an American need to rock out uninhibitedly, The Idle Hands push all the right indie-rock buttons without tripping over irony or wallowing in ennui. Perhaps it's the equation of the boy/girl/boy/girl/boy line-up now in place: Ciaran and his brother, Criostoir (bass), Eileen (keys) and her traveling companion Emma (guitar), and rhythm setter Nick (drums).

Give them your ears, and enthusiasm.

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MP3 - The Idle Hands - Loaded
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Strange Fruit

RD Mauzy
Genre: Rock / Alternative / Garage
From: Berkeley, CA, United States

RD Mauzy is a multi-faceted, multi talented artist who makes his way in life through writing (mybestpotstories.com), photography and gritty goofy rock and roll. In 2007 he released his acoustic/punky 'Honeycut' single backed with an explosive cover of Madonna's 'Burning Up' which got a favourable mention on MP3 Hugger (RD Mauzy - Honeycut).

His new single 'Oppols On Bononos' is a fruit-filled musical experience packaged as a homo-erotic-comic-meets-seven-inch with song and art mixing in metaphors of apples and bananas and is as left field as that sounds. It's a raggedly endearing sound with discordant, repetitive rhythms and bursts of noisy guitar. Imagine Pavement at their most defiantly lo-fi throwing fruit at an atonal Beck in an organic greengrocers and you're getting warm. It's the kinda noise that John Peel would have would have loved .


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MP3 - RD Mauzy - Horny Apple Pie
MP3 - RD Mauzy - Apologetic Bananas
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RD Mauzy
Burning Up

Killola

Killola
Genre: Rock / Idol / Garage
From: Los Angeles, California, United States

Cults of all kinds seem to spring up in Los Angeles. It is a city well known for its history of obsessive sects, but few L.A. rock bands have ever enjoyed the kind of rabid fervor of its fans nationwide as Killola. The underground buzzsaw pop band’s latest album 'I Am The Messer' has been downloaded over 40,000 times and lauded as “Blondie for the 21st Century.” and is available free HERE.

Now, the garage pop quartet has been tapped to support the New York Dolls this month at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, TX, and synth-pop heroes Berlin later at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.

Their infectious tunes, frenetic front woman Lisa Rieffel and indefatigable energy have won them more and more obsessively dedicated new fans everywhere they stop. That endless evangelism continues this week as the “Hell On Heels” west coast tour (with Semi Precious Weapons and Von Iva) kicks off. Immediately following that jaunt, Killola has the honor of playing with the legendary New York Dolls at 504 Trinity Street during SXSW. Dates follow in April with Berlin, then yet another tour in May.

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MP3 - Killola - This Is How The World Ends
MP3 - Killola - All Of My Idols Are Dead
MP3 - Killola - Cracks In The Armor
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Killola
Johnny Are You Queer?

I Wish They All Could Be California Girls

Greater California
Genre: Indie / Folk / Psychedelic
From: Long Beach, California, United States

I know you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but sometimes you only have to look at a bands photos to know they're going to be brilliant and Greater California are one of those bands. Just check out the photo on the left, the band look like a really cool underground band from Haight-Ashbury in 1967, and they sound like it to.

Like a soundtrack to a long lost documentary on the summer of love compiled by Brian Wilson Greater California's latest, and third, album 'All the Colors' is full of jangly 12-string guitars, rich vocal harmonies, a big bag of percussion, vibraphones and marimbas, a stray trumpet, and the ever inviting sounds of the hammond organ and wurlitzer electric piano.

'All The Colors' is like an Ipod with the shuffle setting stuck on the Zombies, the Velvet Underground and The Byrds so as the world goes to hell in a handcart turn on, tune in, drop out with Greater California.

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MP3 - Greater California - Almost Sunshine
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Just Like Honey

Honey Claws
Genre: Electronica / Pop Punk / Experimental
From: Austin, United States

Honey Claws (first featured on the Devil's blog back in December, Sweet & Sharp ) have a new 4-track EP out now.

Mixed by Bill Racine, who has worked with many artists including Mates of State, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and 50 Cent, the EP showcases the band's ability to straddle the lines of multiple musical genres with each of the tracks having a different vibe.



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MP3 - Honey Claws - Pemporer
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There's Power In The Union

The Union Trade
Genre: Rock / Shoegaze / Experimental
From: San Francisco, California, United States

Formed in San Francisco in the spring of 2006 The Union Trade manipulate their instruments like a gang of mad puppeteers changing tempo and structure at will.

The band take on the combined sounds of Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky and Slint and beat them until their battered, bruised and bloody. It's visceral post rock experimentalism that's the aural equivalent of swimming in a lava lamp and not for the faint at heart.

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MP3 - The Union Trade - Self Possession
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Ono no no no

Ono Palindromes
Genre: Art / Pop
From: Exeter, Southwest, United Kingdom

With a name that has to be the worst since Test Icicles (and only marginally better than their previous name Young Sensation!) it seems all Ono Palindromes creative effort has gone into their music! Which is better than many band who seem to spend longer choosing their name than writing decent songs!

The Exeter five piece have got a four track EP out at the moment which is more exciting than the Human Torch in a fireworks factory. The Devil's favourite track 'Kitty Magic' sounds like early Roxy Music tied up in a sack with Arcade Fire and PIL . Close behind in the favourite stakes is the EPs final track the aptly named 'The End' (sadly not an alt indie take on the Doors classic) which starts off like Echo & The Bunnymen playing in a monastery before turning into a modern psych classic. Of the other two tracks 'Beautiful Noise' is art pop Ronseal that does exactly what it says on the tin and 'Eat Your Make Up' is about girls being taken off the streets and forced to lie on a diet of make-up and includes a verse centred on the concept of Alice in Wonderland being a crazed alcoholic!

Ono Palindromes have been gently rapping at the indie door of fame and now's the time to welcome them in, because with they're preparing themselves to kick it in.

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MP3 - Ono Palindromes - Eat Your Make Up
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Ono Palindromes - Myspace

Saturday Morning Full English Veggie Breakfast

It's Saturday morning and what better way to start the day than a full English breakfast (vegetarian of course) of tracks from bands that have contacted the Devil over the week and I haven't quite got around to posting?

The Locks Yawned Loose
Genre: Americana / Folk Rock / Acoustic
From: United Kingdom

Formerly known as Love in the Asylum singer songwriter Neil claims to be a one man band in search of a helping hand (he's a poet and he didn't know it) and he sounds a little like the UKs answer to Bon Iver locked in a shed on an allotment with Will Oldham.

If you want to know more about his odd pseudonym google Dylan Thomas and all will be revealed.

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MP3 - The Locks Yawned Loose - Coincidence Came
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The Locks Yawned Loose - Blog

Koala
Genre: Experimental / Rock
From: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The distinctly uncuddly Koala (not to be confused with the Belgian trip hoppers Koala) assault the eardrums with blasts of avant garde freeform jams that seem constantly on the verge of breakdown before veering off into another direction.

Self indulgent possibly, uncommercial maybe, left field definitely.

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MP3 - Koala - Portrait of the Invisible
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Koala - Myspace

Evening Magazine
Genre: Indie // Lounge
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Evening Magazine are a Philadelphia indie-pop collective (whatever happened to band, why does every band have to be a collective these days?). The band's (sorry collective's) debut EP ' The Ride Across Lake Constance' is a laid back, melodic journey into an alternative universe where Polyphonic Spree have been stripped of their robes and have decamped to the prairies.

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MP3 - Evening Magazine - 18 Wheels
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Evening Magazine - Myspace

Kristoffer Ragnstam
Genre: Other / Other / Other
From: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län , Sweden

Swedish indie pop that's more accessible than Paris Hilton's underwear with more hooks than a fisherman's convention now there's a surprise! The inbox seems to be crammed full of Swedes with tunes a plenty and tales to tell.

Kristoffer Ragnstam is the latest off the seemingly never ending Swedish assembly line of quality indie pop and he's bound to go down a storm at SXSW.

So check him out now before he's crowned king of SXSW.

Go Try

Kristoffer Ragnstam - Shake That Tambourine
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Kristoffer Ragnstam - Myspace // Website