Normal Service Will Be Resumed

Still unable to operate a full service due to factors beyond my control so it's another short but sweet post tonight.

Blisterene
From: Vancouver, Canada

Blisterene is a power pop group with a punk heart from Vancouver, Canada, who have been around the block and back in their 15 years of life. I just love the red neck baiting 'Dipshit In A Pickup Truck' which is the sort of track Green Day would knock out before they went all serious on us.

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MP3 - Blisterene - Dipshit in a Pickup Truck
MP3 - Blisterene - Get A Life
MP3 - Blisterene - Mixed Up Kid
These tracks are linked direct from the Blisterene Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Blisterene
Broadcast Nationwide

Will Be Back Soon

It's a difficult time for the Devil over the next few days. I'm working away from home and am then having a short break in London so the next few posts will be very brief. But don't worry I'll be back with my usual perceptive pearls of wisdom next week.

Tonight I present for your delectation That Horrible Red Ruler who have been described as "... kinda like the napalm death of drum n bass."

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MP3 - That Horrible Red Ruler - The Trouble With Being (cut in half)
MP3 - That Horrible Red Ruler - One Piece Of Trash
MP3 - That Horrible Red Ruler - Everything Is Boring
These tracks are linked direct from That Horrible Red Ruler Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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That Horrible Red Ruler - Myspace : Last.FM

Every Little Thing They Do Is Magic

Gumar and H!s Mag!cal M!d! Band
From: Portland/Olympia, Washington
United States

There are times when all you want to do is celebrate the joy of living, to let your hair down, forget about your worries and your strife and have a bit of fun. Well today's band have the soundtrack for those days.

Portland eccentrics Gumar and His Magical Midi Band don't take themselves too seriously. Their gigs include a Heath Robinson cardboard and tin foil robot on stage with them and they hand out hand made cardboard instruments for members of the audience to play along with.

They might be as mad as box of frogs Gumar and His Magical Midi Band have your bodies ticket to the dance party.



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MP3 - Gumar and H!s Mag!cal M!d! Band - Alien Groove Thing

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Gumar and H!s Mag!cal M!d! Band

Princess Dye

Foxdye
From: Portland, Oregon, United States

The clearly bonkers Foxdye is responsible for some of the wackiest Drill N Bass/Rave tunes created at any point in the history of music making. She blends samples that sound like they came from children’s shows, and she does gabba covers (not remixes) of old classical songs by replacing string notes with pitched snare rushes. It sounds like a The Avalanches wired up to an old school space invader machine and a video recorder playing reruns of CBBC. If you don't think that sounds like the work of genius then you've obviously come to the wrong place.

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MP3 - Foxdye - Train Wreckstep
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Foxdye - Myspace : Last.FM

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foxdye live @ dogwater dayz feb 2009

Heartbreak Hotel

Sun Hotel don't believe in over complication. Their bio is as straightforward and twitter friendly as they come. Do you need to know much more than 'We live in the south, we like it, we make music'? Their music is equally simple. There are no friperries, beeps or buzzes it's simply laid back, mellow harmonies and subtle psychedelic twists and turns. It sounds like the result of an experiment to extract the essence from Animal Collective and the Eagles.

Check in at Sun Hotel and watch your worries melt away.

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MP3 - Sun Hotel - Swamp Thing
MP3 - Sun Hotel - Honey
These tracks are linked direct from the Sun Hotel Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Sun Hotel - Myspace : Last.FM

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Sun Hotel
Honey

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Dinosaur Rock

Brontosaurus Chorus

From: London, United Kingdom

Back in July the Devil featured the Violet Pets a band that I wasn't sure were still alive (Pet Sounds). I've since found out that they are an ex band, that they have indeed ceased to be. But their spirit lives on in the form of London troupe Brontosaurus Chorus who include ex Violet Petter Dom Language in their numbers.

The multi membered collective have their second album Owls on it's way soon and it's a corker. An album of ghostly autumnal twee pop that sounds like it's been surgically removed from the heart of Belle & Sebastian.

Dinosaur rock never sounds so good!

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MP3 - Brontosaurus Chorus - Louisiana
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Brontosaurus Chorus - Myspace : Last.FM

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Brontosaurus Chorus
Now We're Making Out

The Sound Of The Plunderground

Graz
From: Washington, United States

A big dose of kudos to Ms Valerie Park Distro, an online store out of Olympia, Washington who alerted me to a skip load of great music from the US.

I'll feature a few of the bands from their extensive and highly varied list over the coming weeks but first up is Graz a leading exponent of the genre we like to call Rapid-Fire-Amen-Infused-Mashcore. Admittedly not quite as catchy as say grunge or even witch house but, like Ronseal Perfect Finish Floor Paint, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

The Graz sound is constructed of snatches of sound plundered from various sources all held together with twitches and bleeps familiar to anyone who has stayed up all night to beat the third level boss on any number of hand held gaming devices. If you ever wondered what the sound of an original vintage game boy being fired from a bazooka might sound like then wonder no more. Just take a listen to Graz's brilliantly titled Kick Ass In A Cheap Suit and tick it off your bucket list!

It's the sound of the plunderground.

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MP3 - Graz - Kick Ass In A Cheap Suit
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Graz - Myspace : Last.FM
Ms Valerie Park Distro - Myspace : Website

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Graz
Dust In My Console

The Lying Game

The Sleep-Ins
From: Australia

The Sleep-Ins are Australia's leading exporters of songs about girls & outer space and they're coming to a bar near you. Well they are if you live in some parts of the US.

Trawling through their myspace site they sound like a curious menage a trois of The Pixies (Chrome Skull & Matching Codpiece); Pavement (Angelina); and a less strung out Dandy Warhols circa 'The Dandy Warhols Come Down' (the Devil's favourite Sleep-Ins track 'Silver State').

It's time to wake up to the joys of the Sleep-Ins.

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MP3 - The Sleep-Ins - Silver State
This track is published with the permission of Green Light Go so please don't claim breach of copyright.

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The Sleep-Ins - Myspace : Facebook : Website

The British Are Coming

British Intelligence
From: North London / Essex, London and South East
United Kingdom

British Intelligence are a 6 strong industrial hip hop group from North London who have just released their pugnacious new EP 'Street Fight' featuring remixes by Radiokillaz, Seax, British Intelligence producer Steve Lavers. They fuse hip hop with heavy guitars and dance beats to create a sound that is roughly 50% Public Enemy, 25% Nine Inch Nails, 25%, The Prodigy and 0% So Solid Crew.

Check out That's How It Goes which packs more punch than Amir Khan in a temper and is without doubt the best hip hop tracks this Devil's heard this year.

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MP3 - British Intelligence - That's How It Goes
This track is linked direct from the British Intelligence Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright.

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British Intelligence - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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British Intelligence
No More

Crystal Palettes

The Cleft Palettes
From: Who Knows?

I know absolutely nothing about the Cleft Palettes. They don't appear to have a myspace site. Their Facebook site has no information. Their website has nothing other than links to download a few tracks. Their Last.FM site is the most informative and all that says is that The Cleft Palettes are two guys and a blonde girl. That much I could guess from the only picture that I could find of the band.

What I do know is that if ever a band let their music do the talking it's The Cleft Palettes. Necro Step sounds like a cut 'n shunt of The B52's Rock Lobster and The Human League's 'Sound of the Crowd' reimagined by Bloc Party. It's art rock with more fizz than a sherbert fountain. Their other tracks aren't as infused with the same joie de vivre. Ghost Girl sounds like Hadouken! on red bull while Rent-O-Kill is all wiry, edgy, kinetic energy.

At the risk of sounding like the musical equivalent of the Hotel Inspector the Devil's advice to The Cleft Palettes is raise the self promotion levels and use Necro Step as their template. That's the route to world domination, or at least domination of their hometown wherever that may be.

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MP3 - The Cleft Palettes - Necro Step
MP3 - The Cleft Palettes - Ghost Girl
MP3 - The Cleft Palettes - Rent-O-Kill
These tracks are linked direct from The Cleft Palettes Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging breach of copyright


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The Cleft Palettes - Last.FM : Website

Not Strictly For The Birds

Terror Bird
From: Vancouver, Canada

Terror Bird is a Vancouver-based duo featuring Nikki Never and Jeremiah Haywood. I stumbled across the duo while surfing the internet looking for band's to feature on the blog and was absolutely blown away by 'Shame Is On Your Side'. If you've been looking for the missing link between The Supremes and the Pretenders at their poppiest then I may just have found it for you. It's a huge song. It's pop so big it could consume the planet. Nikki's vocals on the track could stop traffic. It's the sort of performance that makes you glad to be alive.

The rest of Terror Bird's repertoire is a little more downbeat. Tracks like Who's Sorry Now, Just A Mistake and Shadows In The Hall sound like a cross between PJ Harvey and The Eurythmics suffering a bout of mild depression.

Why aren't Terror Bird massive? Why aren't they soundtracking the lives of everyone in the global village? That's a question that greater brains than mine will need to ponder because it's baffled me. 'Shame Is On Your Side' is already a leading contender for the top 10 tracks of the year and, at the moment, it's not far from the leading contender.

Check out Terror Birds it may just change your life.

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MP3 - Terror Bird - Shame Is On Your Side
This track is linked direct from the Terror Bird Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright.

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Terror Bird - Myspace : Last.FM

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Terror Bird
Shadows In The Hall

People Are Strange

Sex With Strangers
From: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I'm sure that I'll see a huge rise in visitors to the site after featuring Canadian sonic magicians Sex With Strangers although they may be a little disappointed to find a music site!

They may come for the sex and stay for the brooding synth beats.

MP3 - Sex With Strangers - We Want The Fire
MP3 - Sex With Strangers - The Lovers Will Rise Tonight
These tracks are linked direct from the Sex With Strangers Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim infringement of copyright

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Sex With Strangers - Myspace : Last.FM

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Sex With Strangers
The Lovers Will Rise Tonight

It's Just Not Cricket

Boycotts
From: Glasgow/Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Two of the band members of Boycotts like The Smiths and two of them like The Cribs so, apart from endless band arguments about Johnny Marr's best work (it was with the Smiths by the way!), it's understandable that they sound a little like a cross between both bands fronted by Harriet Wheeler's perky young sister.

Stina Twee (surely not the name on her birth certificate) has a lilting, swooningly sweet voice that throbs with a combination of innocence and desire while the band churn out shimmering, jangly brit-pop of the kind that seems to have been unfairly judged as passe by a music press obsessed with the latest fashion. If anyone can bring it back into fashion it's Boycotts.

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MP3 - Boycotts - Beat On The Dancefloor
MP3 - Boycotts - Shoot You Down
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Boycotts - Myspace : Last.FM

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Boycotts Scarper

Save The Elephant

Death Of The Elephant

From: Essex, United Kingdom

Since I first brought you Essex noisniks Death Of The Elephant back in February this year (Elephant Rocks) they've released their first ever proper release 'Transition To War' a shouty riot grrl lite track which is backed by the punkier, angrier 'I Love Blue Too'. Tom and Dan bash seven kinds of crap out of the bass and drums while Singer Dee bursts her lungs and thrashes her guitar to within an inch of it's life.

With both tracks coming in at less than two minutes each the single, released on lovely mint green vinyl, is a blast of energy that could breathe life into a, well, dead elephant!

Still not sure of the name though!

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MP3 - Death Of The Elephant - Junkfly
MP3 - Death Of The Elephant - Nosebleed
If anyone from the IFPI is reading these tracks are published with the permission of Death Of The Elephant and are available only for a short time so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright.

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Death Of The Elephant - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Death Of The Elephant
Trypticon

Monster Mash

Little Sea Monsters
From: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Little Sea Monsters is the fruitful brood of the elusive yet multi talented Nick Crumpton a lapsed marine naturalist, tree surgeon, amateur astronaut, former guitarist with the largely unheard ColorFilm and one half of the equally unheard and oddly named electronic duo Robots Like Milk (alongside Lipstick Entourage keyboardist Tom Cale).

According to his Myspace site the last known sighting of Nick was amongst the disheveled architecture and spires of Cambridge, England where he was discovered by Hilldrop Records. Under the kindly tutelage of the record company Little Sea Monsters have just released a debut EP 'Bear On My Back'. An EP of gentle alternative folk created by a perfectionist who places great emphasis on every aspect of a song no matter how small. It sounds like a bucolic, quaintly English Sufjan Stevens.
The EP will be digitally released on iTunes and will be accompanied by a limited edition audio cassette release available at select independent record stores.

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MP3 - Little Sea Monsters - Sunningdale
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Little Sea Monsters - Myspace : Last.FM

You Saw The Whole Of The Sky

Whole Sky Monitor
From: Leeds, United Kingdom

The natives are restless after the angry polemicism of KUTOSIS earlier this week the Devil brings you another gang of shouty, angry young men.

Leeds’ Whole Sky Monitor are on a mission to inject a dose of sonic shock into the body politic. Their new album Twisted Little Piggies, is a discordant, vaguely political, overtly misanthropic body of hyper-energetic and upsetting rock and roll blasts that smokes and sweats bullets. They may already have delivered the first anthem of the opposition to the coalition cuts although their target is a little easy. 'Sold' blames Margaret Thatcher and her legacy for our current problems although surely Blair and Brown aren't entirely innocent. Appropriately, it’s a ferocious song dripping with barely suppressed anger. It's tense, it's frantic, it's frenetic and it'll shake 10 Downing Street to it's foundations.

While KUTOSIS may be the first band manning the barricades Twisted Little Piggies will be the soundtrack to the coming revolt.

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MP3 - Whole Sky Monitor - Sold
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Whole Sky Monitor
Sold

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Simply Thrilled Honey

Magic Bullets
From: Wherever they rest their weary little heads, United States

Magic Bullets are a band with impeccable taste. Check out the guest playlist 12 Degrees of Altered Images that they curated on Songza where you'll find 12 tracks of utter perfection it'll bring tears to your eyes.

Given that all 12 tracks can be found somewhere in the Devil's extensive record collection it's not surprising that I love Magic Bullets. I close my eyes and I'm back in my bedroom in the 80s listening to the shiny new single by Haircut 100 or an Orange Juice session on the Peel show. Magic Bullets are the Sound of Young Scotland filtered through a College Radio lens.

In a nutshell I'm simply thrilled honey!

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MP3 - Magic Bullets - Lying Around
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Magic Bullets - Myspace : Website : Last.FM

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Magic Bullets
Yesterdays Seen Better Days (from their debut album)

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The New Revolution Starts Here

KUTOSIS
From, Cardiff, Wales

KUTOSIS are a fabulous, scabrous alt punk trio from Cardiff who make a wonderful racket. Spikier than a pissed off hedgehog the awkward threesome sound like they've extracted some of McCarthy's DNA and injected it into the Manic Street Preachers. Some alt punkers satisfy themselves with making noise for noises sake. Not KUTOSIS. These are angry young men on a mission. Don't be surprised if they're the first band manning the barricades when the coalition's cuts start to bite.

After far too long of bands playing it safe and choosing music as a career option rather than a platform for changing the world. It's great to hear a band with something to say. A band who are not afraid to tell it like it is. You may not always agree with them but by god you have to admire their passion.

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MP3 - KUTOSIS - Joseph
This track is linked direct from the Kutosis Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim infringement of copyright.

Kutosis - Myspace : Last.FM

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Kutosis
Small Cities

Hold Your Horses

Horse Guards Parade
From: Hull, United Kingdom

Horse Guards Parade formed about 2 years ago came together round about the summer of 2008 when James Waudby formerly of electro poppers Salako and friend Jason Heslewood got together and holed themselves up in the attic to record some tunes. Unlike Waudy's former band there is nothing electro or even pop about Horse Guards Parade. It's haunting, semi psychedelic anti folk with a particularly English twist.

This City Is On Fire recalls the elegaic beauty of The Blue Nile. The brilliantly titled Her Scabby Knees with it's haunting, ghostly echoes starts out with an ambition to become the 21st centuries 'Ghost Town' before turning into a lilting, downbeat psych folk ode to the owner of the local abattoir. 'Everybody's Going Back To Your House' and 'As The Plane Lifted It's Wheels' sound like the sort of tracks the Beatles would have knocked off in their spare time in the mid 60s. Yes trust me they're that good. All these tracks are available from the band's self titled EP released last year.

Horse Guards Parade will be the name to drop in 2011 so get ahead of the herd and check them out now.

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MP3 - Horse Guards Parade - Her Scabby Knees
MP3 - Horse Guards Parade - She Looked Like Henry Moore (Remix)
These tracks are linked direct from the Horse Guards Parade Last.FM site and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright

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Horse Guards Parade - Myspace : Website : Blog : Last.FM


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Horse Guards Parade
As The Plane Lifted It's Wheels

The Cure?

The Vaccines
From: London, United Kingdom

Not to be confused with their US (the Vaccines) or Japanese (the Vaccines) cousins Brit rock 'n rollers The Vaccines have the cure for the bubblegum infection that has swept the UK over the summer months. The band include at least one semi famous nu folkie (Justin James Hayward-Young aka Jay Jay Pistolet) and a relative of one of the best band's to emerge from London over the past five years (the little brother of The Horrors' bass player Tom). Given such an illustrious indie heritage it's hardly surprising that their demos already sound fully formed and ready to make their own way in the world.

The pick of the bunch is 'If You Wanna', a simmering, searing throwback of a track which sounds like Eddie Cochran dry humping The Ramones. It's simply rad.

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MP3 - The Vaccines - If You Wanna
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The Vaccines - Website : Last.FM

Watt's Going Down

Sixty Watt Bayonets

From: Reading / Kingston, United Kingdom

Sixty Watt Bayonets come storming out of Reading with 'I Wish I Was Your Girlfriend' a refreshing blast of old school new wave. Clocking in at just over two minutes, mathematically proven to be the perfect length for a single, it's got more energy than a Duracell bunny convention. It sounds like someone stapled Beth Ditto's lungs to the best bits of The Long Blondes, The Primitives and Be Your Own Pet. It makes you glad to be alive.

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MP3 - Sixty Watt Bayonets - I Wish I Was Your Girlfriend
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Sixty Watt Bayonets
1933

The Girls Are In Charge

What Would Jesus Drive?
From: United Kingdom

2010 has been a great year for music so far. The job of sifting the best tracks of the year down to a top 10 is going to be more difficult this year than any year since the blog began over four years ago.

Not making the job any easier are Brit poppers What Would Jesus Drive? Their 'Girls Are In Charge', an electro glam rocker that sounds like someone turned The Ting Tings inside out and injected the remains with rocket fuel, is elbowing it's way to the head of an already overcrowded field.

Not content with producing a contender for track of the year they're also a leading contender for song title of the year for their irreverent 'Boomtown Twats' which one perceptive critic has described as "90 seconds of concentrated evilthink wrapped up in an incongruously melodic overcoat" (Soundsxp.com).

And, if you're wondering, I'm pretty sure that Jesus wouldn't drive any of the vehicles on the market today. His mode of transport would remain the humble donkey!

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MP3 - What Would Jesus Drive - The Girls Are In Charge
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What Would Jesus Drive
The Girls Are In Charge

Vapor Trail

Calm Palm Vapor
From: Chicago, United States

Calm Palm Vapor is a four piece post shoegazing band from the South Side of Chicago. They have just released their new album 'Morning Pacific'. Where the classic shoegazers built an ear splitting wall of sound with layer on layer of guitar 'Morning Pacific' is more sublimely melodic and wonderfully contemplative.

Hate To See You Smile is a languid, deep pool of a track conjuring up images of hazy reflections in a river, couples skimming stones, girls in floaty summer dresses kicking off their shoes. It's the sort of track you can easily get lost in. Everyday We Grow is more discordant jarring you with it's dystopean synths before morphing into a sexier Field Mice and then ending with what must be the first example of shoegazers campfire song .

'Morning Pacific' is a surprisingly soulful album that almost justifies the band's claim that their sound is a kind of space-motown. Who new that gazing at your shoes could be so interesting?

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MP3 - Calm Palm Vapor - Hate To See You Smile
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Calm Palm Vapor Everyday We Grow

The Kids Are Alright

Saturday's Kids
From: South Wales, United Kingdom

Sion the lead singer with old school punkers Saturday's Kids took some time out from straining his vocal chords to answer a few questions from the Devil.

The Devil: Why Saturday's Kids? What other names did you consider before finally deciding it had to be Saturday's Kids?

Sion: I can’t remember the exact names we had but they were pretty shocking we started this band when we were 15 so you can imagine how naive and awful some of the names were. It comes from a Jam song we all thought it sounded cool, there is no deep philosophical meaning to it.

The Devil: Who are your biggest influences?

Sion: There are about 5 bands I would say that have shaped our band significantly Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Joy Division, Pissed Jeans and Descendents. We try very hard not to be repetitive in any way, we don’t use any sort of formulaic song structure. we all have a huge variety of taste in music and that helps to give a changing point of view which gives the music more diversity.

The Devil: What was the first record you owned and what was the first record you ever bought?

Sion: I can’t remember the first record I ever owned but the first record I remember being played to me was The Pixies Doolittle, I was 7 at the time and my oldest brother was listening to it, I thought monkey gone to heaven was the best song ever on the basis it was about a monkey. The first record I ever bought was Descendents everything sucks today, and album full of roaring punk tunes with surprisingly pop orientated melodies.

The Devil: What's the strangest place you've played and would you go back there?

Sion: The strangest place also happens to be the best, we played our 7” record release show in the basement of an antiques market in Cardiff. It was only lit by 3 green fluorescent lights and looked ominously like a scene from fight club. It was an amazing show where people just turned up to have fun, seeing people flying across the room and really getting into the bands was something truly special. Maybe one day something similar will happen again.

The Devil: Other than Saturdays Kids who are the most exciting bands on the current music scene?

Sion: Ono Palindromes are a really exiting band from Exeter its amazing to see some experimental tunings done well, and they blast out the grunge/pop tunes so easily (I can;t agree more the Devil is a huge Ono Palindromes fan). Harbour are a south Wales band who are playing the hardest but also the most original hardcore in the UK and maybe the world at the moment, they take a lot of influence from harder dischord bands like Dag Nasty and Scream, also the one guitarist comes out with the most insane guitar lines.

The Devil: If you weren't in Saturdays Kids how would you keep yourself occupied?

Sion: Most probably doing another band in the same vein, as long as I get to make noise and lots of it with a guitar I am happy, if not music related it would be something like photography.

The Devil: If you were interviewing yourself what would your killer question be and how would you answer it?

Sion: Q: Are you Happy? A: Ummmmmmmmm yes

The Devil: What's your favourite joke?

Sion: Yo mamma's so fat she found cheats for the wii fit

The Devil: What did you used to do on a Saturday when you were a kid?

Sion: Watch some really bad cartoons and try and stay up as long as possible.

The Devil: Is there anything else you'd like to say to the Devil's readers?

Sion: We have got a new record coming out in the next month or so, it is a split 10” with Kids Return from Brighton, and another 7” a few months after that.

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MP3 - Saturday's Kids - Spider Legs
MP3 - Saturday's Kids - Grey On White
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Saturday's Kids - Myspace : Last.FM

Help The Monolators

The Monolators
From: Los Angeles, California, United States

The Monolators were featured on the first ever Devil's blog (I've Started Something) and have been regulars ever since. The LA band are looking for a little support to help them finish the production of a 12" vinyl record. They remain unsigned (a travesty that makes me despair of the music industry) and have put out all of their records, since 2002, completely unassisted, funding everything themselves. It's the true spirit of DIY that the Devil loves. The only financial support they ever get is from people buying copies of their records.

They are aiming to release their next record in November but are a little short of funds to finish it up. So they are asking people to pre-order a copy to help them get it mastered and pressed to vinyl.

This is a unique chance for you to help a great band. If you've got a couple of pounds/dollars to spare then take a trip over to the band's Kickstarter site and make your pledge. The records will only be funded if at least $1,600 is pledged by Wednesday Sep 15. There's 8 days left and the band are currently short by just over $350 so it's important that you trip over there today.

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If you want a preview of the type of music you'll be helping to fund here is an old Monolators track to listen to...

MP3 - The Monolators - We Fell Dead
This track is linked direct from the Monolator's Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim infringement of copyright.

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The Monolators
Ruby I'm Changing My Number

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back InThe Water

Halloween Swim Team
From: Los Angeles / Inland Empire, United States

God knows what I'll do when Halloween comes around because like Fetch The Witches before them tonight's featured band Halloween Swim Team is another I was going to bring you as part of a Halloween themed special who are too good to keep under wraps until then.

The LA based synth trio have their feet firmly on terra firma but their sound is beamed direct from another planet. Slotting the band into a neat little category is almost impossible. While they clearly have a foot in the electronic camp with more than a nod to OMD, Dalek I Love You, Kraftwerk and Hot Chip they're not afraid to absorb influences as diverse as Devo, The Flaming Lips and The Beastie Boys. The brilliant Country First is a frightening, dystopean mix of Kraftwerk on steroids and The Beastie Boys. It's stormed onto the shortlist for Devil tracks of the year. The almost as brilliant Pitch Black sounds like the Doors played on a stylophone.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water here come the Halloween Swim Team.

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MP3 - Halloween Swim Team - Pitch Black
MP3 - Halloween Swim Team - Science Fiction
These tracks are published with the permission of Art of Broadcast so please don't claim breach of copyright.

MP3 - Halloween Swim Team - Country First
This track is linked direct from the Halloween Swim Team Last.FM site and is therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright.

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Halloween Swim Team
Thin Airlines

Lucky You

Goodluck Jonathan
From: Brighton, United Kingdom

I may be jumping to conclusions here but I assume that Goodluck Jonathan are named after the Nigerian leader who threatened to suspend the national soccer team from playing for two years because of its poor World Cup showing. Which seems an odd choice of band name for an angsty math-rock band from Brighton.

The edgy five piece have been creating a buzz around the nether regions of the UK indie scene following well received appearances at Club NME. You better get some earplugs because the buzz is going to get louder with the release of their debut ep 'This Is Our Way Out'. More angular than a Frank Gehry building it'll excite anyone who ever wondered what a Foals and ...Trail Of Dead souffle would taste like. The band claim that that world 'needs a soundtrack with fucking big drums' and by god the boys have delivered it!

When you have as much talent as Goodluck Jonathan you don't need luck.

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MP3 - Goodluck Jonathan - Broken Heart
This track is published with the permission of Cannonball PR so please don't claim breach of copyright.

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Goodluck Jonathan - Myspace : Last.FM

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Goodluck Jonathan
She Doesn't Love Me

Wild At Heart

Wild Party
From: Texas, United States

Wild Party are five gangly kids from the middle of Texas with a laptop, some beat up guitars and more energy than a kindergarten after a red bull overdose. They sound like The Killers after A Flock of Seagulls injection which is remarkably much much better than that sounds.

Their debut single, Life's Too Short, is as catchy as a fishing rod with 20 hooks. It's a neat blend of pop melodies and jittery dance rhythms that'll claim squatters rights in your brain. The band are set to visit the Devil's neck of the woods, in October for a brief tour across the UK with their British cousins The Wombats.

'Life's Too Short' will be released on 25th October on 7" vinyl and the usual digital formats. If you can't wait until then you can download 'Take My Advice' which will be the singles b-side.

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Wild Party - Website

Living In America

Bodega Girls

From: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Check out this awesome cover of DOM's 'Living In America. It's stripped back and completely devoid of any studio trickery and e numbers. It sounds so much better for it. It's one of the best cover versions I've heard this year.

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Bodega Girls - Myspace : Last.FM

Happy Birthday Julia

Happy birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Julia, Happy Birthday to you.

It's my daughter Julia's birthday today so what better gift than a post loaded with birthday related artists? Happy birthday Julia.

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MP3 - Garfield's Birthday - Summer In, Summer Out
MP3 - Birthday Island - Skirt Patrol
MP3 - South Shore Birthday - Wake Up
These tracks are linked direct from the artists' Last.FM sites and are therefore already freely available so please refrain from alleging infringement of copyright

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Garfield's Birthday - Myspace : Last FM
Birthday Island - Last.FM
South Shore Birthday - Myspace : Last.FM

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Happy Birthday
Girls FM



The Birthday Party
Release The Bats

It's So Quiet

Quiet Bears
From: Davenport, Iowa, United States

Johnnie Cluney formed Quiet Bears in mid 2002 after his previous project Romantic and the Sirens broke up. He chose the right name for his new venture. He has a whole cave full of reflective, melancholic songs that have a bit of a bite. It's the perfect soundtrack for long warm summer nights on the front porch. Nights when you want to escape from the pace of modern life, kick back your heels and let your troubles drift away.

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MP3 - Quiet Bears - Tie Our Hair To The Roots
MP3 - Quiet Bears - Creatures
These tracks are linked direct from the Asaurus Records website and are therefore already freely available so please don't claim breach of copyright.

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Quiet Bears - Myspace
Asaurus Records - Myspace : Website

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Quiet Bears
The Fog