archive for... November, 2009
The Fame Monster – Lady Gaga
5:40 pm on 30 November, 2009
Having spent an inordinate amount of time in the company of The Fame Monster The Counterfit is still none the wiser as to intentions of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. From its ritualistic musings on bi-curiosity, her personal demons and egomaniacal tendencies the knee jerk reaction is to chalk Lady Gaga up as another entertaining, if ultimately derivative, caricature of pop’s First Lady Madonna.
However, there does come the point at which you begin to wonder whether Stefani isn’t some devious A&R puppet and is in fact very much in control of her own output.
One Foot In The Grave: Take It In – Hot Chip
12:05 am on 30 November, 2009
With a new album due out next year, London’s very own Synthpop heroes already have a modest but well-received discography of highbrow dance music to add to. Despite critical success elsewhere, we’ve never been able to promote Hot Chip to our ‘used so much they look like they’ve been attacked with a scouring pad’ pile of CDs; however with Take It In we might actually have another reason to look forward to 2010.
Morrissey On Desert Island Discs
4:47 pm on 29 November, 2009
Reams and reams of paper have been wasted trying to deconstruct the psyche of Morrissey. Accompanied by a selection of stodgy New York rock, Kirsty Young has but 45 minutes to probe her teenage idol. The results are well worth a listen and as Young herself states: "He gives good quote".
Mock The Week: 28/11/09
12:10 pm on 28 November, 2009
Ok so we don’t have Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard or the unfunny slap head but what we do have is the best of the week’s music news compiled into one simple list. This week Eminem on the X Factor, Simon Reynolds on hip-hop and Muse at Glastonbury 2010.
Gang Of Gin: Why The Libertines Really Split Up
10:16 am on 27 November, 2009
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw! Look at Pete and Carl, two best buddies/borderline homosexual lovers who fell in love and acrimoniously fell out. Interestingly for obsessives of the London quartet, as the band’s best know song ‘Can’t Stand Me Now’ has mythologized this fractious relationship to the point where it’s easy to forget that after the split the pair really didn’t like each other very much at all.
Recorded as B-side for Babyshambles’ Killamangiro single, ‘Gang Of Gin’ tells this forgotten side to the story with such brutal honesty that ex-Libertines manager Alan McGee threatened to sue should it ever see the light of day. Luckily for you though, we have no money and a slightly cavalier attitude toward the feelings of the ex-Oasis Svengali.
