Month: July 2012
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Fuck the Olympics
“I’m bored of it already” – amen brother, amen. (from TinRoofPress)
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Lazy music for a sunny day*
Checking through my old emails I found this excellent song sent to me by The Other Planets – a few months late but I think the woozy vibe fits the summer* even better. They are a New Orleans self proclaimed psychedelic ‘weirdo-rock’ outfit, with a Flaming Lips influence which doesn’t hurt, but with the added…
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Unofficial Anthems 1: Good Morning Britain
The Muse Olympic theme tune has been released and ho-hum, it’s the bastard lovechild of Mr Blue Sky, John Miles (!) and Flash-era Queen guitar squiggles meeting unironic Triumph-of-Will-style Laibach vocals. So usual Muse then. *boom tish*. No it really reminds me of Laibach, in a rather unhealthy way…except I guess Leni would use a…
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Banks Take You For A Ride
This sticker campaign from P K Munroe in 2010 seems even more pertinent now in the face of the Libor interest rate fixing scandal. Sadly I can’t crow too much because shortly after all the other banks – well ones that were functioning *snigger* got fined as well for wrongly selling financial products to small…