MySpace Trawl
Thursdays are when our bins are emptied and also when the council tend to shout at us for not separating our glass from our plastics. Unless you’re into recycling this is as thrilling as watching your Uncle Ben’s microwave rice cook.
However, something much more interesting and almost sexually arousing is our MySpace Trawl feature. We separate the gash from the good and guarantee to bring you musical acts that are different and interesting. This week’s artist could almost be confused for either an overpriced shampoo or a dodgy beauty salon that operates in a grubby council estate. Head and Neck Session are fortunately neither of the above but produce music that dots around the genres of ambiance, hip hop, jazz and electronics.
All rubbishy pop music is released on a Monday and isn’t very exciting. However Thursdays on hecklerspray is Trawl day, and full of good music! Hooray! Although we have to literally sift through all of the rubbish to bring you the goods. Boo!
If it wasn’t boring enough to click through various MySpace pages, people are sending an ever-increasing amount of messages to our inbox telling us they're the shit. We don’t have the heart to them that they are just shit. Today, we are going to introduce to Crystal Castles who are an '8-bit terror duo' who come from Toronto, Canada. Yeah, Canada! The country does produce other music acts apart from Celine Dion and Bryan Adams. And the difference between Crystal Castles and their fellow Canadian counterparts is that they're actually good.
Hecklerspray - dear old Shawn Lindseth in particular - hasn't stopped blathering on about It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia since we first clapped eyes on it. In these dark, post-Arrested Development days, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia stands out as one of the best sitcoms around.
Apparently there's a new season of It's
...Yay yay hooray, it's Thursday today! Significantly, Thursday doesn’t really stick out as an exciting day although, slowly but surely, we are attempting to make it the day when people will scramble to their computers. Our MySpace Trawl feature usually hits the interweb at around this time, bringing with it tasty music morsels.
We’ve said it time and time but this poorly thought-of feature is designed to expand and broaden the mind of the music fan who is mostly subjected to top 40 chart music. In our minds, there’s so much more out there, and we aim to bring this to you. Looking at all of music’s various styles; we’ve decided to look at the sometimes horribly dubbed genre known as “dance” music, and more specifically some bloke who calls himself Nathan Fake.
It’s OK! You can stop pressing refresh on your browser - our weekly look at all the strange and wonderful goings on in the world of MySpace is here.
We literally sit down and listen to shedloads of stuff each week to pass on the good stuff to you. We’d like to think we cover all styles to cater for everyone, from folk, electronic, stuff we can’t categorise and rock. Today, we are going down the rock road to bring you The Locust. But calling them 'rock' is a very loose label to tag them with. It’s more 'experimental rock with lots of random bits and pieces thrown in for good measure'. This is going to be a case of people thinking “Ooh, someone is doing something different, so I won’t listen,” we just know it.
MySpace Trawl is the feature where we attempt to educate you about music that is doing something a little bit more different and exciting then the run of the mill toss that gets played on radio and TV. We attempt to discover the acts that are totally spanking new or ones that just need a bit more exposure.
This week we trek over to America to serve something up that isn’t country or hip hop. Because we all know that is what Americans only listen to. If we can describe their music, we’d have to say that Animal Collective dip into the confusing-sounding style of psych-folk and noise-rock. Yes it sounds confusing, but it's fun. And we like that.
Life is sometimes down to an individual’s choice about what they like and don’t like. Consequently, of course, stuff that you have a preference for may not go down too well with your 70-year-old next day neighbour.
The easiest example we can think of to use here would be the good old Marmite debate. For years the product has gone with the slogan 'love it or hate it'. Personally, we hate the stuff; it should never be sold again to anyone - not even the starving. This week, we present to you an act that has been splitting musical opinion since the 1980s. Usually, however, the response to their output has usually been somewhat sour. Probably the most extreme act we are ever likely to feature on this page, we give you Whitehouse.
MySpace Trawl is hecklerspray's wobbly feature where we attempt to take a stroll through the sometimes discomforting world of MySpace. After we scrape the wax and other gunk out from our ears, we attempt to find the best bands and artists out there, ranging from guitar raging spasm rock to something you’d put on after vomiting up your insides from a heavy night on the tiles.
At least you’ll be listening to stuff that isn’t being pounded on the radio and TV constantly. You’ll be 'alternative' and 'hip' or something. Regular readers of the site know that, at the best of times, we are easily confused. While we are pretty much up to speed on the latest musical trends and happenings (so we’d like to think), we were deeply puzzled by an artist going under the name of The Tuss when we stumbled across him. The name seems no different to other artists we’ve covered, but further prodding away reveals far more questions than answers. Prepare yourself for a mini carry-on as we attempt to explain all of the interest in The Tuss.
