MySpace Trawl
MySpace Trawl – Polly Scattergood
On Tuesday, the nominees will be announced for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize. Last year, the ruddy fantastic Elbow took home the prize, beating artists such as Radiohead and Burial. But that was then, this is now! Every year, there are a few nominations that no-one will be surprised to see - we expect Lily Allen to be one of them. But what about the people who aren’t massively marketed by their record companies? Even though they’re making music that is just as good? If we had any money to bet on a rank outsider, then we’d put it on Polly Scattergood.
On Tuesday, the nominees will be announced for the 2009 Mercury Music Prize. Last year, the ruddy fantastic Elbow took home the prize, beating artists such as Radiohead and Burial. But that was then, this is now! Every year, there are a few nominations that no-one will be surprised to see - we expect Lily Allen to be one of them. But what about the people who aren’t massively marketed by their record companies? Even though they’re making music that is just as good? If we had any money to bet on a rank outsider, then we’d put it on Polly Scattergood.
MySpace Trawl – Cooh
Sometimes, you can a little bit attached to something and talk about it a little bit too much. Take the humble iPod for example. It doesn't matter if it is actually an iPod or not, everyone calls their MP3 player an iPod. Even though it’s a £50 knock off from Tesco. The same can be said about lots of other products. Generally, most people ask for a Coke when the actually drink is called cola. What are we getting at? We’re not sure; maybe we’ve had too much Pepsi. One thing we do know through our sugar rush is that we only really hear one drum n bass band on radio and TV. Why not something else, like Cooh?
Sometimes, you can a little bit attached to something and talk about it a little bit too much. Take the humble iPod for example. It doesn't matter if it is actually an iPod or not, everyone calls their MP3 player an iPod. Even though it’s a £50 knock off from Tesco. The same can be said about lots of other products. Generally, most people ask for a Coke when the actually drink is called cola. What are we getting at? We’re not sure; maybe we’ve had too much Pepsi. One thing we do know through our sugar rush is that we only really hear one drum n bass band on radio and TV. Why not something else, like Cooh?
MySpace Trawl – Product.01
We're not going to lie. Thanks to someone leaving the heating on, the UK has rocketed up in terms of temperature, leaving us hot, sticky and dressed in our underpants. As we write this, our sweat-soaked bodies are stuck to the leather office chairs and as we slept this afternoon, a lolly stick may have entered our back passage. We just want to ...
We're not going to lie. Thanks to someone leaving the heating on, the UK has rocketed up in terms of temperature, leaving us hot, sticky and dressed in our underpants. As we write this, our sweat-soaked bodies are stuck to the leather office chairs and as we slept this afternoon, a lolly stick may have entered our back passage. We just want to ...
MySpace Trawl – Please Stop Sending Us Crap Messages
In all of the years we’ve been hacking away through the silly amounts of artists on MySpace, we’ve done so on our own. Well most on are done on our own, sometimes during a late night radio listen we’ll pick up on groovy records locked away in the grim dark of the night. Amazingly, this feature isn’t the result of a PR lady throwing records at us and offering favours that we’ll get later on. You see dear reader, we want to keep things independent and physically scour for stuff that is different and you’ll hopefully enjoy. What we don’t like is people clawing through our attention and claiming to be the next big thing when, in reality, they sound like a dog poo that’s been stepped on.
In all of the years we’ve been hacking away through the silly amounts of artists on MySpace, we’ve done so on our own. Well most on are done on our own, sometimes during a late night radio listen we’ll pick up on groovy records locked away in the grim dark of the night. Amazingly, this feature isn’t the result of a PR lady throwing records at us and offering favours that we’ll get later on. You see dear reader, we want to keep things independent and physically scour for stuff that is different and you’ll hopefully enjoy. What we don’t like is people clawing through our attention and claiming to be the next big thing when, in reality, they sound like a dog poo that’s been stepped on.
MySpace Trawl – Japanese Pop Songs
Certain bands have different means of thinking when it comes to making music. Your friendly neighbourhood death metal will want you to rock out when they’re not baking cookies. And of course, we can stereotype all day long when we assume all reggae fans will listen to their Bob Marley 12”’s while dreadlocking up their arm and smoking funny-smelling cigarettes. What is certainly different about Japanese Pop Songs is their approach to how they write and record music. A lot of bands can sometimes take up to two/three years to complete a song from when a lyric is penned, to the final mastering process. Japanese Pop Songs do everything in twenty minutes.
Certain bands have different means of thinking when it comes to making music. Your friendly neighbourhood death metal will want you to rock out when they’re not baking cookies. And of course, we can stereotype all day long when we assume all reggae fans will listen to their Bob Marley 12”’s while dreadlocking up their arm and smoking funny-smelling cigarettes. What is certainly different about Japanese Pop Songs is their approach to how they write and record music. A lot of bands can sometimes take up to two/three years to complete a song from when a lyric is penned, to the final mastering process. Japanese Pop Songs do everything in twenty minutes.
MySpace Trawl – Micachu
Pop is a handy word, as it can be used to make other ones up! If you’re religious for example, the simple addition of an 'e' will transform the word in to Pope, aka God’s best chum on earth. Other words that pop can be extended in are popcorn, poppet and populace. In the musical sense, the word pop is shortened from the word popular. Most music in the top forty is often referred to as pop. Even though we like Jamaican funk rock, a lot of people don’t appreciate it as popular. Micachu describes her music as pop despite the music not having a cheesy gloss sprayed over it compared to music classed as 'pop'.
Pop is a handy word, as it can be used to make other ones up! If you’re religious for example, the simple addition of an 'e' will transform the word in to Pope, aka God’s best chum on earth. Other words that pop can be extended in are popcorn, poppet and populace. In the musical sense, the word pop is shortened from the word popular. Most music in the top forty is often referred to as pop. Even though we like Jamaican funk rock, a lot of people don’t appreciate it as popular. Micachu describes her music as pop despite the music not having a cheesy gloss sprayed over it compared to music classed as 'pop'.
MySpace Trawl – Flunk
As we’re on a mission to try and bring you pop music from around the world, it only seemed suitable to trawl through Norway. After being crowned the winners of Eurovision 2009, it only seemed right to see what else they have to offer us. Surely the country has better stuff then Alexander Rybak? Norway’s most famous musical export of late has been the electronic duo Royksopp. Though the recent output hasn’t really lived to their debut album Melody A.M. It’s all been a bit rubbish and reliant on guest vocals from people like Lykke Li and Annie. Thankfully, Flunk don’t do this.
As we’re on a mission to try and bring you pop music from around the world, it only seemed suitable to trawl through Norway. After being crowned the winners of Eurovision 2009, it only seemed right to see what else they have to offer us. Surely the country has better stuff then Alexander Rybak? Norway’s most famous musical export of late has been the electronic duo Royksopp. Though the recent output hasn’t really lived to their debut album Melody A.M. It’s all been a bit rubbish and reliant on guest vocals from people like Lykke Li and Annie. Thankfully, Flunk don’t do this.
MySpace Trawl – Unisex
Girls Aloud, Sugababes, McFly, The Saturdays and er…Blazing Squad. This is pop music that all the kids listen to. Maybe not through choice, but they end up listening to them anyway. This got us thinking, there must be more pop music out there then what we’re exposed to. So in a mission that will quite probably end in failure after a couple of weeks, we will make it our mission to bring some cultural pop music to your attention. There’s better place then starting with Japan. Not only is the country a bit mental, but some of the soundtracks to some of their manga animations are literally bonkers. After a selective search, we fell upon Unisex who will no doubt brighten up your day.
Girls Aloud, Sugababes, McFly, The Saturdays and er…Blazing Squad. This is pop music that all the kids listen to. Maybe not through choice, but they end up listening to them anyway. This got us thinking, there must be more pop music out there then what we’re exposed to. So in a mission that will quite probably end in failure after a couple of weeks, we will make it our mission to bring some cultural pop music to your attention. There’s better place then starting with Japan. Not only is the country a bit mental, but some of the soundtracks to some of their manga animations are literally bonkers. After a selective search, we fell upon Unisex who will no doubt brighten up your day.
