Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Dec 7, 2009, 4:41 am
This song and video provide more evidence, if any more were needed, that the Very Most deserve to be embraced the world over. You can start the embrace this weekend in fact because the band will be pl...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Dec 2, 2009, 1:34 pm
It's great that in the age of rapid improving technology that the humble bike is still one of the most requested items on Santa's list. And the two-wheeled transporter has now been immortalise...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 27, 2009, 3:02 pm
Had to desist from writing about MPP for a number of reasons. First off, the hype was just too much to take, I mean this is one good album but it’s hardly the second coming. Time will tell whether p...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 26, 2009, 4:54 pm
While the wait for their debut album has been interminable the clues left by their releases so far indicate that something special could be on the way. 2009 has seen Angel Pier headline Whelan’s, pl...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 24, 2009, 3:51 pm
When I look back at the 4 years that this blog has been on the road I see a handful of bands that have made the experience all the more worthy. Bands that continually reach and affect those medically ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 24, 2009, 1:07 am
I haven’t felt like this since thirteen tales from urban bohemia or at least the last BJM song that tickled my lobes. But rather than being an unruly lot of elegant wasters from down Portland way De...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 22, 2009, 3:40 am
Among the 10 million other things happening at the moment we are also moving from our Dublin city centre base to near suburbia. Near I say because it has always been a hugger stipulation that the metr...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 21, 2009, 3:22 am
Everybody go awwwwhhhh. Think this is the first time I’ve thought that shoegaze could actually sound sweet, normally my reaction to it is to well up inside or coil in the corner with near fatal goos...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 20, 2009, 2:41 pm
Try this out on some decent earphones and prepare to be teleported to the sunshine stereophonics of the Dedrick family (aka the Free Design). ‘Love You’ has been snapped up by at least half a doze...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 19, 2009, 2:28 pm
Health had evaded my affections for the longest time but I was finally persuaded by the video for this song. This is so Curve it could almost be a cover of one of that bands industrial tailored shoetr...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 16, 2009, 3:11 am
About half way through the Very Most’s version of ‘Away In A Manger’ you will hear a curious sound. It is that of the Doucaine (instrument) which we are reliably informed has only ever made it o...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 10, 2009, 2:55 pm
If they make a song as perfect as ‘Fire Escape’ again then they’ll truly enter the pantheon of the greats. Yep, for exactly 180 seconds this London act turned sonic alchemists with that particul...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 9, 2009, 2:49 pm
Idlewild used to be very loud, they also used to be very good. At least until commerciality (as opposed to Roseability) stole their imagination and mushed it into a digestible-for-mass-consumption pul...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 6, 2009, 4:17 pm
Because I couldn’t give a fiddlers for those who say it comes earlier every year (2000+, given that logic it should be all year round at this stage) but mostly because along with the Doucaine (all w...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 5, 2009, 4:24 pm
It turns out that the Jason Reece of Midnight Masses is the self same Jason who wrote one of the best albums this century (‘Source Tags & Codes’ if you must know). While his main band continue to ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 4, 2009, 1:55 pm
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a Labrador band on mp3hugger but thankfully the new Mary Onettes album ‘Islands’ means that wrong can now be righted. And like many things from that labe...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Nov 2, 2009, 12:05 am
It’s creeping closer, the shop tills are beginning to ring and fairy lights will soon be adorning every dwelling in the city. Yep, don’t you just love the build up to Christmas? This year is going...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 31, 2009, 4:03 pm
Ok, this is more than a little odd (I’ll stop short of saying it is scary even if it is the scariest night of the year); a band in 2009 without a website or a myspace page. Yep, despite at least 8 s...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 28, 2009, 5:49 pm
This is so Mew the Danish lads should be calling up to nearby Oslo to pick up their royalties. But as Mew’s current album is scaring me from their door (and this despite ‘And The Glass Handed Kite...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 27, 2009, 3:18 pm
Crikey, it must be at least 2 weeks since we’ve had a Brooklyn band on here. How feckin’ remiss of me, apologies to the epicentre of cooldom, I shall try and rectify the error of my ways by introd...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 26, 2009, 5:28 am
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt so taken by an album. Back as far as ‘Funeral’ I’d say. You know one of those LP’s where every track is vital, where turning it off midway through wou...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 24, 2009, 7:00 am
The pristine jangle swooped high above the unedifying brouhaha that about a dozen open browsers tend to create. As you can imagine it took some time to find the source but 11 closed windows later and ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 22, 2009, 4:50 pm
Just another in the long list of bands who couldn’t think of a name for themselves and decided to turn on the telly for inspiration. The Boston Celtics picked the sports news for their eureka moment...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 21, 2009, 3:38 pm
Guess there was little point in mourning the death of shoegaze all those years ago when in truth it has continued to thrive in darkened tiny pockets on both sides of the water. The Pains of Being Youn...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 20, 2009, 1:51 pm
You’ll be hearing a lot more about these Dublin lads (or ladies?) sometime very soon but not from me because I know about as much as you. Yep, despite glazing over every visible particle of their my...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 19, 2009, 6:49 am
Exclamation points in a band’s name doesn’t necessarily make the music they create any more interesting, if anything it’s a pain for those of us onliners not familiar with the shift key. But, al...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 19, 2009, 3:08 am
Not sure quite how some indie music making folks get it on with the opposite sex given the amount of time they spend in their bedrooms twiddling with their computers and laying down chords. That said ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 18, 2009, 3:29 am
For those of you old enough to remember a time when you couldn’t rely on a hard drive to preserve the music from your past I understand your pain. Mixtapes for all the accolades are a pain in the re...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 17, 2009, 4:06 am
If this song wasn’t enough I then find out that the Travelling Band are soon to be joined on stage by none other than Dodgy (yep, those self same underrated 90’s rascals). But, back to matters in ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 16, 2009, 2:22 pm
You may have guessed it by now but we’re pretty partial to a good dollop of Princeton (they appeared on our last compilation). So you can imagine the broad smiles when we heard that ‘Cocoon of Lov...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 13, 2009, 2:28 pm
The crux of this wonderful tune reminds me of something else but I can’t pinpoint it, could be another Italian band. Le Man Avec Les Lunettes come from Brescia and are led by Alessandro Paderno. Pro...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 12, 2009, 2:58 am
Gotta pity Autumn, I mean it’s not even mid October and already some of us are beginning to think of evenings by the fire admiring that brightly lit Christmas tree in the corner. Yep, it seems that ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 10, 2009, 5:49 am
The shutter comes down on mp3hugger for 24 hours as another weekend of international football is upon us. This time Ireland face the Italians who only need a point to qualify, a win for us would have ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Oct 9, 2009, 2:24 pm
We could probably all the tell the game was up when Niall absconded and they started using gimmicks like cute girls on keyboards but we all just chose to close our eyes and block our ears and just dre...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 10, 2009, 4:51 pm
Not an ode to the little Italian from a group of musically minded Chelsea fans and for that we should be thankful. Instead Zola Jesus come from Wisconsin and if we’re honest seem for all intensive p...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 8, 2009, 2:45 pm
Their name alone suggested we’d be decent bedfellows but nothing could prepare me for the brilliance of All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors’ music. Actually no, I lie, My Bloody Valentine prepared me...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 7, 2009, 4:24 pm
Yuppie Flu may dispense with ringing the till for much of the music they produce but if one was to put a value on their output they would surely be in a full time gig. We spoke about them in early 200...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 6, 2009, 11:50 am
Or to be more precise the Dø (pronounced uncooked bread) but that ø just plays havoc in webland so I’ll avoid it for the purpose of this discussion. The Do are eminently more intriguing (and bette...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 5, 2009, 8:28 am
This is lovely, homemade craft that seeps slowly from the minds of Petter Gjöres and Johan Norberg. Things aren’t helped by the geographical distance that separates them (Stockholm & Uppsala) but a...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 3, 2009, 3:59 pm
It’s at times like this that I feel like jumping up and down with joy. Unfortunately a lingering hamstring injury means the crazed excitement will need to be dampened for the moment. The source of m...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 2, 2009, 3:00 pm
This comes from deep inside the dark corridors of my CD collection. Ah the Slingbacks, never truly fell for their one and only album ‘All Pop No Star’. I picked it up on one of those wheelbarrow-s...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Sep 1, 2009, 8:28 am
Can’t say I’ve ever heard the original Medicine tune (and given my years I should, then again given my longitude the memory tends to get a tad flaky) so you’ll have to make do with this cover fr...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Aug 31, 2009, 3:34 am
Oh where to start and more pertinently when is the increasingly long and windy ode to Animal Collective/Panda Bear going to end? Must preface that by saying that I am really enjoying the emergence of ...
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Kevin D. posted an article on mp3hugger - Aug 30, 2009, 11:01 am
You’ll know this from an advert attempting to sell sandwiches or something. As it is ‘Did I Step On Your Trumpet’ could never be accused of being a filler on Danielson’s 2006 album ‘Ships’...
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