Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 10, 2012, 12:28 pm
YRRS From: New Milton/Christchurch, New Zealand What is pop music? In it's purest form it's a shortened form of popular music which tends to equal common denominator music that is designed to appeal to a mass market. It has also come to denote a certain type of catchy, upbeat music that lodges itsel...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 9, 2012, 11:29 am
Wooden Shjips From: San Francisco, United States In the age of the re-invention it may sound like sacrilege to admit that I've never been a lover of remixes. Ruining an otherwise serviceable track by adding loads of unnecessary bells and whistles is not my idea of art or entertainment. There are als...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 8, 2012, 11:53 am
Bare Mutants From: Chicago, United States The Pony's Jered Gummere must have a form of musical ADHD, he's been in so many bands he makes Jack White look lazy. The Muggles, Defilers, Real Cool Killers, Guilty Pleasures and The Ponys. He collects bands like other less diligent souls collect records. ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 7, 2012, 12:20 pm
Drag Your Heels From: London, United Kingdom Drag Your Heels (first featured on the Devil's blog in January 2011 Drag Queens, and featured in one of my weekly round ups in November The Devil's Weekly Round Up 6th November 2011) are finally getting the attention that they deserve. They're playing HM...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 6, 2012, 11:25 am
Urchins From: St Helens, United Kingdom It's not clear if St Helen psych rockers Urchins are still in existence or on some form of lengthy sabbatical. They haven't logged into their myspace site since August (not that unusual these days I know), their last Soundcloud upload was 9 months ago, their ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 5, 2012, 11:56 am
This week's round up of the tracks I haven't had the space to post... Range Rover From: San Diego, United States Mind from San Diego teens Range Rover is distorted and a little fuzzy round the edges. Go Try Range Rover - Mind by Fat Cat Records Vasco Da Gama From: Liverpool, United Kingdom ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 3, 2012, 12:40 pm
SULK From: London, United Kingdom Madchester returns. Yes The Stone Roses, The Happy Mondays and The Inspiral Carpets are back. All we need now is a Charlatans album and the rebirth of Northside (well maybe not) and we could host our own version of the musical antiques roadshow. Londoners SULK have ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 2, 2012, 12:32 pm
Howler From: Minneapolis, United States In 1961 Decca Records told the Beatles that guitar groups were on their way out. With only one genuine honest to goodness guitar band making it to the BBC's influential Sound of 2012 final 15 long list it would appear that they were a mere 50 years out. If th...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Feb 1, 2012, 12:04 pm
Filthy Boy From: London, United Kingdom With two Morrisseys in their ranks you might be expecting Filthy Boy to be a gang of gladioli twirling miserabilists and you'd be half right. With lyrics like "You look as pretty through the window magnificently kneeling between those men" these boys behaving...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 31, 2012, 12:07 pm
Catgut From: Norway or Scotland or England take your pick One of my favourite tracks posted last year was Pete Wylie's vitriolic The Day Margaret Thatcher Dies so in the interests of political balance here's Scottish troubadour Catgut's elegaic The Death Of Gordon Brown. While you're at it check ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 30, 2012, 12:49 pm
Dead Wolf Club From: London, United Kingdom January is a good time to take a listen to the self titled debut album from Dead Wolf Club. It's quiet/loud dynamic is just the thing to shake you out of your post festive torpor. It sounds like a missive from a deserted island where they've sealed themsel...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 29, 2012, 4:00 pm
Modeselektor Evil Twin An early condidate for video of the year. Modeselektor - Evil Twin from MIAOU on Vimeo. Band of Skulls Bruises Band Of Skulls - Bruises Official Video from Joseph Connor on Vimeo. Angus & Julia Stone I'm Not Yours Another early contender for video of the year I'm not your...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 29, 2012, 11:18 am
This week's round up of the tracks I haven't had the space to post... Black Marble From: Brooklyn, New York, United States With their synth driven post punk Black Marble sound like they've been created from recently uncovered instructions on how to create the perfect Factory Records band. Go Try ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 28, 2012, 12:27 pm
Cue Fanfare From: Bristol, United Kingdom With a name taken from a track off Swoon and chord squences and rhythm changes last heard at a Paddy McAloon retrospective Cue Fanfare couldn't betray their influences more if they took out a slot in the X Factor Final advertising break and spent 5 minutes ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 27, 2012, 12:44 pm
Bewilder From: Southampton, United Kingdom There are a bewildering range of musical genres with new ones seemingly coined each day. It's perhaps fitting therefore that Southampton band Bewilder's music twists and turns between post rock, math rock and ambient rock with the dexterity of a double joi...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 26, 2012, 11:59 am
Trumpets of Death From: Leeds, United Kingdom Regular readers will know how much I love off the wall reworkings of classic songs. Hell my favourite track from last year was King Q4's stunning re-imagining of Shocking Blue's Love Buzz. So as you might expect I fell head over heels in love with Tr...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 25, 2012, 12:47 pm
Termites From: Bristol, United Kingdom Termites is a gang of four multi-instrumentalists with a fine line in art rock so uniquely British it was probably raised on bangers and mash. It sounds like they've been holed up in the Redcliffe Caves with only the Young Knives debut album and the collected ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 24, 2012, 12:01 pm
Bogus Pipeline From: Cambridge, United Kingdom According to wikipedia the bogus pipeline is a technique used by social psychologists to reduce false answers when attempting to collect self-report data. It's also the name chosen by Russell Taysom the male half of Cambridge artrockers Micropenis (fi...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 23, 2012, 11:28 am
Foxes! From: Brighton, United Kingdom Who would have thought that a cassette tape (yes it was that long ago) given away free with a weekly music inkie (the NME since you ask) would still hang like the proverbial albatross around the necks of any band daring enough to jangle rather than rock? Any va...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 22, 2012, 4:00 pm
Biggs The Drop Gang Colours Fancy Restaurant gang colours - fancy restaurant from samuel craven on Vimeo. Mr Fogg Stay Out Of The Sun Alright Alright Bingo Bango
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 22, 2012, 11:26 am
This week's round up of the tracks I haven't had the space to post... Useless Eaters From: Memphis, United States Old school punk from Useless Eaters that proves the guitar isn't dead it's just taking a short sabbatical in the birthplace of rock 'n' roll. Go Try Useless Eaters - At The Parke...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 21, 2012, 12:51 pm
Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more authentic, a little more organic. In 2012 too much music sounds like it's been factory produced and packed ful...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 20, 2012, 12:14 pm
Boy or Bison From: Manchester, United Kingdom It's difficult being a blogger with a mission to bring you unheard, unknown, unfamiliar music from Manchester when there is another brilliant blogger from that fair city who has his finger so far on the pulse he could be a cardiologist. The Pigeon Post h...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 19, 2012, 11:52 am
The Prefab MessiahsFrom: The Past, United States The past is a veritable treasure trove of brilliant unheard, unknown and downright unbelievable music. Thanks to the internet it is becoming easier to discover sounds that have been hiding their light under bloody large bushels for decades. Tonight's ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 18, 2012, 3:00 am

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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 17, 2012, 12:24 pm
Bare Wires From: Oakland, California, United States It's time to dust down your platform boots, dig out your feather boas and cover yourself in glitter because glam rock is back in the shape of California garage rockers Bare Wires. Their nu glam anthem Don't Ever Change sounds like T-Rex giving Slad...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 16, 2012, 11:28 am
Husband From: Bologna, Italy I've been thinking for some time that the world needs a song that blends the Stone Roses effortless cool and pop savvy with the electronic stylings of Giorgio Moroder and lo and behold Italian duo Husband pop up with the awesome Love Song. If it was any cooler it could ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 15, 2012, 3:35 pm
Papercutz Disintegration Steaming Heathen Put An End To This PLUGS Black Microdots AV FOR PLUGS - Black Microdots from Alden Volney on Vimeo.
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 15, 2012, 11:51 am
This week's round up of the tracks I haven't had the space to post... Band Of Skulls From: Southampton, United Kingdom When I read that Band of Skulls were blues rockers my heart sank but then I heard Bruises and my heart soared, it's a solid slab of melodic rock which deserve a special place in yo...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 14, 2012, 12:04 pm
Haiku Salut From: The Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, United Kingdom Haiku Salut are three winsome young lasses from the Derbyshire Dales who claim to be influenced by the Spice Girls which must be a joke because they are about as far from the Spice Girls as it's legally possible to be without having ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 13, 2012, 11:21 am
... explanatory Wierd Shit, it's not all expletive laden lo-fi indie punk. Trailer Park On Mars lands somewhere between Nick Lowe and Spizz Energi, while The Hopton Hop is pure rock 'n roll passed through a slacker filter. They may not actually fit in your pocket but The Pocket Gods are good to ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 12, 2012, 11:53 am
Tiny Ruins From : Aukland, New Zealand Those who know me will vouch for the fact that I'm rarely lost for words but New Zealand folkie Hollie Fullbrook, via her Tiny Ruins pseudonym, leaves me speechless. Her pitch perfect Little Note is just such a simple, well written, beautifully sung, perfectly ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Jan 11, 2012, 11:22 am
FOE From: Fleet, Hampshire FOE, the one woman pop vehicle for ex Arthur singer Hannah Shark, works with SASO to make the Breeders' Bang On sound like the Ting Tings on a downer. An intriguing re-working which works, just. You better make friends with FOE now because it won't be long before she's...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 30, 2011, 12:10 pm
After last night's top 5 albums of the year tonight's post brings you the five best videos of 2011. A collection of the most interesting, innovative, thought provoking, witty and imaginative videos that caressed the Devil's eyeballs in 2o11. 1. Rugged Wilderness & Mountain Man No More - Dropping Fe...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 29, 2011, 12:16 pm
Over the next couple of nights I'll be revealing my top 5 albums, my top 5 videos and then, on New Years Eve my top 10 tracks of the year. Tonight it's my favourite albums of the year in partnership with the Hype Machine's annual zeitgeist survey. In a year when there have been so many amazing album...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 28, 2011, 11:23 am
The Bevis Frond From: London, United Kingdom When Nick Saloman released his last album as The Bevis Frond Facebook was restricted to students of Harvard College, you went to MTV not YouTube to watch videos, twitter meant an annoying sound (nothing new there then) and the cloud brought you rain not ...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 27, 2011, 11:08 am
Porcelain Raft From: Brooklyn, New York Get your tin hats on because the blogosphere is about to go nuclear over Porcelain Raft, the solo recording project of Mauro Remiddi, once of cosmopolitan multi-continental psych pop outfit Sunny Day Sets Fire. On debut album Strange Weekend Mauro sculpts del...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 26, 2011, 12:00 pm
There are a mighty 366 days until Christmas so sit back and relax to some Boxing Day related tunes courtesy of your favourite mephistophiles related music blogs. MP3 - Grape Digging Sharon Fruits - Boxing Day This track is linked direct from the Grape Digging Sharon Fruits Last.FM site so please don...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 25, 2011, 3:09 pm
Picture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out http://sixhundredsixty.deviantart.com/ The Wind-Up Birds Working Christmas Day It's better to give than receive so go visit indie contrarians the Wind-Up Birds bandcamp site http://thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com to download their...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 25, 2011, 10:14 am
Happy Christmas from The Devil Has The Best Tuna. Today's weekly round up of tracks I've not had the space to post has a distinctly festive feel. Slothbear From: Valley Stream, New York, United States A slacker rock version of the Bing Crosby classic? Alas no but Slothbear still serve up a season...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 15, 2011, 11:06 am
Three months into the retrospective and it's becoming clear what a ... year it's been year underneath the radar. In any other year ... tracks from March could all have made the top ten tracks of ... that choosing a top 10 for the year is going to be the Devil's own job. So here ... On This trac...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 14, 2011, 11:39 am
I spent most of February 2011 listening to tracks from bands who had entered the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition. Unsurprisingly quite a few of the tracks in today's retrospective are from bands who entered the competition. So without further ado here are my favourite tracks (in no particula...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 13, 2011, 11:01 am
As the year draws to a close it's time to put the musical year into perspective. To ignore the caterwauling X Factor non-entities, the zombie artists like Steps, Take That and yes even the Stone Roses who refuse to die and celebrate all of the brilliant music that for some reason slipped off the rad...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 12, 2011, 11:54 am
... rose tinted hearing aids. The more stressful the world gets the more we flock to bands with uplifting sunny side up names like Best Coast, Beach House, Surf City, Surfer Blood and a dreamy, retro sound that recalls the simpler, sunnier times of the 60s. Now it's the turn of Tennis to join th...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 11, 2011, 3:27 pm
Picture courtesy of deviant art by sixhundredsixty for more check out The Last Royals Always, To Belong Films of Colour Slow Burn Jonny Candyfloss Jonny - Candyfloss (Gorky's Zygotic Mynci & Teenage Fanclub) from Ryan Owen on Vimeo. Bear Driver Never Never Theme Park Wax
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 11, 2011, 11:49 am
... had the space to post... The Saturday Guy From: Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Despite ... Go Try Cuckoo - Spoon by Fergal Corscadden Wild Arrows From: Brooklyn, New York, ... it's got a certificate from the Vatican MP3 - Wild Arrows - Cloudbursting This track is published with the perm...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 8, 2011, 11:15 am
Listing Ships From: Oxford, United Kingdom After rocking the local Oxford scene with their nautically themed post rock instrumentals Listing Ships, have set sail for more distant shores with their new EP The 100 Gun Ship. They've hoist the mainbrace and lowered the spinnaker (no I don't know what it...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 7, 2011, 11:36 am
Kings Of Leon From: Beneath a Talihina Sky Kings Of Leon are not your typical rock stars. God fearing sons of a travelling preacher man who rose from the depths of material poverty to become global rock mega stars. It sounds more fiction than fact, like the script to a movie. The fact it's true jus...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 6, 2011, 12:15 pm
Lil Daggers From: Miami, Florida, United States You may have been told by your parents that you should never judge a book by its cover but in the case of garage punkers Lil Daggers' self titled debut album, called unsurprisingly for a self titled album, Lil Daggers you can ignore them. The black and...
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Paul K. posted an article on The Devil Has the Best Tuna - Dec 5, 2011, 11:14 am
Dot Dash From: Washington, United States Terry, Bill, Hunter and Danny from US power punkers Dot Dash took time out to chat with the Devil about plum eating, their fears of Julianne Moore and mathematical problem solving. The Devil: Why Dot Dash? Terry: It just seemed like a good, concise name; e...
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