Awesome VIDZZ

Hey bad boyz! (and girlz)

Check out the new vid from Röyksopp!!

Its pretty gruesome and kind of gross! Esp with all teh old bitz of skin hangin out! Also theres some kind of freaky slime girl half way thru!

Its featuring Karin Dreijer Andersson which is awesome cos I plugged out ma headphonez from ma Pod playing the Knife right into this :D



Enjoy!

L8rz

Big B

Year 2!

Hey users,

You have zero interest in this but we’re one year old as of today, making us older than half the blogs on earth :P Yup. One year ago, a bold step was taken to make a very bad music blog that would both assault the senses and cover the rightfully neglected topics in music. This blog has helped us neglect our college work plenty and been plenty useful in filling up the ‘interests’ space on our CVs. Here’s hoping year 2 will be just as miserable as our first.

Quickie

Hey users,

You’ll be ecstatic to know we’re not dead. We’re all living in different cities since our last update though which made for an awful few weeks. There’ll be plenty of weird updates soon (I made a list during a lecture) so in the mean time, here’s a quickie.

I was listening to this pretty loudly as I passed lots of pubs filled with absolute losers celebrating Arthur Guinness day. If I’m to ever drink anything that colour, it’ll be petrol. Anyway, here’s Golden Silvers. I’m sure I said something nasty about them a while back but I’ve come around to their charm.

ResultZ

Well...we got 4 right. No Micachu and no Late of the Pier is the terrible news. They chose some rubbish jazz band instead >:Z

FTCz will be criticizing the 2/3 of the nominees we got wrong later on, so stay chooned.

MercuryZ

Hey readers,

The Mercury Prize shortlist is out tomorrow so FTCZ feels obligated to weigh in with our not very good predictions. We were way off when we backed Laura Marling last year (who would have thought the long shot would fail???), and we’re confident we’ll get it just as wrong again this year.

Anywayz, here’s 12 FTCZ preferences for the shortlist.

1.Florence And The Machine – Lungs

This is one of the few that we’ll probably get right. The only way she won’t get the nomination is if the selectors find the extra sentence here and there that she inserts into the album songs as annoying as I find it.

Chance of making the list: Very high




2.Late Of The Pier

The most FTCZ apprived band on the list. WE back these guys to win. Still haven’t seen them live unfortunately. It’s Buckfast’s fault.

Chance of making the list: pretty good. We'll be gutted if they don't. Not that the mercury prize is all that good to begin with :P



3.Friendly Fires

My Brova loves em. So Do I, This is a rarity you should know. They have no chance of being nominated really since they’re a lot like LOTP. Too bad.

Chance of making the list: Not very good. Late of the Pier's fault.




4. Micachu

A New love of FTCZ. We wrote a load about her below so we really hope she gets it. 200+ plays on my last fm this week says all that needs to be said.

Chance of making the list: reasonable. Hopefully the hype will squeeze em through.



5. The Horrors

The first album was more along the lines of FTCZ. The new one is a bit serious, but good all the same.

Chance of making the list: They're a cert for the shortlist.




6. Emmy The Great

Hope she gets nominated. Still a little scarred about some interview she had did a while back.

Chance of making the list: Not a chance.




7. Dananananakroyd

We mentioned these guys a while back before they released very much. We’re still listening to Pink Sabbath as much as ever which is a good sign.

Chance of making the list: Lol. no.




8. Metronomy
Not very alt to like Metronomy any more. But they do have the best video out of everyone here.

Chance of making the list: They've got a good chance. If Klaxons can win, they can.



9.Sky Larkin

We’ve not mentioned them on this blog (and we’ve defo not mentioned them on our fads/hot girls/fashion dabbling disgrace of a blog). We’ve really grown to love them though. Very fond of their Queens Of The Stone Age cover.

Chance of making the list: pretty terrible.



10.Rolo Tomassi

Very loud band and a very hot singer. We highly approve.

Chance of making the list: No way. Maybe if the selectors wanna show how diverse they are.



11. Bat For Lashes

We were a little disappointed when she didn’t win it the last time.

Chance of making the list: A sure thing.



12. The Bug

The super duper outsider. Don’t even expect this album to be considered. We’d be over the moon if they did.

Chance of making the list: The Bug will NOT eb on the list.




Of course the unpopular ones we mentioned will definitely be replaced by La Roux/Little Boots/Glasvegas (who we like) and a few others that aren't coming to mind.

There should also be a token hip-hop album by someone like Wiley or Tinchy Styder, and a jazz album that isn’t in tune with the rest of the list. I don’t really care for jazz so I’d rather they give music genres, that are alien to you and I, a miss.

Here's hoping we get at least one right. The list comes out tomorrow.

Quickie

Here's a track from Partyshank. I absolutely love em. At a party I had a while back, they were a little much for most people. Never liked those people anywayZ.

teh 8-bitZ

Hey readers,

While we have a lot to say about Crystal Castles on this blog (partly coz we keep listening to them/seeing them live.kinda wanna see them before the year is out again), we've never really said much about any other 8-bit types of bands. This is partly because we think most of them aren't up to much. We do however like Smuggling Chewbacca.



What can I say? They tick all the boxes. They also remind me of Fuck Buttons a little. We promise to be kinder to the 8-bit scene from now on. Not that we ever keep promises on FTCZ ;)