The Monitors
Keeping track of new music, media
and industry news - 05-02-12-11.36am
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Max McElligott, born and bred in Scotland, moved to London to study at LSE and his passion for music blossomed. Luckily for us music fans, he dropped out of College and became Wolf Gang. He has recently returned from the USA where he recorded his next single with producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Modest Mouse, Mercury Rev and Mogwai).
Wolf Gang’s songs are like instant modern classics, with toweringly bright and brilliant combination of archly knowing lyrics and soaring space age pop production values. His musical palette is a scattering trail of sonic references ranging through Supertramp, Roxy Music, David Byrne and many more, all melded within a framework tinted by his classical knowledge.
He and his band are playing a very rare London show at Big Chill House for the fantastic Last.fm. The catchy songs to view is “The King and All of His Men” was from last years single release on ‘Hit Club’. I have also included a rare demo of a fantastic song called “Night flying” you probably will not hear this version many other places.
Combining deep 60s psychedelic grooves with the minimal looping work recently found within work by the likes of Walls and Caribou, Django Django come along and add a hint of spice to the sound. The glazed expression of the music perfectly fits the Beta Band electronic feel their going for; from the Beach Boys influenced ‘Life’s A Beach’ and ‘Silver [..]
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New disco does Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars! Anything which touches the sky has touched the inspiration behind the latest video from this funky dance collective. The multiple universe theory goes hay-wire and the world turns into a massive disco stage.
Heineken have just launched the ‘Serenade your Date’ Facebook app which helps you record a song in order to ask the lady/gentleman of your Facebook dreams on a date. apps.facebook.com
May 04, 2012 Koko
The Camden Crawl is back an bigger and better than ever this year, and to celebrate they’re kicking things off this year with a special Friday event at the legendary Koko venue, headlined by Death in Vegas. Long time member Richard Fearless had this to say about [..]
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