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Agent Ribbons no longer a secret as the double act are tied down to a UK tour
A quick interrogation. Name? “Agent Ribbons.” Describe yourself, Agent Ribbons. “We look like violins, but we sound like cellos.” Operational base? “Sacramento.”
Ah, Sac Town, perhaps not as well known a musical playground as LA or San Francisco, but for a while now the Californian capital has had a furtive folk and rock scene and, as usual, the best band there is the one that sits most unusually.
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Interviews out of the question for Californian folkies Why?
Yoni Wolf – the thoughts, words and voice of Oakland’s Why? and a founding member of the Anticon collective – is pissed off. Tonight’s show at Brighton Audio has been given a early curfew, and the band have less than 90 minutes between soundcheck and performing in which to eat, regroup, prepare and be interviewed.
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Gutz doing white music for black people
Gutz are having a party, but you look at the cover of their debut album you’re not exactly sure you want to be there. A nerdy-looking dude’s bearded face on a plain blue background, glasses that are hopelessly skew-wiff, and in yellow is written, “Love, Gutz.” You think of everything but a groove. And then it hits heavy: “It was becoming ungainly / It was too hard to conceal it / It was bursting through the backyard of my life.” Amazing song. You continue, look back at the cover and realise the tracklisting is wrong. Wow, great group.
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King Khan keeping the kids out of fat pants
“Rock’n'roll is my religion,” says King Khan. “I’m totally serious about it. Rock’n'roll is way more powerful than The Bible or The Koran. Because with our religion, we get to party.”
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True colours of kuduro being shown by Buraka Som Sistema
M.I.A.’s voice booms through the speakers alongside Buraka Som Sistema’s beats: “The sound of kuduro’s knocking at your door.”
Lisbon’s Buraka Som Sistema (comprised of beatmakers João Barbosa, Rui Pité, Andro Carvalho and vocalist Kalaf Ângelo) are solely responsible for knocking doors down around the Western world with kuduro, a dance-centric genre that hadn’t previously been heard outside of clubs in Portugal and Angola (formerly a Portuguese colony).
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Telepathe ready to boggle your mind
Telepathe – Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais – are on a deep, dark, sensory mission to get snap, crackle and pop on your ass. The two women have been friends-lovers-friends for more than half a decade and, in that time, they’ve etched out expansive yet claustrophobic, poppy yet menacing music together.
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UK-loving swede producing dance music that has a familjen ring
Today, Familjen – known better to his folks as Johan T. Karlsson – is elsewhere. “I actually forgot about the interview,” he nervously admits. “I’m doing a thing for Swedish television this afternoon and it’s my first time on TV. I think I’m singing and playing piano a bit.”
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Rye Rye born and bread in Bmore and on the rise
“You walk into the club and see loads of kids, mostly high schoolers. It’s hot, ’cos it’s so crowded, and everybody is dancing; everyone’s competing in big circles. The people in the middle are doing their thing as everyone around them watches. You catch people sitting on the speakers in the back. And you’ve got a good host, the best host: Buck Jones. You hear him and you die laughing; you’re cracking up as you watch circles of boys dancing, one by one taking their turn. The music just be jumpin’, and with the bass, you have no other choice but to start dancing. Then your song comes on and you find yourself jumping up, yelling ‘That’s my SONG!’”
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