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No panic stations for Underground Railroad, even when assaulted with sticks and stones
It may be a well-worn cliché, but Underground Railroad, with their youth, good looks and unfathomable ability, are the epitome of French cool. What’s unusual about them is that they’re noisy as hell, and raucousness is not usually associated with Parisian chic. The band, from the southern suburbs of the capital, began life playing around the city, but moved to the UK in search of fame, fortune and the trappings of London’s brilliant parade, and with startling rapidity landed themselves a deal with One Little Indian. They profess love for groups like Daft Punk and Justice, but it was predominantly American guitar/noise bands (Sonic Youth are their most recognisable influence) that drove them to form a band and sing not in their native tongue, but in English.
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Life in Dr Dog yet as they learn old tricks, tempt fate
Scott McMicken, aka ‘Taxi’ to his bandmates and fans, is a complex individual. He spends a lot of time thinking. For 25 minutes of our interview he discusses the message of Dr Dog’s last album, which goes by the pregnant title of Fate. In the (infuriatingly) abstract terms of a philosopher, he considers the feelings and emotions of the record, and confesses to the misery and depression that motivated him to make the album one of catharsis.
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1000 Robota on mission to re-boot the German music scene
After their gig in at the Hoxton Square Bar and Kitchen in London, Hamburg-based art punk trio 1000 Robota begin our chat by telling me about another interview they’d done shortly before their set with a reporter from Intro, a prestigious German magazine. As a conversation starter, he’d informed the young group they were tosh, and he’d only agreed to speak to them so that he could come to London and shag his missus, who lives here. It’s a difficult claim to swallow without any hard evidence, and then suddenly said hack walks over to fire off a few choice Deutsche expletives and promptly leaves. A full-blown fistfight almost erupts.
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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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