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The Youth of Today

Posted by Jamesr on April 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Ireland’s Answer to Kid Sister? photo credit: Dublin Street Blog Lots of startled pissing and moaning on the Irish Bog o’ Sphere this week, as the young musos once again get startled that there’s a crop of little shitehawk neon dabbling hipsters tearing up behind them. One of the commentariat at On The Record described how “if I go to a show abroad, there’s a much wider spread of ages.” It’s very true, you... Read More

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Metropolitan Morons Podcast

Posted by Jamesr on April 15, 2008 · 9 Comments

Driven by the example and antics of our friends in the Suburban Super Heroes, three Soundtracksforthem personal in an active service unit in Toronto, dusted off an old computer mic and prepared these fragments of audio for a hostile internet. Discussion runs from police raids on Toronto clubs and the super club Circa, to the general Queen West “thing.” There’s also rants on a Street Fighter revival, the state of the Gaybourhood,... Read More

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Interviews

The Child of Prague Stares At The Workers.

Interview With Alex Foti: Mayday Had Become A Funeral.

photo credit: cinocino In a special themed issue of Green Pepper, Foti and the Chain Workers Collective sketched a very attractive understanding of the work discipline of contemporary capitalism. In their understanding, society had found itself in a situation of profound disjuncture with our working pasts – life today was defined by contingent employment rather [...]

Don’t Mention Art Rock.

Photo is copyrighted to Lindsay Foley Sometimes a piece of art can represent more than just itself. Through how it intertwines with what’s around it, it can take on new meanings. You might be able to say the same of Estel. One of the photo sliders on their Myspace sails through a montage of gig [...]

More Words On Zines..

photo credit: donkeycart I said I’d do this some time ago, but never got around to it. Well, after the leap you can read the full text of the interviews carried out over email for the piece based around the recent independents day. Simon Reynolds has published the roughs of his own interviews on zines [...]

This is an interview with a band called Adebisi Shank

photo credit: lauranolanphotography Downstairs in Frazers, Adebisi Shank are celebrating the launch of the their debut album, it’s a pure drunken tantrum of a night and from about 10pm the venue looks and feels mentally over-subscribed. It’s all faces rammed in arm pits, and bodies reluctantly pressing against each other. The guy in front of [...]

The Lads From St Saviours.

photo credit: the justified sinner If you’ve ever entered the IFI at peak time, you’ll notice there’s a lot of people just standing around, standing around and waiting, for dates and friends. So, ambling over and interrupting several of the more male looking inpatients waiting with the question “are you one of the lads from [...]