Trogons

I've been trying to find some information about and hear more music of Trogons since better-blog Pinglewood posted about them back in November. I figured that I'd wait around and, given how great the song was that was shared back then, information, more music and a buzz of excitement would have fallen in my lap by now. For some reason it hasn't, and Trogons still seem as little known now as they did back then - a mere 138 Last FM plays from 51 listeners and only 1 post on HypeMachine, at time of writing.

Trogons are based in London, and are apparently formed of current/ex members of the likes of Kasms, Betty and the Werewolvees, Spin Spin The Dogs, and The Human Race (posted about on BF here). Their sound is dark psychedelic rock - with distorted guitar twangs, underlying unsettling synth sounds and brilliant, dark and troubling female vocals - as well as some hints of both 60s pop and 70s prog. It possibly shouldn't work, but it most certainly does, and these few words can not do it the justice it deserves.

This blog post is unlikely to give them the success they deserve as a band, but hopefully they can find it somehow or another. The Marc Riley session a few days ago should help, as would buying their music; do that here and here. Listen below, too.

Protest Song no.678 - Trogons

HEAVY DRAGOON - Trogons

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Releases: Best of the Week

Not the most exciting of weeks for alternative releases ever, but still a few well worth a trip to your local record store for.

Week starting February 28:


Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High EP (Sub-Pop)


Dum Dum Girls - He Gets Me High
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)
Rainbow Arabia – Boys and Diamonds (Kompakt)
V. A. – Before The Fall [Mark E. Smith Comp.] (Ace Records)
Cave Singers – No Witch (Jagjaguwar)

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New Years Evil

As much as I gripe and moan about Plymouth – its lack of cultural goings on especially in the field of music, its general right-wing attitudes, even its geographical location – it is good to know that there are some good things going on not all that far away.

New Years Evil are based in Exeter. For those not so clued up on the south-west of England, that’s about an hour train journey (which, in these parts, is considered city-neighbours). I’m not overly fond of having to travel an hour for gigs and the like, but they’re making sounds well worth 60 minutes of bad company and cramped, smelly conditions. Kind of abrasive and almost grungey, yet still accessible and with songs that are at least a little bit ‘pop’, they make me pull funny faces and nod my head at a pace I usually try to refrain from. Widely blogged “Shame” is guitar riffing, care-free vocal, and drum-rolling fun whereas “100 Guitars” sounds like a made-up-on-the-spot bedroom-recorded jam. They’re also one of Art Is Hard Records releases, which, for me, is confirmation of their goodness.

Check out some tracks below, buy the split 7" with The Black Tambourines over at Art Is Hard Records, and download a free cassette tape (however that's possible) and buy some other stuff at their bandcamp page. If you're interested, you can also check out my blog post on split release buddies The Black Tambourines here and label chums Art Is Hard interview here.

New Years Evil - Shame

NEW YEARS EVIL - 100 Guitars

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Évariste Galois

This won’t be for everyone, but it will be for some people – which makes it worth writing about, right? Right. For those people it’s not for, please accept my apologies. Or give it a chance to grow.

Évariste Galois are from Cardiff. They’re named after a mathematician, which makes them automatically awesome in my eyes. They, like many Cardiff bands, are made up of members of other bands such as singer and guitarist Matthew who plays drums in Saturday’s Kids and guitarist Sion who sings and plays guitar also in Saturday’s Kids.

They play American inspired almost emo and pop-punk tinged alternative rock, which isn’t usually my cup of tea but which, for some reason, I enjoy here. Like Saturday’s Kids, there’s the odd mistake here and then but the songs just have a real nice feel to them which I find difficult to resist – and they’re also good live. They were also thinking about splitting up recently, but they decided against it so that’s good news.

A little while back they released a split CD with Matthew’s other band Saturday’s Kids available over here. They also have some stuff available on bandcamp, or you can listen and download below.


Évariste Galois - Fauna


Évariste Galois - Past

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Promoting Wizards of Waverly Place

Selena Gomez
She Goes Backless Promoting ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ In A Sxy Chic Mini!

Selena Gomez is really showing off her sxy side lately in Tokyo on Feb. 21. Selena Gomez continued the trend, when she turned up to promote Wizards of Waverly Place in a copper shift dress by Asos.

Selena Gomez is really showing a lot of skin with her back and long legs on full display, since the dress has a high neckline I think it totally balances out. Selena Gomez’ look manages to be both sxy and chic.

So, do you think she looked totally chic or did Selena show off too much skin?

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Y Niwl: New Video

Don't usually care about videos, but I like the band, the song and even the video itself so why not. Y Niwl's video for Undegpedwar, a single taken from their self-titled debut:

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