A “step up” we are told in a handwritten message from Owens, a “letter of intent”. All begins to take shape once Broken Dreams Club is heard in its entirety.
Girls
Way Out West – Göteborg, Sweden 12-14 August 2010
Way Out West could be regarded as two, overlapping festivals. When the forest closes at midnight, it passes the musical torch to a number of clubs around the city centre. This divide between Way Out West and Stay Out West (the club gigs) are both the festival’s forté, and it’s biggest problem.
[Photos] Girls – Scala, London 23/02/2010
Anika Mottershaw finds herself at one of the hotest gigs of the year… fortunately, with some great lighting!
TLOBF Albums of 2009
It’s what you’ve all been waiting for folks… The year’s best albums according to us, The Line of Best Fit…
Various Artists – Rough Trade Shops: Indiepop 09
The songs on Indiepop 09 all pulse with a genuine earnestness and a pressing desire to be heard but not to be defined. Rough Trade Shops should be applauded so says Erik Thompson.
Girls – Album
A debut that doesn’t quite deliver on the band’s formative flashes of genius. If nothing else though, ‘Album’ proves that Girls might just be the greatest sixties revivalists there has been since the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Introducing :: Girls
Christopher Owens from San Francisco-based duo Girls get’s Bible quote happy as we try to find out what makes them tick…
Stag and Dagger Festival – Leeds, 22/05/09
Following the success of its inaugural run in 2008, Shoreditch’s Stag and Dagger festival has this year gone Lollapalooza on the UK’s ass, and taken its grab bag of trendy talent across the country. Alex Wisgard reviews the Leeds leg.
Sonic Youth, MBV, Aphex Twin and Bloc Party annouced as headliners of Primavera
Check out the lineup for this years Primavera Festival. Full details in the official press blurb inside.
