Music Go Music manage to work up a marvelous retro escapade that treads the fine line of seventies pastiche with effortless ease without coming across as crass or indeed a spoof ABBA tribute band.

[Photos] Franz Ferdinand w/ Music Go Music – Brixton Academy, London 23/10/09
More black and white goodness from the lens of Valerio Berdini. This time, Franz Ferdinand’s recent show at Brixton Academy with support from TLOBF faves Music Go Music.

Music Go Music – Expressions
Where does one draw the line between “respectful homage” and “uninspired rip-off”? Harking back to past musical glories is no bad thing but can an album so stringently and invariably in hock to one’s inspirations be regarded as ‘good’ on its own terms?

Music Go Music – ICA, London 22/09/09
Music Go Music make their London debut. Verdict? If these guys get on the festival circuit next year (or 1979, either’s good) then the world will be their oyster.

[Video] Music Go Music: ‘Warm In The Shadows’
The trio from LA create infectious pop music that is the missing link between ABBA and St Etienne. In a word, they are incredible. Watch the video for new single ‘Warm In The Shadows’ out on August 10th via Mercury/Secretly Canadian.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










