Top 25 - 6 February, 2016

Violent Soho, Mia Dyson, Highasakite + The Lumineers!

1. Montaigne - In The Dark (#1 for 3 weeks!)





2. Grimes - Kill V. Maim





3. Highasakite - Someone Who'll Get It (NEW)





4. PJ Harvey - The Wheel (NEW)





5. Le Pie - Up All Night





6. Violent Soho - Viceroy (NEW)





Jo's Pick of the Week: Violent Soho are like the Paddle Pops of Australian music. No matter what fancy toppings you put on your ice cream, no matter how many cookies you squash ice cream in the middle of, no matter whether it’s deep fried or gelati-fied, all of those ice creams are fine, but there’s always the Paddle Pop, sitting there in the corner of the convenience store fridge, doing its thing, not bothered by the salted-caramel-double-chocolate-with-nuts-covered confections nearby; that Paddle Pop is confident and just getting on with the job of being a rectangular-ice-confection-on-a-stick-delight. Just like Violent Soho, taking no guff from anyone else, doing their thing, getting on with the job of rock, playing their gritty guitars in their suburban garage rock way and singing their suburban tales with so much heart, simply being their solid rock selves. All of that and in ‘Viceroy’, they also sing one of my favourite lyrics of the year so far “a computer is a better friend than I’ll ever be, I ditched you Saturday night cause I want you to know, take a photograph it’ll last longer, I feel so temporary, like some viceroy…” Even though it’s only February, I’m pretty sure I’ll find those words impressive for as long as I have the slightest social media addiction. Which will probably be a while yet. (Jo Michelmore)

 
7. Ecca Vandal - End of Time





8. Bad Pony - Zombie





9. Mia Dyson - Right There (NEW)





Matt's Pick of the Week: Australia's champion of the blues, Mia Dyson, has released the title track to her Right There EP, which is due out February 12, 2016. If you want to give the EP a listen in full before it's out there in the world (and you should), US Billboard have given it a little streamy-stream and talk about how P!nk is a big fan of Dyson's. 'Right There' has all the trademarks of a classic Dyson track; lyrics that paint a vivid story in the listener's mind, guitar lines from one of Australia's very best musicians and that soulful and at times totally defeated voice that we've come to love so much over the past couple of years. We're thrilled to have one of AUS music's greatest storytellers and performers back and later in the year you'll be able to see Mia Dyson on tour when she returns to our shores. (Matt Bond)


10. Leisure Suite - Heavy Head





11. Massive Attack, Tricky and 3D - Take It There





12. Nicole Millar - Tremble





13. Primal Scream and Sky Ferreira - Where The Light Gets In (NEW)





14. Private Life - Dragon





15. PASSERINE - Lost In Each Other





16. Dear Plastic - Zero (NEW)





17. Gideon Bensen - Talk Talk





18. Paces ft. Jess Kent - 1993 (No Chill)





19. The Magnetic Zeros - No Love Like Yours (NEW)





20. The Lumineers - Ophelia (NEW)





21. Ali Barter - Far Away


 

22. Santigold - Chasing Shadows





23. Niki and The Dove - So Much It Hurts (NEW)





24. Flume ft. Vince Staples and Kucka - Smoke and Retribution





25. Beaty Heart - Flora

Top 25 - 7 April, 2013

Chela!

Songs of the Week, 07/04/13 from itsmykindofscene on 8tracks Radio.

1. Crystal Fighters - Wave (NEW)
2. Curxes - Further Still
3. Chela - Guts (NEW)
4. Asta - I Need Answers

5. Little Boots - Broken Records (NEW)
6. Chvrches - Recover (Re-Entry)
7. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young





8. The Love Junkies - Maybelene (NEW)

9. Primal Scream - It's Alright, It's Ok (NEW)
10. Fever Pitch - It's In My Veins (NEW)
11. Vasco Da Gama - Brigadiers (NEW)
12. NERVO - Hold On

13. Little Daylight - Name In Lights (NEW)
14. George Maple - Fixed
15. Max Frost - White Lies (NEW)
16. Ginger and The Ghost - One Type of Dark
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege

18. Lana Del Rey - Chelsea Hotel No. 2 (NEW)
19. The Velvets - Shoots You Down
20. Justin Timberlake - Mirrors (Re-Entry)
21. Dragonette - My Legs (NEW)
22. M83 ft. Susanne Sundfor - Oblivion

23. Florrie - Live A Little (NEW)
24. Active Child - Evening Ceremony
25. Popstrangers - What Else Could They Do? (NEW)

10 and 1 - Bestival 2011

It's been quite some time since we've seen some '10 and 1' action around here, so what better time to dust this good 'ole feature off than after the best festival of 2011 (NB. this is the only festival I've been to this year), Bestival! The weather was amazing, the people were amazing, the costumes were amazing... let's just say I had an AMAZING weekend on the Isle of Wight. Right now, we're going to look at the 10 best acts of the long weekend and the one surprising disappointment that makes our 1. Of course, this is a major festival so I couldn't see everyone. Sadly, this means that Robyn, Katy B, Patrick Wolf, Esben and the Witch, Oh Land, Clare Maguire, Health, Kyla La Grange, Hercules and Love Affair, Chromeo, Mogwai, Paloma Faith, Grandmaster Flash, Fatboy Slim and Crystal Fighters. Crystal Fighters I'm not so sad about... because I'm seeing them tonight. Boom! Who are the acts I saw that don't make the top 10? We've got Diplo, Kelis, The Cuban Brothers, Brian Wilson, Public Enemy, The Village People, Johnny Flynn, Beardyman, Magnetic Man and sadly, Santigold, who was amazing for the three songs I saw. She would have been a shoo-in if I'd seen her set. Now, let's meet the 10 best acts at Bestival 2011... and the 1 worst.

The 10:

10. Yuck

Yuck started off a bit slow, but once they got comfortable they really had the crowd going, which isn't the easiest thing to do early in the day. Definitely a band to consider seeing when next they tour.

9. Crystal Castles

What should have been a 45 minute assault on the senses ended up feeling more like a 30 minute preview of what should have been an epic set. Alice had so much energy during her performance that it's easy to forgive them and hearing 'Not In Love' live (our song of the year from 2010!) was a great moment. I was not so secretly waiting for Robert Smith to come out and join them, but it wasn't to be. 

Song of the Day - Come Together

Primal Scream - Come Together





You may have noticed there's been an extreme lack of anything going on here over the last couple of days. Well, I spent four amazing days on the Isle of Wight at Bestival! The Cure, Bjork, Pendulum and Primal Scream delivered some amazing headlining performances that had everyone wanting more. There'll be a Bestival 10 and 1, as well as a Bestival text review coming shortly, so stay tuned!