How does it feel to be pure at heart?

Is it very painfull? Maybe The Pains of beeing pure at heart from New York can answer this question? Man, this band really catched me. What an incredible sound. Dreamy, melancholic melodies with guitar walls, great lyrics and vocals that reminds me about love, rebellion and a lot of pain.

The bands career started at the birthday party of Peggy. Peggy (vocals, keyboard), Kip,(guitar, vocals) Alex(bass) and Kurt(drums) formed to play at her Party. And thank god, that this was a lot of fun for them and they continued playing music. You don't eaven have to hear the songs to know that this band has to be great. "Doing the things that wouldn't make your parents proud", "This love is fucking right", "Orchard of my eyes" and so on are song titles that say everything. This band combines love, pain rebellion, guitars, vocals and gives us music that really catches our hearts and don't lay them to rest. Come on, check it out! You can download several songs from theire MySpace Page and listen to "This love is fucking right". and this great line of the song: "You are my sister and this love is fucking right!"
In September 2008 the band will come to Sweden to play some gigs and in early 2009 their debut should be release. So hopefully the four are shipping over the great lake and give us some pain and gigs in Germany.

Some kind...

...of Electronic in the air... Yes. Today its going to be electronic. I 'm talking about Headphone from Belgium. Well, actually Belgium is known for it's great electronic scene and this band is another great step for Belgium up to the olymp of electronic music! The band released their debut album "Ghostwriter" in May this year. It 's a great mixture of electronic and indie elements with great vocals. So, if you want to lay back after a hard day, listen to this great songs. I really recommend you to go to their Myspace Page and listen to the songs "Ghostwriter" and "She is electric". Wow, this are really the best electronic / low fi songs I heard for weeks, months or even years. The mixture of guitars, slow bass and the vocals of Ian Marian is so catchy and awesome that I could'nt stop listening to it the whole day - incredible! So give Ian Marian, Nico Steenkiste, Gerd van Mulders, Tom Barbier and John Goosens some attention and the possibility to creat more catchy songs and listen to their debut album.

The poorest band in Birmingham...

"We are fucking poor, give us stuff; food, equipment, money, your watch ... anything."

Well, maybe they are fucking poor, but I don't think this will last too long. Who I'm talking about? Telegramme from Birmingham. I found their song "Dance" on the awesome Summer Sampler - yes, another one - "A sketch for summer" from CatCutterRecords. You should download it! But back to the band. Today I listened to their MySpace Page. They say, that they are influenced by Interpol, CatPower, Radiohead, Elbow... just to mention a few. Indeed, their music is a great mixture of all of these influences and bands. Faye, Andrew, Christopher and Danny performing some great Indie ballads like the 2007 released "Hot Blues" but are also smashing their guitars into the ring and fighting with beats, guitars and the great vocals of Faye like it is in "Dance". What an amazing song. Fayes vocals reminds me a little bit of swedish artist Annika Norlin (listen to her SoloProject "Säkert" here or to her band "Hello Saferide").
So if the band carrys on with this mixture of ballads and smashing hits I don't think that they will stay as poor as they pretend to be. The only question that remains is, how poor are they right now?