Yes In The City is soon and Hit Club are going to be at Common for the Saturday and Sunday night with a whole host of brilliant DJs from Manchester and London so come down, get away from the hype and listen to tunes.

Hit Club on sky channel 145 and Freeview channel 99

From the ashes of Video Nasties rises Ivansxtc, with this amazing video from Perfume Genius.

Ivansxtc - Yesterday



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Freelance Whales - Generator (2nd Floor)



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Hit Club on sky channel 145 and Freeview channel 99

It Started With A Hit

There are lots of American things I don't really understand, Mexican food, how you can always know how many blocks you are from everywhere, baseball...but there are somethings that just make sense like (the) Tony Castles. Formed from numerous New York acts Tony Castles keep on being referred to as 'homies' by some idiotic expat friends of mine. Whether they're homies or not this is pretty good.

mp3: Pirates - (The) Tony Castles

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It Started With A Hit

Hitski

I once trecked around Northern California for a week, it nearly killed me, so God knows what would happen if Hit Club set off on a mission to Russia. I think i'd loose my toothbrush somewhere around Minsk, I wouldn't be able to go on after that set back.

Southampton isn't much closer, but at least for March on Moscow he doesn't have to navigate Birmingham. Could just get a train, the Tran-Siberian and get off before you trans Siberia?

mp3: Several Times - March on Moscow

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Hitski

Hit of One Hit Club of Another

Better be quick as X Factor is about to start, but Veronica Falls are mighty fine. They've now got a new tune up and they're playing the freshers ball to end all balls at Nail The Cross, presented by the eternally amazing No Pain In Pop.

Veronica Falls on another hand in a previous life were part The Royal We, who are pretty special ... get the record here.



mp3: Found Love In A Graveyard - Veronica Falls

Hit of One Hit Club of Another

You Can Lead A Hit To Water

The continual stream of young ladies in music is getting boring I just wish that more of them threw themselves under horses rather then learn how to use drum machines. But, Elan Tamara has done something pretty special here, with the help of ever amazing Kwes (tea hut), she's made something genuinely interesting.

The irrepressible and ever magnificent Illegal Tender will help you fill in the gaps better - but the beautiful Oranges comes straight from her forthcoming E.P. which you can buy from Rough Trade.
I know little else about her other then by going from her myspace page we could be taking her on tour in a Spar delivery van, but Oranges comes as a breath of fresh air.

mp3: Oranges - Elan Tamara

You Can Lead A Hit To Water

A Hit In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush

Lurking somewhere along the South coast of Britain is the magical Cabin Fever, possibly one of the last or very very first real artists of the new millennium. We know little about him, but have taken him to our hearts with one of the most engaging and nauseating myspace pages in many a day.

Our friends at the ever-green 50 Bones have passed over the haunting Wandered By; from the Cabin Fever album released sometime in the near future. On another note we better not show him this, Meg White is a robot.

mp3: Wandered By - The Cabin Fever

A Hit In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush

Younger British Artists

One thing many people will be have brought back from Glastonbury this year, alongside the early signs of dissentry, a T-shirt sun tan and a fake moustache from the gay bar, is a new appreciation for a band they either hadn't come across before of hadn't given a chance before.

I had a few breakthroughs of this kind, a particular highlight being my 'not-at-all-chemically-induced' decision that Two Door Cinema Club's set at the BBC Introducing stage will one day be remembered as a moment of similar musical importance to day Kraftwerk learned to ride bikes.

Someone I missed at Glastonbury, because they didn't play, but did give me that similar rush of euphoria when I discovered them a while back were Manchester's lo-fidelity sonic-conquistadors Young British Artists.

The members have recently hand-folded all of the covers of their debut EP 'Small Waves' out on Manchester's wonderful Red Deer imprint now and can be purchased here.

Here's an exclusive sample...

Young British Artists - Small Waves

Make your own mind up about Two Door Cinema club below...

Younger British Artists

We're Here

Fresh from one of the countries most exciting new artists Primary 1 and dj Riton. Available on the magnificent Phantasy.

Just too good for it's own good...

We're Here

Tropical, Is.

The majesty of creating something so brilliant is the inevitability that it usually doesn't make any sense, much like London's Is Tropical. A crazy mask wearing three piece, mysterious in nearly all details except that the songs are killer.

mp3: South Pacific - Is Tropical

Tropical, Is.

Radar Detector

Hit Club's official laser pen will probably be bought from Argos. No matter how long we use it for the batteries will never run out and it will be used for good only, unlike these crazy yobs. Lasers From Atlantis are actually from London and make 13 minute sonic stews, mixing for good measure a pinch of space rock, noisy post-prog and early yes wave.

mp3: Feels Good - Lasers From Atlantis

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Dunlop, Bell, Fleming

I recently came back from a traumatic few days stuck in Scotland on the most Westerly point of mainland Britain. Although I did see a deer, civilisation felt a million miles away - to help me though this whole experience the magnificent Midnight Maxi Mixes rarely left the speakers. Crafted by the mind-blowingly-life-alteringly-groundshakingly-talented Django Django (also they're Scottish) it's a fantastic monthly compilation of some beautiful corners of noise.

Also, Django Django release their debut single this month, you can buy it here or watch it below!

Dunlop, Bell, Fleming

Let's Jump Ahead

Sweden is pretty much the most amazing place, an endless supply of insane jeans, blankets for when it gets cold so you can enjoy sitting outside, as a nation they know how to live. Cleast Eatwood hail from the beautiful Stockholm and create sounds that could only come from Scandinavia. Majestically understated you glide through moments that effortlessly summon up a generation of artists that have created some of the finest noises in recent history.

We could list lots of Swedish music we all love, knowingly nod our heads in agreement to their reference points and contemporaries, instead enjoy the fantastic Get Related and the inspired Michael Polnareff, thank God for myspace's influences.


MP3 - Get Related - Cleast Eatwood

Let's Jump Ahead

The Mono

As the tides rise, the seasons changes and the world slowly begins to boil you'd be forgiven for forgetting that anyone in Great Britain could write exciting and genre defying pop music without being a private school whore with auto tune stuck down their gullet. But, salvation comes in the shape of The Mono, softly spoken and tucked away in a quiet corner of Kent they've created a sound that deftly cuts though the darkness to reveal two long slim figures stood in the light at the end of tunnel.

From snarling guitars shredding around perfectly balanced vocals, that swoop from the hushed beauty of Aimee's tones to the sharp power of David's lead vocals, to killer beats that underline the foundations of sublime pop brilliance that The Mono are crafting. Although yet to play a show, we're able to pass on the mesmerising Sparkling Furrs, with a pinch of new wave, no wave and for good measure yes wave it's quickly becoming the sound track to Hit Club's summer.

Sparkling Furrs - The Mono

The Mono

White Car

For all you successful people this is possibly the sexiest record we've heard in time, hushed vocals and a pounding synth can't but get you hot under the collar. Coming from White Car's forthcoming ep, it could be four of your best spent minutes today.

The Bridge - White Car

White Car