WHAAAA?!?!?!! THEY'RE PUTTING MUSIC IN CONSOLE COMPUTER GAMES AND TELEVISION TALK SHOWS? By JACKSON BOLLOCK

Oh hey fellow scene-ster... You watch TV don't you? Of course you do.. I have done some deep research (used a search engine) and found out the name of the song on that new advert everyone's talking about.   It's the epic prog rock sounding Tame Impala 'Elephant'. Now this song is very catchy by the way, but it alone won't save the phone company it's advertising from going under in the near future.  But it does continue the tradition of indie bands who have slipped under most people's radars getting a little attention.  Also check out 'Half Full Glass of Wine' not bad, but most of their stuff belongs in the decade of which it is very heavily influenced.  Some of it sounds like Death from Above 1979, if they slipped into a time warp and emerged all pissed off with the bourgeois establishment or whatever movies have lied to me about what the 60's and 70's stood for. Cos I don't know what the fuck they were all rebelling against or trying to say... Most of the art and music sounds and looks shit to me.  You can tell my Dad played far too much early Genesis in our car when I was growing up...

It's wet outside as I'm sure you've noticed, so like many sad people I have retired to the sofa with an Xbox controller in hand... after playing Fifa 13 for a bit, I noticed some of the background tunes were ear achingly awful... Wretch 32's Blur makes me sad I have an ear canal... seriously, check out the lyrics... The man deserves to have his thumbs drop off so he can't write poison like it again.  That aside there are some bright spots in the smog cloud of shit.  And like in the past, apart from the obvious Kasabian tunes, the latest Fifa game can be a showcase for bands to get played to millions of people, mostly angry boys who spend their time swearing at polygons.

Just take a look at some of the bands who have been introduced to these sweary youths; Crystal Castles and Robert Smith 'Not in Love', Naked and Famous 'Punching in a dream', TV on the Radio, The Vaccines, Group Love, Glasvegas, Two Door Cinema Club and many more.

One last strange modern avenue to getting yourself heard I encountered recently was the Sunday Brunch Playlist.  Highlights from this edition include Stepdad 'Jungles' which is a heavy synth pop fronted by someone who despite looking like he owns a big van with the back lined with tarpaulin, has the most surprising voice.  It's very similar to TV on the Radio, but a bit more dainty... which isn't necessarily a bad thing.  This and Metric 'Speed the Collapse' are the stand out tunes whilst nods should also go to Presets 'Ghosts', Bloc Party 'We are not good people' and even the weird pairing of Gerad Way & Deadmau5 'Professional Griefers' is pretty good.

 

 

Sunday brunch is hangover TV at it's finest. Food, random human interest stories, music and comedy guests and all manner of people flogging some kind of wares. Now first off, the bands who do appear are hardly up and coming, the producers obviously play safe bets and book bands or 'artists' who some people of heard of.

 

A couple of week's ago it was the Courteeners (remember them?) plugging a third album and just generally being the working class heroes they are. But the interesting thing about Sunday Brunch is in and out of the ad breaks are snippets of new music. Some established acts but the majority are new bands middle England do not know exists Like 6 Music for the souls who have dragged their carcasses out of bed on a Sunday morning and want some motivation to cook breakfast.  

Usually its an eclectic mix of boring indie, freaky avant garde pop and established acts who are stuck in creative ruts...This is a couple of weeks ago but Frightened Rabbit 'The Woodpile' - haunting and soulful, Polica 'Dark Star' - fashionable, Ellie Goulding style pop represent the new.  The old are well represented with new tracks from Pearl Jam, Jonny Marr and the new David Bowie track which has caused such a fuss 'cos some sacrilegious folk has dared to say it's a bit shit...oh by the way, have you heard the new Bowie track? Yes it is a bit shit isn't it??

 

But the real reason I wrote this was because of Idles 'Thieves' - Great song, even better facial hair... oh, and because I wanted to say that Tim Lovejoy's smug face fucks me off.. Pull curtain, fade to black..