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Taking to the Stage... get your band a gig!
Music: Hey, you! Yeah, you! The rock chick! Have you already started a band? Think you're ready for the big time? Then let's hit the stage. From networking promoters to dealing with stagefright, it's time to sharpen your gigging claws...
How to start a rock band
Music: Hey, hey. Wanna be a rockstar? Nice. But before you go cutting your hair and changing your name, you'd better actually start that rock band. You don't get something from nothing! And here's how...
Nightmare Revisited
Music: 'Nightmare Revisited' is the new CD for Tim Burton's 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. It features cover versions of the entire soundtrack by bands and singers like Manson, Amy Lee, Shiny Toy Guns and Sparklehorse. Yes, we loved the original musical. Will we like the songs as much when we view them through the looking glass? Alessa Valentin finds out if the spirit of Jack is truly back.
Nightmare Revisited and reviewed
Emilie Autumn - the winter of our content
Music: Courtney Love's "anarchy violinist" returns to the stage and is keeping the spotlight all to herself. Fresh off the road as Ms. Love's touring bandmate, Emilie Autumn's devilishly dark lyrics and industrial-strength voice reinvent "gothic" for us all.
Lykke Li
Music review: Like most things worth bothering about in life, Li Lykke Timotej Zahrisson (Lykke Li for short) is a bundle of seeming contradictions. Already being hyped in ominous proportions by the blogosphere, the 21-year-old Swede has produced an album full of some of the year's loveliest, most compelling sounds.
We like it edgy: Becoming a music producer
Careers: We Like It Edgy is a music producer. It's a competitive industry but there are ways to survive and flourish, especially if you go above and beyond your training, buy cheap kit of eBay and know your remixes and mashups. Find out more about being a music producer.
Love Is All... 9 times that same song
Music: 'Love Is All' are a bunch of skronky Swedes who somehow got missed in the day-glo rush of 2006. The lead singer is rightly compared to Karen O and the new album should prove a bit of a gem. Can you have a band that knowingly sings entirely about love and also about keeping your boyfriend in a freezer? Let us answer that with another question - wouldn't it be wrong not to?
Curve
MP3 of the week: What on earth were Curve, apart from one of the seminal underground bands of the 1990s? Were they shoegazing indie? Goth? Electronica? We're not quite sure! They sound nice all the same, and 'Fait Accompli' off the Doppelganger LP stands the test of time.
CSS
MP3 of the week: CSS and lead singer Lovefoxxx wear glitter catsuits on stage, have plastic ball wars with their fans, and are impossibly fun and sexy. And yet 'CSS' stands for the Brazilian for 'I got tired of being sexy'...
Metric
MP3 of the week: Metric are an indie outfit who come on like a new wave dance band. They're verging on mainstream. But the very fashionistas and consumerists they satirised in songs like "Dead Disco," "Combat Baby" and "The List" are now singing along with them.
The Kills
MP3 of the week: Alison 'VV' Mosshart of Anglo-American indie rock band The Kills (gorgeous lo-fi likened to the White Stripes) has been known to spend her time chainsmoking and vomiting onstage. Nevermind the bollocks, here's The Kills!
Yelle
MP3 of the week: Yelle (a slamming of Yeah and Elle) is a French electro chick who rose to fame on myspace.com when she posted a song dissing hip-hop band TTC. Find out more!
Siouxsie Sioux
MP3 of the week: Everyone likes Siouxsie Sioux. She's the queen of the New Wave. Some call her goth, some call her punk... she's influenced everyone from indie rock to trip hop. Find out more.
ShiSho
MP3 of the week: ShiSho are only about 10 years old but in the vein of Be Your Own Pet they've burst on the kidcore scene with Sufjan Stevens and The Dead Milkmen covers. Punk Rawk girls unite!
Download The Chubbies
MP3 of the week: The Chubbies are a pop punk all-girl garage band who have their own record store and got kicked offstage when go-go dancing for The Offspring. Find out more...
Download Liz Phair
MP3 of the week: Liz Phair recently celebrated her 40th birthday in a Rolling Stone photoshoot under the heading "Hot M.I.L.F.". Now a grown-up Avril Lavigne (tailored to appeal to a commercial market) Liz Phair used to be just Lizzy from the Block. Check out the genius of her early days...)
Download Bat for lashes
MP3 of the week: Everyone likes Bat for Lashes, especially intelligent blokes (you see throngs of them at Natasha Khan's live gigs videoing her thoughtfully). Taking influence from 70's film soundtracks, weather phenomena, childhood Halloween parties and a David Lynchian vision of suburbia, Bat for Lashes will take you on a very strange journey indeed...
Download Jackie Levitt
MP3 of the week: Jackie Levitt is an unsigned Mookychick from NYC who does truth and ethereal yet funky vocals over addictive lo-fi urban dance beats. Her work is New York, but would fit in well with the slew of trip hop bands that came out of Bristol, UK, with its mixed-up bpms, slow beats, and evocative melodies...
Download The Sounds
MP3 of the week: The Sounds are one of the latest imports from Sweden - they're kind of new wave with a touch of electro, and they've got a hard driving sound that's offset by melodies that will stick in your head longer than is healthy...
MP3 of the week: Ladyland is a gutsy, punchy, quirky, powerful female-fronted album that will have so many good songs you'll be playing one on repeat before you dare let yourself go onto the next one... Sierra Swan is one of the most talented ladies out there, and her grasp of what makes a good tune is matched only by her 'take no prisoners' lyrics which will grab you by the throat and never let you go...
MP3 of the week: Probably the easiest way to describe the Colt 45s sound is 'obscure, fiesty electro punk' (The Crack Magazine), but their own term is clatter-pop. The Colt 45s started as a group of 4 friends who worked hard to bring some electro life to the Durham scene...
Download Vix n the Kix
Punk-pop burlesque at your service...
MP3 of the week: ViX used to be in a huge punkette British band and now she's assembled a new feisty bostin' outfit. If you like a bit of all-girl kitsch punk burlesque pop, this band deserves your love!
Download The Mighty Roars
Rrrrraaaoowr! It's The Mighty Roars
MP3 of the week: After acidentally opening our ex-flatmate's music review samples (him being a music journalist) we discovered The Mighty Roars, a dirty twin sister to Debbie Harry and Karen O. It might be naughty, but it's probably the best thing we did this week!
MP3 of the week: Dee Plume and Sue Denim are the main girls behind Robots in disguise, an electro outfit that is witty, sharp and is all about hyping up the superficial in true electro style. Also, Sue Denim used to go out with Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh. We like them big lots, they fill our hearts with little blue lightning strikes! So download their mp3s now...
MP3 of the week: Elastica were a predominately female British Britpop band who emerged to great critical acclaim in 1993. Influenced by The Fall and controversially by Wire, Elastica were in the papers as much for their rock lifestyle as for their music (sometimes for nicking other peoples' riffs), but their punchy 2-3 minute punkpop songs were solid as hell.
More free, legal, downloadable MP3s from Mookychick:
ALTERNATIVE, NEW WAVE, FOLK, PINKFLUFF RETRO, BURLESQUE |
NOISE-POP, PUNK URBAN, DANCE |
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