On the Tally Radi - Ho

We realise that we spend a lot of time on this blog regaling you with news of our favourite US bands.... This isn't intentional, we've just had to search a little harder to find things at home to match what's happening in New Jersey and California right now. However here's a list of some of our favourite tracks from Britain's best we've heard in the last few weeks....

Grasshouse - Bottom of The Sea
Treasure - Canada
Lord Auch - To The Shithouse
Spectrals - It's very sweet of you to put up with me
Field Music - Effortlessly
Rent Boys - Ripped Up
Veronica Falls - Beachy head
Sexbeet - She Don't Surf

Appeased..... At least a little bit

Cribs & The Thermals

Split 7" to mark record Store Day

Our favourite fellow northerners The Cribs are to release a split single to mark Record Store Day on the 17th of April with The Thermals. After a year spent as tourmates and Gary Jarman's move from the sun-drenched climbs of Wakefield to Portland, the two bands have finally got together on the project which sees both release new songs, The Thermals' 'Separate' and The Cribs' 'So Hot Now'.

Oh, and you see that very handsome laser-eyed face on the cover of the last Cribs album 'Ignore The Ignorant', that's Tally Ho's very own resident scribe Mark Wall. So it's not like we're biased or anything....

Panda Bear

New Album - TOMBOY

The publicist for Noah Lennox (Animal Collective) has confirmed today that his solo project Panda Bear will release a new album called 'TOMBOY' through Paw Tracks in September.

In between creating the stand out album of 2009 'Merriweather Post Pavilion', an E.P, film and collaboration with Bradford Cox, Lennox has found time to record the follow up to 2007's 'Person
Pitch'.

Look out for a one-off London date in March to showcase the new album.

King Tuff - Was Dead

King Tuff's 2009 album Was Dead didn't do much in terms of people actually listening to it outside a few switched on blog bros and those in the know in the King's Vermont music circle. Don't let that put you off, infact its a bonus, if you're reading this you're probably the kind of cat that likes to keep little trinkets of musical treasure locked away in a closet close to your chest..lest others claim them as their own. Well King Tuff is tailor made for your little hipper than thou complexes. Mixing the hell's jangle of Raw Power era Stooges with the drug psych of 13th Floor Elevators, The King's reverence for melodies past is clear and present throughout. Check out stand-out track Sun Medallion below...

This reminds me of Nashville porches and San Francisco's golden bridges all at once...beautiful



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J D SALINGER - R.I.P

Sadly our first non musical post concerns the death of renowned and revered author J D Salinger. He died at his New Hampshire home of natural causes. Salinger, 91 had consciously lived his life away from the spotlight since his celebrated novel The Catcher in the Rye brought him world-wide attention.

He gave his last interview in 1960 and his later life was shrouded in mystery, intrigue and rumour, fueled by biographies by both an ex-lover, Joyce Maynard and his daughter Margaret.

Salinger's influence loomed large over western literature throughout the second half of the 20th Century. From the angry young men of Colin MacInnes' London Trilogy to the wild autobiographical trials and tribulations of Hunter S Thompson's 70's output and all in between, Salinger and his most famous creation, Holden Caulfield haunt their pages, no doubt approvingly.


Jerome David Salinger, January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010

Winter Olympics 2010

Devo, Feist and Neil Young head out into the cold

Forget the torches and fireworks, warming up this year's Winter Olympic's in Vancouver will be Neil Young, Feist and DEVO ahead of their first new album in over two decades.

Vivian Girls Live in London

Vivian Girls @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, 26th Jan '10

You'd be forgiven for thinking Vivian Girls have moved to these shores, their recession flauntiJng trips across the Atlantic have become so frequent. Not that we're complaining, we've pretty much worn out their second LP Everything Goes Wrong so it was with some excitement that we ambled along through the winter chill to catch them play a set that concentrated on that record, coloured by a few choice selections from their many 7" singles and their self titled debut.

Kicking off with the same one-two punch that bleeds Everything Goes Wrong into your speakers, 'Walking Alone at Night' and 'I Have No Fun', live the girls seem to exorcise the frustrations that haunt them at the beginning of the record. Ali's drumming gallops and Cassie's distorted Pink Flag-isms rage, padding out the harmonies and seemingly bathing the crowd in a white wash of punk mischief. 

Last night's show (the last of a uk tour) serves as a timely reminder of the band's progression from 20 minute sets and over-hype, into the finished product. Now entirly unreliant on the charming pop chorus of previous show stoppers like 'Wild Eye's'.

For fellow sound setters in the class of 08', the new Viv's gigs send a clear message to yank up the belts and don't dare to disappoint. If second album Everything Goes Wrong wasn't enough proof of the metamorphosis, only prompting glances to the bedside pictures of the Kickball Katy of old, then live, the girls ascendancy is complete.

Animal Collective - Oddsac

Not content with owning 2009, Animal Collective are already launching their bid to conquer this newly-birthed annum with what they're calling a 'visual album', Oddsac.

Oddsac is a collaboration with director Danny Perez and judging from the clip below, its going to be every bit as mind bending as their recent sonic explorations.



Oddsac was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last night, for more info check out the official site www.oddsac.com

Real Estate

Un-holy Sounds

Those Jesus freaking Yank's have done it again.... This time casuing a storm after Real Estate's show at St James Catholic Church in Brooklyn. Among the most outrageous of atrocities from the show on the 15th are beer spillage, larger tins on pews and 'rowdiness'. Feel free to show your support for better gig surroundings than sweaty pool rooms, by ambling along to the steps of Shoreditch Church with a panpipe. Alternatively leave it to the vagrants and fashionista's already mounting an 'ironic' revolt.

Footage of the performance has already been removed from most site's, but watch another balls out anarchic Real Estate show here......

Harlem

More US Dates

After Harlem announced another string of US dates today, we we're feeling decidely disheartened that this might be another of New Jersey's finest we'll never get to see on these shores. If you haven't already heard the band (signed to Matador late last year) check out this video for track Witch Greens...