"It honestly was a Field Of Dreams moment … sort of ‘if you build it they will come’. The first two singers that said yes, and actually came to our studio to do vocalsm were Robin Zander and Al Jourgensen. Not a bad duo to start with!"
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Earwig mainman Lizard McGee is heading to the UK this month to play a series of shows in support of new solo album Spooky Jets At A Distance. The British dates will be the first performances outside the US for the Columbus, Ohio, musician, who’s been making and releasing records on his own LFM label since the early ’90s.
A sultry steamy night in West London provided the perfect backdrop as Oakland’s finest Fantastic Negrito brought a touch of California to W12. The master showman romped through a short but sweet set, which encompassed a bewildering range of genres and styles. There were shades of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix, a soupçon of Al Green and a smidgeon of Prince as Negrito, real name Xavier Dphrepaulezz, […]
From street hustler to pseudo student, illegal nightclub impresario to black roots troubadour – Fantastic Negrito is the ultimate performance artist. Since leaving home at 12, it could be said that his whole life has been a performance of defiance, reinvention and now perhaps redemption. Fantastic Negrito is the latest in a long line of personae, nom de plumes, pen names […]
Taking their name from a rather forthright way of telling someone to shut up, transatlantic duo STFU have forged a fittingly uncompromising sound on debut album What We Want. Despite being literally an ocean apart during the recording process, producer Dean Garcia and vocalist Preston Maddox, of noise-rockers The Bloody Knives, have created a homogenous, dystopian behemoth of a record.
