Not Many Experts

No, I’m not really appreciating the irony. “Trojan Horse” ; one of my favorite songs of the past few weeks. A Trojan virus ; nasty geek-oid that explains why I haven’t posted in so long. However, I did manage to download 10 Trojan Horses in about 30 seconds, which I see as some sort of record.
Anyway, fear not, because not only has Norton AntiVirus decided that it would be pretty cool to actually delete the viruses instead of making them cups of tea and making them feel as comfortable as possible in my WINDOWS folder, but I’ve been keeping up with my music so I have a lot of notes to throw out there! To you!

Firstly… Recent stoner movie “Pineapple Express” has catapulted M.I.A (critic’s favorite of 2007 with her album “Kala”) to something resembling fame. Her fabulous, sample heavy song (I have never heard a song that uses gunshots as a chorus that is actually good) was many people’s highlight of 2007 and is used in the film. The song reached #5 in the US Billboard Hot 100, which is an incredible achievement especially considering that the majority of the US population would buy a record by a guy called “Young Jeezy” or anything that is marketed well. For example, Lil Wayne said “A Milli” about 100 times over and over whilst recording, got his record company to put it in a nice box with some colourful pictures and it got into the Billboard Top 10. This is the country that invented marketing and commercialism, and it’s no fucking wonder!
I’m not even lying either: Paper Planes is #5!

Will Pineapple Express stick M.I.A up in the UK top 10 as well?

Download: M.I.A – Paper Planes

Oh my… this is extremely promising: We Have Band

Well spotted, guys. You do have band, and you have a very bloody good one as well. Made up of three ex-record label execs from London, you’d have thought they would have been able to come up with a better name than that. For example, I just put some words in a random word generator and got these band names: “Beige Creek” and “Honey Nipple And The Superior Shop”. I think you will agree they are both better names, especially the Nipple one. Anyhow, moral of the story; don’t call your band “We Have Band” or anything similar.

They are playing Liverpool in October as part of the “Wave If You’re Really Here” series of shows in St Bride’s Church (a ridiculously unique venue, read the interview with Tim from Wave Machines). Hopefully I’ll see you there ; they are the most outstanding new band to come out of London since… Bloc Party? Listen and let me know. “Hear It In The Cans” and “You’ve Had Band” are my favorite songs on their MySpace.

I’ll post “Hear It In The Cans”, but it’s awful quality so I’d only download it if you listen to it on their MySpace and really like it.

Download: We Have Band – Hear It In The Cans