Tag Archives: Bon Iver

Video Games

Pokémon was probably the best game ever, with a totally unpredictable storyline and savage duels, it was also accompanied by a wicked soundtrack. This isn’t a post about video game soundtracks though, nor is it about Lana Del Ray – her music only ever provokes mild indifference within me. It’s actually about the music I listen when I’m playing video games.

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Jesus H. Foxx

Fox BETH THOMPSON

Jesus H. Foxx are one of Edinburgh’s few really inventive indie bands, and they don’t get the press they deserve. Two things, therefore, need to be brought to your attention. Firstly, the band are playing Henderson’s at St John’s on the 29th of June, with support from Battery Face – a while off, but make a note in your diary. You can get tickets from Brown Paper Tickets here. The second thing you need to know relates to the first, because the aforementioned concert is the launch of their debut album, Endless Knocking, and it’s really, really great.

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vintage dauphinois: the best of 2011

 

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I’ve been thinking about my favourite albums and singles of the year since I was asked to submit my list to Peenko for the annual Scottish Bloggers and Music Sites Awards they do. In case you don’t know, Peenko asks all the active bloggers and music writers they know to submit a list of three albums and that’s compiled through averages and whatnot until they get a consensus from all the bloggers. I was going to hold this post back a few days, but since everyone else has fired the starting gun on their end-of-year lists, it can’t hurt to saturate some more.

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