Kanye West - Coldest Winter

In a world filled with bullshit Pop Music, Kanye West is a true artist and has delivered once again with the re-worked Coldest Winter and accompanying video, from his critically underrated 808’s & Heartbreaks.

Greg





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We Are Scientists - Rules

Here’s the latest single from WAS, taken from their forthcoming third album, Barbara. You read that correctly. Also the new Big Pink track follows, if that’s your cup of tea.

Greg (in Murrumbeena)









Marina & The Diamonds - Hollywood (Acoustic)

The Family Jewels, the début album from Marina & The Diamonds is out next week, and judging on the four (you read that correctly!) fantastic singles that have proceded the album, it’s going to rock. Hopefully I might find time to review it, but for now, here is a fabulous acoustic version of the most recent single Hollywood.

Greg









Coachella Lineup Announced - It's Good

Coachella’s line-up always has the best bits of all genres of music, and this year is no exception, check this out…!

Absolutely amazing. For more info check http://www.coachella.com/

Greg









Goodbye 'The Noughties'

So today is the end of the decade, it went pretty fast right? From Kid A to Them Crooked Vultures and everything in between, I personally have certainly bought a lot of good albums but with the main and crucial difference that I bought Kid A on CD whereas Them Crooked Vultures was downloaded straight from iTunes to my Pod. Hopefully in the next 10 years formats and music alike will continue to progress, and the major labels wont fuck the industry up (even more). I’ll bet €5 that they will.

In case you missed it, I’ll remind you one last time that we at AGCS wrote exposé’s of the last 10 years and selected and reviewed our favourite album from that year. They were as follows…

See you in the next decade, music fans.

Greg









Art vs Science - Parlez-Vous Francais?

The observant amongst you will know that I’m currently residing in Australia, a country that musically has done very little for the world. For every Nick Cave there’s a Rolf and for every Avalanches there’s a Jet (I won’t go on because I’ve almost exhausted Australia’s music scene, except Kylie obviously).

However, I am trying my hardest to source some good stuff amongst the bad/nothingness and my first tip comes in the form of now essential pre-night-out-listening Art Vs Science. I’m not sure they’re as good as DIOY,Y?, but the five track EP they released just over 6 months ago is a lot of fun, especially Parle-Vous Francias.

Turn it up. Dance.

Greg (In Melbourne)









John Frusciante leaves Red Hot Chili Peppers (?)

Sad news if true of course, as since John returned in 1999 for Californication the Chili’s output has been overall outstanding, with his classical and electronic influences often sneaking in.

But having seen the bands final show with John in August 2007, it feels like maybe this is for the best. It was insincere to say the least, and it’ll be sad if we have to remember what has been a tight live band overall for the last drags of the £2 million a show Stadium Arcadium tour.

Still, Frusciante has been making some excellent solo albums since 2003 and hopefully this’ll free up some time for him to make more. If you’re wondering where to start, I suggest 2004’s Shadows Collide With People and The Will To Death (Review here) or The Empyrean.

Greg









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10TH DECEMBER

Today’s festive fun comes in the form of “Christingle”, a song released by AGCS contributor Greg under his Greg The Hero moniker. Cry nepotism all you like, but I wouldn’t post the track up here just to humour him - it is a genuinely good Christmas song, as you’re sure to find out if you click the little play button above. Go on, click it. And click here to listen to more tracks.

Will that do Greg?

Jed. x









Lightspeed Champion Q&A / New Video

Dev Haynes aka Lightspeed Champion has been doing a Q&A through one of his website forums and to save you trying to find it, AGCS have compiled the best questions with the best answers to create a post that may look like we interviewed Dev ourselves. But we didn’t.

Q: Are you afraid, with sophomore albums usually having some sort of defining moment on your career, that people may not ‘get’ this album?
A: Yeah that doesn’t really bother me, that’s not to say that it wasn’t in my mind at certain points, it’s human nature. But if you go through life thinking like this, it’s bound to drive you crazy.. funnily enough, this very subject is the meaning behind the ‘Marlene’ video.

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ALBUMS OF THE DECADE: ILLINOIS (2005)

Despite the fact fellow AGCS writer Jed calls 2005 a ‘fallow year for music’, it signalled the start of the modern British Indie movement with debut albums from Art Brut (Bang Bang Rock & Roll), Bloc Party (Silent Alarm), Kaiser Chiefs (Employment ), Editors (The Back Room), Maximo Park (A Certain Trigger) and Tom Vek (We Have Sound) among others. Whilst some of these albums were better than others (Vek and Maximo stand out for me), it was the small number of albums from across the pond that excited me most.

QOTSA released the truly fantastic Lullabies to Paralyze, and if they hadn’t already been awarded AOTY2002 it’d have made choosing 2005 near impossible. We Are Scientists début was also great (it remains their best work yet); System of a Down’s Mezmerize was a great “Metal” album that as someone that despises the genre I latched onto and still adore today; Panic(!) at the Disco made ‘Emo’ interesting merging classical instruments with electronic to some great pop songs, and Foo Fighters had a decent attempt at a double album.

It was however a certain Sufjan Stevens however that fully delivered the kind of inspiring album that every human being with ears deserves to hear at least one of a year.

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