Welcome to the online home of Felix’s music section. Here you will find unedited reviews along with extra articles and media. Its not much just yet but hopefully over the year it will develop to encompass a variety of music.
Any problems/comments/suggestions should be directed at felixmusic.tk@googlemail.com and that is also the address to contact if you want to become a contributor.
So here’s the plan: we want to make a weekly chart of Imperial’s favorite songs and artists, not to dissimilar to the UK Top 40 (except the positions will be decided by play counts not sales).
How do we do this? Well first we need you!
There is a website last.fm and by signing up for a free account and downloading their software package it will, among other things, record the songs you listen to on your computer (iTunes, Spotify, WMP etc) and portable music device. N.B. Don’t worry, it doesn’t record anything that might incriminate you even if your mp3 library isn’t the most legitimate.
After doing this, join this group.Thats it. You don’t have to do anything else to take part.
Each week charts will be calculated for the group, and a run down of the most popular songs / artists will be published here and in the paper. Hopefully it’ll be interesting, but it heavily relies on enough people signing up to the group for any results to be worthwhile, so spread the word!
Last.fm does loads of other cool shit for you, because it knows who you like it can accurately recommend you new artists you might like, gigs you would like to go to and people who have the same music taste as you. If you like music, its an incredibly useful utility and best of all, free.
We’re coming to the end of 2009 and like the lazy hacks we are, we’ve decided to fill some column inches with an argument about the best CDs of the decade. Those of you who read the dead-tree version of Felix Music will have seen the editor’s decision, winnowed down from all our favourites – these were my choices. I’ve left all the tedious landfill indie that has dominated so much of the music scene for others to pick through – anyone suggesting Keane or Coldplay below will be treated with the contempt they deserve. Likewise Radiohead – they’ve been omitted for being amongst the worst live bands in the world, thus rendering anything they commit to CD null and void.
So, in no particular order, these were my favourite albums of the last ten years. See what you think…
Continue reading ‘DISCUSSION :::: The obligatory best albums of the decade argument’
Asobi Seksu are a rock band from New York, and they’re awesome. I’d forgotten this before I saw them on Monday, but they more than reminded me. Yuki, Japanese-American vocalist and keyboardist, may be small but her voice carries a huge chorus like few others. James, guitarist, is rather tall and erratic, but this doesn’t stop his ethereal sound gracefully blowing an audience away. These two songwriters are backed up by the solid foundation of Billy and Larry on bass and drums. Between them, the group sounds something like being crushed under a really beautiful chandelier.
Continue reading ‘LIVE :::: Asobi Seksu at Cargo on 07/12/09′
This was the support band for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs [Photos]. It was all a pretty screamy affair, and the singer seemed like she could do with seeing an exorcist most of the time.
Everyone knows Camden is the place to go for small venues, unsigned bands and raucous rock music until 3am.
Hellbent & Hammered rocking out
Arguably the best spot in Camden, though, is the Dublin Castle, a little Mecca for indie-kids and rockers alike. Last Monday saw it play host to local rockers Hellbent and Hammered, backed up by the normal mix of unsigned night acts – the good, the bad and the ugly.
Opening the night were Watford boys This Life Scandal, a strangely incongruous Goo Goo Dolls influenced stadium-rock band on a heavy metal bill. Still, they held their end of the bargain up well: a tight, rocky set was capped by a lead singer on excellent form, and the band filled the stage superbly. The drummer even managed to squeeze a bit of rock posing in around the set list, although the effort of multi-tasking sometimes threw his rhythm a little. Still, ones to watch: although some of their tracks will sound a little over-familiar to old-school U2 fans, that’s not necessarily a bad band to be compared to.
Continue reading ‘LIVE :::: Hellbent and Hammered at the Dublin Castle, 23/11/09′
Animal Collective made one big splash in the indie pool in 2009 with the release of ‘Merriweather Post-Pavillion’ to much critical acclaim. This new EP coming in at a shade under thirty minutes is a far more ambient affair as opposed to the more synthesized urgency of Merriweather.
Their habit of releasing EPs between full length albums are more than stop gaps; over glorified singles to keep their name fresh in people’s heads, they demonstrate a side of the band that maybe didn’t quite fit in with the overall picture of the preceding album. ‘Fall Be Kind’ is in this way is more similar to most of 2008’s ‘Water Curses’ in how the overall laid back feel to most of the songs are probably best displayed in a separate entity.
Continue reading ‘RELEASES :::: Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind [EP]‘
My company-keeper for the evening seemed genuinely pleased to learn that I had secured two tickets for La Roux at what used to be the Shepherd’s Bush Empire. The only reason why her delight came as unexpected to me was because I would have expected someone like her, who considers themselves as unique and anti-run-of-the-mill in their music taste, to turn her nose skyward at the mention of such an artist as La Roux, or more grammatically correct, la rousse, who is currently enjoying the mainstream success and popularity that one would associate with that of a Popstar. But, let us not overlook the fact that although she may not look like it (as one might not necessarily dare to dress themselves à La Roux, or coif their mane in quite the same fashion), this (bottle) redhead singer/songwriter is indeed a Popstar. An electro-popstar to be exact.
Continue reading ‘LIVE :::: La Roux [at] Shepherds Bush Empire 25/11/09′
I LOVE chav music! Oh wait a minute, no I don’t, I think I’d rather pour bleach in my ears, at least then they’d be cleaner. Another abortion to be placed in the uninventive stuck-in-the-mud R&B music genre, this is a song about some nonce chatting a girl up then getting in a fight in a pub. Luckily Windows Media Player has a stop button, let’s have an artist implosion button on the next version please Bill Gates. One more reason to despise this artist: 50 Cent has supposedly ripped off their ideas (so many quality musicians in one sentence I think I might cry).
-Tom Jennings
Situated at the notorious Madame Jojo’s in the centre of Soho, if you turn up on the wrong night you could find yourself trapped in the Tranny Shack for it is a house of burlesque! With a capacity of 250 and exquisite vintage art deco interiors this is the place you want to hear your music on a Tuesday evenings, at the White Heat club night.
Continue reading ‘LIVE :::: Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip [at] White Heat 01/12/09′
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