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A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
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Bearsuit – Princess, You’re A Test
In: Music Video| New Music
19 Aug 2011I listened to about five thousand promo CDs today and this was the only one I really liked, and that means it had to get past my rigourous “am i impressed after five seconds” test.
They’ve mainly got an exceptionally mucky bass sound to thank for that, plus the sparseness of the sound and the fact [...]
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Joan As Police Woman – Chemmie
In: Music Video| New Music
23 Jul 2011Joan As Police Woman – Chemmie (Youtube)
Here’s a mellow jam for a Saturday morning from Joan As Police Woman. It’s very good.
The video has something to do with an disgruntled sports team and a man that looks like a werewolf, but never mind that because we’re looking about a very good song here.
Some blurb:
In Joan’s [...]
Are you the sort of person that likes music? Specifically, the sort of music nominated for the 2011 Mercury Music Prize?
If you are that sort of person then you’re in the right place, as for the 16th and therefore most recent edition of Bitter Fingers Radio I done a show in which I play tracks [...]
Some excellent M83 related news
In: New Music
19 Jul 2011M83 are going to be releasing a new album. That’s your first piece of excellent news. It’s called Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and it’ll be released on 17th October 2011 through Naïve.
Even better (and this is the second piece of excellent news) is that you can download the new song Midnight City fo free if [...]
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When two kings go to war
In: Music Video
16 Jul 2011Who would win a fight between The King Of Rock And Roll and The King Of Wishful Thinking?
That is today’s question.
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- Tags: Go West, Prefab Sprout
Announcing them in a couple of weeks, in fact:
The Barclaycard Mercury Prize ‘2011 Albums of the Year’ will be revealed at 11.30am on Tuesday 19 July 2011. The announcement will be made by presenter and broadcaster Lauren Laverne and will be hosted by The Hospital Club in Covent Garden.
I’ve been to the Hospital Club. It’s [...]
Givers – Up Up Up
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Jun 2011Givers – Up Up Up (Youtube)
Who likes Paul Simon? Well, I do. Quite a lot actually, on account of how he’s made lots of good songs. But apart from me, who else likes him? Vampire Weekend too, I suppose. Anyway that’s besides the point because Givers do, that’s who, and you might be able to [...]
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Metronomy – The Bay
In: Music Video| New Music
13 Jun 2011Metronomy – The Bay (Youtube)
Metronomy have put out another single! And it’s very good. The video they have made to accompany it is also very good. These two events have combined, celestial-like, to form a blog post written by the hand of yours truly. Bet Galileo didn’t see that one coming.
As befitting the latest single [...]
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Swimming – Mining For Diamonds
In: Music Video| New Music
13 Jun 2011Swimming – Mining For Diamonds (Vimeo)
In a further instalment of Bands Mark Quite Likes, here’s a new video from the wonderful Swimming. They’re a hot new popular beat combo coming out of Nottingham, which is also home to a few of my other favourite things such as trams and Tom Whalley.
They’ve only gone and done [...]
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Some rather good music from Adi Ulmansky
In: New Music
8 Jun 2011Adi Ulmansky – One Octave Up (audio only)
Being in the business of blogging, I occasionally have the pleasure of new music dropping into my inbox. Sometimes that music is very good and I’m very proud to announce that this is one of those occasions.
Adi Ulmansky is an Israeli electronic type musician, and this song (which [...]
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Welcome to Bitter Fingers - a blog about popular song. Written by the hand of Mark Higgins, it serves up the very finest in new music, radio shows, spurious comment and #1 jams.
- Peter: My favourite is M.A.G.I.C. by The Sound of Arrow. Makes feel like a child again. http://www.youtube. [...]
- Grace: What about Nick Drake?? [...]
- Gareth: In fact there's so much magic involved I got the title a bit wrong. [...]
- Gareth: It's a Kind of Magic is the best song about magic. [...]
- The Internet Garbage: I like this! It's really good - definitely a "Saturday morning jam" as you say. And the video is fun [...]
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