Bitter Fingers
A blog about popular song by Mark Higgins.
Archive for the ‘New Music’ Category
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden
In: New Music
5 Oct 2011YES I KNOW IT’S BEEN BLAAHDY AGES but I’ve been on holiday and doing “other stuff” so that’s that. And this is this! “What is this” I hear you cry, and with good reason because thus far this paragraph hasn’t made a tremendous amount of sense. Don’t expect that to change any carriage return soon.
Despite [...]
Boss In Drama – I Don’t Want Money Tonight
In: Music Video| New Music
28 Aug 2011Here’s a thing that’s good – despite looking a bit like a robot butler, Boss In Drama is capable of delivering a rather enjoyable disco-pop jam. I haven’t got anything against robot butlers you understand – it’s just they’re not typically known for their funk-infused melodies and toe-tapping beats. First time for everything, I suppose.
If [...]
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VHS or Beta – Breaking Bones
In: Music Video| New Music
27 Aug 2011It takes a certain amount of gall to put together an indie-dance track that sounds a bit like both Let Me Be Your Fantasy by Baby D and Show Me Love by Robin S, but VHS or Beta have done just that. And good on them for trying.
I mean, it’s not quite as good as [...]
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The new Marina and the Diamonds: it’s good news for people who like a donk on it
In: Music Video| New Music
22 Aug 2011It was only a few short weeks ago that I received an email regarding some new material from Marina & The Diamonds. Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I am a bit of a fan of Marina so this was an excellent email for me to get. The track contained inside was [...]
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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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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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.
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- Hey so this new Kavinsky track is pretty choice
- “David Austin, the biggest star of 1984″
- The top five songs by Wham!
- Azealia Banks – 212
- Bitter Fingers Radio Volume 18: Quite Good Songs Of The Year
- I CAN’T STOP LISTENING TO SELENA GOMEZ
- The top five music videos where they’re driving a car, for some reason
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- I’ve mentioned that I quite like The Sound Of Arrows before right
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