Congratulations Speech Debelle

Now, we may not have been right in our prediction, but boy are we pleased that Speech Debelle was selected to win this year’s Mercury Music Prize for her superb debut album, Speech Therapy. PM was at the launch of the album in Madame Jojo’s earlier in the year (thanks for the beer tokens, Big [...]

PM has been on holiday. Hello.

We’re back, and not bad thanks. We went here:

PM also changed addresses (we’re now just ’round the corner from The Hope & Anchor in Islington), so anyone sending stuff may want to send a quick email first to get the new one.  Postal strike tomorrow though, yeah? Yeah.

Euros Childs – Like This? Then Try This

PM has been a long-time fan of the ramblings of Euros Childs, and this brand new album track from his FREE album (entitled, in a non-mistaken way, Son Of Euro’s Child) out TODAY is as a good a reason as any to think that PM is always right.

Anyway, you can get [...]

Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling

… means ‘I Have Got To Feeling’.
Nice one, Will.I’m.

Also, get a hyphen in your name. What’s an Eyed Pea?

Japandroids Videos

Getting dangerously interested in Japandroids now. Head here for a total shed-load of interviews and performances. The interviews feature a blond man.
Here’s a funtime video that isn’t at that link:

Amazing. Myspace. Review. Review.

Why Did No-One Tell Me About How Amazing Grizzly Bear Are?

Seriously, I mean, PM prides itself on being pretty clued up on “what’s happening”, but for some reason we totally ignored Grizzly Bear. We even saw them at ATP for about twenty nice-enough minutes, but obviously not the bit of the set where they did THIS:

Which is obviously tremendous. Been sent [...]

New Dananananaykroyd Video – Some Dresses

“This is a song about some dresses…”

Very few artists would prompt immediate PRESS CAMPAIGNING from PM, but suffice to say Dananananaykroyd are one of them. One member down (again), they’re still special and destined for notoriety (maybe moreso than popularity, but who’s to say they aren’t mutually exclusive?). Either way, Stacy [...]

Mercurys…

The nominations are, apparently:
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men
Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy
Florence and The Machine – Lungs
Kasabian – West Rider Lunatic Pauper Asylum
Led Bib – Sensible Shoes
The Invisible – The Invisible
La Roux – La Roux
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Lisa Hannigan – See So
The Horrors – Primary [...]

An Anthology Of Insults

Further to yesterday’s self-indulgence (and because the ony reviews I’ve written in the past week can’t be published here for the moment), here is a nice list of all the times readers have truly excercised their right to reply. For the most part, these are culled verbatim from Drowned In Sound, but there are some gems [...]

This is what the week looks like:

If, PR person, you can see one of your representatives’ albums/singles loitering in that pile, then I’m on it. Honest. I think that’s the new Anti-Pop Consortium record on the top. I just want to listen to that one again… Currently working on the new Blindfold album. Who are they please?