Hiem is a duo from the land of Sheffield. Releasing their EP 1/2 back in May of this last year on the amazing White Label Music. It is a nice teaser for what is sure to come. I heard them for the first time on the Electronic Music Bible with their song “Tweak” and was [...]

The 2006 Reader’s Poll nominations are all in — we’ve narrowed it down to the most nominated for each category. I couldn’t have made a better list myself.
Voting to pick the winners opens today. Poll closes December 12th!
Edit: Voting closed. Winners announced soon. Nominations below:
Favorite Album
Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
The Blow : Paper [...]

Oh cool. Guns’N’Bombs have remixed The Teenagers. I don’t remember 1996 sounding this good, but yeah. Totally different than the SLUTTT mix… the GNB remix might actually take my top spot for “Homecoming.”
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The Teenagers – “Homecoming” (Guns’N’Bombs XTC RMX 1996) (mp3)
Oh and. Guns’N’Bombs have their first 12 inch coming [...]

Oh my.
1) Congrats to Trevor for winning the Modular Does LA Party contest! If your name is Trevor, and you didn’t get an email from me then I’m sorry… you didn’t win. If you didn’t win you can still buy tickets at Groove Tickets OR try winning at Gang Of Neon.
2) The reader survey/contest ends [...]

For better or worse, I never fell into the Editors-hype-machine-mania a while back, but I am slightly interested in the remix ep the band recently put out. A short collection… I wish they commissioned a few more mixes, but there are a few heavy hitters there including Sebastian and Ghislain Porier. That should make a [...]