Haircut 100

FHM's Haircut 100 - Exclusive Video!

FHM Homepage (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008

Our tireless quest for salon-dwelling sexiness continues. Get behind the scenes on our latest shoot here.

Summer Fridays #2: Thursday Edition

Sound Bites (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

As tomorrow is a holiday here in the U.S. (Independence Day), seemed only right that this week's Summer Fridays mix should come a day early. At first I thought I'd do an all-American one, then I thought about making it...

Weekend Song - Blink-182

This Is This (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008

Of all the bands with numbers in their names, Blink-182 are probably my favourite. They generally don’t add up to much anyway (arf): Sham 69, Fun Boy Three, the Guilford Four, Shed Seven, Sum 41, Haircut 100, Thousand Yard Stare, right up to 10,000 Maniacs and simply 5 (or 5ive) who took a minimalist approach to the trend [...]

dj gonorstein - steering wheel tappers vol 1

ireallylovemusic (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008

now this is a lot of timewarped fun. i realise that’s going to reveal a lot about my era of musical discovery, but fuck it, anyone who drops in some big audio dynamite alongside a classic landscape track is worthy of a clickety-click. 1. gonorstein step’s out 2. joe jackson step’s out [...]

• For your steering pleasure (80’s style) - Fat Lace Magazine

Random Sunday Post

silence is a rhythm too (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008

I have been rather broke these last few weeks, so as a result there hasn't been much in the way of new music. This has led to fewer posts, including two weeks in a row without Funky Friday! Today I am cleaning out my inbox, and you are getting some rather tasty tracks out of the deal. The Amplive remix of MGMT is beefed up with a rap from Mistah Fab. Cage The Elephant bring the skank on this

Acceptable in the eighties

Hot Ginger and Dynamite (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008

Is this the best judged sax solo since Haircut 100 split up? Maybe. Influential music industry figure Alex Narkiewicz has posited that Mystery Jets’ Two Doors Down might be the single of the year. Were it not from the stiff competition from Glasvegas , it might be so. There’s been a load of hogwash about “eighties revivals” for some time. But now, at last, we have the magic combination of sloane ascendancy,...

Reissue Desires: The Railway Children

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008

Best remembered for their 1990 hit “Every Beat of the Heart,” the Railway Children also produced two somewhat forgotten and hard-to-find gems of late ’80s indie pop that deserve to be reissued. Starting out as Factory Records wunderkinds, the Railway Children had little in common with the sound of their labelmates New Order and Happy Mondays [...]

Feeling For … A Precision Haircut

The Moment (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008

John Hurt. (Photo: Bruce Everett) This week, I’m inaugurating a new bi-weekly men's fashion column called “Feeling For…” The title is deliberately abstract and open-ended in order to accommodate the diverse and often category-defying moods, items and trends that capture my attention or move me in a certain style direction. Hopefully, it will serve as an [...]

Headlines and deadlines

yeah whatever (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008

It's become fashionable to find a lot to love in pop idols. Justin Timberlake's last album was extremely well received (despite not actually being much good; but it was produced by Timbaland, so whatevs), and Britney's artistic star rises as her depicted life nosedives. But this is more an outcome of reviewers' desire to get all postmodern on us than it is a fair judgement of the records. It remains...

Serenity

Dispensing Happiness (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

If you're a tea-lover, a fan of Joss Whedon, or both, here's some news. My favorite tea company, Adagio , has introduced a new tea, inspired by Mal, Zoe, Wash & Co.: Firefly ! This is just too cool.

Hooks ‘N’ You: Nick Heyward, “Tangled”

Popdose (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008

I liked Nick Heyward before I ever knew I liked Nick Heyward. In the hazy, lazy days known as the early ’80s, I was just as enthralled by MTV as everyone else, but I hadn’t yet begun my descent into music obsession, so I was basically just watching videos, enjoying the songs, and moving on. [...]

Friday open thread and random ten

SquareState.net - Front Page (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008

Here's mine: Arcade Fire - Haiti Haircut 100 - Love Plus One Minisitry - Lockbox Amy Winehouse - Some Unholy War The Bastard Fairies - Boy Next Door Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices Interpol - Narc Nerf Herder - Jacket New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Modern Romance And Governor Richardson is in town today: Please Join Greg Archuletta * Polly Baca * Steve Bachar * Rep. Alice Borodkin...

HAIRCUT ONE HUNDRED

BORN AGAIN 80'S (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008

FAVOURITE SHIRTS (BOY MEETS GIRL) (ORIGINAL EXTENDED 12" VERSION) Although Haircut One Hundred only lasted a few years they were successful right away after they began performing. Their first album, Pelican West went straight to #2 with the lead off single, Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl), going to #4 in the UK charts back in 1981. The album also produced 3 more singles, one of which, Love Plus One...

Love From Karlstad

Diary at the Centre of the Earth (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008

7AM. Am woken by the phone. It’s a strange phone in a strange room. Who am I? Where am I? And what exactly can I do about it? Bits of my mind start to fire up after several attempts. Worn-out Ignition on a cold morning. My name is Dickon Edwards. I am in a hotel room [...]

Daily Downloads (Adam Green, Nina Simone, and more)

Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008

Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Adam Green: "Morning After Midnight" [mp3] from Sixes and Sevens other Adam Green music blog posts: @lhb @hype @elbo.ws Drive-By Truckers: 2008-03-13, Huntsville [mp3,ogg,flac] "The Man I Shot" [mp3] other Drive-By Truckers music blog...