The Go! Team Visits MPR

Enjoy this week's performance of 'Doing It Right' in the clip below. MP3 at bottom.


MP3: The Go! Team - Doing It Right

The Go! Team Divulges UK Tour Plans

View all 2008 gigs below.

Feb 23 Bristol Carling Academy
Feb 24 Southampton University
Feb 25 Cambridge Junction
Feb 28 Stirling Fubar
Feb 29 Inverness Ironworks
Mar 1 Aberdeen Moshulu
Mar 2 Dundee Fat Sams
Mar 4 Oxford Carling Academy
Mar 5 Leeds Metropolitan University
Mar 6 Sheffield Plug
Mar 7 Nottingham Trent University

MP3: The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket (via Antisocial)

The World Of B-Sides & Rarities, #199

BDB - A Journey From A To B (The Go! Team Remix)

Keep up to date on TGT here.

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MP3: BDB - A Journey (The Go! Team Remix) [alt link]

Go! Team Frontwoman Readying Solo LP

NME reports: *The Go! Team's rapper and frontwoman Ninja has recorded solo material and has explained to NME that she has plans for a career of her own. The star revealed that she has been recording with super-producer Richard X, who has previously worked with Kelis, between her band duties. "If I write a song, I write it for me," she explained, when asked if she contributed songwriting to The Go! Team. "I'm a rapper - I've got exercise books stuffed with lyrics instead of homework going back to when I was 11. I've been recording stuff with Richard X, and I'd love to be a solo artist in the future."

MP3: The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket (via Antisocial)

The Go! Team Debuts New Clip

See below for the band's just-released video to 'Doing It Right', off of The Go! Team's forthcoming sophomore album, Proof Of Youth. Ridiculously fun or just plain ridiculous?


Old-school MP3: The Go! Team - Bottle Rocket (via Antisocial)

The Go! Team Announces US Trek

All dates can be found below. View their upcoming album, Proof Of Youth's cover art here. MP3 at bottom of post.

10.13 Chicago, IL - Double Door
10.15 Seattle, WA - Neumos
10.17 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
10.19 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine
10.20 Pomona, CA - Glass House
10.21 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
10.25 Boston, MA - Paradise
10.26 Philadelphia, PA - TBA
10.27 NYC - Bowery Ballroom
10.28 Brooklyn, NY - Studio B
10.30 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

MP3: The Go! Team - Bull In The Heather (Sonic Youth cover)

New Go! Team Album Cover: Love It Or Hate It?

Below you'll find the artwork for The Go! Team's upcoming LP, Proof Of Youth, due out on September 11th. For full track listing check here. As for the cover art, love it or hate it?

MP3: The Go! Team - Ladyflash (Simian Mobile Disco remix)

The Go! Team Releases Info For Upcoming LP

It's time to dust off your dancing shoes...

Release Date: September 11
Title: Proof Of Youth (via Sub Pop)
First Single & Video: 'Grip Like A Vice'



Track Listing: Grip Like A Vice/Doing It Right/My World/Titanic Vandalism/Fake ID/Universal Speech/Keys To The City/The Wrath Of Marcie/I Never Needed It Now So Much/Flashlight Fight/Patricia's Moving Picture

bandwagon-jumping-type end-of-year-roundup thingymajig :: part the second

Okay. So I'm back with some more comments on what I thought might have been some good music from last year. You will probably disagree. In fact, I hope you do! So there! Go and listen to your Portugal. The Man. records, see if I care!

Mercury Rev - Secret for a Song (yousendit)

I loved The Secret Migration, another wonderful, ethereal experience from Mercury Rev. I have the same kind of otherworldly sensation from these guys that I do from Sigur Ros; and while this record may not hold up to the giddy heights of All is Dream, and there may be no standout track like Goddess on a Highway, this is certainly, to my mind, a more coherent whole than Deserter's Songs. The first record I bought in '05, and certainly one of the most well-played.

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King Creosote - 678 (yousendit)

No, not a folk-rock-bastard-cut-down-cover-version of Steps' 5-6-7-8, but a rather wonderful, plaintive melody from the King's awesometacular, witty, whimsical, and thoroughly beautiful KC Rules OK! Another Fifer, King Creosote (aka Kenny) used to run (The Best) music store in town, before it went, erm, bust, because the music he sold was much better than the numpties in this town (who'd rather go to the cheap CDs in Tesco) realised. Now leader of the mighty Fence Collective, you wouldn't go wrong in acquainting yourself with his work.

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The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart (yousendit)

Maybe it's just been a great year in British music, or maybe I'm just a nationalistic twat. But today I'm posting this Brighton band's homage to 80's kid's motorbike-timetrial show Junior Kickstart (presented, fact fans, by Peter Purves, companion to the original Doctor Who, that silver haired devil, William Hartnell!). But I love Thunder, Lightning, Strike; I love the title, I love the big cat on the cover, I love the fun, and most of all, I love the music. It's a tremendous, life-affirming, big-trumpets-and-bigger-ideas example of everything that's good about music.

Did I say I like this band?

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Low - Cue the Strings

I wasn't going to post this, 'cos I thought I should stick to three songs, and for some reason thought that The Great Destroyer was an '04 record; but no! According to iTunes it was released in January. So that's okay then.

I'd never heard of Low before I bought The Great Destroyer; it was one of those impulse buys from reviews. And it's one of the best things I bought all year. Songs like California (an up/downbeat, almost poppy number) reign supreme at the top of my 'most played' in iTunes, while the absurdity of Monkey (Tonight you will be mine / Tonight the Monkey dies), set against a rich, absorbing and almost threatening musical backdrop fills me with glee with every listen; and since buying this record I've been investing heavily in Low's back catalogue. Cue the Strings is more in keeping with the rest of the album, and perhaps with the rest of their output, a downbeat, yet utterly uplifting piece of music with an almost hymnal quality. Along with The Secret Migration, this is one of the real highlights of 2005 as a musical year.

Back tomorrow. Perhaps.

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Megaupload links (in case the yousendit ones have expired):

Mercury Rev - Secret for a Song
King Creosote - 678
The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart
Low - Cue the Strings