By Bro. Jo Stern, on March 31st, 2009
Two more specimens were squawked out of camp-foilface at the weekend, I’m offering this free mp3 as a sacrificial recent music gift to the shadowy overlords of sleep deprivation. I reckon true creativity only kicks in once ones arse is hanging out with exhaustion, I don’t get a chance to test this theory very often due to my involvement with a rather large nuclear family unit.
Last weekend was one of them moments, and prolific as ever the 75% of foilface present racked up another impressive two tunes in one sitting. One has the working title of Gravity and the other is called Residual Butler. Residual Butler can be downloaded here. Godspeed!
By Bro. Jo Stern, on March 20th, 2009
This is Eastern-European death-squat rapper ‘Soilface’, who has recently made remarks to the press, questioning the origins of the name Foilface.
The cult non-entity claims to have spent an evening in a Manchester strip club with key members of the uk music collective, where he shared the genius of his plan to take the music scene by storm, using a proven demographic formula based around a band name ending in ‘oilface’. He is also accusing Foilface of stealing his lyrics for their tune Sad House.
Recent music by Soilface is currently only available in his bedroom, but his mother has substantiated the claim and was reported as saying: “I bleedin’ wanna twat that Foilface. I’m takin’ ‘em to court and stuff.”
The saga continues.
By Bro. Jo Stern, on February 24th, 2009
Click here to get free tunes. It’s that easy, and it’s totally legal, so go get them!
By Bro. Jo Stern, on February 14th, 2009
The evolution of music via genre re-generation fascinates me. I often find myself slightly aroused when I come across yet another saucy looking Portmantau such as metal-gaze, shoe-core, dark-step or even clown-step. The language is an entire study in itself, I find myself researching sub-genres of sub-genres without meaning to, and even more worryingly, I find myself dropping these labels into everyday conversation with people who have no idea what the foilface I’m going on about.
My current highlights of the sub-genre-naming movement are directly linked to manchesters very own foilface – get a load of these tags, 21st century slacker-rock, psychedelicly-twisted-mexican-seaside-mini-prog. (I would recommend you take a look at some foilface if you can answer “fuck yeah!” to any two or more of the bullet points below).
I recently focused on the majestic genre of post-rock, not post-metal or post-post-hardcore – just good old fashioned post-rock. Now from the reaction I’ve had from most friends outside the music-creation circuit you’d think this genre hadn’t been invented yet, worse still there are people that can’t even seem to remember anything about it hours after a basic explanation – “post-whatyacallit?, is that like pole dancing musics?”
I’m going to start laying down some rules as to how much attention I think the general public should be paying to the rich crusty underside of popular culture. Here’s a couple off the top of my head.
- All members of society must be able to name TEN recognised musical genres not including – pop, rock, folk, blues, punk and reggae. (There is to be no cheating by scrolling through your iPod)
- All members of society will only have a chance to listen to, and digest, any one single piece of music up to a maximum of TEN times, after that you will be expected to move on.
- Christmas songs are abolished – see rule 2
- Sky Sports are to create an entire industry based on the hunting down of, then the slow and deliberate stabbing of, Simon Cowell through the heart with a pair of rusty barbecue tongs covered in AIDS. (Gillette Super Disembowel-Cowel Sunday)
I’ve just purchased tickets to see yet another live instrumental guitar combo, this time it’s Japan’s Mono. I’ll be at the London show on the 26th of March. It’s the day before my birthday and I’ll be in my instrumental revery, secretly inventing three new sub-genres for each song they play, bliss.
By Bro. Jo Stern, on February 13th, 2009
Okay, just for a minute I need to stop banging on about the amazing, awesome free MP3 downloads of new recent music by Foilface. Did we mention Foilface?
This week, I have mostly been listening to some sonic mind treats in the form of Tokyo2005‘s new free uk music downloads. If you don’t listen to anything else this week, then definitely listen to these fine new UK sounds. Tokyo2005 is the sort of emotionally engaging music that will lift your soul and make you think you can do stuff that you clearly can’t, but will enjoy believing that you can for a few dreamy moments of ‘mind MTV’.
There.
So anyway, there’s this ace new Manchester band called Foilface, right, and…
