Very excited about the new album from Crystal Fighters. You can pre-order it HERE. Full release on May 27th
Monthly Archives: March 2013
+Download+ Greg Wilsons Early 80’s Floorfillers.
Producer/DJ Greg Wilson is releasing a monthly podcast, highlighting the biggest tunes on the scene in 1983, thirty years on from when he used to play them out. You’d have heard this at Wigan Pier, The Exit and Legend in Manchester, probably whilst wearing especially tight crotched trousers.
Heavy on the 808 these tunes were a massive influence on pioneers like Arthur Baker and Shep Pettibone, going on to kick start the Detroit techno scene. The podcasts feature artists like David Joseph, Class Action, Pure Energy, Jazzy Dee and Kashif and with each running at over one hour, blessed with Greg Wilson’s dulcet tones, they’re an absolute must. Music ed.
House of Love Radio Session with Tom Robinson 23/03/2013
House of Loves new album She Paints Words in Red is released on 1st April. They performed a radio session with Tom Robinson on Radio 6 the other day and played three new tunes off the album, ‘Low Black Clouds’, ‘Lost In The Blues’ and ‘Never Again’.
Dog Blood Live @Ultra Music Festival 2013
Skrillex and Boys Noize teamed up last year to form Dog Blood, with the release of ‘New Order/Middle Finger’ back in August. They’ve been working on new stuff since then, some of which is previewed in this tasty mix, recorded at the Ultra Music festival 2013
+Listen+ Alex Metric & Mark Yardley – Ilium
Bomb bomb dee bomb from Alex Metric and Stanton Warriors Mark Yardley. ‘Ilium’ is taken from Ammunition 3 released on April 2nd.
Alex Metric & Mark Yardley – Ilium
Suspended
Went on Twitter the other day to see these dread words – ‘Your account (@SqueakySneaker) is currently suspended. For more information, please visit Suspended Accounts’.
My first reaction was ‘what the fuck? What did I do?’ and that initial reaction still persists, forty eight frustrating hours later. I’m still suspended and I still haven’t got a clue as to what I did to get suspended in the first place.
I clicked on the Suspended Accounts link and was asked to fill in a suspension appeal ticket. Filled out the required fields and submitted the ticket. I waited. About three hours later I got a response from Twitter telling me that their automated spam detectors had mistaken me for a spam account and suspended my account. The Zen Desk message assured me that my account had been reactivated and the suspension had been lifted. Yahoo!
Except when I signed back in, my account was still suspended, no followers, no following and all tweets in my timeline had gone. I phoned a mate and asked him to check my account and he confirmed that the account was showing suspended. I’d disappeared from his lists of followers. Gone entirely. No trace of me was left.
Back to the Suspended Account link, to submit another ticket. I’d Googled about a bit by this point and people were suggesting that 3 appeal tickets was the acceptable limit and to make your message to Twitter polite, in case you ‘pissed them off’. Fair enough, i thought at first, no harm in being polite.
I thought about it again, about twenty four hours later. There had been no response to my second ticket and the fact that I couldn’t get on Twitter was starting to bother me. Understand that my initial addiction to Twitter has faded somewhat, since I first joined four years ago, but I still like to get on there a couple of times a day, to see what’s going on. I post directly from this blog to my timeline and I’ve managed to build a relationship with some bands, DJs and promoters on there. Twitter is, sad as it may seem, quite an important part of what I do. Now all that’s potentially ruined, because of Twitters algorithms and their indiscriminate suspension policy. Not to mention their shit customer service.
I understand that there are a lot of people on Twitter, it must be an absolute bitch to run. Spam is a massive problem on there and I appreciate the sites admins efforts to eliminate it. But I’m not the only person who has had their account suspended for no reason. In my Google travels I found hundreds of people that had experienced the same thing. The over riding sentiment seemed to be ‘fair enough, these things happen’ followed a period of time later by a more frank ‘yeah this happened, but why the fuck have you still not done anything about it?’ The frustration at submitting ticket after ticket, for weeks, with the same automated response, or no response at all, was quite literally driving some people to CAPS MADNESS. Some accounts were never reactivated, which I’ve got to admit worries the hell out of me and the feeling seemed to be there’s nothing you can do about it. Twitter is free after all, what do you want, compensation?
Twitter is a free service, they owe us nothing, but I can’t think of any other service, anywhere, that can randomly withdraw that service, with no explanation and no proper way to appeal and complain. If you don’t word your appeal request right, or submit too many tickets you may ‘piss them off’ and not get the account profile you’ve worked for a long time to build back at all. You type ‘complain about Twitter’ into your search engine and you will find zero relevant results. You don’t do it. There is no way to complain about Twitter, except maybe on Twitter. You submit another ticket and you sit and wait. Good luck. You could be waiting a long time. Weird way to run a fucking business.
Primal Scream – It’s Alright, It’s Ok
If you’d like to start a campaign to get me reinstated on Twitter, tweet @support and tell them to stop mucking about.
+Watch+ Dog Is Dead – Do The Right Thing
Dog is dead are releasing ‘Teenage Daughter/Do The Right Thing’ as a limited edition, numbered 7″ single for Record Store day on April 20th. Lead singer Rob says –
“It would be a shame for these two singles to only be available as faceless downloads with no art or collectability, so we’re really excited to give people the chance to get a very limited physical copy of two of our favourite songs off our debut album for Record Store Day.’
After supporting TDCC across Europe the band are kicking off their own UK tour in mid April. Tickets are still available, but you better get moving on them. Dates below –
18-Apr Norwich Arts Centre
19-Apr Stoke Sugarmill
20-Apr Hull Fruit
21-Apr Manchester Sound Control
22-Apr Glasgow King Tuts
24-Apr London Koko
25-Apr Oxford Academy 2
26-Apr Gloucester Guildhall
27-Apr Preston 53 Degrees
29-Apr Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
30-Apr Cardiff The Globe
01-May Coventry Kasbah
02-May Sheffield Queens Social
03-May Nottingham Rock City
Buy tickets here
+Watch+ Night Engine – Young And Carefree
Second single from Night Engine, with a video that either speaks of budget constraints, or is a claustrophobic master piece. ‘Young And Carefree’ is part of a double single release with ‘Give Me A Chance’ and is released on Demand Vinyl May 27th. The band are playing a headline show at XOYO London on the 30th May, with various festival appearances through the year.
The Luka State – Matter of Time
The Luka State are Conrad, Sam and Jess. They’re 21 and have been together as a band since they were 12. In their previous incarnation The Targets they played alongside The Subways, The Sounds and Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, to name the notables. They’ve already toured America four times and they’ve been working ‘secretly’ with Sam Williams, producer with Supergrass, Plan B and the Go!Team, on their debut album. They’ll be releasing the first single ‘Matter of Time’ this spring (if spring ever arrives), along with ’30 Minute Break’. You can have a listen below and keep an eye open for more, ’cause these are going to be big.
The Luka State – Matter of Time
The Luka State – 30 Minute Break
+Download+ Cassian Spring Tour of Americas mix
Cassian Spring tour of Americas mix
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