I think I love music again. These guys tore up The Social last night. Dress (and play) like Angus Young, sound like a sleazy Plastic Betrand.  And they covered Link Wray. Love.

They were the middle band on, slightly misfit between a lovely lady with a harp (Georgia Ruth) and Dutch chamberpop from Jacco Gardner.  Being Huw Stephens’ night, it was nevertheless a quality mixed bag of an evening, and there were plenty of music industry types in attendance for the Mings’ set (spotted: Lammo, an NME hack, and a concert booking agent or two).  I suspect we’ll be hearing more from these very soon.

They uploaded their video for “Hold Me Fast” to YouTube a few days ago, and it’s kind of made me want to be their best friend now.  If you’d like to indirectly help this goal become a reality, go donate to their Kickstarter campaign here, which is in aid of recording and touring their next release.  Of course the tour will include London, won’t it?

Dick Dale – Mr. Eliminator

Here’s what we know about Conner:

He’s from Texas.  And you don’t mess with Texas.

He likes Bon Iver and Bob Dylan.

He’s pretty darn smart, in a book fashion.  (He went to Yale University.)

This tune is not a fluke.  (You can get a whole EP from his facebook page and find this out for yourself.)

According to his twitter profile, he eats farts for a living.  Which, if he’s still a college student, may very well be true.

Brighton-based, Swedish-fronted and signed to the Canadian label responsible for Death From Above 1979 (these days), Chromeo, and Crystal Castles.  There’s more than a bit of the Andy Warhol Factory influence in their visuals, and the sounds match.  LOVE.

They’re playing at Electrowerkz in Angel next Wednesday June 13th.

And the video:

Banner week in FOTL world. Behold Andy Falkous’s rant against a typically euphuistic and error-filled Pitchfork review (best line: tie between “if it is truly amongst the worst songs of the year then I am a giant bat and Pitchfork a cave into which I will shit golden effigies of your face” and “…well, there’s a penguin on it, you stupid c*nt.”).  This is quickly followed by an exclusive and bizarre trailer in which Falco and Jimmy Watkins premiere snippets of the album “The Plot Against Common Sense”, along with exclusive “new tracks” from Smashing Pumpkins, Gruff Rhys and Danzig.

Dr Who Theme [mp3]

What better excuse than to post a few more swingin’ and stylish tunes?  We’ll be DJing from about noon, inbetween the cakes, Crabbie’s and the clothes…  Full details here and some tunes after the jump.

If you can’t get enough of that horn riff from “Hold On I’m Comin’”, this bit of New Orleans R&B should do nicely:

Former James Brown Revue and Johnny & Otis Show backing singer Sugar Pie DeSanto (Umpeylia Marsema Balinton to her mom) is probably best known for “In The Basement”, her duet with Etta James, but she’s got plenty of killer tracks of her own.  Unbelievably, Chess let her go after Go Go Power failed to chart.

Sugar Pie DeSanto – Slip-In Mules

Sugar Pie DeSanto – Soulful Dress

Americans of a certain age will remember this one as the soundtrack to a terminally-annoying ad for a depilatory:

This gun’ll kill ya, it’s loaded with fun…

The Cramps – Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

The Bikinis – Crazy Vibrations

Fat Cat is no stranger to the scuzz, having given us the Awesome-Squared Odonis Odonis at the end of last year.  The parade of excellence continues with Milk Maid.  From their album ‘Mostly No’, out on July 9th.

I admit to being somewhat skeptical of Broken Hands when I turned up to see them at an A&R-packed show at the Bull and Gate several months ago.  Being on the young side, they literally wore their influences (Britpop) on their sleeves (and haircuts).  My internal chants of “pleasedon’tbelikeBrother pleasedon’tbelikeBrother pleasedon’tbelikeBrother” were cut violently short at the first chord.  Dudes can play. I expected (feared) a dirtier Oasis or Libertines, and got a psychedelic cocktail of  Tame Impala and The Stooges. If You Need To Lie is their second single, independently released on 7″ vinyl and download on May 28th.

Pepe Deluxe have been motoring for years, but they still manage to stay on the right side of kitsch. Go Supersonic is a fizzy J-pop-esque gem.

Stepping away from the 60s for a moment, I’ve pilfered this one from The Quietus’s Soundcloud feed – Gazelle Twin’s Changelings is given a dreamy electro-noire treatment by John Foxx and the Maths.