Aesecakes

I couldn't believe that there's only been one MBV track posted here, so here's another from the seminal album, Loveless.

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Photo by Dimitris Legakis via The Guardian — Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art

It is summer here in Australia and it’s quite common to do this type of food at this time of year. What we refer to as a barbecue is what many would call a grill. And no, we don’t call them shrimp. Whatever you choose to call them, it was all delicious.

Description, clockwise from bottom:

• Pork and fennel sausages with Argentinian chimichurri
• Australian banana prawns
• Corn on the cob (boiled and finished on the grill)
• Halloumi, onion, red and green capsicum (pepper) and mushroom skewers
• Potato salad

A Melbourne band, who seem to have been around for a couple of years, that have just come to my attention. I think this is a pretty fun track. I will keep an eye out for their gigs!

As an aside, I really wish bands would choose a name that hasn't been used by 27 megajillion other bands and/or isn't some particularly everyday word that makes it really hard to find out about them. Here is their Bandcamp page.

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A great track from their debut album Emmerdale. I could listen to Nina Persson sing the phone book. There are 2 version of this video. I think this one is more interesting.

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This plant that is endemic to SE continental Australia, was named by Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, the first director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Melbourne. The genus Banksia is named after Joseph Banks, a naturalist who was on Cook’s first Pacific voyage in the 1770s. Its binomial name is b.ornata.

For anyone who plays Wingspan, the board game, this is one of the types of plant that the nectar food source comes from.

LA’s Tennis System borrowed the DeLorean and traveled back to 1990 from 2018 for this track.

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As an outlier in a largely British scene, it's said that Boston shoegazers, Drop Nineteens, were more popular in Europe than in their homeland.

Winona is from the 1992 debut album Delaware. A second album being released in 1993. Apparently, their third is coming out in November. I had a listen to the available track on Bandcamp and it's quite good!

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The 5.6.7.8's released this cover version of a 1959 track, first performed by the Rock-A-Teens, on the Bomb the Twist EP.

Most of us, including me, know it from Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

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I once sub-let some rooms to a couple of Swedes who were around the same age as me and were studying at a local university for the year. This led me to joining in on a lot of the uni's Scandinavian Society "activities". It was a really great year!

A Norwegian guy I befriended, handed me a couple of "Turboneger" CDs. I was slightly concerned at first, but then I deciphered the Norwegian humour and really got into it.

Fast forward 3-4 years, and I found myself in the front row at a couple of Turbonegro gigs, high-fiving the sweaty, sweaty leather glove of former lead singer, "Hank von Helvete" (RIP) and marveling at the licks of lead guitarist "Euroboy", both seen in this vid of a set at a German music festival. Fun times.

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I must rewatch this.

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Posting this Descartes a Kant song led me down a rabbit hole to Polysics, from Japan. Despite being around since 1997, I have never heard of them before…which is such a great thing about music discovery. Posted this track because it's a cool video and has certain similarities to the DAK video.

I can really hear links to lots of other guitar/electronic groups out there. What influences and similarities to other bands do you hear?

I might stick around in Japan for a while and post some more tracks from bands I know.