DOMENIQUE DUMONT
Sometimes I listen to songs and just sort of gaze off into the distance, wondering how they were made. Un Jour Avec Yusef is one of those songs. I’m almost certain that it was a lot more simple to...
View ArticleRUSANGANO FAMILY
Can you imagine how hard it is to convince a bunch of 19 year olds to jump up and down to songs they’ve never heard before, in a style they’ve never really considered feasible? In one way, I don’t...
View ArticleYOUTHLESS – Attention
How wonderful is it to have Youthless back in our lives? Answer: very wonderful, and frankly, it’s all that they deserve. Youthless were ANBAD’s band of the year in 2010, after the duo won me over...
View ArticleSTRAW BEAR – All You Need Is An Electric Guitar
Just like the recently rejuvenated Youthless, Straw Bear are a band for whom a slight return is actually a doubling-down of their brilliant abilities, and confirmation of their rare talent. In many...
View ArticleRUSANGANO FAMILY – Heathrow
I’m fairly sure there are very few Irish, Togolese and Zimbabwean trios making music today, and while there’s a lot more to Rusangano Family than their nationalities, it sure is a fascinating starting...
View ArticleYOUTHLESS – This Glorious No Age
ANBAD has always run the risk of veering into fan-club territory when it comes to Youthless, the purveyors of kaleidoscopic outlier-pop who I first met in 2010 and have championed like an...
View ArticleHAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS?
Can we talk about this band name for a second? Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? is the best band name I have heard for aeons. Everyone I mention it to loves it. It’s marketing genius:...
View ArticleRIP LOUIS BARABBAS & THE THE BEDLAM SIX
Image © Steve Hall 2014 Today, long-standing Friends of ANBAD, Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam Six announced that they were done. The band is no more, save a couple of farewell gigs, which will be great,...
View ArticlePICTORIAL CANDI
Part of what makes Pictorial Candi’s music so enjoyable is that is sounds thin. Not in a reedy, weak way – thin in a lithe, wiggling, warm way, like a trickle of hot water from a copper tap. fOREVER...
View ArticleA New Band A Day 2008-2018
Welcome to ANBAD, which is celebrating ten years online in April 2018, and is now “resting.” (I’m still jabbering on about new bands like, oh, I dunno, The Chats, on Twitter.) However, ANBAD also has...
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