EVERYTHING I’LL EVER BE I’VE BEEN
POPTART
SAT 20 Mar 2010
FASH, The Butter Factory
with DJs WEELIKEME & JAH

How’s your year been so far?

We can’t wait to share with you our huge goodie bags of indie, alternative rock, punk, grunge, power pop, electro & some awesome remixes, with weelikeme & Jah, who will once again dish out our selection of dancefloor slammers! (note: Jinmart is celebrating his birthday, we all wish him a good drunken one!)

Let’s rock the joint hard folks!

The Butter Factory is located at:
One Fullerton
1 Fullerton Road,
#02-02/03/04
Singapore 049213

ENTRY TO FASH:
riot grrls - $21 , rocker boys - $26 (includes 2 standard drinks)

Please fill the form below for guestlist invites to the party. All successful popsluts will receive a confirmation email.

cforms contact form by delicious:days

Right. Am not gonna name every letter for you but here are the important ones that every ASH fan should know.

A is for A Lifeless Ordinary

G is for Girl From Mars

J is Jackie Chan

K is Kungfu

N is for Northern Ireland

S is Starwars

Rather than fighting it, Tim Wheeler and his storm troopers has embraced the way the internet revolution has come about and how inherently it has changed the music industry.

I quote,“The way people listen to music has changed, with the advent of the download the emphasis has reverted to single tracks. It hasn’t helped that most people have forgotten how to make a decent album. I’m constantly disappointed with records I buy,” unquote.

IMHO, Ash has been guilty of their own words: forgotten how to make a decent album. Ever since 1977, the subsequent albums the band has produced have been substandard. Notwithstanding the  one or two songs of course (Jesus Says from Nu clear sounds, Shining light from Free all angels, Starcrossed from Meltdown and Polaris from Twilight of the innocents).

It’s things like these that make you just want to buy the “best of” instead.

Hence the band decided to ‘go with the flow’ and release 26 single-format songs aptly titled, A-Z series, which started in October 2009, right through until the end of this year. Ash kicked off with “Return of White Rabbit”- a mix of klaxons/bravery. Although a mixed reception was received, RWR is definitely good enough for me.

It’s evident that ASH are venturing into the electronic side of things;not surprising in this day and age. The next single (which is also the first radio single of the series), True Love 1980, definitely marks the return of a band that has come a long way since the early 90s. Catchy hooks and brilliant sing-a-long choruses are the hallmarks  of great ASH songs. This is one of them.

True love 1980

True love 1980 (Timothy Allen remix)

2nd radio single, SPACE SHOT

IN A FINE TIME, TAKE THE TIME TO FIND ME
POPTART
SAT 6 Feb 2010
FASH, The Butter Factory
with DJs WEELIKEME, JAH & JINMART

Howdy ho 2010! Poptart returns after a short break to bring in our first of 2010.

With a fresh bucket of  indie, alternative rock, punk, grunge, power pop, electro & some awesome remixes, the familiar trio of weelikeme, Jah & Jinmart will once again dish out our selection of dancefloor candy and tomorrow’s favourites.

Let’s make 2010 as memorable as the previous year, starting from this night!

The Butter Factory is located at:
One Fullerton
1 Fullerton Road,
#02-02/03/04
Singapore 049213

ENTRY TO FASH:

riot grrls - $21 , rocker boys - $26 (includes 2 standard drinks)

Hi there! we have another pair of tickets to give away, this time to Echo & The Bunnymen’s concert on Mon 8 Feb at The Esplanade, thanks to Chugg Entertainment.

As usual, all you need to do is fill in the form below and answer a simple question: Name the titles of 3 albums released by Echo & The Bunnymen.

Contest ends on 1 Feb 2010. Winners will be notified by email. Good Luck!

*all winners have been contacted. congratulations!

GET YOUR ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN TICKETS HERE

MYSPACE: ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN

Hello! Florence And The Machine, supported by The XX, will be performing at The Esplanade on Sun 7 Feb. This is a double-bill gig not to be missed.

Thanks to Chugg Entertainment & Universal Music Singapore, we have one pair of tickets & two copies of their CD to give away for this event. All you need to do is answer the simple question in the form below: Name 3 songs from Florence and The Machine’s debut album Lungs.

Contest ends on 1 Feb 2010. Winners will be notified by email. Good Luck!

*the winners have been contacted. congratulations!

GET YOUR FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE TICKETS HERE

MYSPACE: FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

MYSPACE: THE XX

First of all, a happy new year to all out there.

Apologies for the belated one and the lack of music recommendations for the past few months. 2009’s just ended and I am sure each and everyone of you would have had your top ten indie albums for the year all decided by now. So I was having a chat with Mark (who is as picky as pitchfork when it comes to music) and comparing our fav albums for 2009 just before the brilliant Yeah Yeah Yeah concert on Tuesday night. Right up there we had The Girls, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The XX, Animal Collective and Phoenix (this where our opinion differed, haha). He then brought up one more band in his top ten: The Big Pink.

“The Big Pink?” I exclaimed.

Ironically the band consisted of 2 straight men (no, I have nothing against our friends with alternative lifestyles) from London. Signed to 4AD (Blonde Redhead, Bon Iver, The Breeders,Camera Obscura, TV on the Radio), The Big Pink won the prestigious NME Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act. Previous winners include: Glasvegas (2008), The Long Blondes (2006) and Kaiser Chiefs (2005).

TBP sounds shoegazed married with electronic beats, hence the genre, nu-gaze. So if you’re looking for something to slit your wrists to, this might work. Try the song “Love in Vain”. “Tonight” starts off sounding like a La Roux track but Robbie and Milo’s vocals and random noise distortion changes the overall tone (remember, they’re shoegaze meets electronic). Still no clue? Imagine JAMC with more noise and electronic beats.

Listen to our recommended tracks on their myspace site: “Velvet” (best track of the album for me), “Count Backwards From Ten”, and “A Brief History of Love”.

7.9 pinks out of ten from me.

Check out Big Pink’s cover of The Cure’s lovesong —>here

peace,

wee

ALL YOU TOUCH AND ALL YOU SEE, IS ALL YOUR LIFE WILL EVER BE
POPTART
SAT 19 Dec 2009
FASH, The Butter Factory
with DJs WEELIKEME, JAH & JINMART

As we draw close to the end of an amazing year, all of us at Poptart would like to thank you for all the wonderful memories we had over the past few months, and all of you who have been with us during our five-year reign.

So here we are, in the final weeks of the year, looking back at fond memories, and looking forward to another year of great music, sweaty dancefloors, poptarty love, and some big surprises.

Thank you and don’t forget to join the party this month to celebrate the last awesomeness of 2009!