Poptart made a little comeback at Fred Perry’s 4th Subculture last Thursday 18 August at Zouk, and what a night it was!
Poptart is proud to be one of the featured acts at the upcoming Fred Perry Subculture event on 18 August at Zouk.
Together with some of the local luminaries The Pinholes, Cheating Sons and Vanessa Fernandez, this party is set to turn on some serious burn. Wear your tips proud, and join us in a celebration of one of Britain’s most iconic brands in another night of headbang and sweaty goodness.
EVEN IN DREAMS
SAT 23 APR 2011
FASH, The Butter Factory
with DJs WEELIKEME, JAH & JINMART
Love, cardio, leaps, head banging, screams, and more love, that’s what Poptart is all about: a night of party-or-die attitude, a bottomless pit of energy and a heart filled with all the candy you ever imagined.
Poptart BFFs weelikeme, Jah & Jinmart, will bring you a selection of the sweetest indie, alt rock, punk, grunge, power pop, electro, remixes and guilty pleasures.
Bring your smiles, your hearts and you souls and join us in the ride of your life!
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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)
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Having formed in 2003, the cross-continent duo, Alison Mosshart and James Hince are back with their 4th studio album, Blood Pressures. IMHO, the band only hit the “mainstream” gold with Midnight Boom – a couple of songs found their way into commercials, movies and teen American T.V. shows such as Gossip Girl and 90210. ’Cheap and Cheerful‘, ‘U.R.A. Fever‘ and ‘Tape Song‘ were the outstanding ones.
Their sound is best described as minimalist garage rock revival or art rock, and with The White Stripes now retired, the Kills are left to fly the flag, probably alongside B.R.M.C. and Y.Y.Y’s .
We hope that you do not expect Blood Pressures to have that immediate punchy effect as Midnight Boom – it does not. Apart from ‘Satellite’ and ‘Heart is a Beating Drum’, most of the other songs are a tad bit slower, grungier and bluesier. Not to discount Blood Pressures, the album has it merits, of course. The songs on Blood Pressures are definitely more intimate, and closer to their hearts. I mean, what’s the point of making an album that sounds like the last 3? Not unless you’re the teenage fanclub. LOL.
Jokes aside, take a look at ‘The Last Goodbye’ – a piano driven track, accompanied by Mosshart’s earnest vocals and a string section. This is the stand-out song of the album, most definitely un-Kills-like, but absolutely brilliant and heart-wrenching.
“Can’t quite see the end
How can I rely on my heart if I break it with my own two hands?
I heard all you said and I love you to death
I heard all you said don’t say anything”
If this isn’t close to the heart, I don’t know what is.
We like Future Starts Slow, Pots and Pans, Heart is a Beating Drum, Nail in my Coffin.
Good for: Drinking Beer to, in a dingy, dirty pub.
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Get it right, it’s McVeigh and not Potter we are talking about here. Ritual as a sophomore album proves that White Lies are more than just a Joy Division tribute band. Ironically enough, McVeigh cited the Talking Heads as an influence, rather than Joy Division. He said, “we weren’t alive during that period of music…” Or so he says. Honestly, one doesn’t need to be alive during any particular period to be influenced by that period’s music, right?
In Ritual, the band has ventured into a slightly more electronic sound, on top of their usual brand of rock. And when i first heard it, these bands came into mind: Depeche Mode and the Smashing Pumpkins (during the Machina era), so what’s the lowest common multiple here? Alan Moulder and Electronic sounds/beats/textures on top of their usual modus operandi.
Coincidently enough, he (Alan Moulder also co-produced Ritual) worked with Yeah Yeah Yeahs on their It’s Blitz! LP as well, when they decided to swap their distortion amps for electronic sounds.
Ritual, took me more than a few listens to fully appreciate the album. Not all the songs are as catchy as To Lose My Life’s – a sign that they don’t have to impress anyone anymore, perhaps? Some tracks do get a little draggy, but the few gems we here at Poptart love, make this album still somewhat worth the time. We recommend listening to Holy Ghost, Strangers and Bigger Than Us (the first single from the album). A decent try, but White Lies should stay loud, euphoric and uplifting.
Good for: Wearing black to.
