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Now Staten Island may not be enormously noted for it’s indie rock output, but these guys could be about to set that balance right. Coming on like a post rock Pavement, the minute their ep, …..’and The Hazy Sea’ hit our desks we were just gagging to check them out live. All on your behalf of course.

As you’ll see from this week’s episode of Flyposter, we were not disappointed. So much energy, a masterful use of the loud/soft dynamic and a great line in obscure musical references, these guys were one of our favourite ever interviewees, their soundcheck was awesome and the gig on the night ROCKED. Go find out for yourself – if Pitchfork are saying they’re one of the best new bands of 2009, we second that!

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Ok, so we Brits are well known for making mountains out of death molehills (still mortified on behalf of my fellow countrymen’s ridiculous panto grief at Diana), and we do so love a conspiracy theory (read any front page of The Daily Express newspaper and you’d be forgiven for believing that Lady Di was offed by a combo of Arabs and paps / isn’t dead at  all but living in bliss with Dodi on a private island anchored to Elvis’ backlot), but the Jacko mania sweeping LA at the mo is threatening to put our paltry grey attempts at sensationalism deeper in the shade than Heather Mills’s career.

Having been in LA for over a week, and actually being moments away from UCLA on the day he was admitted, I’ve been more than well placed to witness the emerging theories and mongering at source.

OK, the dude was already on his last legs – did you see the nick of him at the online conference to announce his UK dates? Why can’t you accept that he was jiggered, knackered, riddled with drugs and absolutely beat by the relentless treadmill of his life and treatment by the very same clowns who are now filling our screens 24/7 with their simpering obits and fawning appraisals.

So ‘devastated’ are these news channels, that they’ve resorted to creating ridiculous theories about his final hours, hounding the poor doctor who was with him at the time of death and trotting out sorry assed career losers claiming to have the inside track on Jacko’s state of mind before his departure.

Can anyone explain why we need to hear Miley Cyrus’s thoughts on his passing? Why the promoters from the UK concerts could possible be interested in offing him? Why Kendra and her new reality show are allowed to have an opinion? And why there seem to have been 24 hour Jacko channels set up to ‘honour’  his name and shift advertising.

The man had a dodgy end to his career, but is that really a good enough reason to profit by association after he’s gone?  The view from where I’m sat in LA is not celebratory, but maudlin and tawdry. Let him rest in peace and MOVE ON guys…….

oh – and bets are open on how long liz taylor will stick around now….. nice.

After a truly stonking, and epic 2 1/2 hour performance at Glastonbury this weekend, the band resume their European tour. The Glastonbury festival was unbeleivably the bands first UK performance ever! Bruce quoted the late Joe Strummer to open the show, with an acoustic version of ‘coma girl’-

I was crawling through the festival way out west

I was thinking about love and the acid test

but first i got real dizzy with the real rockin’ gang

then i saw the coma girl, and the excitment gang.

Nice. Joe’s documented as being a Springsteen fan.

Bruce and the E Street Band frollicked through classics Badlands, Prove It All Night, Because The Night, No Surrender(with Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem), Promised Land, Born to Run, how we wish we were there!

Ah, it’s that time of year again – the smug/rain/commerco-fest that is the Glastonbury festival.

Celebrated by the inspid chunterings of jobsworth journos validating their freebies whilst jobbing bands phone in, on the whole, sub standard performances to whacked out goons in jester hats.

It seems that every cretin who can string a sentence together, and some who clearly can’t are now on the Glasto freebie bandwagon. Including what seems like the whole of the BBC. Surely a better use of our licence fee would be to take all the tickets wasted on the staff ‘working’ there and give them to the poor sods sat at home unable to afford a ticket, or locked out due to over distribution of said free tickets to all the journalists ‘working’ there clogging up the site to capacity.

Gill Meets the Emily Haines and James Shaw from Metric. They were hanging around the Electric Ballroom, waiting to set up for a show.Metric formed in 1998 in New York City.

Their first album ‘Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?’ earnt them a Juno award nomination for Best Alternative Album. If you’re playing the album and think they sound familiar but you know know why- ‘Monster Hospital’, ‘Police and the Private’ and ‘Front Row’ were all featured on television show ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ and CSI: Miami.They currently have a new album out called ‘Fantasies’.

The band are currently touring the US and Canada at a variety of music festivals. They’re playing Washington tonight, Philapelphia and Toronto, returning to London on the 26th June for Hard Rock Calling, and then Glastonbury on the 27th! Find out about other bands featuring at Glastonbury this year! www.flypostershow.com

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After 9 years in the wilderness, Damon Albarn’s cult brit band Blur, have begun their comeback with an intimate gig at the East Anglican Railway Museum- where they first started back in 1988. The perormance to just 150 people marks the beginning of a tour that will see the pop heroes play at T in the Park, Glastonbury and Hyde Park this summer.

The audience was made up of friends, family and some lucky competition winners, who packed into the venue, surrounded by the station memorabilia.

The band will be releasing ‘Midlife, a beginners guide to Blur‘ on the 15th of June, a compilation album that spans the breadth of their career- and including anticipated ‘Popscene’, a single making its first appearance.

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Magic Arm, the multi instrumentalist, Marc Rigelsford, releases the eagerly awaited new album ‘Widths and Heights’.

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so, in the last couple of weeks we’ve grabbed chats with Canadian wunderkinds Metric and Manchester based Magic Arm. Two very different artists, but both with a spangly future laid out in front of them, and both delivering great live performances for us.

First up Magic Arm filled me in on his laptop folktronica, he’s been described as a loop pedal troubadour, and when you check his live set in the show you’ll see what they mean. He’s got a new album, Make Lists Do Something and sits nicely alongside artists such as Adem or even Beck.

Then i swanned along to the Electric Ballroom in Camden and hooked up with Metric. great folk, whose runaway surprise hit, Help! I’m Alive has been setting blogs and radio alight for the past few months. They were charming, and delivered a wonderful outdoor acoustic rendition of a track from their new album, Fantasies.