Friday Roundup

Starting something new today. Every Friday, I'll be posting a few links of cool things from the week for you to check out over the weekend. Sometimes there'll be a lot of them, sometimes only 1 or 2. Let me know what you think:

• Great interview with Thomas Lennon, Ken Marino and Kerri Kenney-Silver of The State on The Sound of Young America. link
• iZotope has released a new iDrum "8-Bit Drum Machine" app for the iPhone. I may now have to make an iPhone Beats, Vol. 2 EP. link
• Gary Numan interviews Ultravox's John Foxx over at Drowned In Sound. link
• Download the new GCS/MOB release Dirty Pretty Ugly Shit for free right here
• And some very wtf-worthy eye candy for you....(You)genious: The Misfit of R&B's video for "Sex On A Spoon". Not entirely sure what to make of this. link

Visage - "The Anvil"

visage - "the anvil" (download)

I discovered this record in the dollar bin a few years back. I picked it up based on the cover art. It just looked dark and new wavey, so I had to try it out. I put it on the turntable when I got home and lo and behold, it WAS dark and new wavey. I fell in love with this song, and did a bit of research on them. Turns out, Visage has consisted off and on of members of Ultravox (one of my favorites), Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and more. This album also reached #6 on the UK charts when it was released in 1982. It's always great when you can find out something new and amazing while digging for records. I haven't done it for quite some time, but I think I'm going to start again.

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