watch these videos...k bye.

catchy!

the kooks sound a lil like hot hot heat. Good stuff.

Oh, The Kooks are not a band to watch this year. They're a band to remember how good their first album was and how really disappointing Konk is. But if you haven't given Inside Out / Inside In a good listen, you definitely should. I believe it was the best-selling record of 2006 in the UK.

the Morning Benders sounds good and young,hehe, The Kooks are making noise in Asia as well, cuz there vidz keep on pop'n here

Yeah. I agree. America is slow on the uptake though. They need a bit of help to finally get back to Inside out

The Kooks are massive in the uk. I think they are OK.

@ wotto, they are not my favorite band, for sure, however, they do have a lot of potential I think, to gain momentum in the US.

lol @ Kooks!

Avoid!!!!

I dislike the Kooks new album.



ANYWAY, martiandrivein, what are the name of those things in your profile picture, i wanna buy some perhaps maybe.

hahaha @ phones. They must be really big over there.

They are called Munnys. They are from Kidrobot. You can get them at Urban Outfitters or Kidrobot.com or myplasticheart.com.

Hahaha, who's yelling at them? That is a great video.

Not me unfortunatley. The band are really local to me, some of my friends even attend the same music college as them.

My problem with them is they're nothing new, they're just joining the bandwagon of generic Brit indie bands, they'll soon be replaced when another clone band pops up.

did you say the mummies?

@ Sir Huzzah, that's totally cool. Like I said, they're not my favs, but they have a really good promotional group over here, and I think that'll get em big over here.

I completely agree, because I live in the UK it's easy to come across these types of bands all the time, whereas only the really successful ones usually make it in the US.

I guess the reverse could be said aswell, I presume there are hundreds of bands like paramore in the US, but only paramore have been sucessful over here recently.

I do like Brit indie bands for their occasional catchy songs and have nothing against their fans, just I don't see the point in being a major fan, as they'll soon be replaced. The one band that does stand out to me however is probably the Arctic Monkeys, I think they've got abit more kick, and they're songs are of consistent quality.

Arctic monkeys are cool. Bloc Party is cool. I miss Test Icicles quite a bit.

Yeah Bloc Party are good, I dunno if it's available in the US, but they released a Silent Alarm Remixed album, which is pretty good.

The Foals and The Wombats seem to be really popular here at the moment, is there the same hype in the US?

No, I've never met anyone else that listens to them even. I'm only partially familiar with them.

Also The remixed album is sweet. Priscilla (ValorandVellum) I think likes that album too.

Foals and Wombats aren't big here but I think they both have potential. I know Foals are touring here at the moment.

Oh right wicked, I'm sort of in the same boat I don't follow UK indie much, I just pick up on the hits they repeatedly play on the radio. I'm more in touch with the electronic genre's really, french house/electro/DnB, and that's more worldwide than just the UK.

@ Shakethesheets, yeh I think making it in the US is abit hit'n'miss; did a band called Kasabian ever make it to the US? I quite like the band.

Kasabian is around yeah, I have listened to them.

@ Sir, I'm really into french electro as of late. You want to suggest some bands/groups to me?

I never understood why The Fratellis didn't become more popular here - people just knew the one song from the iPod commercial - but they've got an album-full of up-beat, catchy, possible singles. Maybe their next album will get better hype here but I fear it'll be at least a bit of a letdown.

The Last Shadow Puppets could very well catch on, hopefully lacking the teenage Beatlemania that surround Arctic Monkeys. (I love Arctic Monkeys, it's just not fun seeing them at an all-ages show.) If Black Kids don't wait much longer before putting out a full-length, I could see them doing pretty well. Other bands Americans should know and love: The Pigeon Detectives, Good Shoes, and to a lesser extent, The Young Knives. I saw Pigeon Detectives play a packed house at a little place with sub-150 capacity, which was a ton of fun, but they deserve better support than that. I hope they find it.

Also, how is every teenager in the US not all about The View?

Yeh sure.... I'm sure you know some of these already.

Well known stuff:
Armand Van Helden
Modjo
Kris Menace
Fred Falke
Alan Braxe
Cassius
Justice
Daft Punk
Digitalism
Van She
SebastiAn
MSTRKRFT

Ed Banger label has loads...

The up and coming:
LA Riots
Hot Pink Delorean
Miami Horror
White Noise
Bloody Beatroots
Boys Noize
Kill The Noise
Utah Saints
Designer Drugs

Hope that helps, alot on the up and coming do alot of decent remixes.

sweet. new music for the summer, here I come. =P

Wow shakethesheets you seem to know alot! Yeah I have to admit I did like "Same Jeans" by The View, shame that that's only really been their major hit over here.

Oh yeh Les Rythmes Digitales, dunno if they come under electro, and not much has been heard of them recently, but their album darkdancer is pretty good, and quite a few of their tracks are featured on commercials.

ok cool! I think I did just find out about them @ sir. I'm real excited to get some of the music you mentioned.

No problem, hope you enjoy.

Hah, thanks sir! I've barely heard of any good new bands of that sort, however... Most of those I've known for over a year. If you've got any suggestions for me, I'd love to hear them. And I'll check out some of those above.

Here you go, a bunch of currently popular indie bands:

Maccabees
The Twang
The Enemy
Babyshambles
Air Traffic
The Cribs
Mystery Jets
Hoosiers
Jack Penate
Jamie T

Hope that helps!

Thanks... Not a big fan of The Twang, I think I prefer The Enemy but I haven't really gotten into either. Babyshambles I enjoy, but I still haven't got Shotter's Nation. I should do that... I got kind of sick of The Cribs because they seem to have such an attitude of not actually caring about their music, but I admit I do really like a few of their songs... Jack Penate and Jamie T are a little girly for me... I've heard of the Mystery Jets but don't know them or the others you mentioned, so I'll definitely check them out. Thanks!

Haha, in all fairness I know very little about some of the bands above, I just have alot of mates who listen to them. But I do like the Maccabees, and the Hoosiers have had a few hits. But a smashing track by Air Traffic is Charlotte, you're bound to like it; some of their tracks after that though went abit... Keane.

yeah Kooks are everywhere here.

they're not that bad- i'm just being a bit of an Indie snob

they're very average though

I saw pigeon Detectives support the Holloways 2 years ago at Koko, and it was the first time I saw them. It was an awesome performance, and I knew they were going to do well. And they ruddy did.

check out Pete and The Pirates and Glasvegas instead

Ah, alright.

To go back to the original post, here's an excerpt from NME's review of Konk, which is pretty much exactly what I said when I first heard it:

Perhaps those 1.5million album sales went to their head after all. It’s certainly affected their judgement. Pritchard previously claimed they had over 80 songs written for the new album. Eighty songs? And they chose these?

They gave it a 5/10... I probably would have given it a 6. I have live versions of some of these 80 songs that they didn't put on it and they're quality songs... And the ones that they went with were better before they were put on the album. Every b-side they've ever put out is bound to be better than a number of songs on Konk. It'll probably grow on me a bit, but man... What a disappointment.

The first 4 songs on the Kooks new albums are the strongest. All in all not too shabby. Their first song 'Naive'...



was filmed in Nambucca on Holloway Road and Kid Harpoon is playing in the background. Nambucca is like the spiritual home of a bunch of bands from Camden/Holloway area including Vinvent Vincent and The Villians, The Holloways, and my buddy's band, Captain Black.

PS: Kid Harpoon is a genuine rising star! And check out Nambucca.

I just checked out Glasvegas phones, the vocalist has a really strong accent, don't come across that too often, the Fratellis are Scottish yet I couldn't tell from their singing. I checked out Kid Harpoon aswell, he has some good stuff on his myspace.

yeah i love Scottish bands- Orange Juice, My Latest Novel, The Twilight Sad rock too!