2018-02-11 13:21
Welcome to ANBAD, which is celebrating ten years online in April 2018, and is now “resting.”
However, ANBAD also has over 1200 posts featuring about 1500 artists. Most… Read More
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2016-09-19 11:16
Part of what makes Pictorial Candi’s music so enjoyable is that is sounds thin. Not in a reedy, weak way – thin in a lithe, wiggling, warm way, like a trickle of hot water from a… Read More
2016-08-03 16:44
Image © Steve Hall 2014
Today, long-standing Friends of ANBAD, Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam Six announced that they were done. The band is no more, save a couple of farewell gigs, whic… Read More
2016-04-16 08:38
Can we talk about this band name for a second? Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? is the best band name I have heard for aeons.
Everyone I mention it to loves it. It’… Read More
2016-04-09 16:18
ANBAD has always run the risk of veering into fan-club territory when it comes to Youthless, the purveyors of kaleidoscopic outlier-pop who I first met in 2010 a… Read More
2015-11-14 13:09
I’m fairly sure there are very few Irish, Togolese and Zimbabwean trios making music today, and while there’s a lot more to Rusangano Family than their nationalities, it sure is… Read More
2015-11-09 08:32
Just like the recently rejuvenated Youthless, Straw Bear are a band for whom a slight return is actually a doubling-down of their brilliant abilities, and confirmation of their… Read More
2015-11-07 13:54
How wonderful is it to have Youthless back in our lives? Answer: very wonderful, and frankly, it’s all that they deserve.
Youthless were ANBAD’s band of the year in 2010… Read More
2015-10-05 20:46
Can you imagine how hard it is to convince a bunch of 19 year olds to jump up and down to songs they’ve never heard before, in a style they’ve never really considered… Read More
2015-06-07 12:41
Sometimes I listen to songs and just sort of gaze off into the distance, wondering how they were made.
Un Jour Avec Yusef is one of those songs.
I’m almost certain that it was a… Read More
2015-04-22 21:38
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What a state the world is in. It’s 2015, and new guitar music still arrives burdened with thick swirls of philosophical innuendo over its ve… Read More
2015-04-06 13:15
Well, all pretence of blogging regularly appears to have gone out of the window now, let alone the now remote and frankly hilarious idea of a new band appearing every single day here o… Read More
2015-02-19 18:03
I only really blog now when I’m frothing at the mouth about something, so please believe me when I tell you that my heart did backflips when I heard 100, the new song from Dean Blunt… Read More
2015-02-05 12:20
A good friend sent me an email frothing wildly about Lusts. These are always — always — the best, most accurate recommendations.
In the Music Blog World™, clicki… Read More
2015-01-22 10:47
Let’s cut to the chase: of course you want to play at Glastonbury Festival. It’s Glastonbury Festival. You want to play there because you are a human being with eyes, a hea… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Cor. I have a few days off from writing on ANBAD, and the guilt is almost overwhelming. Almost. Actually, in the meantime, I schlepped off down to London, and aside from being struck by how… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Like most of the rest of the world, I’ve been hypnotised by Future Islands’ performance on David Letterman last week – or, specifically, Samuel T. Herring’s outr… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
After nearly six years of running ANBAD, I think I have hit upon an ideal vetting tool for new bands. It is (literally) not rocket science. It works like this: Find and play a long, varied a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The proposition was this: 1) Here’s a new band, called Modern Blonde; 2) But they’re on their fourth album; 3) but they’re mutual friends with Ménage à Trois… Read More
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