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Kill It Kid - Just Like Christmas

Kill It Kid

JUST LIKE CHRISTMAS
We've been receiving a ton of Christmas/Holiday recordings lately. It's really hard to pick and choose what I'll be writing about in the upcoming week. I might as well get on top of some of these recording. Today we have Kill It Kid (killitkid.com / myspace.com) If they sound familiar to you, that's because we've previously mentioned them before.

Their song, "Just Like Christmas" is a cover of Minnesota's own Low. Since we're from Minnesota, this is worth checking out. You can download your own copy in a variety of formats (including flac) over at www.killitkidchristmas.com.

Low's ‘Just Like Christmas’ is a great tune, with an understated lyric and tender sentiment that we felt - with all our festive strength - we could break into a duet and still compliment the narrative. So we put it in front of the fire, filled it with cinnamon, brandy, and cranberry sauce and put some spurs on it!

-- singer Chris Turpin

The band is finishing up their 2009 tour:

12 Dec Play It By Ear @ The Monarch London
15 Dec The Glee Club* Cardiff
16 Dec The Duchess* York
17 Dec Jericho Tavern* Oxford

* with Foy Vance

Speaking killing...

Please Upgrade Your Browser

MYSPACE MUST DIE!!
As you know, it's the nature of the business, but I have to use myspace because of its deep roots in music. Anyway, by choice, I am using Firefox 2.0. I tried 3.5, I don't like the way it handles scripts ... and there are some themes and extensions that does not work in the latest version, so yes, I'm still clinging on 2.0.

About a few weeks ago, myspace made this boneheaded decision that it wouldn't let you in if you're using old browsers. It's okay, it's not like I actively use myspace, but as the weeks went on, I realized I had to stop ignoring this problem.

So here is the solution for those of you suffering from the same problem (such as all Mac firefox users, apparently): get User Agent Switcher 0.7.2.

This little extension tells myspace, "I'm Internet Explorer 8, let me in!!". If you want to fool it into thinking you're running Firefox 3.0, add the following in "new":

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14

That should do the trick.

PS, User Agent Switch is also useful when you stumble upon a "members only" forum. You simply change your agent to "Googlebot 2.1".

 12/10/2009 11:29:04 ♥ vu () ♥weheartmusic.com♥twitter.com/weheartmusic♥news.weheartmusic.com

Kill Ze Kid!

Kill It Kid - Send Me An Angel Down Kill It Kid Tour Dates 06/25/09 Warwick University (with Feeder) 06/26/09 The Cockpit, Leeds 06/27/09 Escobar, Wakefield 06/28/09 Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh 07/09/09 ICA, London (w/We Were Promised Jetpacks and Twilight Sad) 07/16/09 Korova , Liverpool 08/02/09 Y-Not Festival, Derby 08/06/09 Academy, Dublin* 08/07/09 Auntie Annies, Belfast* 08/08/09 Oran Mor, Glasgow* 08/09/09 Ruby Lounge, Manchester* 18/10/09 Scala, London* *supporting Brandi Carlile

KILL IT KID
killitkid.com ♥ myspace.com/killitkid

Kill it Kid is a fairly new band from London, formed only about a year ago. I got a note today that they're heading out on tour and then supporting Brandi Carlile in August - just in time for their release of their new 4-track single Burst Its Banks.

With themes on "Heaven Never Seemed So Close", "Burst Its Bank", and "Send Me An Angel Down", I get the impression that they're heavily influenced by religion. Combining a weird blend of southern blues, with rock, and with that struggling vocals from Chris Turpin - this should be an interesting band to watch out as they develope.

There is one song on the EP that's a bit of a gem for me, it's called "Private Idaho" (I'm assuming this was named after the movie?). The acoustic song is short and sweet and sung by, I think, Stephanie Ward. It just really stood out because the other three songs have Turpin on vocals, and suddenly this woman started singing on this song. Which also means this song sounds nothing like their other songs, that it wouldn't be such a great song to represent them.

You can grab their teaser single, "Send Me An Angel Down" on their record label, Indian. Look for Burst Its Bank and forthcoming album in the coming months.

PS, I quite like the cover for Burst Its Banks. I believe the art is by David Gibbons (not to be confused with Dave "Watchmen" Gibbons), whose style reminds me a lot of Paul Pope.

Ze! - I Am Glam Ze! Tour Dates 06/26/09 tbc Berlin 06/27/09 Ghetto Noize (with GoldieLocks) Zurich 06/27/09 tbc Zurich 06/28/09 Kinki Mag interview @ Soul*sol (kinkimag.com) Zurich 07/01/09 @ Villa Berlin 07/03/09 Bangers & Mash @ Proud, Camden (postponed!) London 07/10/09 Hot Cheese Crew ARN Gallery Kassel 07/11/09 tbc Berlin 07/15/09 Fantasio @ Korsakoff Amsterdam 07/17/09 tbc Delft 07/18/09 LoveDance Festival (with Don Diablo, Jessica 6 of Hercules & Love Affair, Wannabe a Star, and more!) Spaarnwoude 11/30/09 Zigfrid Von Underbelly (Art Bar, East London) London

ZE!
zebrainpink.com ♥ myspace.com/zebrainpink

When bands submit one or two songs, we generally just ignore them. We seem to get a lot of demos, remixes, or a random b-side from a 6-track EP (talk about odd). And I would've ignored Ze! altogether, if not for her funky MIA-esque look.

You know that saying, "never judge a book by its cover"? It doesn't apply here, she's what you'll expect, and that's not a bad a thing. I mean it would be awful if it turned out she was singing polka or something (which actually now that I think about it, that would sound cool).

Ze! (pronounced "zay"), according to her biography is influenced by (who else?) MIA, Santigold, Yelle and Peaches (whom, for one year I saw saw her and Gonzales play four times at different dates). Her background is from television commercials, before venturing to rapper then to hip hop/drum 'n bass.

It said she's released a full length, Shameless, in 2005 and an EP in 2003, but those releases sounds very different than her current music. And currently, "I am Glam" and "Hello Disco" are both excellent electroclash dance songs. The lyrics are simple and not to mention catchy ("I am glam, glam is what I am" and "take me to the disco/bring me to the disco") which suits this style of music. You're not really concern with what she's singing, only that it sounds good (however "Disco" sounds deep in some parts).

I think Ze! has a lot of potential, but people might be turned off by the MIA-crazy-outfits-look. You can pick up her latest songs from popcuts.com. She's doing some live dates through the UK.

 06/18/2009 10:37:00 ♥ vu () ♥weheartmusic.com♥twitter.com/weheartmusic♥news.weheartmusic.com x