Tonight’s best new song was ‘The Tank’ by VAEG. Where did I find you this, shiny, shiny gem? Why, on the cyberwent of course! VAEG is Thomas J. Oldani and he makes wonderful electronic music that you should check out if you’ve ever nodded along to Boards of Canada, Ochre, Cheju, Touane or any other melodic IDM. I could be telling you big fat porkies so you’ll just have to find out for yourself. Thomas, unlike the BPI or RIAA, realises the internet is the only way that new artists can get heard. After all, Sony have bought all the airtime on radio with big, fat bribes. So, he’s stuck up all his stuff to download FREE from his site. Once you’ve downloaded his shimmery loveliness, send him your money. Or at least a thanks in an email.

The best old song was Big Black‘s ‘L Dopa.’ It still sounds fucking mental now, nineteen years later. If you want to hear how piss-weak modern scary industrogoth bands sound, check out ‘Songs About Fucking.’ It’s worth buying just for Steve Albini’s rambling liner notes. Just don’t ask him if you should sign to a major, mmmkay?

Tonight, you heard:

Les Georges Leningrad – Sponsorships
Zu Ninjaz – Hard To Defeat
Apparat Organ Quartet – Romantica
Clorox Girls – Pop Codeine
Black Flag – Wasted
VAEG – The Tank
Hamed Daye Feat. Lino – Indèpendance Daye
Death From Above 1979 – Go Home, Get Down
Aceyalone And Rjd2 – All For U
Jackal & Hyde – Dark Star
Actarus – Hundekeks
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Oregon Girl
The Shins – Turn A Square
Of Montreal – Chrissie Kiss The Corpse
Ghosty – Hey! Somebody
Main Flow – Breaking Bread (Ft. Hi-Tek, Crunch EX, Holmskil, And Donte)
Terminal 11 – Fast Asleep
My Bloody Valentine – Sueisfine
Converge – Death King
Sambassadeur – Between The Lines
Danger Doom – El Chupa Nibre
Suburban Kids With Biblical Names – Parakit
Toasty – Take It Personal
Tokyo Eye – Tori Spelling Wears Me Out
The Joggers – Ziggurat Traffic
Karneige – Dusted
Serguei Iwanikov – Let Me
The Plastic Constellations – East Cleveland
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
Reef The Lost Cauze – Give It Up
Ghosty – Big Surrender
Wintersleep – Jaws Of Life
The Human League – Empire State Human
Rufus Wainwright – California
Jeans Team – Oh Bauer
Big Black – L Dopa
Teriyaki Boyz – Celebrity Death Match
Mascot Fight – Thinking In French
J Mascis + The Fog – Freedom
Sol Seppy – Come Running
Edan – Promised Land
Love Is All – Aging Had Never Been His Friend
Mikkel Metal – Align
Roxy Music – Love Is The Drug
Bowie – Queen Bitch
Architecture In Helsinki – Do The Whirlwind
Goldspot – Rewind