Beyonce – 4
Much ado was made about the diversity and “experimental” nature of the collaborations Beyonce made by Beyonce on this, her first album since parting ways professionally with her father and manager Matthew Knowles….
Photos from Cut Off Your Hands
Our wonderful pal Amanda Ratcliffe from amandashootsbands.com did what her website says on Friday at Kings Arms – shooting Cut Off Your Hands for Rip It Up – who graciously said it was…
Photos from Muzai Year 2 party
New Cheese on Toast photographer Suren Unka has blown us away with his first Cheese on Toast assignment. Check out his awesome photoset here (unfortunately he had to miss the bands in the…
David Comes to Life by Fucked Up
It is hard not to love this man – He kinda makes you like Canadians; they’re usually so smug about not being Americans that they are, in almost direct inverse proportion, as…
Music video for Wildfire by SBTRKT
SBTRKT’s debut album drops in the UK today – Cheese on Toast loves the album (check the review) – and Wildfire featuring Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon is the lead single. Check the…
Burning Bush Supper Club by Bear Hands
Much ado is being made about bear Hands being mates with MGMT as some sort of musical reference point. The truth of the matter, according to Dylan Rau in a recent interview with…
Interview with The Vietnam War
Cheese on Toast popped around to Lubin from The Vietnam War’s flat, where they recorded their album, in Sandringham, for a chat…
Playboy Club
Thanks to our pal Liz who gave us the heads up to this forthcoming NBC TV Series – set in the original Playboy Club in 1963; the show will screen in the US…
Gloss Drop by Battles
People who “really know about music”, often musicians themselves, consider technical ability high on the scales of importance when considering if music is good or not. That’s ‘cos, I suspect, they are listening…
Depeche Mode – Remixes 2 81-11
Three discs and thirty seven remixes of Depeche Mode singles, in a sexy box-slip case as a sequel to 2004′s Remixes would, you’d expect be something akin to ecstasy. Unkle, Trent Moller M84,…
GB City by Bass Drum of Death
Mississippi two-piece Bass Drum of Death make a glorious loud mess with their debut album GB City; full of songs about drugs, trying to have sex with religious girls, petty theft, the devil…
Bon Iver by Bon Iver
A marching band approaches from the south (or north if you live in the northern hemisphere – for this is a mere metaphor) bringing with it the antarctic / arctic chills that’ll run…
Listen to our interview with Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Cheese on Toast rang Ruban Nielson at home in Portland on Friday morning (our time). His new project Unknown Mortal Orchestra are just releasing their debut album on Fat Possum in US and…
Listen to our interview with WU LYF
Last week WU LYF were in Sydney. They were just playing the Sydney Opera House. That’s all. Ain’t no thang. Cheese on Toast spoke to Ellery Roberts from WU LYF on the phone…
Watch our interview with Bond Street Bridge
Cheese on Toast caught up with Sam aka Bond Street Bridge late last week to chat about his new album Summer Spring Awesome Winter before he heads off on tour with Rosy Tin…
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes create space and sparsity; perhaps in a desire to wipe the slate clean with the opening track of their sophomore album almost three years after their acclaimed debut. Not that they…
SBTRKT – SBTRKT
From the school of thought that a producer / remixer should remain faceless and nameless – wishing for the music to speak for itself rather than relying upon some pop-tarted creation is South-…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
As you probably already know – Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO) are the new project of Ruban Nielson, now re-located to Portland, after the explosive demise of The Mint Chicks. UMO started as many…
The Bay by Metronomy, music video shot in Tidball’s hometown!
I grew up (from age 11 to 16) in Torquay which calls itself The English Rivera and is the name-sake of Metronmy’s latest album; Joseph Mount being from neighboring Totnes in Devon, UK….
Go Tell Fire To The Mountains by WU LYF
Mystery surrounds Manchester’s WU LYF (World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation, pronounced “woo life”) although they claim that this is not really by any grand design. I have to admit that I kinda don’t…
Solar Lights Don’t Work At Night by God Bows To Math
The brand new four track EP from Auckland’s God Bows To Math kicks off with a lurching, stumbling rhythm of Go Team Punx while a guitar spins like a siren-call – you better…
Liam Finn interview
Liam Finn was back in New Zealand for a couple of days late last week – just ahead of the release of his new album FOMO – and Cheese on Toast caught up…
Rest in Peace Leon Botha – Die Antwoord collaborator
Leon Botha, South African DJ and artist has passed away, on Sunday 5 June, after recently turning 26. Leon suffered from progeria, a rare degenerative disease that causes accelerated aging, distorted features, and…
Suck It And See by Arctic Monkeys
Their fourth album seems to be a purposeful about face on the, perhaps questionable direction they were headed in with number three, the Josh Homme desert-rock-esque Humbug. Face it, lads, you are from…
Jon Toogood and Julia Deans from The Adults
Cheese on Toast found Jon Toogood and Julia Deans playing on a see-saw at a local park last week. We managed to get them to have a chat about the project and album……
We talk with Mark Foster of Foster The People
A wee while back we spoke to Mark Foster of Foster The People about forming the band and recording the album and playing at Coachella as well as what’s next on their agenda……
Cults by Cults
Boy/girl indie pop duo from Manhattan is a perfect sound byte already – you barely have to listen to the album to know that critics want to love it. They are called Cults…
