What's an Xquabed?

Much like the Eagles of Death Metal, Xquabed are a band who line up with a drummer of high credentials. Lucretia Lead Singer & Sydney heart throb The artist currently known as Javid VDP has come together with an all-star line up featuring Slick Popping Daddy Mick on bass guitar and frontman The Shaker Maker Mean Dean, what at first would seem like an unlikely trio has turned out to produce some very unisen & colloborative noises. A real trump card in the Xquabed arsenal (haha arsenal...funny anyone?) is first time frontman The Shaker Maker Mean Dean, the articulation, relevance and assimilation that one can gain from his lyrically styling is nothing short of a find for any band. Influences by a diversed and unlimited range of musicians, don't like their comedic styles underestimate their extent of musical savvy. Combining the fast flipping spits of frontman Mean Dean & the timely injections of drummer Dayve, the music is guilty of having too much fun. Titles like "ballad of a hungry man", "banana jazz" & "slap n tap" would normally make you think it's nothing more than a few shits n giggles, but once the music opens up it is like a kanye west tour bus ripping through the deserts of texas, you didnt realise it at first but now you wanna be anywhere else!

Myspace: Check out Xquabed's "Ballad of a Hungry Man" & "Remote Controls"

Why the Shaker Maker you ask?... wait until you seem him in the bedroom.



A change of pace now finds us checking out Riot in Belgium with the track The Acid Never Lies. It meanders along seemingly going nowhere, becoming just another one of those average electro songs that start nowhere and end somewhere even worse. Don't let the rife drug stereotype and its relation to dance music fool you, once this song kicks, it kicks! Ofcourse being a crucial element, the song whacks out some fine synth stylings and is without doubt a dancefloor winner! Might need to increase the tempo as they did with a remix of "45 & Rising". Proudly an Australian outfit contrary to the name and that only makes me love it more!

Myspace: Check the Track on the Flatline Management Myspace page along with a host of other great acts.



And finally a facinating little dit bit on coocky coolers Tv on the Radio. There new album entitled "Return to Cookie Mountain" sparked Triple J presenter Zan Rowe to ask why they want to get back there and where is "Cookie Mountain". Much to all our delight and curiousity, Triple J discovered that 6 months after the record comes out, you will be able to buy a map to get to "Cookie Mountain" for around 15 dollars!!! Can't Wait.