Le Butcherettes

Another week, another Mercury music section to ignore while you read about how Morrissey declares that the Norway shootings were no worse than McDonalds or KFC. How can such a smart man say so many dumb things?

There are many components at play with Le Butcherettes: A Guadalajara-raised singer named Teri Gender Bender, the drummer from the Locust, a record label run by the afro’d gentleman from Mars Volta, and a fiery, intense live show that isn’t afraid of a little blood.
LISTEN:

Le Butcherettes – “I’m Getting Sick Of You”

Despite its title, Goodbye Bread is not a low-carb conceptual album about the Atkins diet (R.I.P., Uncle Butchy’s Low Carb Creations). Instead it’s the latest batch of sun-soaked garage rock from dude/bro Ty Segall.
LISTEN:

Ty Segall – “You Make The Sun Fry”

End Hits: Can I get that without a bun?

Ezra Ace Caraeff is the former Music Editor for the Mercury, and spent nearly a third of his life working at the paper. More importantly, he is the owner of Olive, the Mercury’s unofficial office dog....

3 replies on “This Week’s <i>Mercury</i> Music Section”

  3. According to the Telegraph*, Breivik’s manifesto quotes at length from Jeremy Clarkson’s article “We’ve been robbed of our Englishness,”** which is so xenophobic, it could have been written by Morrissey.

    * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8660257/Norway-killer-Anders-Behring-Breiviks-cultural-references.html

    ** http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article2935442.ece

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