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Our single "Closer" off our upcoming debut album, performed as a drum and bass two-piece when we opened for Guitar Wolf at the gorgeous Space Academy in our hometown, Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 11, 2025. Easy one for Mary to practice along to with the kiddos, as it's got PG lyrics (maybe PG-13 since I call someone a dick?), in our preparation to become a three-piece one day once again. Thank you to the best label boss ever, Brian Feary of Melted Ice Cream, for the video, and thank you to my favourite designers, Paris Georgia, for the kickass black catsuit.

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My high school days as a roller rink DJ playing pop hits that were safe for six-year-olds reminded me of the existence of "Radio Disney"-- a radio station that existed to sanitise the Top 20 for parents.

A quick Google finds no evidence this still exists, but I did find this video of Selena Gomez performing the insanely catchy "Come and Get It", which we already knew we loved, in a dress and dance routine that seems fairly safe for young children (it's a live Radio Disney performance, after all!).

Nice slow chords that are super fun to play in an easy circle: Em, G, C, Am

Kudos to the Norwegian production team Stargate for this insanely catchy song!

– Hannah

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This Pixies song off their 2014 album Indie Cindy is a great video to play for kids to entertain them while practising some incredibly fast chord transitions. Cartoon, fun, and totally G rated.

I find this one of the hardest Pixies songs to play on piano just because of the speed, but one advantage is that each strum is on the downbeat, so it will be a fun challenge to help with rhythm.

The song is actually about alcoholism, but I dare say Frank Black's metaphors are super child-friendly and adorable. - Hannah Thank you user scred33 at Ultimate Guitar for the chords! Chords:

G#m / E / B / F# I have a drink, I start to sink C#m / E / B / E / F# I put my toe in the ocean (Repeat once, but the second lyric changes to "Another toe") G#m / E / B / F# Down on the shelf, an elf I saw C#m / E / B / E / F# / I took his picture, he was waving G#m / E / B / F# I passed again and now they're gone C#m / E / B / E / F# I think my picture is worth saving F#: No more waiting for a new deed A: You've got to swim sometimes B / C# I'll be here for the rest of my life E / G#m Up in the land of green B / C# Making love in the cool, black sand E Thinking where I've G#m / E been B / F# Ooh - ooh C#m / E / B / E / F# I put my toe in the ocean (we're back to the start/chorus!)! [Verse 2: Merry making with the fairies Going down to the onion patch To you and me, to shining seas I see the lights of Edward Thatch [Bridge]

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This review of applying the Electro-Harmonix Lizard Queen guitar fuzz pedal to the bass showcases some beautiful tones, especially when he palm mutes as he plays. You need a channel splitter though to make this sing on the bass. I also love the harmonics sound when the balance and octave are both at 50%--it sounds like GIzmo singing in Gremlins!

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Brooklyn indie rock band BODEGA's 2022 song "Territorial Call of the Female". This bass line rules. The guitar line is so fun once it kicks in, too. Great song to run to.

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English duo King Hannah's 2021 single "Big Baby". Gorgeous song and simple black and white video.

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Talked with Mary last night about the distorted “blowing your shitty speakers” production of Sleigh Bells on their song Infinity Guitars, Spotify started playing song radio based on that song and our ears both perked as we came across this! Haven’t found much Grimes but might start listening to her more now. Had this on a couple times on loop while dancing around K Road heading to the film screening for Martin’s film yesterday. Very empowering feeling behind the song. 

Maybe we can do a similar BPM for another dance track? Also love her weird voices, reminds me of Aldous and I’m going that way sometimes. It’s fun to be creepy, puts an edge on what could otherwise be seen as straightforward sexxxy. 

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Great sounds! would be fun to play around with a jazzy funky chilled out feel :) also got some brass in there :)

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Check out the side by side drumming synchronisation!!! booya. - mary

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Kicking off our Tumblr rotation! 

Ray and I stumbled across this song while I was playing records from my collection for her while she made dinner the other week... It caught both our ears. 

Things liked about it... Hmm.  • It’s happy!  • Simple chord changes form the backbone, lots of weird stuff around it • The verse is almost spoken word, but ends with a nice sung “Mm hmm”...?  • There’s a melodic “response” in what I guess is the chorus from a group of people that’s totally different from the verse, that’s cool. I think it actually sounds like it’s ‘missing’ a chorus; I kinda want it to soar at some point. Songwriting exercise at one point maybe? 

Who’s next? 

Hannah x