Angular art poppers Stricken City will be unleashing their debut and somewhat miniature  album Songs About People I Know on Pure Groove Records next week and it’s quite a joy to listen to, mostly for Rebbeca Raa’s swoonsome vocal chirrup.

One of the music industry’s unwritten requirements for new bands is they must be remixed by Gold Panda, ever the sporting types, Stricken City were happy to comply. Watch out for a Stricken City remix by that mysterious Skellington character mentioned previously.

Stricken City – Lost Art (Gold Panda Remix)

Rebecca Raa spared some time from repeatedly listing her influences for the benefit of journalists to provide Slutty fringe with her 5 favourite haircuts from musics past, click on for more….

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Kap Bambino have new single out now called Dead Lazers – We like Birdie Nam Nam Remix

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Kap  Bambino – Dead Lazers (Birdy Nam Nam Remix)

Kap Bambino have new album called Blacklist out soon

Kap Bambino, no strangers to striking hairstyles themselves,  took time out from creating speaker blowing feedback bleeps to give us their Five Fav Music Barnets

1. Robert Smith, The Cure

He looked amazing early on, I prefer his hair when he was younger

2. Desire Less

This is a French artist. Its so funny how she looks now, but her hair used to be cool.

3. Mireille Mathieu

Her hair was always in a style similar to this, but this is my favourite it ever was.

4. The Ramones

I can’t choose one member in particular, they all look so cool. I love the Ramones. Every picture looks classic.

5. Kim Wilde

Definitely Kim Wilde the early era. This photo of her is hilarious

Merci Kap Bambino x

Housewives favourite DJ wrongtom aired his ten minute All Time Top 100 mix on Xfm show The Remix last weekend which does exactly what it says on the tin, cramming some 100 tracks into ten minutes putting to shame those DJs amongst us that prefer the drawn out segue between tracks.

Being the nice sort, Thomas gave Slutty Fringe the download dibbs on the mix and also agreed to add his nominations to the hallowed Favourite Musical Haircuts feature which are more considered than some previous participants.

1. Papoose:

These guys were pretty special as individuals but like a barbershop Voltron they formed one of the most glorious hair bands to ever grace the music industry. Looking like a curious combination of Bowie, Eno and Kiss featuring a War song in French and gate-fold cover with pics of them having their hair done “Les Amants Outangs Moi Tarzan Et Toi Jane” was, as Howard Scott might say ’slept on,’ which is exactly why Papoose deserve their Keratin crown more than most.

2. David Hinds (Steel Pulse):

In 50 years the dread-lock has gone from being one of the most majestic and often fearsome of styles to a vehicle for upsetting your parents when you come home after your first semester at uni. Tarquin and his rosy-cheeked peers probably wouldn’t be familiar with the term blanket dread but it marks a distinction between conviction and “going up Camden to get my dreads done,” and no one did the blanket better than David Hinds who went from sporting the tree of life in the 70’s to tying a beach ball sized lock to his head last time I saw him.

3. Dez Dickerson (The Revolution):

Prince and entourage have ever been a source for great moments in hair, a high point being the cover of his eponymous album featuring a soft bouf and moustache combo offset on the back by riding naked on a Pegasus. Some however may have noticed the quiet confidence of Dickerson’s luscious locks in the Revolution days, coming off like the Prince Regent of sex-funk. If you missed it Citinite released his excellent “Modernaire” single last year having sat on a shelf for 25 years

4 Howard Scott (War):

We can trace the use of ’slept on’ in black music to the release of “The World Is A Ghetto.” I often wonder what Scott got up to the previous night as he scowls at the camera next to his fresh faced band mates.

5. Kid Rock:

Years before he was sound-tracking date rapes and murdering the already long-dead Lynyrd Skynyrd, young Rock was working with BDP affiliates and chipping away at the ozone in an attempt to give Kid N Play a run for their money in the hi-top stakes. Like Judd Nelson in New Jack City but one louder.

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DJ Wrongtom – All Time 100 Mix

mahoosive tracklist after jump

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With the release of their Reanimations Vol One compilation this week, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve have spent all day on a harrowing press slog.

With this in mind, Team Slutty Fringe opted to treat them to some light relieft and inaugaurate the cosmic psychedeliasongsmiths known to the taxman as R Norris and E Alkan into the hallowed hall of fame otherwise known as Favourite Musical Haircuts – loved by the great and the good.

Here be their nominations:

1. Brian Jones

That bowl head rules the roost, no contest!

2. Julian Cope (current style)

I mean what is going on? His psychic energy is radiating out through his rug. Top marks

3. Klaus Naomi.

Total eclipse of the barnet.

4. Phil Oakey (Human League circa late 1970s/early 1980s)

Not content with having one hairstyle, Oakey opted to have three at once. Good show, Philip!

5. Ian Hunter.

Mott the Hoople’s frontman has ringlets of the Gods. All the young dudes indeed.

Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Reanimations Vol.1 includes all of the BTWS re-animations to date: Late of the Pier, Chemical Brothers, Franz Ferdinand, Goldfrapp, Peter Bjorn and John, Midlake, Simian Mobile Disco and many more. Comes complete with an 8-page picture booklet, sleevenotes by the legendary Jon Savage plus an exclusive 60 minute mix of all the re-animations, reworked and mixed by Beyond The Wizard Sleever Erol Alkan.

Buy from Rough Trade or Phonica or iTunes

After coaxing Gang Gang Dance into opining on their favourite hairstyles of music past and present we thought we’d run with this flimsy excuse for journalism and invite more bands to partake.

First to bite were French based Dutch trio Le Le, whose track Breakfast is rightfully causing a ripple of excitement at the moment, count fans in the various shapes that Diplo, Soulwax and the Ed Banger crew occupy and have a rather dashing new album, Flage, dropping later this month on Magnetron.

1 Flock Of Seagulls

Best hair by a band, period. They we’re all hairdressers innit?

2 Ray Slijngaard (2 unlimited)

He styled his shavings to the theme of the song, just like we style the theme’s of our songs to, well, themes

3 Sique Sique Sputnick

Just because they can…

Le Le flunk it a bit here and run out of musical inspiration

4 The Comb Over

To pull a jedi mind trick on the number one fear of men…
also known as ‘une Chapeau de Viande’

5 The Toupee

Donald Trump here providing proof that not even all the millions in the world can set you up with convincing plugs

In case you have not heard it, here is the excellent Breakfast

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Le Le – Breakfast (Album Version)

Eschewing any notions of professional musical journalism, when asked if Slutty Fringe would like to interview Gang Gang Dance we instead tasked them with delivering their five favourite hairstyles of music past and present (handclaps to Bangon)

1 Brian Eno

GGD say: Roxy music era…fake receding hairline

2 Ian McCullough from Echo and the Bunnymen.

GGD say: We strive for our own hair to be like that. Lizzi is always trying to cut Josh’s hair in this style

3 Scratchy from Roll Deep

GGD say: He has two side ponytails and that reminds us of our late band member Nathan Maddox.

(that’s him holding onto his hoody btw [I think that's what he's doing] , pictures of Scratchy with the aforementioned hairstyle appeared to be almost beyond the reaches of Google)

4 Sinéad O’Connor

GGD say: mnml hair is sometimes the best

5 H.R. from Bad Brains

GGD say: One giant dread!

Gang Gang Dance’s new album Saint Dymphna is out now and is likely to be sitting near the summit of those wanky end of year charts that everyone who thinks they have a valid musical opinion loves to compile – ourselves included!

Buy it here here or indeed here

Gang Gang Dance – Princes (feat. Tinchy Stryder)

Gang Gang Dance – House Jam