UK bands with big buzz are right up there with death and taxes. Luckily, they’re a lot more frequent and the hype surrounding them quite often pay offs. Like Arctic Monkeys before them, Cajun Dance Party is the most recent band of youngsters (their oldest member is 17!) from across the pond to generate high levels of excitement based entirely on demos and live performances.

Their name accurately reflects their nu-pop sound, which was described by The Sunday Times as “liable to make confirmed grouches dance like loons.” The five-piece are so catchy, they’ve even managed to score Thom Yorke’s approval and a deal with XL Recordings. CDP’s debut single “The Next Untouchable” was Single of the Week in both NME & The Guardian and their second single will be out later this summer.

MP3: Cajun Dance Party - “The Next Untouchable”

Other headlines and links worthy of your attention today:

• Guardian Unlimited has posted a list of 1,000 films to see before you die.
• Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited will open the New York Film Festival.
• The Simpsons Movie website is gaining momentum and has some neat-o features, including the ability to make your own Simpsons avatar. Here’s mine!
• Break out your earplugs - Q Magazine has ranked The 20 Loudest Albums Of All Time!!!
• Perpetual Jeapordy! contestant Bob Harris has posted his well-observed theory about the much-talked Sopranos finale.
• Ryan Adams has told American Songwriter that Easy Tiger may be his last solo album and in the future he simply wants to be part of the band The Cardinals. Hypeful thinks he’s just sick of people shouting requests for “Summer Of ‘69.” (via Salad Days Music)

Julien Temple’s documentary on the Glastonbury festival is available for a free download for the upcoming two weeks at Movielink. Musicians and performances featured in the film include The Velvet Underground, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Primal Scream, Alabama 3, Billy Bragg, Cypress Hill, The Scissor Sisters, Radiohead, Babyshambles, The Levellers, David Gray, Björk, Coldplay, Chemical Brothers, Stereo MC’s, Blur, Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, English National Opera’s ‘Die Valkyrie’, Ray Davies, Pulp, Faithless, The Bravery, Morrissey, Prodigy, Toots an the Maytals, and David Bowie.

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Hypeful’s friend Beau attended an advance screening of this summer’s mega-budget, highly-promoted, prerelease award-winning movie Transformers in Dallas last night and was kind enough to pass along this advance review:

Overrall the movie was pretty much what I expected. Or, shall I say,
it was exactly what met the eye. The scenes involving actual
transforming and a handful of the action sequences were pretty fun to
watch. The dialogue and plot, however, seemed to be geared toward a
younger audience… a younger audience with learning disabilities. You
know when you’re watching a big-budget action movie and the hero does
something big and over-the-top and he will inevitably throw out a
cornball line that you just accept and move on from? Well imagine that
that is EVERY line in the movie and that’s what Transformers had. I
was never a fan of the cartoon back in the day, so perhaps that was a
factor in my opinion of the movie, but I’m thinkin’ if you’re over the
age of 16, you won’t be enjoying the robots in disguise.

Yikes - sounds like the film didn’t fall too far from the soundtrack.

Boxer or brief? It’s unclear what the underwear preference is for the #17 artist in our ambitious 120-part series - BETTER KNOW AN ACL ARTIST. However, the accolades for their new album Boxer have not been brief. The seventeenth installment explores The National - the Fightin’ Boxers!!!

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