New Johnny Foreigner: “Ghost The Festivals,” U.S. Dates

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Birmingham, England-based indie rock dynamos Johnny Foreigner recently recorded a 23-minute segment for something called Channel m, operating out of Manchester, England. We’re not familiar with the show, but based on its format (bands play live, chat a little, then play live some more) we think we’re going to have to see what else they’ve [...]

“Salt, Peppa And Spinderalla (Bloc Party Remix)” Forkcasted

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Pitchfork threw a little love — just a little — in the direction of our favorite British noise-pop stars Johnny Foreigner. The Bloc Party remix of “Salt, Peppa And Spindarella” got the Forkcast treatment here, which we suppose means it is now cool for us to post the track as well. We still await delivery [...]

Yr Keeping Some Dark Secrets But You Talk In Yr Sleep

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Johnny Foreigner conquer Japan, here performing “Cranes And Cranes And Cranes And Cranes” at the Summersonic festival last month. As we reported last week, the Birmingham, England-based trio will be in New York Oct. 23 for the CMJ New Music Seminar Conference Or Whatever They Call It Now. Snagged this off their MySpace dojo, which [...]

Johnny Foreigner To Play CMJ New Music Seminar In NYC

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Thanks to our anonymous tipster who early yesterday hipped us to the fact that Johnny Foreigner had just updated its MySpace yert to show that the Birmingham, England-based indie rock trio will perform at CMJ in Manhattan next month. The trio will perform at something called the Levi’s Fader Fort on Oct. 23. A quick [...]

“Salt, Peppa And Spinderella” Single Release Date Upon Us

Monday, September 8th, 2008

[UPDATED] Regular readers will be as surprised as we are to learn that we haven’t written about Johnny Foreigner for almost a month. For a while it seemed like we couldn’t go two days without writing about the Birmingham, England-based noisepop trio, a fact that prompted one of our colleagues to remark that sometimes Clicky [...]