Dizzee Rascal Video:
Newham Generals 'Bell Dem Slags' Preview
From youtube.com at 07/01/09 08:28 PM. 0 comments.
Tapes 'n Tapes News:
random musings
From blog.myspace.com at 07/01/09 07:50 PM. 0 comments.
*if you ever have 4 hours to kill and you have any interest in tom petty, i would highly recommend that you find yourself a copy of the DVD, "runnin down a dream:tom petty and the heartbreakers".*t-mi...
M.I.A. News:
Various Artists: Slumdog Millionaire OST
From feedproxy.google.com at 07/01/09 09:00 AM. 0 comments.
The smash Mumbai-set Danny Boyle film is propelled as much by its soundtrack as it is by its fantasy plot, as demonstrated by A.R. Rahman's propulsive M.I.A.-assisted score.
Friendly Fires News:
Happy new year ye radges
From wearefriendlyfires.com at 06/01/09 11:04 PM. 0 comments.
It seems a bit late to be saying that now as we’re already at Epiphany, but Happy New Year. May all your 2009 dreams come emphatically true. We saw in the new year in Edinburgh, doing an outdoor gig in front of the castle, alongside, amongst other things, a firework display and Michelle McManus. Despite going on stage in 8 layers of 3M’s Thinsulate composite all of us lost our toes to frostbite, and we were carrying icicles on our eyebrows all the way up to midnight. Thankfully the fireworks the City of Edinburgh provided were pretty intense, and we thawed out by huddling around a stray Roman candle. There’s something undeniably stirring about hearing Auld Lang Syne on the bagpipes. In fact once I’ve finished this, I’m going over to Youtube to relive the moment, and I’ll put some ice cubes down my front to make it extra realistic. Have I mentioned how cold it was?
Anyway, as we say goodbye to 2008 and some of its lamer cultural flotsam (the Rolex sweep, Orlando Bloom hats and Akon guest slots to name but three) we’re powering into 2009’s futurescape with a host of new stuff going on.
On 12th of January we’re taking over Radio 1 for two hours while Zane Lowe goes on his annual coarse fishing trip. There’ll be a load of music that we like, some suprise ‘celebrity’ guests...
M.I.A. News:
N.A.S.A. Launch Dates
From www.pitchforkmedia.com at 06/01/09 10:15 PM. 0 comments.
The list of names assembled for the forthcoming N.A.S.A. album The Spirit of Apollo, out February 17 on Anti-, makes our heads hurt. Somehow, the production duo of Squeak E. Clean (Spike Jonze's brother Sam Spiegel) and DJ Zegon (pro skateboarder Ze Gonzales) has corralled a list of 41 bold-faced names (I counted) for its debut album. Among those joining the clusterfuck: David Byrne, Kanye West, Ghostface Killah, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and Nick Zinner, M.I.A., Santogold, E-40, Sizzla, and Scarface. Tom Waits and Kool Keith show up on the same track on this thing. Jesus Christ.
Obviously, the best-case scenario for a N.A.S.A. tour would involve all 41 of those artists sharing the stage with Spiegel and Gonzales and maybe some tigers on unicycles, but a spectacle like that would cost approximately $58 billion and involve the reanimated corpse of ODB. That's probably not going to happen, although we can dream. But N.A.S.A. is still going to tour the country, starting out February 26 in San Diego. No word yet on which guests will be joining the tour, if any. Here's the list of dates:
02-26 San Diego, CA - Casbah
02-28 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine (Noise Pop)
03-02 Portland, OR - Holocene
03-03 Seattle, WA - Nectar
03-06 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock
03-07 Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub
03-09 Toronto, Ontario - El Macombo
03-10 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rosa
03-11...
Radiohead News:
Coldplay, Radiohead for new Grammy CD
From feedproxy.google.com at 06/01/09 09:14 PM. 0 comments.
Coldplay, Radiohead and Gnarls Barkley are among the artists featured on a forthcoming Grammy CD, which includes several musicians nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards.
Radiohead News:
Coldplay, Radiohead for new Grammy CD
From feedproxy.google.com at 06/01/09 09:14 PM. 0 comments.
Coldplay, Radiohead and Gnarls Barkley are among the artists featured on a forthcoming Grammy CD, which includes several musicians nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards.
Adele News:
Happy New Year
From blog.myspace.com at 06/01/09 08:46 PM. 0 comments.
new years is such a let down. however i came home and played mariokarts and watched walk the line after, alot of fun! i hope you all enjoyed it!i got the keys to my new house today!!!!!!!!! its very c...
Tapes 'n Tapes News:
ATTN: MPLS/STP and EVERYONE else
From blog.myspace.com at 06/01/09 06:53 PM. 0 comments.
so we've asked our friends SOLID GOLD to play our show at first ave on 2/6. and they said they would! we're pumped! there are still tickets left, so if you wanna come get your rock on with us, wild li...
Peaches News:
Ron Asheton put the menace in the Stooges
From www.guardian.co.uk at 06/01/09 05:19 PM. 0 comments.
The curious perfection of Ron Asheton's guitar playing did not lie in his technical agility, but somehow in its flaws; a blemished, blistered kind of playing that bewildered some and inspired many.
Asheton, who has died suddenly of a suspected heart attack aged 60, was a former accordian player and Beatles obsessive who would go on to be co-songwriter and founder member of the Stooges, along with his brother Scott on drums, bassist Dave Alexander and inimitable frontman Iggy Pop. Borne of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the late 1960s they were a band fired up by the sound of the Stones, and Harry Partch, and Ravi Shankar, by Gregorian chants and the drone of the car plants, and Hendrix, the Who and MC5. They lived together, crashed about in basements in a muddle of marijuana and Farfisa keyboards, made a din and soon took to the stage.
When the Stooges signed to Elektra in 1968, it was on the strength of their live shows, which not only incorporated vacuum cleaners, peanut butter, genitalia and thrashing limbs, but showcased their half-jammed, half-growled songs of exhilaration, rebellion, boredom and the thumping desire to escape. As Lester Bangs put it "[they] carry a strong element of sickness in their music, a crazed quaking uncertainty and errant foolishness that effectively mirrors the absurdity and desperation of the times, but I believe that they also carry a strong element of cure, of post-derangement sanity."
It was Asheton who gave the...
M.I.A. Link:
Listed in Popjustice's songs of 2008
From popjustice.com at 06/01/09 02:27 PM. 0 comments.
Adele Link:
Listed in Popjustice's songs of 2008
From popjustice.com at 06/01/09 02:27 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead News:
back to the office
From www.radiohead.com at 06/01/09 01:55 PM. 0 comments.
sitting on the photocopier while the phone rings off the hook and the emails pour down the screen
drinking sandy waterd down coffee while printing out this weeks office chart>
1. Robert Wyatt Stay Tuned
Thom
Radiohead News:
Jay-Z follows Oasis Glastonbury tangle with Radiohead mash-up
From feedproxy.google.com at 06/01/09 11:43 AM. 0 comments.
Having tangled with with Oasis at Glastonbury by covering 'Wonderwall', Jay-Z has been paired with another one of the festival's legends.
Friendly Fires News:
Happy new year ye radges
From blog.myspace.com at 06/01/09 11:17 AM. 0 comments.
It seems a bit late to be saying that now as we're already at Epiphany, but Happy New Year. May all your 2009 dreams come emphatically true. We saw in the new year in Edinburgh, doing an out...
Titus Andronicus News:
ABSOLUTE ZERO
From titusandronicustheband.blogspot.com at 06/01/09 12:27 AM. 0 comments.
Here is the trailer for the first episode of our forthcoming web series, coming out later this month.
Radiohead News:
The Jay-Z/Radiohead Mashup to End All Mashups (Please?)
From feedproxy.google.com at 05/01/09 10:15 PM. 0 comments.
Oof alert! Remember that time you were drinking Purple Stuff with your buddies and throwing out possible mashup project titles: Weezyer, The Fall...Out Boy, Animal Collective [ft. Animal from the Muppets], Jaydiohead. It was dumb; it was great. But there's a difference between spitballing while listening to The Grey Album and actually making a full 10-song album of Jay-Z/Radiohead smashups and calling it Jaydiohead, which is exactly what some New York City guy named Minty Fresh Beats just did. Jay-Z raps, Radiohead play, and you listen curiously for about a minute before groaning. Will somebody please stop the madness?
Who has patience for this type of thing in 2009? Even Girl Talk faltered when he put Jay's "Roc Boys" over "Paranoid Android" on Feed the Animals-- and that was just 30 seconds of Jaydio-ness. This is 38.1 mintues worth! The best thing to come out of the project are the titles, which often cross over into so-bad-they're-amazing territory. There's the possibly Wall-E-inspired "Dirt Off Your Android" and, our personal favorite, "Lucifer's Jigsaw", which sounds like a very difficult puzzle. Of course, this isn't the first time some dude (it's always a dude) downloaded Jay-Z a cappellas and put them over his favorite subversive rock band (lest we remind you of The Slack Album). And it won't be the last time. It should be the last time.
The White Stripes News:
The Pitchfork 500 Paris Party Jumps Off This Friday!
From feedproxy.google.com at 05/01/09 08:30 PM. 0 comments.
People of France: Bonjour! That's French, right? Also, did you guys know that Pitchfork made a book? We did! We totally did. The book is in English, though. Sorry about that. We hope it's not too much of a problem. Anyway, now that we've already thrown book-release parties in New York and Chicago, it's your turn.
This Friday, January 9, Le Motel in Paris is throwing a party for The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present. Le Motel is located at 8, passage Josset, 75011 Paris. If you're taking the Metro, it's Ledru-Rollin. And from 6 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., the DJs Bonne Ambiance and Maxence P will be playing selections from the book. I swear I'm not making those names up, either.
And if you haven't heard anything about the book yet, here's the deal: This handy paperback chronologically explores Pitchfork's 500 favorite songs from 1977-2006, constructing an alternate history of the past three decades of popular music-- one that extends beyond the typical Baby Boomer-approved canon of the Clash, Prince, Public Enemy, Nirvana, Radiohead, and Outkast.
From art-rock and proto-punk godfathers such as Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie to today's leading lights such as the Arcade Fire, the White Stripes, and Kanye West; from superstars to cult heroes; and from punk, indie, and pop to hip-hop, electronic music, and metal, we've created the ultimate playlist. Interspersed throughout are sidebars...
Vampire Weekend Link:
5th in albums of the year on New Noise
From www.new-noise.net at 05/01/09 02:26 PM. 0 comments.
Radiohead News:
Auteurs' Luke Haines attacks Radiohead, Blur Oasis
From feedproxy.google.com at 05/01/09 02:25 PM. 0 comments.
Former Auteurs and Black Box Recorder man Luke Haines has launched a series of scathing attacks on some of Britpop's biggest stars, including Oasis, Radiohead and Blur.