Wolf Gang 's tune 'Dancing with the Devil' get the hip hop treatment in this remix by the Shoes featuring cocknbullkid and Mz Brat. The beats make the track sexy. Nice one. You can also watch the new video for 'Dancing with the Devil' below (the original single to be released the 21st of March). Hmm. I wasn't a fan of this song right away as I was with 'Lions in Cages' , and to be honest, I like the hip hop remix better. This promo, [...]
Camden Crawl 2011 will be taking place right smack dab up against the royal nuptials, but judging from the line-up, the organisers are taking this in their stride. The initial evening line-up announcement was made earlier this week, with St. Etienne , Toddla T , Hadouken , the Kings Blues and Villagers (pictured above) revealed as headliners. Bands championed by TGTF including Frankie and the Heartstrings , Benjamin Francis Leftwich [...]
Anita Blay, aka cocknbullkid , has released a video for her next single, 'Hold on to Your Misery'. Despite its seemingly down title, it's an upbeat tune about being positive. And we all need a dash of positivity in our lives, every day. Click here to view the embedded video. 'Hold on to Your Misery' by cocknbullkid will be released on the 5th of March on Moshi Moshi/Island. Her debut album 'Adulthood' is also on the horizon; it's scheduled to be released [...]
Roll up, there's a new artist to be on the look out for, and she goes by the name of cocknbullkid. She's also known as Anita Blay, a 25-year-old from Hackney and will be making some pretty significant splashes in the months to come. She's on tour with Marina and the Diamonds and Kele right now, if that tells you anything. Plus, her highly anticipated album 'Adulthood' will be coming out soon too. But read below and find out for yourself of why she's one of the coolest artists coming [...]

Wearily arising to the masked masquerade this afternoon provided by the latest electro pop kingpins racking up an exquisite debut record layered with more exhilarating hits than late nights in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, Monarchy offer an idyllic ear filler to displace any lingering wax, dirt and anything else that may have possibly become lodged in the gaping gate to the auditory canal after three days of grubbiness. Opening with the operatic (and just a tad less ostentatious than Hurts) Black, The Colour Of My Heart, the mysterious duo, aided by the most mechanical of rhythm sections turn gurns [...]

No, I didn't slip up and type the artist name and song as the same bit. Anita Blay, formerly known as thecocknbullkid (and also known as a beastly-favorite of ours) , decided to freshen up her moniker. So, sans "the", let's introduce ourselves to Cocknbullkid . Also, we're gonna get familiar with a self-titled song that's making this shit-filled day all that much lighter. Thanks girl. As Blay notes: [...]

F inally we have some new good music from on of our favorite purveyor's cocknbullkid the chick who said "The media put black people in boxes. It really irks me." The last time I blogged about her was way back in when she released Clean Apart . This track is off her new album Adulthood due out this summer. She says she's been working with Sigsworth, Peter, Bjorn and John and Liam Howe on the album and she's now a signed artist so congrats are in order. props to sheena beaston

This is the cutest interpretation of feeling down in the dumps that you might ever hear. I love thecocknbullkid , and the lass has long been on our radar, long been preparing the release of her debut album, and long long longly been longed for in our ears via the course of new tunes. I like repeating things. So here, I'll say again, I love thecocknbullkid . Also, this new song is pretty jamalicious. [...]

The best labels are those that don't seem to have a particular house style or centralised sound. On album artists alone, Moshi Moshi play house to a range of bands that seem to have only the most tenuous connection outside the qualitative - The Very Best to the Wave Pictures, Slow Club through Hot Club De Paris to Lo-Fi-Fnk. A similarly eclectic but not that far off the mainstream strand courses through their Singles Club releases, and just a few weeks before they put out The Drums' album, a signing which might lead you to think Stephen and [...]
I'm almost 100% back in fine form after a rad last week in Austin for SXSW. Sure, my vocals are still strained like I've been on a shouting spree for days, but hey, all in all, it was totally worth it. That said, many thanks for your patience in my absenteeism. Updates from the fest will be flying at you all day today and through tomorrow. Timeliness...we try. R.I.P. Jim [...]

Filed under: News , UK What's happened to Cocknbullkid ? It's been six quiet months since Anita Blay signed a major record deal off the back of two single releases and a body of demo tracks which pointed to sheer pop brilliance. The London based singer-songwriter has exclusively told Spinner about her forthcoming debut album 'Adulthood' and her bold decision to drop all the hype tracks that preceded it. "By the time 'I'm Not Sorry' was released I was already [...]

Swedish sounds are distinctly marked by a certain melancholic wonderment and producer-turned-apathetic dream pop pioneer Tobias Fröberg is far from exempt to such stereotype. Treading a similar street to the playful pondering of Miike Snow, Fröberg has produced records from the likes of Young Folk Peter Morén of Peter, Bjorn and John infamy and Moshi Moshi's very own Hackney upstart, the cocknbullkid. Forthcoming single When We Go To War crackles with a disjointed vocabulary and humming hammond organ, as swooning strings layer themselves over chilling piano melodies. Like a modern Morricone, When We Go To War could soundtrack [...]
He plays piano. He talks. He raps, complains and sometimes waffles....and now Gonzales is playing every Thursday in February at Joe's Pub in New York City. [...]
IN PASSING (A.Borland) These yellow lights are not enough / To illuminate this night / These streets all have a hollow ring / Sounding down inside / This town got our wild years / Now it's quiet here, and still / [...]
As we've been flogging all week, The Washington, DC Record fair returns this Sunday (10/4) at Comet Ping Pong. Monday's post has all the crucial details and if you're on Facebook, you can RSVP and join the conversation here. Now, would it hurt you 25 dealers who will be in attendance to bring some of these vinyl gems to the fair? My wallet wants to introduce itself to you. Blue Cheer - Out Of Focus (Mp3) [...]

Esser at Highline Ballroom, 9.17.09 We were lucky enough to see Esser's US debut performance in June at the now defunct New York club Le Royale. Last week he came back around playing Highline Ballroom for a proper US tour with Datarock, but first we met up before the show for a quick interview (check back soon.) My animated caricature-like perception based on his stage persona was quickly humbled by the soft-spoken, sweatpants and sneakers-wearing Ben Esser. Karin Park kicked off the night (we unfortunately missed [...]

We're very excited to watch the development of new artist THECOCKNBULLKID . Her catchy and fresh track Clean Apart's got us itching for more. Camille and I had a chance to ask her a few questions about her recent release the Querelle EP , her inspirations and of course the meaning behind the stage name! The name thecocknbullkid is certainly something we've never heard before. How did it come about? It's basically a tongue in cheek way play on calling myself a bullshitter. [...]

We're very excited to watch the development of new artist THECOCKNBULLKID . Her catchy and fresh track Clean Apart's got us itching for more. Camille and I had a chance to ask her a few questions about her upcoming release Querelle EP , her inspirations and of course the meaning behind the stage name! The name thecocknbullkid is certainly something we've never heard before. How did it come about? It's basically a tongue in cheek way play on calling myself a bullshitter. I [...]

London's Anita Blay, appearing as thecocknbullkid, has released her debut American release, the Querelle EP, on IAMSOUND. Esser also recently did his thing to the thecocknbullkid's song "Kiss Kiss Kill." audio: Kiss Kiss Kill (Esser Remix) Clean Apart purchase: the Querelle EP http://www.myspace.com/thecock nbullkid http://www.iamsoundrecords.com /

Born in Hackney, East London, to Ghanian parents, thecocknbullkid is not the most conventional of pop stars. Fortunately, this does little to slow how rapidly she's establishing herself as one of 2009's brightest pop hopes. She has spent the past three years exploring all manner of influences, forging a wholly distinctive sound. Her style resides firmly on the dark side of pop. There's an almost Trojan quality to it -- Anita's ever-expanding repertoire is a subversive, sometimes sinister, and always-sublime mix of sex, death, ugliness, wit and depravity, found amidst the everyday, and pegged [...]