We love this story from the New York Post’s PageSix gossip hounds… Apparently US Vogue is revamping its website, but the magazine’s superbitch editor Anna Wintour isn’t making things easy. "Anna hates the word 'blog' so much, she refuses to call anything on her site a blog and has charged her staff with coming up with a new word that isn't as garish-sounding," snitched a Vogue staffer. "She wants it ASAP - in time for launch."...(Post includes songs from Of Montreal, Dntel, Mark Ronson and more...
We love this story from the New York Post’s PageSix gossip hounds… Apparently US Vogue is revamping its website, but the magazine’s superbitch editor Anna Wintour isn’t making things easy. "Anna hates the word 'blog' so much, she refuses to call anything on her site a blog and has charged her staff with coming up with a new word that isn't as garish-sounding," snitched a Vogue staffer. "She wants it ASAP - in time for launch."...(Post includes songs from Of Montreal, Dntel, Mark Ronson and more...
Dallas Austin gets candid, Timbaland nods his head, Loefah drops volts, LCD album remix, Phil Spector's downfall and more...
A hard-living jazz-age hipster once said, “Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.” Of course, that’s no longer the case. Now acquaintances are counted and displayed like buttons, while new friends aren’t made, they’re requested. The Teenagers (hard-living Idol-age hipsters) are lucky enough to have both...
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Deerhoof mixtape, JME video, the 50 greatest New York musicians of all time and more...
The LCD Soundsystem pre-tour warm-up at Cargo on Monday was amazing for many reasons, but when Yeah turned into a 1000-watt acid house freak out, then switched up into hammering Berlin techno, before finally, magically transforming into an inspired cover of Paperclip People’s Throw we knew we’d be yammering on about this show for a good long while. We usually love any cover version regardless of quality, but good covers require a special kind of alchemy...
To celebrate the special re-release of J Dilla’s seminal Ruff Draft those generous folk at Stones Throw Records have furnished us with a few copies of the strictly limited-edition, rarer-than-Lohan-underwear Ruff Draft cassette tapes. “Sound like it’s straight from the ma’fuckin’ cassette!” says dearly departed Dilla on the intro and thanks to a clever marketing gimmick it actually will be for the lucky winners...
After Sunday night’s wrist-slashingly dull Oscar’s ceremony we’re glad to hear one of film’s most quixotic talents is set to return in 2007. Harmony Korine was the enfant terrible of 90s independent cinema and divisive as his films were (his 1997 directorial debut Gummo was named ‘worst film of the year’ by the New York Times and “the work of a young master” by Werner Herzog) they were always daring, imaginative and hard to shake.....(this post includes a barely related song, Transformer di Roboter's wonderfully odd, Mac startup noise-sampling cover of Michael Jackson's Stranger In Moscow)
Jazz mixtapes, CSS, Bonde Do Role, Robyn, Polk Miller and more...
Here at Pinglewood we’ve never done an honest day’s work in our lives. We have pink little palms, soft as Haribo, and our wet, foppish handshake flops somewhere between the royal wave and I’m a Little Teapot. Shakes, on the other hand, are the kind of pals that grip hard then wiggle your knuckles around just to see you squirm.
As in the seminal buddy cop film 48 Hrs., where the grizzled Jack Cates and the street-smart Reggie Hammond reluctantly teamed-up to outwit their murderous foes, it seems the new-folk and dubstep scenes have formed an unlikely alliance in order to serve justice on the UK pop charts.
New Feist, music videos, Afro Samurai and more...
The best book ever written about hip-hop is ego trip's Book of Rap Lists. It igonores the academic hand-ringing of most rap tomes and instead revels in the clowning and geekery that is hip-hop’s real bedrock. Now the merry pranksters at ego trip have gone a step further and made the best ever hip-hop TV series: VH1’s ridiculously entertaining The (white) Rapper Show...
For a while now we've been planning a mixtape called How To Seduce A French Art School Student When It's 5am And You've Drunk All The Gin. There'll be bands that Stereolab sound like and bands that sound like Stereolab. We'll have some Neu! Serge Gainsbourg, Faust, Sun Ra and Free Design, then some Deerhoof, NERD, Broadcast, Metronomy and Girls Aloud. It will be more pretentious than Kanye's new flat...
“The kids are coming up from behind,” warned James Murphy in 2005 and he was dead right. Nowadays, all the real hipsters are still at school, underage clubs get all the best line-ups and there’s a whole wave of new bands- Cajun Dance Party, Bombay Bicycle Club, Pull In Emergency, Late of the Pier, Poppy and the Jezebels- who cannot even smoke legally let alone drink.
If Prince’s fabulous halftime show at Superbowl XLI teaches us anything it is this simple equation: RnB plus marching band equals awesome. The little purple pal has joined an elite troupe of RnB artists who in recent years have learned that hiring 50 high school kids dressed in garish uniforms to perform meticulously choreographed drum and brass arrangements of their hits will always be a showstopper...
It could be SAD, it could be our massively guilty consciences, but insomnia runs rife through the Pinglepad. So thank God for Michel Gondry's Science of Sleep, which arrives in UK cinemas on 14/02/07. Starring two of our favourite actors- Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg- it is a magic-realist romantic fantasy with lots of Clangers-style stop-motion animation and a big, sweet heart. There is much to love about this playful, funny film but for now we’ll concentrate on the music...
Music pundits, hipsters and tipsters must be rubbing their greasy paws with glee over the current UK pop charts. Though 2007 is still young enough for us to constantly refer to it as 2006, a number of acts widely touted for success this year are already scoring hits. Mika, Jamie T, Klaxons and The View are all troubling the top ten, causing a smug chorus of “I’ve been into them since their first demos leaked in late 2005” to ring out across the internet. Which brings us to Maps. We’ve been into Maps since their first demos leaked in late [...]
If, like us, you enjoy nothing more than a good fight between two tinfoil clad moonmen then you’ll love the excellent video for LCD Soundsystem’s fist-pumping new single North American Scum. It’s taken from their unreasonably good new album Sound of Silver, our favourite record of the year thus far...
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