All images and media via Popload 'How Deep Is Your Love' is a song title claimed by multiple bands. Most recently, The Rapture took it for the lead single from their latest album In The Grace Of Your Love . Its a fun fact to note that self-proclaimed bad boys of late 90s R&B, Dru Hill (which also happens to be a park in Baltimore that the band are named after) also lay ownership to the song title. "Sisqó and I are from the same state," Gabriel Andruzzi , [...]
There was plenty going on in São Paulo last Tuesday night, amongst which was MTV's CK One Party , featuring none other than CK One poster girl, Sky Ferreira . Open bar aside, I was curious to see Sky in the flesh. Because even with her fame/notoriety and papp-ability, her music career never really quite happened. Considering her myspace/Michael Jackson hype, her epic record deal signing and the truckloads of money that was thrown at her (and subsequently, squandered by her), the fruits of her talent have yet to appear. Unless you call an oversexualised, over-hyped and eventual [...]
"I've got one dinosaur fact. It's not even a fact or anything, it's just that someone told me once that a dinosaur called Iguanadon had big thumbs, so that they could go like – " " – that, and kill someone. And that's the only thing I know about dinosaurs." In this 4play film for the UK's Channel 4 , we get an intimate and endearing look at the calm, quietly frank and enormously talented Orlando Higginbottom . Following [...]
Season 2 of How To Make It In (New York City) America made a welcome return this month! I missed these guys. Everyone's kind of vaguely annoying in their way, but infinitely lovable despite this; probably because they very much reflect you or someone you know. Especially the duo of single syllable shmucks that headline the situation, Ben and Cam, who not only have you sympathetic to their causes, but rooting for them. Unlike Eddie Kaye Thomas' interjection after Blood Orange 's excellent 'Sutphin Boulevard' on the mix, I don't particularly [...]
HIYA // Wes and MikeQ So aside from the terribly old news of his contribution to taking the third world to the first, Diplo is now trés mode with such first world accoutrements as GQ and Vanity Fair (though it pains me somewhat to identify him as 'that 'Paperplanes' dude – guys, for me, that was a totally mediocre tune. Go listen to some of his less lamestreamed stuff). In fact, he's actually a columnist at the latter. Diplo's latest column exploits a night out at Vogue [...]
Helloy Babes // Olivia and Dan We're long time fans of The Dø ; and have always felt that they've never gotten the attention they deserve. We were so excited when a new EP dropped last December, with an impressive couple of tracks including the excellent 'Slippery Slope '. I've been listening to a version of their newest LP, now entitled Both Ways Open Jaws, since at least the very start of this year; and here it is finally getting it's full international release starting in Continental Europe on the [...]
HIYA // Paul Dixon aka David's Lyre David's Lyre is a project I've always been impressed by and enjoyed, with all it's vague mystery. But not mystery in that annoyingly contrived, inaccessible, or aloof kind of way; just in a quietly-going-about-business, but-listen-here kind of way. Now Paul Dixon 's discreet labour has come to fruition, with the debut album for David's Lyre due for release on the 24th of October. It's called Hidden Ground , which is also the title of it's lead single. I've been [...]
The new clip for Metronomy 's 'Everything Goes My Way' featuring vocals from Roxanne Clifford from Veronica Falls is really quite lovely. Simple. And strangely, leaves the eyes relaxed enough to actually just listen to the lyrics and the melody. A video clip that truly supports the song instead of distracting from it, or trying to make it better. Probably because the song is excellent in the first place, and doesn't need visuals to be fully appreciated or understood. Admittedly, amongst all the things I've starred, bookmarked and dog-eared lately [...]
Although in the northern hemisphere the temperature is just about starting to drop, down south it's barely beginning to heat up. Either way, Brenmar 's latest tracks are making me swwwwwwwweat. B is surely one of the most consistent, prolific and hardworking DJ/producers on the scene right now, and this latest is undoubtedly one of the best tracks I've heard from him to date. 'Temperature Rising' is taken from his upcoming EP entitled Let's Pretend , coming out on the 31st October via Hum and Buzz . Kicking in immediately with a booty [...]
Is it too early to talk about Halloween? It's kinda like Christmas; every year people seem to get the decorations out earlier and earlier. And I'm not sure I really *get* Halloween. I mean, I get it. But I guess I'm just not that into it, even though my birthday falls around the same weekend. Every year. Of course I party down hard with the scariest zombies, spookiest ghouls and skankiest witches out on the night, but I don't need no Halloween excuse for that shit. It also wasn't a huge event growing up in [...]
Hiya // MC Gi So Brazilian baile-funk Singer MC Gi got in touch with us asking for a little hand. She wants us to help her choose which version of her song is going to be used as her new single, and bwoy, should this be fun... 'A Fila Anda' features the biggest baile funk Mc of Brazil; a husband to six wives and father to over forty kids (and he even hands them out PS3s on their birthdays like its cake). He's like a Brazilian version of Snoop Dogg, but one [...]
Oh Cubic Zirconia. You of the synthetically made, optically flawless, generally colourless gem variety. A diamond wanna-be. The kind of stone you might find on late night informercials hosted by ham fisted cows harking their replicate wares. Not in this case though. I'm talking about Cubic Zirconia of the NYC variety; made from Nick Hook , Tiombe Lockhart and Daud Sturdivant . They aren't cheesy or chintzy like their namesake. They're flawlessly imperfect and vibe a bohemian kind of [...]
Joe Goddard 's 'Gabriel' is a track that needs little push, simply because it's just so goddamn GOOD. But DFA are leaving no stone unturned with Goddard's recent work (featuring that insane vocal from the golden pipes of Valentina ); first releasing the four track Gabriel EP and the video for the single, throwing a party at XOYO London in honour of the EP (this Saturday the 24th) and on top of that, the Gabriel Remixes EP was released earlier this week and is now available . Gabriel [...]
It's been a long time since I've found something lol-worthy enough to post. Here it is: I totes heart you, random regional news anchor bro!
HIYA // Hugo Hugo Manuel is perhaps best known for being a part of English math-rock band Jonquil . But his foray into solo productions as Chad Valley proves him to also be a producer in his own right, with his self-described "sun-drenched Balearic pop" project. Softly editing tracks between guitar driven tunes and R&B crooners with palatable bliss-y style, he's remixed the likes of Foals , [...]
If you missed Twin Shadow debut his new track, 'Changes' on KCRW this week, have no fear, here it is. A re-make of a track originally by 80s group Baggare and entitled 'Circus Is Gone', George Lewis Jr managed to bang this one off single out in between his relentless tour dates. [Six Degrees of Blipster Separation Note: Twin Shadow also helped Chris Taylor from Grizzly Bear on his solo project CANT , who is about to go on tour with Blood Orange in support [...]
The lyrics that Girls ' Chris Owens sings in 'Honey Bunny' tell the story that despite seeming like he doesn't give a fuck, he does. In particular, he fronts about not giving a fuck about girls who don't seem to give a fuck about him. But actually, he DOES in fact, give a fuck, and wants a girl like his mum who loved him and told him that everything was gonna be alright. According to the lyrics, them girls who he messed around with didn't like his bony body [...]
Wild Beasts have announced that their next single from album Smother is to be the exquisitely bittersweet 'Reach A Bit Further', and HURRAH! with this announcement comes a new track! Entitled 'Thankless Thing', this track was recorded with long time collaborator and producer, Richard Formby at the start of the Smother sessions. If you, like me, have been collecting all the B-sides from the previous singles off Smother , the single will be available on the 14th of November via digital download and on limited edition coloured 12" [...]
HIYA // Yukimi photographs by Mads Tegler It was the crack of dawn this side of the globe. I swear, I was struggling so hard to emerge from still being in the depths of dreamland that I was slurring my words. By the time Yukimi Nagano of Little Dragon greeted me on the line from London, we were on opposite ends on the spectrum of sleepiness as she put it. Thankfully, playback revealed her responses to be [...]
Rupert Grint and Tom Felton star in Scott Sternberg 's latest polaroid campaign for Band of Outsiders . HIYA // Bromance How appropriate and ironic that the ginger and the platinum blonde from the Harry Potter films find themselves combining their powers to model the label's latest FW collection shot on location at Magic Castle; a night club that doubles as a venue for illusionists and magicians to make shit appear and reappear. And stuff. [...]
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Miike Snow – Paddling Out (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)
Lana Del Rey covers Lovecat magazine!
