What a combination! Big Boi (accompanied by a full band including horns, DJ and hypeman) and Theophilus London (accompanied by guitar dude, bland blonde DJ girl, and Cousin Brian - hi Brian) are currently touring Australia; Big Boi in the country for the third time in about twelve months, and Theophilus on his virgin Australian excursion ( PLEASE GO SPOON A KOALA AND SEND US PICS ). Big Boi was headlining The Enmore Theatre last Saturday night with Theophilus in support. Both excellent entertainers, these two were an interesting comparison in genres of onstage [...]
Seems as if The Golden Filter are on the tease once more, having just dropped this tidbit into the ol' inbox entitled 'Syndromes' without much explanation, in their usual stealthy style. Eerie, a bit haunting and a little operatic, we'll be waiting to see what this all actually culminates into...
Photography by Rafael Kent I gave you plenty of warning about how ridonkulous Boss in Drama can be, but I'm afraid those may have not prepared you enough for his debut video. That shiny boy dances, acts (I mean, how many of those faces could you reproduce?), sings, produces and give us lots and lots to talk about with the over-the-top 'I Don't Want Money Tonight', a song which in his words "is about a man whore who falls in love and is going to give what he [...]
"This is, like, what pop wants me to be" Who would have thought that the weakest track from Marina and the Diamonds , you know, the one where she tries to hide her wish to become a huge popstar behind a new persona, could bring so much joy in the remixes? I confess that I thought the How To Dress Well edit was more an experimentation rather than an actual attempt to make music, but this Blood Orange is spectacular. [...]
Look. I don't go out of my way to follow Lady Gaga . I'm not a fan, no matter how I may or may not respect her (which, yes, I do, in my own little way). I haven't heard any of her albums in their entirety, nor do I follow her fashions, or what her sister is rumoured to be doing with them, and I don't run for youtube when her videos drop. She is though, obviously difficult to avoid; being the pop culture phenomenon that she is (and all that said, I'm feeeeling the Versace vibe she is [...]
HIYA // Peter and Johnny Man Like Me are at it again. What we once assumed to be yet another bit of quirky pyrite in the ever flashing pan of London's music scene, Man Like Me have once more delivered an utterly infectious and distinctly MLM tune in 'Peculiar'. We've been waiting since this time last year for Camden Town codgers Johnny Langer and Peter Duffy to step out in their trademark Reebok classics with a follow up to 2010's excellent 'Lovestruck' (which was out almost [...]
HIYA // Marina HIYA // Tom 'How To Dress' Krell You may have noticed around the traps that Marina and the Diamonds is back; having released two new tracks and videos one after the other without missing a beat in between. The first entitled 'Fear and Loathing' and the second, 'Radioactive'. In the aftermath of the eventual non-event that was her debut album, The Family Jewels , Marina was quite open in expressing her [...]
The video for Man Like Me 's new single 'Peculiar' takes me back to when I was about five years old and less complicated than I am now. Back to when I thought being tricky meant putting some bangles on my ears, a box on my head and letting a belt unroll from the clutches of my hot little hands - ALL AT THE SAME TIME. Directed by Anna Lomax of Jiggery Pokery once more and Jamie Brown , the video for 'Peculiar' is hardly revolutionary. Quintessentially [...]
Oh the internet... one day we're complaining that we skip Beyoncé ' s latest single, 'Best Thing I Never Had', and the next, the original producer of t he track posts on his Tumblr how it was originally intended to sound. We believe it might be exactly what was lacking on the track: a little less on the suburban wife steez. Sampling the big drums of Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick [...]
If you ever go to a haunted house don't eat spaghetti or you might get electrocuted. Don't stare at a massive bubble of gum made by an ghost or it might explode in your face. And don't you ever share the room with two ghosts and a DVD player, or the machine might spit the disc and cut your head off. Or you may just do it all and dance a silly dance in your afterlife. Toro Y Moi - How I Know [...]
When you get someone as hot as Solange Knowles to participate in your music you need to step up your game a little bit. And so Chromeo did by impregnating every woman who set eyes and ears on them playing their latest single, 'When the Night Falls'. But unfortunately we are not going to see more skin than we did in the steamy video of 'Hot Mess' , because this Canadian duo don't make babies like normal people do (i.e. in failing to wrap it up before they smack it up due to being swept [...]
HIYA // LOL Perhaps justice does exist in music beyond Gaspard and Xavier after all! You may have noticed lately that Little Dragon are finally starting to get the recognition they deserve! RECOGNISE, PEOPLE. RE-COG-NISE. Anyway, it seems the band were asked to do a 'club classic' whilst playing in Ibiza (where else), and this is what they whipped out. I love this 'Gypsy Woman' cover! It is awesome. This treats Crystal Waters' track and that [...]
HIYA // George's arm/tatt Twin Shadow described his break-up mix for Oki-Ni (who, if you didn't know, do a fabulous mixtape series besides fabulous clothes) with, 'I was thinking about blaming everything on girls.' So, yeah this mix is ' melancholy and wounded...tied together by a feeling of bitter-sweet loss '. But at the same time, and perhaps much more apparent (in my ears at least), is the sound of the mild self-derision that can ring heartbroken self pity. [...]
To give further (cross-over) credence to what has slowly been gathering steam from being one of the most underrated tracks of the year to simply one of the tracks of the year, SBTRKT and Yukimi - Little - Dragon 's 'Wildfire' gets even sexier when caressed by Drumma Boy and licked by Shabazz Palaces . This remix is sensual and slinking and makes Yukimi sound more like she's surrendering rather than merely speculation or teasing; as she sounds in the (sexily) aloof, nonchalant original. But here, [...]
This remix has been floating around since this time last year, but for some reason has resurfaced. Thank god. It breathed some life into my afternoon. After having just finished reading an article about the current inability of men in pop music on the Guardian , it brought me back to my analysis of my great white hope for man pop, Penguin Prison , who in my opinion, has yet failed to deliver upon the promise we saw earlier on. I hopefully compared PP to a young George Michael ; but let's face it. There ain't nothing [...]
In 2007, I went to Curitiba, Brazil, for a party. Diplo was the headlining act of the night, and the line-up was complimented by Boss In Drama , Twelves and Our Gang . It would be the first time that I'd see them - in fact, nearly all of them were doing their first gig ever. I didn't know back then, but this trio would later become my three favourite electronic projects in Brazil. Now, four year later, they all did the growing they had to do and are starting new chapters in [...]
It's no secret we're total Hallyu (or Korean Wave, specifically, South Korean) fans. So when Elite Gymnastics dropped this long windedly titled mix for Forty Ounce Clothing earlier this week, I squealed like a highschool fan girl out of a K-drama meeting her favourite idol for the first time. Dubbed 'All We Fucking Care About Is Kpop, Whitehouse and our Cats Mix', it doesn't include any of our most recent favourite idol groups, but there are some tracks that are as catchy as plague included. As well as a track [...]
HIYA // Oupa When I spoke to Daniel Blumberg earlier this year about his band Yuck , amongst other things, we also touched upon his beautiful solo project, Oupa . And next week sees Danny releasing an album of his music as Oupa as well as a book of drawings on his own label/publishing house, Boiled Egg (and also happens to be releasing a two part cassette by great friend and fellow creative A Grave With No Name in September). [...]
HEY LONDON! We know you've got a lot of shit on your plate right now in the light of the last few days' events, but a lot of other places have got it pretty bad too. So here's yet another good cause that some of our friends are putting on, that you can get involved with, check it: EAST2EAST : East London >> East Africa famine fundraiser! WHEN: Thursday 18th August TIME: 7.00pm -11.30pm [...]
Based on the latest news surrounding The Drums , I didn't expect to like anything new from the band. Yet their new single, 'Money', quickly placed itself in my top three favorite songs from the band. Much of that can be attributed to the fact that it sounds a lot like early Smiths and I'm pretty much a sucker for Morrissey's old group; the first twenty seconds of the song made me actually think it was a cover. But as the chorus kicks in with that rich blend of '80s British influenced indie [...]
I M // U R
Philly electronic music experts sound off on Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories
Review: The Front Bottoms – “Talon Of The Hawk”
