Nobody can argue against the almighty power of the mixtape, especially after a year like 2009. We have seen artists like Wale, Drake, and Kid Cudi rise from underground hip-hop to the main stage of radio, MTV and iTunes. As purveyors and champions of the mixtape, we here at BDN strive to filter the best of the best to you the reader. Here are some late season goodies that have been playing around the office the last few weeks. First up is the much anticipated Mixtape Volume 4 by Hood Internet . [...]
I've been casually watching the hype surrounding Hereford born Ellie Goulding whiz past me for the last couple of months. Now I figured it was about time that I gave some blog space to the girl who is quite possibly one the most exciting female soloists of 2009. That may be a bold statement I know, 2009 has been filled to the brim with fresh female talent, but something about Ellie Goulding is a little more intriguing. Now by all accounts Goulding herself has heavily eclectic musical taste, infact I read somewhere that one of her most admired [...]
Wednesday 10 November 2009 Photo: Tim Ferguson I always do my best to see support acts, even when, in the case of Islington's Union Chapel , there's a great pub nearby for some pre-show pints. This habit was rewarded on Wednesday when I saw Moriarty open for Andrew Bird . I'd never heard of the Franco-American collective before but apparently they are "big in France" and the Guardian [...]
Oh my God. I had an absurdly good meal at 8 Oz. Burger Bar this evening. I'll post the pictures and describe the tastes later, I'm still full and haven't found quite the right words to describe it yet. Then I came home and found out one of the restaurant's co-owners was recently arrested on charges that he may have intentionally caused a woman to have a miscarriage by "placing an unspecified powder in the pregnant woman's vaginal area." So he killed a fetus. If you told me right now that the hamburger I ate tonight was actually a fetus, [...]
Get Right and Wordamouth rip the stage along with WrittenHouse and Whiz Khalifa 10/30 at the Draught Horse in Philadelphia. Download the Get Rights mixtape here: Get Right Pussy, Kicks & Comic Books Related Posts: Wiz Khalifa X Curren$y At CMJ (Video) WrittenHouse Interview @ A3C Festival Wiz Khalifa X Currensy-The Checkpoint (Video) Wiz Khalifa-Name On A Cloud/Wussup (Video) [...]
As one of the more produced rock bands in the shops these days, it was hard to imagine what Danish rockers Mew would deliver in the live setting when the technicians had gone and they were left with just instruments and effects. Tonight dispelled any such fears, but the full-ish Academy crowd were just delighting in finally being able to witness these peculiar and peerless prog-rockers. It's unlikely that the Academy, or any Irish venue for that matter, has hosted anything like Mew before. The set was an education in technical virtuosity and bombastic [...]
Happy Birthday Hello Kitty! Colette célèbre le 35eme anniversaire de cette icône kawaï créée par Sanrio le 1er novembre 1974, avec un espace entièrement dédié, du 9 novembre au 5 décembre. Une ribambelle de produits, des collaborations pops et acidulées, tout l'univers d' Hello Kitt y sera représenté avec notamment les produits collectors Dr Romanelli, Medicom, Mimoco, Asics, Casio , etc… Et n'oubliez pas, si Hello Kitty n'a pas de bouche, c'est parce qu'elle parle avec son coeur. La créatrice actuelle des produits Hello Kitty, Ms. Yuko Yamaguchi , sera chez Colette le lundi [...]
So less then a week after it was formally announced that the members of Armor For Sleep had gone their seperate ways , Ben Jorgensen reveals his new band God Loves A Challenge to the world. The phrase "God Loves a Challenge" was scribbled almost illegibly on a bathroom wall at a dingy New York City bar when Ben Jorgensen, former singer/songwriter of Armor for Sleep saw it and committed it to memory. "It seemed interesting to me that a drunken wall-scribbler was contemplating such deep thoughts". God Loves a Challenge as [...]
DOWNLOAD: Jemina Pearl & Iggy Pop - I Hate People (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Toro Y Moi - "Human Nature" (Michael Jackson Cover) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Tori y Moi - Blessa (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Toro y Moi - Talamak (MP3) DOWNLOAD: washed out - feel it all around (toro y moi remix) (MP3) Tori y Moi The Islands and Jemina Pearl tour [...]
Beck came to most people by way of MTV wearing a stormtrooper mask and rapping about "getting crazy with the Cheez Whiz." The video was "Loser," and the song was recorded as a joke—on a friend of a friend's eight-track in a span of six hours. The white-boy slacker-rap song went to number 10 on [...]
The cape is still pretty. Some trees have kept their color and the sun shines through their red leaves. Pumpkins sit on steps and scarecrows stand in front yards. The oak leaves are turning brown on the branches but even they brighten in the sun. Today is a beauty. My haul of candy was kept in a bowl with tulips on it and stored under my bed. All the good candy barely lasted a day. The candy corn was the last to go. My mother was a whiz with hamburger, but we never noticed how often [...]
Chula Vista, California electro house whiz kid CEPI is back with two new rad tracks to share with the world, alongside news that he'll be opening up for Le Castle Vania at the Friday the 13th show that Dylan is...
To put it simply, I always love opening my e-mail and finding good ol Arthur Pitt sent me some new Wiz Khalifa. Here is the last leak "When U Find" off Wiz' Burn After Rolling mixtape that drops Monday November 2nd. Download: Whiz Khalifa - "When U Find" / Mediafire
Thanks to Time Out Sydney here's a guide to Sydney eats, beats and streets courtesy of Modular besties Ladyhawke (aka Pip Brown) and Van She lead singer Nick Routledge. Best venue (as a punter) Nick Routledge: "The Enmore Theatre. It's got the balcony, which is massive and has a very old theatre feel to it, which I really like." The Enmore Theatre, 118-132 Enmore Rd, Newtown 2042. Pip Brown: "Spectrum – mainly because Sarah (Lanarch) who does all my artwork is a DJ [...]
No, folks, I have not given up on this blog. I sincerely apologize for not living up to this blog's name this year. You'd think at least one post a month would be easy enough. For various reasons that I won't bore you with, I just wasn't able to. My second job has taken up so much more time this year than it did last year. Which is a good thing...extra money is always good. It seems in today's economy you either are out of work or you are working more for the same [...]
D if ferent things can happen when you sit in your university's library with a fellow student and both prepare for your final exams. Probably you will start to talk about your topics or maybe just ask for a pen or a piece of paper. As a smoker you might meet each other again in front of the doors, both with your heads full of questions and not enough answers. You might start to talk about other stuff and if only so you don't have to think about your exams. You might find out that both of you [...]
It seems hard to believe that the gospel-infused, jam-blues-rock band The Word released their eponymous debut album some nine years ago - which has held up quite well over time. The band, which consists of the NMAS, pedal-steel whiz Robert Randolph and keyboard extraordinaire John Medeski have only made a handful of sporadic appearances over the years since they originally toured behind the album. The super-group will come together once again for a two-date New Year's run playing shows in Philly and New York, as a warm-up before for their Jam Cruise 8 [...]
"You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society." Ok, wrong reference; we're not talking about Holmes' mad-cap nemesis. Instead, for those you not yet been acquainted let us introduce you to Moriarty ; a French-American folk roots quintet. The band are Rosemary, Arthur, Zim, Thomas & Charles Moriarty and they have been described as 'Billie Holiday fronting Calexico'. Now that's grabbed your attention hasn't it. The sound is a mix of folk, country, blues and cabaret fronted by Rosemary's strange but beguiling [...]
What comes to mind when you think of 67? The number of throws in judo? "Jailhouse Rock?" (Rolling Stone calls it the 67th greatest song of all time.) The 67 seconds it took Elliot Spitzer to announce he was resigning from office? Your local mathematician will tell you that 67 is what's known as a lazy caterer's number, meaning it's part of the so-called lazy caterer sequence, which has to do with the number of pieces of a round object—say, a pizza—that can be made with a specific number of straight cuts. For example, if you make three straight cuts [...]
Last week, Pitchfork premiered The Dodos video for Time To Die single "Fables." Like "Fools" – the clip that introduced the band to the world a year and a half ago – the latest vid from the San Fran folk-rock trio was directed by The Masses whiz Matthew Amato. Following a similar stylistic blueprint, the camera dollies around the studio, capturing the band playing through the song in its most raw
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new music from vampire weekend – cousins + music video
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
