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Ring-Reng-A-Dong We're off on holiday so no updates for a week or so. Be safe, internets! Posted by: Scott 26/06/07 Party Time, Excellent Like the rest of the internet we've been going a little overboard with the Lil Wayne posts lately, but then we heard this excellent Catchdubs remix and thought, why stop now? Lil Wayne ft. Robin Thicke - 88 Shots (Shooter - Nick Catchdubs Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 22/06/07 Pushin' Weight Click this picture to watch The Heavy's new video for That Kind Of Man Dr Dre producing The Dirtbombs or the sound of a lighting rig falling on Curtis Mayfield's head. There are many ways to describe The Heavy, but their name does a pretty good job on its own. They have an EP out on Counter Records in a few weeks and their album, Great Vengeance & Furious Fire, is due in November. Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go [mp3] [Buy] The Dirtbombs - Chains of Love [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 19/06/07 Your Magic Is Real Justice interviewed by the Guardian about brie, magic and superglue. Posted by: Scott 18/06/07 Faster, Stronger The fastest thing at yesterday's US Grand Prix wasn't Lewis Hamilton it was Pharrell Williams, who shamelessly hooked himself on to the F1 wonderboy's bandwagon with impressive speed. Yessir. Our favourite newt-faced Ice Cream Man professed his desire to work with Hamilton (we're assuming Lil Lewis has a Daddy Freddy-style rocket flow) during an embarrassing pre-race interview with ITV's trackside moron, Martin Brundle. Pharrell has been up to his old tricks again recently, namely re-recording flop albums with live instrumentation in the hope they'll rise Lazurus-like from the bargain bins. While he shouldn't have bothered changing the first NERD album (the original, electronic version still sounds great), In My Mind wasn't even a good album to begin with. ?uestlove's occasionally bland blend of hop-hop-jazz-funk is not going to save it. We blame Nigo. Pharrell was cool until he shaved off his spivvy ‘tache and got into the whole BAPE thing. That said, let us not forget that three years ago the Neptunes provided the first, and still the best, hip-hop take on a Daft Punk song. Sorry Kanye. Pharrell & the Yessirs - How Does It Feel? [mp3] Twista - Give It Up (ft. Pharrell) [mp3] Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Neptunes Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 18/06/07 I'm A Microfiend Cool Kids TV - Episode 1 The Cool Kids are our favourite Ed Banger tee-sporting BMX-obsessives. Lil Wayne is our favourite Marc Jacobs-repping maniac. DJ Benzi brings them together for this taster from his forthcoming album, Get Right. We'll be getting it. Benzi Presents.. The Cool Kids & Lil Wayne - Gettin'It [mp3] Posted by: Scott 16/06/07 Giselevator Pinglewood has just returned from Fashion Rio, where we quickly got to realise that an Internacional Imprensa card gets you free champagne and canapés pretty much anywhere, bitch. Anyway, Gisele was also in town, getting paid a fortune to work the catwalk for Brazilian lifestyle brand Colcci, on a school play-style stage replete with nu-rave graffiti and rickety elevators. But we felt a little sorry for the other models, as Gis’ got her own cool, New York warehouse-style elevator, while the no-namers had to make do with the crappy service lifts. But what we really loved was Gatsby magazine’s Stefan Hottinger-Behmer’s reaction via t-shirt the next day. Just awesome. Hot tunes on the catwalk were LCD Soundsystem’s North American Scum, CSS’s Alala and of course, Barry Manilow’s Copacabana. But we wish we’d heard a little more of this sort of thing. Francis Albert Sinatra & António Carlos Jobim - Drinking Water (Aqua De Beber) [mp3] [Buy] Milton Nascimento - Para Lennon e McCartney [mp3] [Buy] Jorge Ben - Take It Easy My Brother Charles [mp3] [Buy] Bonus song with the word elevator in the title. Rhymefest - Angry Black Man On A Elevator (ft. Lil Jon) [mp3] [The making of...] Posted by: Alice 14/06/07 Yeah, I've Got On Sneaks But I Need A New Pair M.I.A. - Boyz Deploring 2007's supposed lack of summer anthems Yacht has decided to make his own. It has the word summer in the title and everything. But what makes a good summer song? A rap retooled power-pop anthem? A croaking coke fiend and a kiddy chorus? Or do D.A.N.C.E., Lip Gloss and Beggin' already have it sown up? Who knows. Thanks to a series of M.I.A.-induced Olympic mindfucks we can’t concentrate on anything for more than four seconds. YACHT - Summer Song (ft. Claire L. Evans) [mp3] [More...] Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend (ft. Lil' Mama) [mp3] Lil' Wayne - La La La [mp3] Posted by: Scott 12/06/07 Our Lovely City Last week, we interviewed Matthew Dear. Techno’s poster boy told us all about his extraordinary new album: a bewitching, electronic pop wonder called Asa Breed. Amongst other cool things we learned that Vine To Vine, the album’s surprise hidden track, a dusty, country-rock stomper is about one of his ancestors: “I learned that my father’s great grandfather was murdered in Texas by Texas Rangers. He was murdered for his land. I thought it would be a cool thing to write about. It’s pretty much the only song I’ve ever written that is about a single event. It definitely comes from the most honest place, the most hard, non-fiction place.” The full interview will appear in the next issue of Clash. Above you can watch short films that the folks at Ghostly International made to accompany each of the album’s tracks. Below we have one of the new album’s many highlights and Dear’s very first release from 1999, a track he co-produced with the sorely missed Disco D. The vocal hook will be familiar to anyone who, like us, frequents crappy provincial nightclubs. Matthew Dear - Don and Sherri [mp3] [Buy] Daisha - Hands Up For Detroit [mp3] Posted by: Scott 11/06/07 Not-So-Young Folks Happy 30th birthday, Kanye West. Sometimes you're a bit of an idiot , but rapping over Daft Punk, Thom Yorke and Peter, Bjorn & John on the same mixtape more than makes up for it. Kanye West - Stronger (Full album version) [mp3] CRS (Lupe, Kanye & Pharrell) - Us Placers [mp3] [Download mixtape...] Kanye West - Young Folks (Freestyle) [mp3] [Same as above...] Posted by: Scott 08/06/07 The Customer Is Always Right A, B, E. For a while now we've been meaning to write about how much we like the new Clientele album, but a killer combination of lethargy and gin meant our lazy, drunk fingers never got around to the typing. Then we saw a post on Brooklyn Vegan about Client and our alphabet-obsessed brain swung into action. Similar sounding band names are our lifeblood. Then we'd planned to tell you that Client A is Mrs Alan McGee and that Client B is Sarah from Dubstar and that Client E is Emily from Make Me A Supermodel, but then, after more gin, we realised you would probably prefer to just look at their picture. Client - Drive [mp3] [More...] The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 06/06/07 RIP John Pike Ra Ra Riot (John Pike - fourth from left) On Friday we interviewed the very lovely Rebecca Zeller {fifth from left] who plays violin in Ra Ra Riot. She was excited about a show the band was playing that night in Providence. We had planned to speak to the rest of the band tonight, but while researching the story we heard that drummer John Pike was missing following a party after Friday’s gig. Sadly, John’s body was found yesterday afternoon. Our thoughts are with John’s family and friends. Ra Ra Riot - Each Year [mp3] [More...] Posted by: Scott 04/06/07 Period T.H.E. W.O.R.L.D. H.A.S. G.O.N.E. A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. C.R.A.Z.Y. Best Fwends - M.Y.S.E.L.F.(Xxxchange Remix) [mp3] [Buy] M.I.A. Boyz [mp3] [More...] Bentley - C.O.L.O.U.R.S. (ft. Pimp C & Lil' Wayne) [mp3] [Get...] Chip Da Ripper - D.A.N.C.E.(Freestyle) [mp3] [More...] Posted by: Scott 03/06/07