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Easy Rider

Kenneth Bager – Fragment Eight In which we encounter countless crazy motorbikes on the streets of Vietnam.

01.04.08.

Over Easy

Le Le – Breakfast In which Parra brings to cartoon life a song that Monsieur Le Le says is about “bitches and eggs”.

01.04.08.

Pop Music

Pop Levi – Never Never Love In which a red and blue palette, hotpants and chunky knitwear combine to illustrate three dazzling minutes of snap, crackle and glam pop.

01.04.08.

On: El Guincho

We recently chatted to Pablo Díaz-Reixa AKA El Guincho AKA the One-Man Tropical Rave Machine about how he manages to make music that’s wilder than his crazy hair. He explained that while his album might sound like Mardi Gras on Fun Island it’s actually kind of depressing. Here he explains Palmitos Park to those of [...]

01.04.08.

On: The Cool Kids

When we spoke to Chitown’s finest, the Cool Kids, they had a few words for their detractors. “People think they got us figured out,” said Mikey Rocks. “All these hip-hop guys say ‘oh, you make cool music, but you can’t rap, not really,’ even though we’re rapping our asses off in every song. Don’t get [...]

01.04.08.

Love Thy Neighbour

Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down In which the spoof 80s video craze gets really out of hand.

01.04.08.

Wired For Sound

Next week our pals at Dazed are hosting an exhibition called BODYMORE, MURDALAND. It’s Baltimore DJ and Milkcrate impresario Aaron LaCrate‘s photographic tribute to his hometown. As every good philistine knows, the best thing about any exhibition is the opening night party. This one is different. On Monday Plastic People plays host to LaCrate, dapper [...]

01.04.08.

Great White Hope

Man dies from a shark attack, music blog responds by posting cover of Split Enz classic Shark Attack! Wildly inappropriate start to the week or unfortunate coincidence? It’s the latter, we promise. Thanks to its furious fretwork this punked-up version of the Finn brothers’ ode to meeting a maneater has been a highlight of Cut [...]

01.04.08.

Bright Young Things

Even if they hadn’t written a song about the park at the end of our road or another about one of our heroes, we would still love The Chap. They’re like LCD Soundsystem fronted by Evelyn Waugh. Their dry-witted glitch-pop and haughty English ways have found a new home at the always-amazing Ghostly International, who’ll [...]

01.04.08.

Slackness

The new issue of FADER is out today and nestling amongst interviews with Boosie, Telepathe and Glass Candy you’ll find a feature we wrote about Slack, the amazing Japanese menswear label whose new collection was inspired by Hot Chip. Get it here. Hot Chip – One Pure Thought (Supermayer Remix) [mp3]

01.04.08.

The Past