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Chop Shop

Laura Marling – Cross Your Fingers / Crawled Out Of The Sea In which the charming alt.folk star uses Quay Bros-style animation to introduce her new haircut.

01.05.08.

Not Over Yet

For some rappers death means biopics or Elton John duets. Not Dilla. More than two years on and amazing songs continue to surface, like this bonkers reinterpretation of Gary Numan’s Cars. J Dilla – Trucks [mp3]

01.05.08.

Scientists Of Sound

How To Make An Indie Rock Hit Bang For The French Nightclubs Of 1983, Part 9. Starring We Are Scientists & Danger. We Are Scientists – Chick Lit (Danger TV Remix Edit) [mp3]

01.05.08.

Punch Drunk

Collapsing Cities – So I Said Last Weekend In which awesome New Zealanders ease our hangovers by blowing stuff up in slow motion and singing about the elusiveness of sobriety. Collapsing Cities – So I Said Last Weekend [mp3]

01.05.08.

Better Late Than Never

Late Of The Pier – Focker In which the UK’s best new band jam so hard their keyboards melt, then their faces melt, then a physical manifestation of their insane music beams down and dongs them all. Focker was directed by Daniel Brereton and is half of a double A-side release. The other half, Space [...]

01.05.08.

A Good Sport

There is a photo of me aged six winning a race at a sports day. In the photo I am running and neither of my feet are touching the ground. Because of this I spent the best part of a decade believing I could fly. Sportsday Megaphone makes records like that photo. Here he turns [...]

01.05.08.

Jiggle It

Annie Get Shakes. We get palpitations. Annie – I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me (Get Shakes Remix) [mp3]

01.05.08.

Turn And Face The Strain

Daedelus is the Zelig of beats. A globetrotting musical chameleon for whom reinvention is a daily operation. He is also a fan of Obama and Star Trek. Ninja Tune loves the new A-List of electronic producers (did you hear Switch is producing the next Coldcut record?) and here Daedelus gets a coat of spikey gloss [...]

01.05.08.

On Trend

We love Agyness Deyn. We do not love her new song. Songs by British supermodels always suck. Thankfully, songs about British supermodels are reliably awesome. Arab Strap – Kate Moss [mp3] [Buy] The Long Blondes – Erin O’Connor [mp3] [Buy] Noir Boys Club – Agyness Deyn [mp3] [Source]

01.05.08.

Little Drummer Boy

Drums Of Death looks like a cross between Baron Samedi and Heath Ledger’s Joker. Like them he is scarily awesome. Unlike them he is the latest addition to the GrecoRoman army. Our sonic wrestling dudes are throwing another ridiculous party this Friday. If you’re in Berlin head down to Scala where your ears will be [...]

01.05.08.

The Future · The Past