Gang Gang Dance‘s Saint Dymphna is one of our favourite albums of the year and their startling avant-grime collab with Tinchy Stryder has already been lauded up and down the information superhighway. We just found out that Dymphna was the daughter of an Irish cheftian called Damon who fell in love with her after his [...]
01.09.08.
Ezra Bang is the Tetsuo of hip-hop. We don’t mean he has bits of metal growing out his face or a penis that turns into a power drill, but that he is a monster made from the shreds and scraps of old rap. He is the hyper-sexual, campy menace of Schoolly D and the booming [...]
01.09.08.
As London Fashion Week draws to a close we have retired [slumped] to our quarters [the sofa] to take repose [be sick on ourselves]. But on Wednesday we were hanging out in Harrods’ Laduree Tea Room, surrounded by lurid macaroons and toasting André Benjamin‘s exceedingly dapper new Benjamin Bixby menswear line. We managed to catch [...]
01.09.08.
Banjo or Freakout is the sound of underwater daydreams. Fuzzy little songs that hang in the air like lonely, sedated clouds. It’s the work of one man, Alessio Natalizia, and his shoegazing covers of Burial, Battles and Pavement (all given away free on his fantastic blog) have seen him likened to a European Atlas Sound. [...]
01.09.08.
Hey little indie dudes! It must be hard being so sensitive and introverted. Aggressively social situations must make you want to scream. So it’s good to have little indie friends. And little indie bands like the wonderful Tin Can Telephone who can articulate your fears in their playful little songs. We worry about you, little [...]
01.09.08.
The Invisible rerelease the awesome Monster’s Waltz soon, so lets take a moment to analyze this press shot. From right to left: Tom Herbert (bass) – big bushy beard, serious expression, but cool; Dave Okumu (guitar, vocals) – awesome outfit, we want to be your friend, totally cool; Tom Skinner Leo Taylor (drums) trying way [...]
01.09.08.
Thanks to the New York Post’s theatre column we now know there is an off-Broadway musical called Fela! that Jay-Z wants to plough money into. Is there a scene where Fela marries 20 women at once? Or one where his elderly mother is thrown out of a window by soldiers? Can you imagine a theatre [...]
01.09.08.
Buraka Som Sistema are all over the latest Hollertronix EP and their debut album, Black Diamond, will be released soon by Fabric. This makes perfect sense. If anyone should have their album put out by a nightclub it’s these hard-partying dudes. We caught up with Lil’ John from the band recently. After the jump he [...]
01.09.08.