Her off The Distillers, Brody Dalle (left; click image to enlarge), has long been a “pin-up” for males who think it’s sissy to fancy women who aren’t plastered in tattoos. I was never the biggest fan of The Distillers - “Drain The Blood” aside - so was interested to hear she’d formed a new, slightly more accessible band. They’ve been tinkering away for a while, but you can actually download some of their stuff now.
Further proof that anyone toting a guitar in 2009 might as well chop it up for firewood, Milke (right; click image to enlarge) have already been big-upped (bigged-up?) by lots of people far cooler than I. “Love Get Out Of My Way” is released as a single on March 16th, with a debut album due to follow later this year.
With all the plaudits they’ve received from the cool kids I was like, “Not going to like ‘Love Get Out Of My Way’. Shan’t”. But then I listened to it, and I was like, “OK, it’s good.” And then I heard the Designer Drugs remix - which you can download for free after the jump - I was like, “THAT IS FUCKING BRILLIANT.”
And then everyone in the office was like, “You in the corner, we are trying to work here, please stop talking to yourself.” And I was like, “OK.”
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Stuart Waterman on
Thursday February 12th, 2009 at
11:00 am
The reason Adam Sandler has covered Neil Young is that, apparently, Warner Bros are releasing an album of their artists covering songs from their catalogue.
This isn’t tooooo bad until you get to 4.00, at which point it all goes a bit karaoke. As The Onion remarks, “thankfully, the song won the fight-it’s very resilient.”
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Stuart Waterman on
Thursday February 12th, 2009 at
10:00 am
Last night I went to see a young man who calls himself Tah Mac. This is him in his new video, “Lavish Lifestyle”:
It’s quite a catchy number, is not it? He reminds me a bit of Sisqo, only I believe he may be even shorter.
However, do you get the impression “Lavish Lifestyle” was penned, recorded and filmed before the global economy went and shat itself?
Now, hold on. I know that headline looks shockingly opportunistic given the fact nobody has yet been found guilty of anything following Rihanna’s alleged beating at the hands of R&B Chris, Chris Brown.
However, even before this alleged event I suspected the expressionless Barbadian beauty would be better off with me. It’s not rocket science, guys. Check out what I can offer after the jump, and VOTE IN MY POLL.
An already excitingly electro-packed 2009 just got another shot of excitingfulness with the news that French weirdo producer Mirwais is to return as part of a duo called Y.A.S.
Mirwais produced Madonna’s “Music” and also released the album Production, from which sprang the classic woozy disco science of “Naive Song” and, well, “Disco Science”.
Now he’s teamed up with a lady named Yasmine Hamdan to create: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL ELECTRO PROJECT THAT PLACES ARABIC LANGUAGE AT THE CENTER OF POP CULTURE!
That’s how their MySpace puts it, anyway (their shouty capitals/American spelling).
“Who he is is exactly who he is,” says ex-Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry (no, not that Mark Curry) of his ex-boss Diddy. If that statement is your kind of truth, you can expect a lot more of it in his new book, the subtly-titled Dancing With The Devil.
Curry appeared on Diddy’s 2001 hit “Bad Boy For Life”, which I’m not ashamed to say I bloody love. “We-ain’t… going-nowhere… we-can’t-be-stopped-now, cuz it’s Bad Boy for life.” You know, I’m going to fire that song up right now.
So anyway, Mark Curry has a fair bit to say about his time as Diddy’s employee. Remember how Diddy used to appear in just about every video anyone on his label ever put out? Curry reckons Diddy charged for those appearances.
You can see why him off The Kills and her off the catwalk got together when you watch The Kills’ videos.
If “Black Balloon” were a person - and it could happen - he/she would have mucky fingernails, nose-stinging morning breath, your wallet in his/her back pocket and be using your stove to light his/her crackpipe.
The song and video suit each other pretty perfectly, with that nagging guitar line as insistent as the soul-gnawing desire to obliterate your mind with sweet, sweet heroin. I imagine.
If you think La Roux have been hyped, check out what’s happened to Chester French before even releasing a record.
So, first they graduated from Harvard.
Then they:
- Were the subject of a bidding war between Kanye West and Pharrell Williams’ record labels. Pharrell won.
- Had an unmastered version of their track “She Loves Everybody” featured on an episode of Entourage.
- Supported N.E.R.D on tour.
- Have appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, Vibe, Details, Interview, GQ, Teen Vogue and Nylon.
- Married a Geldof (well, one of them has. Not him, above. The other one.).
When an act is hyped two minutes after they’ve exited a recording studio, the backlash can arrive in similarly quick time. La Roux - who I think are to be referred to as a plural rather than a singular now - are beginning to get a taste of this. Or at least, those of us who waste our lives on the internet are. La Roux are probably too busy building an album or something to worry about such piffle.
“In For The Kill”, despite pleasing Eurythmics-style synths and, as per, excellent hair in the video, isn’t as good as “Quicksand” in my opinion. It also seems to go on for a bit too long.
I’m still holding out for a single release for “Reflections Are Protection”, which you can hear on her their MySpace, but in the meantime the new video is after the jump.
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