Goodies
WIN A PAIR OF SHOES JUST LIKE WHAT LA ROUX WEARS! AIEEE! (Etc)
The lovely people at Swear shoes have given us a pair of shoes just like what La Roux wears. And you, reader, can win them.
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The Cheryl Cole Commemorative Plate '09
Yesterday we came across the best Girls Aloud quote ever. It was, of course, from Saint Chez, and was about the nature of true friendship. It so touched us, in fact, that we made a commemorative plate for it, which you can buy after the jump.*
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December 11th, 2008
WIN! Wonky Pop Tickets AND Goodies!
WIN! 2 free tickets to the Wonky Pop Christmas Party at Matter in London this Friday. And what does this mean? A massively giddy night out, FOR NO PENCE, with performances from Alphabeat, Sam Sparro, Tommy Sparks and record-spinning from the really rather superlative Frankmusik. AND - some free records. Woo!
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November 13th, 2008
Decorate Your Life, With Of Montreal
As you may remember, the properly bonkers, properly brilliant Of Montreal decided to release their album Skeletal Lamping on various formats. But instead of the usual mp3 or CD boringness, they went for lampshades, stickers, t-shirts and bags. We thought they were perhaps missing a trick, so offer more ways to get Of Montreal into your life (and you can WIN them), after the jump...
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November 6th, 2008
Mayer Hawthorne Produces Best Looking Seven We Have Seen In Ages
Mayer Hawthorne, a current favourite of someone called Mark Ronson (never heard of him), makes incredibly faithful soul records which manage to avoid the retro/pointless axis by dint of sounding utterly out of time. But readers, it is the shape of his debut single Just Ain't Gonna Work Out, that we are talking about today...
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October 24th, 2008
We Love Bands As Toys
It's been a good month for weird music merch. First those Kiss Mr Potato Heads - yes please - and now Daft Punk BearBricks? Obviously they are useless tat and all, but we sort of want them.
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August 15th, 2008
Band Think Outside The CD-Shaped Box
Those stickers Beck gave away so you could make your own record sleeve? Boring. Radiohead's "pay what you want" / ie take it for free offer? Zzzz. Brilliantly mental band Of Montreal have decided to release their new album in a variety of different packaging - including T-shirts and lampshades:
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August 11th, 2008
WIN! Signed Martha Wainwright albums and singles
We're not all about scurrilous news and silly Photoshopping, you know. We've also got things to give away, competition-style, to you loyal readers. Win one of five signed Martha Wainwright albums and 7"s, after the jump...
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August 1st, 2008
Dolly does retail
Keen watchers of Kids Literacy Embassadress Dolly Parton will be not a little giddy at the news that she's signed a deal this week to produce Dolly-shaped merchandise. We are told this will include a limited edition, pink, Backwoods Barbie cowboy hat.
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July 10th, 2008
Nick Cave's brain looks like this
We got sent a sweet present in the post today. It is a tiny book about the making of the Nick Cave song Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, and contains the sort of drawings and words you would once have got in the "artwork", which came with "CDs".
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