A Lipster Jingle, With Benji Hughes
We had the great pleasure of meeting Benji Hughes a few weeks ago, and he was all North Carolinan charm. What you may not know about Benji is that he used to compose advertising jingles, so we asked him to do one for us...
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November 10th, 2008
The World Hates You, According To The Kills
On the b-side of The Kills' (great) new single Tape Song, there's a cheerful little ditty called London Hates You. As the drama unfolds, it becomes clear that not only does London hate you, but there's some sort of global conspiracy going on and a lot of the world hates you. So here is a map of all the places that hate you, according to The Kills:
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What Music Has Taught Us About Paris This Year
Paris: officially the pop star's reference point of choice in 2008. But what have we learned from music about the city of love?
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November 7th, 2008
If Next Week's Singles Were Haircuts, What Would They Be?
This week we compare Monday's releases with haircuts. And this is not just because our own hair needs a ruddy good chop and we are going to do it ourselves this afternoon.
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Morgan from Plugs and Does It Offend You, Yeah? Does The Questionnaire
Morgan Quaintance (lovely name, lovely fellow) talks to us about Val Kilmer's elbow growth, directors with God complexes and naughty sherbet.
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Of Montreal: New Video, Promise Of Something Right Good Next Week
We're massively in love with the new Of Montreal album, Skeletal Lamping, what came out this week, for a number of reasons: it sounds like 74million albums in one, it is camp as tits, and it comes on all these amazing formats like bags, T-shirts and "wall decals" which are basically big stickers.
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Katy Perry's Cherry Chapstick Looks Rather Rude
It was the MTV Europe Awards last night. Blah blah blah Rick Astley hilariously ironic blah blah blah Perez Hilton red carpet blahhhhhhhhhhh. The most bizarre bit of all? Katy Perry riding in on a giant cherry chapstick. Which categorically did not look like anything else at all, OK? Because she is a girl-kissing girl-kisser.
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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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Metric Back With Help, I'm Alive
Currently all over the YouTubes is this video full of not-so-interesting Metric stills, soundtracked by what appears to be the first track to emerge from their forthcoming third/fourth studio album, Help, I'm Alive.
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November 5th, 2008
How Does One Improve on Britney Spears' Circus Cover?
This week we got sent the artwork for Britney's new one, Circus. And she looks perfectly lovely in a Farrah-sort of way, but there is NO CIRCUS on it. So we have done her a proper one with clowns and ting.
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MIA Gets Down In The Hole With The Wire
MIA - remember her? not really up to much these days - was talking about a cover of the theme from The Wire. Well, now it's emerged, and it's not so much a straight-up remake as a total reimagining, with the assistance of proper Baltimore native Blaqstarr. After the jump...
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Free Download! Drums of Death Remixes Drop The Lime's Hear Me
Colin Bailey, the man responsible for QUITE LITERALLY our favourite record all year (his Tricky remix, since you're asking) gets his wobbly bass and plucked strings on for NYC's Drop The Lime. It's a beauty, readers, and it's freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........
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November 4th, 2008
Enthusing About Spank Rock's Bangers & Cash AND Their Top Ten Songs To Do It To
Out this week, the amazingly good, amazingly rude Bangers & Cash EP from Spank Rock.
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Bon Jovi Creates Best Headline Ever?
Not that old Jon Bon would be our usual topic of discussion, but this headline - "Bon Jovi sued for running over woman with golf buggy" - is pretty darn lols and stands out a mile from all the other music headlines this morning. Look! We made a picture grab thing to show you...
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Favourite Song This Week: We Have Band - Oh
We Have Band may be sporting a silly-as-arseholes name but there's nothing daft about their ESG-meets-(good)Fischerspooner-isms. Oh is spirit of 2003 indie disco in a can and it boasts a Yo Majesty remix on its jazzy vinyl B-side. You cannot ask for more.
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