Why We Want The Heavenly Social Back / Free St Etienne Download
As a preview for our forthcoming interview with the First Lady of Clever Pop, Ms Sarah Cracknell, we’ve got a gratis Heavenly sampler, a review of the recent St Etienne South Bank gig, and a bit of a rant, after the jump.
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September 18th, 2008
A Video Postcard From Those Dancing Days
Oh look, it's the video for new Those Dancing Days single Home Sweet Home. It is the sort of pop clip that makes the most of what it has - a blue screen and a 1970s' Jackie annual, by the looks of it - and turns it into something wonderful. And, because it has lots of Swedish names in it, the writing of lyrics across the screen comes in very useful indeed. Thumbs up, Those Dancing Days.
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Drums of Death On Home Furnishings, Smackdowns & Haitian Voodoo
Drums of Death, voodoo techno witch doctor on Joe from Hot Chip's wrestling-obsessed Greco Roman label, talks to us about the joys of facepaint, fights in pub car parks and how having a nice rug in the studio can really bring a room together. Top fellow.
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September 17th, 2008
Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. We are reviving the Lipster album review, only we are now going to do it using the medium of collage. To kick things off, here's our pictorial appreciation of Katy Perry - One Of The Boys...
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EXCLUSIVE! Peaches - New Album Details
Peaches' new record isn't out for, ooh, ages - apparently it's dropping in March. Like next YEAR. The fact that this is AEONS away does not stop us bringing you EXCLUSIVE news of what it is going to sound like, courtesy of voodoo electro witch doctor Drums of Death. Thank you, Scary Clown Face Man.
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September 16th, 2008
It's Worth Keeping An Eye On VV Brown...
...and here are some reasons why. The pop-star-to-be is into collecting keyboards. She likes the B52s. Her gravity-defying Barbara Stanwyck fringe deserves a post of its own. After the jump, one of those "oh my mates just followed me around with a camera" record label scratchy videos, which shows off said fringe, keyboards and band-loving:
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New Lily Allen Album Due In February
All that gossip about how Lily Allen's record label won't bring out her new album because she's a girl like Katy Perry or something can finally be put to rest - Stuck On The Naughty Step has a release date of February 9, 2009. We'll probably be at war with Russia and buying bread with thousand pound notes by then, but all the more need for a chirpy chorus, right?
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Wii Music Looks Like Polite Fun
Here are some videos of a very stoic Japanese lady "enjoying" various instruments on the new Wii Music game. It doesn't look like the Rock Band / Guitar Hero-smasher it might have been. In fact, it looks a bit daft. But if you want to see your Mii tackling drums, sitars and cowbells, well, here you go:
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Kanye Vs 50 Cent, Round Two?
After the two hip-hop giants slugged it out for album sales supremacy last year - with Kanye trouncing Curtis then stomping all over the remains - you'd have thought Fiddy might have a bit of dignity about the whole affair, especially since he promised to resign and then changed his mind. But no.
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New Tegan & Sara Clip: Call It Off
Here's the brand spanking new clip for Call It Off, the third single to be taken from The Con. It features nothing but a simple song, a white, stark set and an awful lot of multi-coloured telephone cables, which must have been a nightmare to get out of at the end of it:
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September 15th, 2008
New Bjork Video: The Dull Flame Of Desire (Ft. Antony Hegarty)
Here's the video for Bjork's new single, the Antony Hegarty-assisted Dull Flame Of Desire. As befits such a wonderful and strange song, the video (after the jump) was done slightly differently. Well, of course it was.
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Guitar Hero World Tour: The Full 86-Song Tracklist
Here's the entire setlist for Guitar Hero 4, more tastefully known as Guitar Hero World Tour. It's got Beastie Boys, Blondie, Fleetwood Mac, Interpol, Michael Jackson and Nirvana, so we'll forgive it for not being as lady-friendly as Rock Band 2.
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Some Things From The Weekend: 15/9/08
Kelis gets off, Metallica victorious, new Girls Aloud, angry Jack White and some pretty photos of a Goldfrapp show...
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September 12th, 2008
INTERVIEW: Wild Beasts
Wild Beasts made one of our favourite albums of the year so far with Limbo, Panto. We grabbed 10 minutes with singer Hayden Thorpe to wax poetic about Kate Bush, lad bands and the Beasts' pantomime plans.
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COMPETITION: Win Tickets To London Airwaves Festival!
Fancy seeing Wild Beasts, The Teenagers, cocknbullkid, These New Puritans, Florence & The Machine and Jerry Bouthier in London next Friday? For free? Then you'll be wanting to enter this competition to win a pair of tickets for London Airwaves.
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