T Willy AKA Toddla T brand new track featuring the one and only Shola Ama is Wills & Kate’s official wedding anthem.
If you don’t believe us, check the Songs Of Praise version as they left Westminster Abbey…
Just in time for the afterparty that is Camden Crawl tomorrow, the radio edit and full length video for ‘Take It Back‘ is out and vibesin’ right now.
Read MoreWhen good, old fashioned guitar music was the most awesome thing in the world, and live music bookended each week of each month, there was a guy called Will White of a band called Talk Taxis who made the kind of music – independently – that gave ‘Indie’ it’s credibility and worth listening to.
With the deeply saddening semi-demise of the genre, Talk Taxis disbanded.
Now, after an all-too-long absence, Will White has created and made available for our listening pleasure, his new material under the title of BLANc.
Booming out of our speakers for the past couple weeks, Will’s new work is strong, awesome, and Staying Young, particularly, is a heavy contender for our song of the summer.
Read MoreThe Beastie Boys are back and, as ever, packing heat.
This trailer for ‘Fight For Your Right – Revisited’ boasts an altogether ridiculous cast including Seth Rogen, Elijah Woods, Danny McBride, and Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Jack Black as two versions of the Beasties, as well as Will Arnett, Jason Schwartzman, Rainn Wilson, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, Ted Danson, Chloë Sevigny, Alicia Silverstone… The list is almost never-ending and packed with quality.
The 30 minute film will accompany the infamous New York trio’s eagerly awaited Hot Sauce Committee Part Two which, available for pre-sale now with some rawkus exclusives, can be ch-checked out on their website : http://beastieboys.com
Read MoreGetting adequately hyped for Toddla T‘s forthcoming album ‘Watch Me Dance’ out on his own Ninja Tune label, Girls Music, and just as excited about the accompanying film Always Moving.
From the man(abadman) responsible for the production of Roots Manuva’s ‘Slime & Reason’, club bangers with Ms. Dynamite, Shola Ama, and remixes of Gorillaz and Hot Chip tracks amongst an extensive and prolific portfolio, we can expect cameos from all the above, 2 Bears, Busy P, Serocee, Diplo, Moska, and just about every major city from Sheffield to Kingston, J.A.
Watch Me Dance is available for your listening pleasure over at www.toddlat.com now.
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Last month we posted Tyler, The Creator‘s fantastic ‘Yonkers‘ video, but, as great as the video and song are, this isn’t all Tyler and Odd Future have to offer. Not by half.
The inspriringly prolific OFWGTKA crew have, between them, something like eleven albums/mixtapes, videos to accompany, and deserve all the hype they’ve been getting over the recent months.
My favourite crew-member besides Tyler is Earl Sweatshirt, who’s album ‘EARL‘ is ten awesome tracks of clever, funny, and brutal lyrics, strong beats that sound better than a lot of studio albums, and an excitable flow – the likes of which has been an elusive character in the recent years of rap music.
Not that we’re calling it rap…
One track from ‘EARL’ has received attention from Jay Hurt, and the resulting video for ‘Couch‘, featuring Tyler as Ace, The Creator is an awesome and brilliantly executed piece which compliments the song perfectly.
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Perhaps it’s as a result of my recent birthday, but I’ve found myself perusing my limited personal archive of old family photos.
Old, dog-eared photos with my mum’s writing on the back of me with loose, vibrant orange hair, my dad with his high-top and slight frame, my sister no bigger than my modern-day arm… Memories, hey?
Click here to watch the trailer to potentially the most exciting cinematic event this year – Richard Ayoade’s feature-length debut, Submarine.
Ayoade’s directorial resumé alone is enough to excite and tantalise, having co-directed Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, music videos for Last Shadow Puppets, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Vampire Weekend, and Arctic Monkeys, and responsible for the latter’s At The Apollo live DVD, but for his adaptation of Joe Dunthorne’s book by the same name, he’s enlisted Alex Turner for an original soundtrack and Paddy Considine to star.
Obviously it’s received awesome reviews at the international film festivals, and with what we know of it it’s not hard to see why.
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If you’ve not yet heard Arcade Fire’s eagerly awaited follow up to Neon Bible, The Suburbs, you need to buy, stream, beg, borrow, or steal yourself a copy immediately.
If you have had your ears tickled by its splendour, you’ll be as excited as we are with the release of the single and accompanying video for the title track directed by no less than Spike Jonze.
As well as pleasing the eyes with some beautiful direction, the video fits as perfectly as seemingly possible, with the same upbeat beginning slipping into an inexplicable sense of sinisterness the music has.
To add to the furore of excitement, the band have said that it acts as “some kind of trailer” to the upcoming short movie directed by (you guessed it) Spike Jonze and soundtracked by (no way) Arcade Fire.
Here’s a little poster that’s does nothing to quell the growing anticipation.
Having, thankfully, never been to prison, and nearly all reference to life inside coming from one form of dramatised medium or another, Bettina von Kameke‘s photographs of day-to-day life inside one of the best known prisons are both refreshing and a little depressing all at the same time.
Offering the sense of time-irrelevance one can imagine is prominent for inmates, some of the images feel as though they could be from any prison at any time, portraying real people in a very real situation.
The full exhibition is at Great Western Studios until March 11th.
London-based collective Holy Ghost return with a third installment to their fantastic run of photozines in the form of Holy Ghost Zine Volume 3.
Co-curators of TEN and sole curators of The Other Space in South East London, Matt and Alex have been holding it down as prominent figures in London’s creative set, with Volume 3 further confirming their presence and skill.
The 60 page, full colour extravaganza features the work of Natalie Kaplan, Simon Nunn, Kingsley Ifill, Alex Olson, Bobby Doherty, and TriangleTriangle’s Jake Dow-Smith.
Limited to just 100 copies, and having had the previous two volumes either sell out, be reissued, and sell out again, or just plain sell out, the fastest acting will prevail.
Grab it here.
