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All in video
Portishead backs the Amnesty International cause by releasing a brand new track called 'Chase the Tear', which can be downloaded via the Amnesty International site. You already know my thoughts about Portishead's current output.
I'm not waisting too much words on this. It's massive. Go see the video and download the track.
'These New Puritans have a new album out called 'Hidden' in January 2010. So will they make it this time? Hellz no. The first single off the album is 'We Want More': it is more than seven minutes long, features a children's choir, a minute-long symphonic outro and the sound of a melon filled with cookies beying smashed with a hammer to mimick the sound of a crushed human head.
Attention marketing people. Your trend forecast for today includes: dancing in your underwear with a shower cap on, wearing gold beer cans as rollers, Dominicans and Spanish language in general.
I've you've ever wondered what Brooklynite Santigold might be doing today, chances are you weren't imagining her on a horse wearing puffy pants (Santi, not the horse) and swinging a mallet. Turns out she's taking Polo lessons. And doing quite well for an inner city girl who also happens to be allergic to horses.
This video for 'Spheres of Fury' by Hecq vs. Exillion (please, feel free to forget these names at synaps-firing speed) is a very silly idea, very well executed. Come to think of it, that could be the motto to my entire life. "A very silly idea, very well executed".
I've been working on a new project. Can't talk too much about it right now. What I can do is share some of the stuff that's inspiring me along the way.
Faris Badwan, the slightly eccentric frontman of the biggest hype of 2009 The Horrors, has been working on a side project called 'Lumina'. This is his self-directed video for their first (and only?) release "I'll be with you", a Black Lips cover.
Answering the age old question: "So what you done good?", Buraka Som Sistema goes back to Buraka -their original neighbourhood in Portugal- to throw their peeps a bona fide block party.
Fafi, the girl whose name now actually means 'fresh' in Dutch (no kiddin'), goes back to the roots of her first collection: all-out sparkles, rainbows and sparkling Fafinettes lounging about in rainbow-coloured panties and stockings.
Wow. I've never really felt the need to post anything by Young Dro before (no offence, Dro). But the style of this new video for 'I don't know y'all' is going to be copied by Ad Men all over the globe, no doubt about it.
Artist Erwin Wurm and Claudia Shifer have fun in German Vogue November with a bunch of artistically used props.
I was floating around on an inflatable lobster in Egypt when the Kanye West x Spike Jonze short film 'Once We Were a Fairytale' dropped. But this little doozy is the perfect excuse to lay it on you anyway as the final post before the weekend hits.
Florence & The Machine covers 90's Jesus-lovin' Euro Pop anthem by Candi Statton and the XX turn the the whole thing into an intense breakbeat-driven gem of a remix. Win.
You know when there's a dream sequence in movies and, for some reason, there's always a circus with little people scuttling about, a femme fatale with freaky eyes and a ringmaster in a top hat with an ancient-looking microphone, grinning in a fish-eyed lens? The new video for 'I Cut Like Buffalo' by The Dead Weather is kinda like that. Only without the little people. And with Jack White as the ringmaster. He directed it himself, you know.
