Ever had a tune stuck in your ear for such a long time that it felt like auditory suicide? The same beat thrashing against your mind, again and again and again ad infinitum, ad nauseum. You would be lucky that catchy song went away for a while, a day maybe, two whole blissful weeks! Smug [...]
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Great Rock N Roll Swindle – Die Antwoord and Zef
Posted by heather in February 15th 2010
In the last week or so, music blogs – at least those that weren’t deleted by Google for posting copyrighted content – have exploded over “zef”, an energetic hybrid of rave and hip-hip with a self-consciously white-trash aesthetic [the word itself refers to the South African redneck subculture] typified by bands such as Cape Town [...]
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The 10 Best Lyrical Disses
Posted by heather in February 9th 2010
From 2Pac to Carly Simon, the annals of popular music are filled with songs targeting other musicians, exes, record companies and anyone else who fails to share the songwriter’s point of view. Here are ten of the best.
10 Most Memorable Grammy Moments
Posted by heather in February 2nd 2010
In honour of Monday’s Grammy Awards, here’s a list of ten of the most memorable Grammy moments in recent years. For the most established awards night in popular music, the Grammys are pretty light on shock value compared to, say, the VMAs [the younger, flashier Prince Harry to the Grammys’ sedate Prince William], but – [...]
Mysterious Music Video iamamiwhoami
Posted by heather in January 31st 2010
On December 4, 2009, a user going by the name “iamamiwhoami” uploaded a video to YouTube. The video featured images of trees with writhing limbs, a metallic-skinned woman in the foetal position in what appears to represent the womb, and – most disturbingly – a goat giving birth; its soundtrack was a haunting trip-hop piece, [...]
The Best Soundtracks of the Decade
Posted by heather in January 27th 2010
In honour of awards season, here is a list of my favourite soundtracks of the last decade. Eight of these are from films, but two are mixes from two of the decade’s biggest television shows; no matter what you might think of the shows themselves, both were responsible for introducing several previously unknown artists to [...]
The Many Faces of Marcie
Posted by heather in January 3rd 2010
27-year-old Marcie is what’s known as a multi-hyphenate: singer-songwriter, dancer, guest vocalist on numerous dance tracks, and host of “Behind The Lyric”, a digital radio program in which she interviews prominent members of the dance music world about – what else – the meanings behind their lyrics. While the songs on which the Boston resident [...]
Puppy Love Grows Up – Tonye Christopher
Posted by heather in January 3rd 2010
“I Dreamt I Was A Rockstar” [self-released] is the second release from Dayton, Ohio native Tonye Christopher, whose influences range from Justin Timberlake to Kanye West to John Mayer [whose fellow sensitive singer-songwriter Josh Kelley sings Christopher’s praises on his web site]. It follows on from his 2008 debut “The Puppy Love Letters”, expanding upon [...]
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