To quote the eternal genius of Silky Johnson, “Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate!” Gawker : One night last week, Houston rapper/viral phenomenon Riff Raff was sitting in my living room in Brooklyn, eating a bag of Wise BBQ potato chips. The day before, he’d flown to Daytona Beach, Fla., to shoot a music video with 19-year-old viral rap ingénue Kitty Pryde, and now he was in New York to do photo shoots and interviews for two major rap magazines. He was scheduled to play The Bamboozle festival in New Jersey the following day. He sat on the ...

When a long-dead woman called Betty Corrigall comes to you and tells you to make an album about your shared home of Orkney it’s a difficult thing to ignore. When this happened to Erland Cooper he didn’t ignore it, but instead rounded up musicians Simon Tong and Hannah Peel and then, armed with a list of titles suggested by Betty, decamped to Orkney. They returned with an album of stunning beauty that seems to evoke the islands in every note. Erland notes how, because of the inspiration for the album, it was definitely necessary to take a trip ...

Os ingleses do The Cribs passaram recentemente pelo Maida Vale nos estúdio da BBC Radio 1 e tocaram as faixas ”Glitters Like Gold” além de um cover de ”For Whom The Bell Tolls” do Bee Gees. A primeira faz parte do novo álbum do Cribs , In The Belly of the Brazen Bull, que saiu via Wichita (ouça aqui) e [...]

I think it's a pretty safe assumption to say that Paul Simon has had a pretty big influence on the music industry and a lot of the performers who we know and love today. So needless to say I was pretty excited to learn that as a way of celebrating the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's classic Graceland album a lot of these performers on the indie rock scene who were influenced by the legendary folk rocker will be covering that great album with a music video series. First up on the covers, and appropriately so, are the ...

Simon Reynolds’s Video Countdown: UKG x R&B; :: Red Bull Music Academy

Filed under: News , News Today, Oh Boy! Alex Brandon, AP I mean, are these the best song titles ever or are these the BEST SONG TITLES EVER? [ AV Club ] Oh, so that's the bridge Anthony Kiedis was under. [ Vulture ] Watch Givers cover Paul Simon 's "That Was Your Mother" from Graceland. Why? Because it rules. [ Rolling Stone ]

Fife troubadour James Yorkston today announced that he’ll be coming back with a new album. ‘I Was A Cat From A Book’ will be his first release since 2008’s ‘When The Haar Rolls In’. The new release is set to come out on August 13th 2012 via Domino. It was recorded without The Athletes. A new band made from members of Lamb and The Cinematic Orchestra play here, with old friends helping out too. In the four year interim James Yorkston has published a book ‘It’s Lovely To Be Here’ and collaborated with The Big Eyes Family ...

For the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon’s Graceland, indie artists will put out a video series featuring groups covering songs from Simon’s most famous record. First up is Louisiana’s Givers, who turn in a faithful rendition of “That Was Your Mother” alongside Cajun music legend Dickie Landry. Watch it below. (via Rolling Stone) The video [...]

Jon Dee Graham, Simon Kornelis, Mike June @ The Columbia City Theater | 5/24 | $7 (Get Tickets) | 8 PM | 21+ Singer/songwriter Jon Dee Graham [...]

Just one more reason why we love French filmmaker Michel Gondry: not only is he constantly challenging the preconceptions of who he is as a filmmaker by moving from documentary to mainstream tentpole back to micro-budgeted indie film, he's also frank with his opinions on his on work. Maybe it's a lost in translation thing, but the Gallic director just doesn't seem to beat around the bush.  Playlist contributor Simon Abrams sat down with Gondry in Cannes to discuss his latest effort, the social/community dramedy, "The We & The I." During their lengthy conversation, Gondry also candidly ...

Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's classic Graceland indie artists have teamed up for a music video series of Graceland covers In this video the first from the series Louisiana band Givers offers their rendition of "That Was Your Mother" accompanied by Dickie Landry For Givers the cover...

Faze Miyake was one of grime's most refreshing success stories in 2011, with his take on bass-laden, hip-hop inspired beats capturing the grime scenes' collective imagination to great effect. His breakthrough single 'Take Off', widely acknowledged as the year's defining underground anthem, was selected as the official backing track for the third installment of rejuvenated legendary battle-series Lord of the Mics and follow up EP, 'The Second Six' also drew plaudits from all the right places. 2012 began with MC favourite 'Dead Battery', only to be overtaken in the demand stakes by the monstrous 'Gunpowder', both of which ...

We’ve posted about Ronika before on Breaking More Waves. Here’s another post. This multiple posts thing makes us suspect that we are signing up to the Ronika fan club. Earlier this year we mentioned that Ronika is not the tallest of pop stars, but as we all know that never did Kylie Minogue any harm, or Nik Kershaw for that matter. (Go look him up kids - your pop music knowledge isn’t complete until you’ve heard Wouldn’t It Be Good , I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me and have memorized all of the ...

Looks like the highly sought-after studio collaboration between Simon & Garfunkel will not be happening. Paul Simon told NME that he “would just as soon [...]

Anton Newcombe comes with a certain reputation. Leading the Brian Jonestown Massacre for more than two decades, the American-born / Berlin-based artist matches nigh-on peerless space rock with stunning mood swings. At times, it can seem that through pouring his heart and soul into his music that Newcombe can be incapable of accepting criticism; backing himself into a corner, the songwriter can often seem prickly, defensive evasive. But not today. The voice on the other end of the phone crackles with enthusiasm and – despite the odd ranting conspiracy theory – Anton Newcombe is a welcoming, open soul. Hell, he even signs off ...