GTA V box art & preview pics!!!
Even the illustrations seem higher gloss….. featuring lead characters Michael, Trevor and Franklin.
With a September release It’s still unclear whether this will be out on the next gen consoles… or will they make it for both systems?
How To Dress Well and Sky Ferreira hit up Wrongbar – BlogTO
How To Dress Well played an intimate performance for a rather crowd at Wrongbar on Wednesday night. Half were there for the ethereally voiced Tom Krell while the obvious throngs of teeny tiny pop tarts showed up to pay homage to their latest buzzy idol, Sky Ferreira. The Aussie codeine-trance-inducing-shoegazer-band High Highs was also in attendance. World of Posters Queen W. location must have made bank on fake IDs for the concert as there were a hell of a lot of youngsters that got in.
Dressed in a baggy, too big for his frame Grace Jones t-shirt that he tended to awkwardly ring his hands through in concentration (some of us stick our tongues out, others bite our nails) and flanked by an accompanying violinist/lap top jockey and a projection screen, How To Dress Well delivered about 40 minutes of soul-baring modern white boy R&B secrets and told us funny stories. Like the time just a few weeks ago when he was invited to Maxwell’s urban hang suite, er home studio, after his show where they ordered macaroni and cheese, popped mollies and listened to Juicy J for hours together, or the time he played Wrongbar in 2008 for the Big Primpin’ New Years party.
Also notable was a heart-wrenching a cappella ode to his brother titled “Blue” that somewhat echoed The Verve Pipe’s 90s hit “The Freshman” in tone and heart. Hearing the music without beats made me realize how much his style is entirely based on the production that surrounds it. This crooner could easily share the stage D’Angelo or R. Kelly given the right beats… and some clever special effects.
Sky Ferreira’s set made some of us wonder if she’d spent too long hanging out with Michael Jackson as a member of his Neverland posse. She can belt out a gamut of songs and styles jumping from guitar led country-blues ballads (“Ghost”), Runaways meets Garbage styled thrash & roll (“Can’t Say No”), to Solange-inspired songs (“Everything Is Embarrassing,” which shares Blood Orange as a producer and sounds almost identical to the Knowles hit “Losing You.” Embarrassing much?) — and has a voice beyond her years. But her black on bleached trailer trash Courtney Love via Pam Anderson look was a little off-putting.
Was she related to one of the Toddlers In Tiaras cast members, or did she just grow up real fast on gogo juice? I’m sure she will come into her own one day as she is incredibly gifted singer and an edgy manufactured pop starlet in the making, but maybe the Forever 21 spokesgirl should loosen her jeans up a bit, as she clung tightly to her safety bubble and relied mostly on flashing those sultry eyes of hers to capture our attention. It’s a decent trick, but she should have a few more up her super-skinny jeans by now.
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Photos by Alejandro Santiago
DigesTED – BY Alex Pardee x Kid Robot BLACK
From Kid Robot’s elite BLACK series…… the email update said it’s out now but the site says otherwise. Who can solve this Caramilk mystery?!
DigesTED BY Alex Pardee
$200
6-Inch Vinyl
Edition of 250
The gift that keeps on taking.
Lifelong friend or enemy? Every thing has a secret life. Behind the scenes, in the dark when no one’s watching, what do we know of even our best of friends? Waiting motives always reveal themselves, tearing through the mock exteriors that build trust and perfect traps.
This once cozy demon is having his day, powered by the horror of its prior owner and already onto its next victim. The veneer is stripped away to reveal the terrifying truth. Something wicked this way came – not through a hard knock on the door or from the corner of your eye, but freely accepted, as a gift, a trusted companion for cold nights and hot fears.
It’s not the dark that’s scary. It’s your friends in the dark you should be worried about.
A limited edition of 250 pieces. Each is hand numbered with the artist’s signature engrave on the base. Packaged in a display box and features high gloss details, blood red eyes, and an overwhelming sense of dread.
Congo Natty – UK Allstars – NEW TUNE
Junglists are you REAAAAADY?
Let’s all collectively shit our pants and exalt, YES, JAH!
The new “UK Allstars” track features Tenor Fly, Top Cat, General Levy, Tippa Irie, Sweetie Irie and Daddy Freddy, and it’s the first time all of these legends have been featured on the same tune. The full album is coming to your home soundsystems and telephonic devices on June 25th via Big Dada!
In case ya dun know (!) Congo Natty aka Rebel MC and his fam are responsible for pretty much single handedly keeping the grizzled old junglist soulja spirit alive through hundreds of old school jungle nights that persist across the globe every night of the week. The Congo Natty crew have not released a snippet since 2003 so I’m ecstatic that he’s finally coming back to bring something new to the conversation. Could jungle once again be the next big exciting thing on our musical radars? It’s rather unlikely to be yes, but it would be a phenomenal curveball if it were. I could go on for pages about what drum & bass and jungle mean to me, but this might not be the right place. Fuck, I’m seriously excited for this though, like no other album in years.
And from the label:
Jungle Revolution features the whole of the extended Congo Natty family and was mixed with Adrian Sherwood. Clearly showing this Rasta’s belief that Jungle is a re-boot of roots reggae for a new century, the record is full of blood and fire, the sternum-buzz of sub-bass, rapid fire drum breaks, sweet hooks, righteous anger and professions of religious fervour. It’s the kind of passionate, committed, raw and spiritual, beautiful record that doesn’t come along that often.
Austrian Filter House – Auf Babent (spoof)
WOW WOW WOW… Ihren Tuba macht sehr poomppoomp! Can’t wait to hear the latest!
This kind of reminds me of the time I interviewed Booka Shade for Spinner, not gonna lie. Ok, it reminds me a lot even.
Dalai Lama speaks at PTTOW
So this is a weird one. PTTOW, an innovative invite-only marketing conference a la TED TALKS invited the Dalai Lama to speak in 2011 and thought it would be “cool” to have Will.I.Am get up and ask a question. Eventually it didn’t work out and I couldn’t be happier. The idea of a clown like him having any audience with His Holiness blows me away. The fact that he was invited to speak at a marketing conference when buddhism preaches detachment from personal possessions is even stranger, but I do believe that marketing, at it’s core, is driven by a want to improve our lives, which does resonate with the four precepts. Quiksilver sonsored pro surfer Kelly Slater’s question and it’s subsequent answer is genuinely cute, although struggles to find relevancy with the wise one.
The New Model
Futurecop! – Atlantis 1997
FUTURECOP! – “ATLANTIS 1997 feat. Cavaliers of Fun” OFFICIAL VIDEO from Ariel Belziti
Futurecop! are an awesome newish group that summon the 80s with He-man’s power of Grayskull, Lion-O’s Sight Beyond Sight, the Care Bear Stare-down, and a shit load of LSD-25. I am particularly affected by this vid because it features the Aliens series capsule toys that I collected when I lived in Asia.
The group is made up of Manzur Iqbal and Pete Carrol, and their work has appeared on Souther Fried and IHEARTCOMIX labels, with support from Annie Mac, Noisey, Crystal Castles and Diplo. Not a bad circle of friends there. The new album ‘Hopes, Dreams and Alienation’ comes out soon.
They’ve only got 15,000 fans on Facebook, so why not give ’em some more love!
Debian Blak – Aaliyah remixes
Trap music and phuture r&b probably wouldn’t be as successful if it weren’t for pop icons like Aaliyah and Salt n Pepa for them to draw upon. Debian Blak mixes up some housey 2-step, and a light dusting of hungover sloths mating with sea lion vocals that are seem to be ripped off of the XX. Sarcasm doesn’t mean I don’t like it. Cuz I do. Really. The ‘Chemistry’ remix is one of the best I’ve heard and is a sure fire panty dismantler for the dance floor.
The press release below has more stimulation for your corneas.
“In an exciting era for British electronic music creativity, Debian Blak holds his own as one of the emerging artists to watch. His diverse portfolio of work to date influences his current output and results in a fresh sound.” – RESIDENT ADVISOR
AUDIO DOUGHNUTS’ latest signing, DEBIAN BLAK, readies his much anticipated ‘Six Months From Mars EP’ for them featuring four original tracks with vocal collaborations from NEO JOSHUA and MT. WOLF’S (one of CLASH MAGAZINE’S 2013 bands to watch) lead vocalist KATE WOLF. To celebrate his partnership with the label he is giving away his three track concept EP – ‘Debian Blak x Aaliyah’ which is now available to download and share.
The three songs are a bootleg rework project dedicated to one of his favorite 90’s musicians – the departed RnB superstar, AALIYAH. Re-interpreting her music, Debian set out to re-build her songs as if he had originally produced the material today, taking them in a new previously unheard direction.
Full details of Debian’s ‘Six Months From Mars EP’ out on Audio Doughnuts will become available in the coming weeks. To get a preview of what the EP has to offer, Debian will be performing a live set at The Albany, Great Portland Street Saturday 23rd March with limited guest list available.
Andy Stott gets dark and danceable at Foundry – BlogTO
If Andy Stott is the future, then the future is dark. Very dark. The celebrated producer of 2012’s sleeper hit album, Luxury Problems played at Mansion’s Foundry series in the Blk Box Theatre, beneath the Great Hall on Saturday night.
His set was a technical exploration of negative space in sounds found in the more recent ‘knackered house’ trend that seems to have skipped over to our shores. It’s a term Stott helped define, and that comprises first generation dubstep sounds (the dark and moody stuff that had no radio presence outside of UK pirate radio) that’s manipulated into techno, industrial, and a skeletal drum and bass.
Andy’s genius is that he’s managed to select stripped down tunes that keep everything but their basic rhythmic elements, yet still kept your body shaking with the repetitive metal clicks, clanks, and shuffley dungeon sounds.
Like most kinks and S&M perversions, there was an innate cerebral appeal to Stott’s music that had the full house spontaneoulsy roaring for more. What was so amazing was that he managed to make something so minimal and devoid of colour into something so incredibly addictive and danceable. In our true nature, we must all be nihilistic, recession-wallowing zombies to make us crave these primal rickety beats.
Photos by Alejandro Santiago
