Adele News:
Adele track Spotify's most played
From www.bbc.co.uk at 30/12/11 09:16 PM. 0 comments.
The singer's track Rolling In The Deep beats songs from Bruno Mars and Rihanna to become Spotify UK's most played single of the year.
Radiohead News:
Lost Radiohead track 'How Do You Sit Still' revealed as a hoax - audio
From www.nme.com at 30/12/11 06:13 PM. 0 comments.
'How Do You Sit Still' is actually the work of Canadian baker Christopher Stopa
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Tyler, The Creator News:
The best pop videos of 2011
From www.guardian.co.uk at 30/12/11 01:58 PM. 0 comments.
From Rihanna upsetting farmers to Tyler, the Creator eating a cockroach, we round up the pop promos that were worth watching this year
Azealia Banks feat Lazy Jay â€' 212
Sometimes simplicity works better than a CGI-created box of tricks. Filmed in black and white and with a number of shots left as super-closeups of Azealia Banks's mouth spitting rhymes that need an 18 certificate, it's an almost perfect introduction to a future superstar. It works because there's more than enough space in each scene for Banks's almost suffocating star quality to ooze out. As she bounds about in a Mickey Mouse jumper like butter wouldn't melt, the video tells us all we need to know about a young woman who'd draw you in with that grin and then "ruin you".
Rihanna â€' We Found Love
Rihanna's best videos are always the ones where she looks like she's having fun being one of the world's biggest popstars, as opposed to the ones where's she's being joylessly gaffer taped to the wall or working as an extra on a Nine Inch Nails video from 20 years ago. The Melina Matsoukas-directed clip for We Found Love â€' filmed in Northern Ireland and influenced at least in part by the latest Dr Martens campaign â€' takes the "hopeless" part of this Calvin Harris-produced club banger and runs with it, creating a hallucinatory whirlpool of drugs, heartbreak, shoplifting and farmer-upsetting topless field shenanigans....
Adele News:
Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep' named as most played track of 2011 on Spotify
From www.nme.com at 30/12/11 01:31 PM. 0 comments.
It's also been a very good year for Bruno Mars, Rihanna and Jessie J
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Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx News:
The rise of poetronica
From www.guardian.co.uk at 30/12/11 01:18 PM. 1 comments.
In early 2011, poets began setting their words to the sound of dubstep and electronica. Almost twelve months on, the signs are that poetronica is here to stay
It's hardly surprising the year is ending with news that dubstep heavyweight Skream is set for a musical collaboration with poet Jodi Ann Bickley. After all, 2011 was the year when spoken word and electronica joined forces, and will surely be remembered for poets putting down their notebooks and turning to the MPC.
The trend began back in February, with the late, great Gil Scott Heron and Jamie xx's We're New Here. The two forms have since made sweet, electro-infused music together, with poets embracing the jerky and sometimes downright jarring beats of dubstep and electronica.
Drums Between the Bells, Rick Holland's collaboration with Brian Eno, released on Warp Records back in July, was dubbed "poetronica" by critics and bloggers.
One of the most successful collaborations of the year came courtesy of Josh Idehen and electronica outfit LV, whose album Routes received rave reviews, an album of the month in Mixmag, and bookings at both poetry events and club nights. Idehen's lyrics were cut and chopped by LV, a fresh and somewhat backwards approach to production. The result is a fun and fast-paced album that Idehen describes as a "true collaboration": "Spoken word works with electronica. It can be a lot more accessible; there are less of the conventions found in hip-hop."
Poet Raymond Antrobus, part...
