doherty

Peter Doherty and his band Babyshambles will release their third album on September 2 with a single, 'Nothing Comes To Nothing', out on August 26. Speaking to NME about the album, Doherty recently said: "I don’t want this to be half arsed, I want to get up there and really fucking smash it out. Babyshambles aren’t back – this band has always been here."


(article by NME)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Y-EHqZNQA

zirkus rojinski

Eine wirklich große Karriere blieb der Schauspielerin und Moderatorin Palina Rojinski bislang noch verwehrt. Neben ihrer Tätigkeit beim Musiksender VIVA machte sie sich in der jüngeren Vergangenheit vor allem durch ihre Mitarbeit bei den hochgelobten Formaten «MTV Home» und «neoParadise» einen Namen - wenngleich dieser durch die Dominanz von Joko Winterscheidt und Klaas Heufer-Umlauf noch nicht allzu groß ist. In «Zirkus Rojinski» steht sie nun erstmals in ihrer noch jungen Karriere im Mittelpunkt des Interesses der wenigen Zuschauer, die am Freitag nach Mitternacht noch ZDFneo konsultieren.

(artikel von Quotenmeter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SRZ-5YpVxU

endless summer

Crystal Fighters aren’t the typical band we cover at Anglophenia, they are evocations of endless summer. Formed in Spain’s Basque country from a ragtag international group of musicians, they are rarely billed as a British band. Perhaps it’s because they don’t really sound “British”: they traffic in a sun-dappled California optimism. It’s like a mixture of old folk music from the Basque country and other places of the world and modern electronic dance music, which was a combination which came about because of our original singer, Eleanor Fletcher, whose grandfather was from the Basque country, and he left her a leather-bound book, which she then brought to us. It showed us all sorts of insights into Basque culture and Basque mythology, which we then combined with the dance music we were already creating.

(article by BBCamerica)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4JPm7npkvQ

bad girls do it well

First caught wind of M.I.A:'s “Bad Girls” on the last day of 2010, when an early version was released on M.I.A.’sVicki Leekx tape. The Arabic pop-inflected banger was re-released this past week. While the original was a stripped-down sketch, here super-producer Danjahas given the track a facelift. The video, shot by French director (and Creator!) Romain Gavras, is set in a dreamy Saudi Arabian desert scene. It was actually filmed in Ouarzazate, Morocco, one-time crossing point for African traders and current home to one of the largest film studios on the planet—Lawrence Of Arabia, The Mummy, and Gladiator were all shot there.

We’re psyched Noisey is premiering this thing for the launch of their YouTube channel.

(article by Vice/Noisey)

coachella

Coachella is full of stupidly hot people. This has to do in part with the site’s relatively close proximity to LA, which means there’s a 98% chance you'll run into a gaggle of supermodels, Vincent Gallo, or Kirsten Dunst. It’s also because Coachella is held on the grounds of a polo field. That means that even the grass looks hot.  Besides a butt-ton of short-shorts, here are a few of the prevalent trends we spotted at Coachella this year.

(article by Vice/Noisey)

sad dream

I like to think of Sky Ferreira as something of a do-over in opposition to the critical oopsie that was Lana Del Rey. Both are singers whose initial projects would have been described as "poorly received" if that label didn't imply that a quorum of people had heard the thing in the first place, both pretty clearly come from family money (Del Rey's dad made millions off of domain names, and Ferreira's parents were friends with Michael Jackson which you can interpret as you will), and both pretty much took a 180 when shooting for stardom the second time around. The thing is Sky Ferreira is way better than Lana Del Rey.

(article by Vice/Noisey)

sea of cowards

A proper, rock-and-roll-esque swagger of defiance is born out of indifference towards some of those that one might find to be an audience to them.  What’s produced here by The Dead Weather with Sea of Cowards is very much a product of that, much like it’s preceding album Horehound.  However, despite the bulbous display of self-confidence, there is and element of division between the two works.  WhereasHorehound was born out of the behind the scenes dealings between Jack White and Allison Mosshart as they toured together, Sea of Cowards is born from an extended serving of time and patience, leaving the sense of division to wriggle it’s way through the album’s song composition, interplay of vocals, and lyrics. 

(article by musicvice)

one million lovers

If nonchalance were an art form, The Growlers would be a bunch of Old Masters. "When we started we sucked," explained frontman Brooks Neilsen to JellyBlog. "We called ourselves the Growlers cause we were shitty, and 'growler' is a term for taking a shit." Neilsen & Co. might thrive on self-deprecation, but there's more going on here than scatology. The Growlers exude slackerdom: the languid, throbbing tempos (imagine garagey psych with a reggae infusion), Neilsen's '70s-porn-star mustache and a bandwide love for surfing. But this is deep-feeling music with a well-considered aesthetic.

(article by Vice/Noisey)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgQfGZO37OI

spring break forever bitches

Korine’s story Spring Breakers is a searing indictment of today’s hedonistic, nihilistic youth, and his script is loaded with sharp, telling dialogue that exposes the rotten moral cores of its characters. It’s hard to root for any of them, shallow and devoid of empathy as they all are. We are left to morbidly, voyeuristically observe their odyssey of excess. Korine brings an auteur’s sensibility to the film, using repetitive phrases and hypnotic slo-mo visuals, that makes us pause to consider the utter moral decay of the characters. But it also slows down the narrative in some ways and, in the case of the violent climax, draws attention to its implausibility.

Neon bright and all raw energy, Spring Breakers is a pulsating paradox of a movie, both a tangerine dream and a cultural reality check, a pop artifact that simultaneously exploits and explores the shallowness of pop artifacts.

(article by thestar.com)

you around my finger like a lonely lover's charm

Settling in with her loneliness, Lykke Li turned to records she had always loved for inspiration, combing through everything from Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and Dr. John to the Velvet Underground, This Mortal Coil, and the omnipresent hex of Alan Lomax’s field recordings. She found herself again leaning towards the raw power of simplicity, something into which she had first tapped via her live show, and she started to write. Once she was done, she returned to her adopted hometown of Stockholm and went into the studio with Bjorn Yttling to assemble her new record. The resulting album, Wounded Rhymes, is one of the most tremendous records you heard in 2011.

(article by Offical Lykke Li Facebook Page)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7GpjWTxDg