Month: December 2009
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X-Factor Rage mashup video – NSFW
It uses Killing in the Name Of, so unless your name is Bruno Brookes you might not want to play it on daytime Radio 1, or the office. Nicely done!
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Jah Humbug: Christmas goes Dubstep!
Firstly we have Frogs chorus given a sort of dubstep/two-step/drum and bass work over by siCKNOTe called ‘The Frog’s Bollocks’. It’s a cover. I think. It’s frankly undescribable…but I heartily approve the silliness and frankly weird Xmas song terrorism like this: And then we have Santa getting down to the bass, in a dubstep Xmas…
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Music Industry 101; or why the Xmas Factor Rage matters
Right I’m frankly surprised at some of the responses to the whole Rage Against The Machine for Xmas #1 campaign (803,000 members and counting!) – they seem to be unaware of the current state of the music industry and why stuff like this matters. 1) “It’s Simon Cowell’s record company” – not strictly true. Syco…
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Rage Against the X-Mas Factor
Fuck you Simon Cowell I won’t do what you tell me! Yes I’ve bought my copy of ‘Killing in the Name Of’ by Rage Against the Machine in protest of X-Factor nonsense and the ‘guaranteed’ Xmas #1 – I want my Xmas #1 back, Teletubbies and Bob the Builder and Blobby and all…and so should…
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…
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Mashing up politics
(Powershift Flashdance London 2009) I was looking at the frankly disgusting video of Lord Monckton calling COP15 climate change protesters (noisy but peaceful; and ones that like SustainUS seemed happy to debate – he should try and meet some of the hardcore G20 anarchists they’d probably just punch him in his upper class fat ToryUKIP…