Tag: Lana Del Rey
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Frank Ocean: Beginner’s Guide
It’s funny…the date I had on my copy of the famous Frank Ocean ‘nostalgia, Ultra’ mixtape is 7th April 2011 – a week before Coachella, I never listened to it bar a few tracks, and after the dreadful performance of OFWGKTA at that festival I tended to dismiss all the group efforts. In the case…
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Reggae in the Deep / Fuck You (and your Ska too)
https://vimeo.com/39624498 I know a few people who will go crazy for this reggaie remix of Rolling in the Deep and the ska one below…Adele goes old skool reggae/ska flava! Wish she’d done this version at the Grammys (heard a clip of that, what the Americans made of her crazy Essex-girl babbling, I don’t know –…
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Welcome to the hamster wheel
Popstar does a not very obscene gesture. People – well journalists and professional bloggers who aren’t really ‘people’ they are paid to pretend to be – get upset about it. Others get upset about that. And so the cycle continues. Is this the best humanity can do? This has a crushing depressing inevitability of PR…
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Why I Don’t Play That Many Mashups
In a rant response to a thread on Mashstix responding to this post on FMITracks, I thought I’d post here as it fairly succinctly explains why I rarely play mashups on what was a formerly mashup podcast. Ahh the state of mashups…I got there in 2008, what kept you guys I’ve noticed there is two…
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Death of the ‘authentic’ indie artist? (Lana Del Rey)
Currently haunting my days via 6Music is the song by Lana Del Rey – Video Games – and her follow up Blue Jeans is above. LOVE the found aesthetic of the video, the scratchy super 8 and grainy footage – yes it’s done before, but with the new/old song (hiphop mentions in a noir smokey…