Tag: Yann Tiersen
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Unnofficial Anthems 7 – Arse is the size of a small country
Weirdly Divine Comedy’s National Express re-entered my consciousness twice this week, once via Maconie on 6Music then a day or two later it came round randomly on my iPod (I have random playlists but that hadn’t popped up before and hadn’t ‘shuffled’ for a long time). Now we are approaching the Opening Ceremony, my personal…
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trust me kid, it’s not the end of the world
They made a video…for probably the most filmic (and real) hip-hop song ever? I missed this – Sage Francis’s ‘Best of Times’ (a collab with Yann Tiersen and actually lead me to check out more of his stuff, his back catalogue as well as Amelie which I knew well is sublime) has an intriguing and…
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By The Time I Get to Arizona 2010 by Toki Wright
Credit: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Toki Wright from Rhymesayers has made a timely and topical remake of the Public Enemy classic, referring to the recent sad events in Arizona re: immigration, making stop and search possible even if you ‘look’ illegal (you know how I hate those ‘sus’ stop and searches, be it photographers, muslims, latinos, whatever).…