Head Bangers Rejoice With These Headphones From Ed Banger
This has been an on going headphone collection by global art talent thanks to WeSC and the man himself Ed Banger who is behind the French Record Company. Banger also adds along other artist to this project like DJ Steve Akio and what is a world without graffiti artist Stash…
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Tim William Covers Kenna
He may sound alot similar to Kenna but Tim William took Kenna’s thrashing, sex aganst new wave banger “Say Goodbye To Love” and smoothed it out. What he has created is equally as good as the orginal if not better.
Download: Tim William- Say Goodbye To Love (Cover)
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To Do In Atlanta July 26th-Rahbi “Strange Fruit 3″ Concert
I guess the fruit is strange and musically gifted in Atlanta. Just ask Rahbi (If you don’t know who that is we featured him in Issue 2). His new concert “Strange Fruit” will start July 26th at the Sugarhill in Underground Atlanta and is set to feature performances from Rahbi himself, Tori Almaze, and a host of amazing musicians.
Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door and can be purchased at www.ticketalternative.com. Visit Rahbi on MySpace for more info. Front of the flyer after the jump.
Album Review: “Feed The Animals” by Girl Talk
Girl Talk’s fourth album, “Feed the Animals” is near immaculate. Those familiar with Girl Talk will come to the album expecting the wide variety of samples, but for this disc it seems producer Greg Gillis used samples from seemingly everybody, expected and unexpected—M.I.A., Michael Jackson, Jay-Z, The Police, The Cure, Britney and Madonna, Rihanna and Queen—they’re all fare game. He even takes some of their most obscure tracks and mixes them in the party.
The highlight of the album is undoubtedly “Here’s The Thing” which at 1:05 features an amazing breakbeat remix of Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone.” In the track he manages to mix in Mary J. Blige, Peter Bjorn and John, Shawty Lo, Elvis Costello, Nelly Furtado, NIN, & MC Hammer and still have an great track.
What I found so intriguing about the album is in the our iTunes three and a half minute single loving culture “Feed The Animals” exists as a rare ode to the dwindling form of creating an album. This is Girl Talk everybody can enjoy.
Download: “Play Your Part (Part 1)” “Here’s The Thing” “Give Me A Beat”
by: Kendrick Daye
Pacific Division Model New TBG Summer Line
Here is a quick look at the new TBG Summer 2008 line themed “Jim Crowe Couture” thanks to our good friend Carl at Fresh Milk Publicity. The line is being sported by none other than Pacific Division, Diz Gibran and TiRon. Pics of the line as well as free music downloads of Pacific Division, Diz Gibran and TiRon are all posted in the links below. More pics after the jump.
Album Review: “Seeing Sounds”
The Opening cut “Time for some action” has a minute long movie-like narration by Pharell sounding like he’s going to make some profound statement, before turning into a funky club banger, in which he assures “This is not love/it’s lust”. At least he is honest!
And with that, Pharell, Chad Hugo, and Shay Haley, better known as N*E*R*D return with their third album. Unlike it’s mostly Rocky predecessor “Fly or die”, this is a mish mash of styles; Funk, Dance, and Rock, sometimes interlacing all in one song.
Similar to the opening cut is the bouncy “Everyone nose…”. “Windows” sounds like “Around the world in a day” era Prince, a clap-filled pop/rock song with Pharell even throwing in some Prince-style squeals. “Anti matter” has a buzzing riff with rapped verses and drum & bass in parts, followed by the similar “Spaz”.
“Yeah you” is one of my favourites, groovy R&B, as is the Chic-sounding “You know what” complete with scratchy guitars and remniscent of the song “She’s not me” Pharell did on Madonna’s new CD. Both will definately get a club jumping.
“Happy” is a sunny rocker which wouldn’t sound out of place on “Fly or die”, “kill joy” (with a rap about Little red riding hood and Prince-like harmonies) is a Funk laced upbeat song with a James Brown feel, while closing cut “Laugh about it” pairs chunky beats with driving guitars.
Slowing things down are the piano ballad “Sooner or later” with lovely harmonies (remember “Maybe” from “Fly or die”?), and “Love bomb” (piano and guitars, eerie flourishes and chunky beats in the chorus).
So there you have it, their most musically adventurous album yet. A fun album with a little something for everyone.
Foxy Brown Speaks To Fans On A Message Board
Foxy Brown has taken to her message board at Foxboogie.com to release a statement regarding her mess of an album Brooklyn’s Don Diva. The two paragraph message posted in all caps and signed BOOGIE finds Foxy blaming herself for the handling of her latest project, which debuted at #83 on the Billboard Top 200. Click more to read the full message.
Cover of Nas’ New Album
Nas recently told reporters, “I’m just a Queensbridge n—a that got rich. … I love pissing people off and stirring up stupid mutha—-as.” Well when he decided to title his upcoming LP Nigger it pissed alot of people off. I was of course thrilled. I’m sad to see he had to change it. I think he should have stuck to it–but oh well. Anyways here is the album cover to his now untitled album which drops July 1st, the same day as Art Nouveau Magazine’s Issue #4. The album cover, which was leaked to the Net, shows Nas’ back severely scarred by what seem to be whip lashings, with the horrific scars forming the letter N.
10Deep Tee and Wale Mixtape
Streetwear and Hip-Hop music go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly. So it’s no surprise that one of the biggest streetwear lines hooked up with one of the top underground rappers for a collaboration t-shirt celebrating the release of Wale’s new mixtape “Mix tape About Nothing.”
You can listen to the mixtape [HERE]
Kanye West “Flashing Lights” Video Version 3
New Music: Lil’ Kim Goes Robotic, John Legend and Common Wanna Dance
So the vocoderized vocals in Hip-Hop don’t seem to be going anywhere–at least anytime soon. Lil’ Kim adds her name to the already high list of whose who rappers that used or are using the effect in their hits. Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Snoop Dogg, and now Lil’ Kim. Anyways, the song is kinda hot. It’s not hooky, or catchy, but it will grow on you. Check it out for yourself.
Click Here to Download Lil’ Kim- Respirator
And it seems as if rapper Common and John Legend have more in common than being on the same label–like wanting to hear their usually mellow music played in the club. Both are going in the direction of dance music for the latest efforts. John Legend hooks up with Andre 3000 for his song “Green Light” while Common hooks up with old friends The Neptunes to produce his 80’s nostalgia single “Universal Mind Control.” Both tracks are no doubt bangers, especially the Common track, but are going to alienate their strong fan base. What do you think?
Click here to download John Legend-Green Light
Click here to download Common- Universal Mind Control
Tag Art Nouveau Magazine
You’ve probably already seen the flyers and stickers all around your city of the catchy slogan, “When Life Gives You Lemons, Paint That Shit Gold!” They belong to Atmosphere and they’re to promote his new release When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. He’s made his site uber interactive and added a feature which allows users to bomb and tag any on the internet. They even give you a heap of weapons. Go hit up any site. We recommend Art Nouveau Magazine. Wink Wink! Check out the wack shit i did here.
Bancal Bancal!
If you’re in Barcelona check this event out. The Bancal Bancal studio is a new project started by three London-based frenchmen Ivan Smagghe, Danton Eeprom and Tim Paris plus british dj/producer Pete Herbert. From this “Franco English resistance bunker”, as Ivan describe, had already originated some cool tracks including 3 remixes from Ivan Smagghe & Tim Paris (aka It’s A Fine Line) out on Marketing, Tsuba and Soma, one EP + one remix from Ivan Smagghe & Danton Eeprom (aka “La Horse”) due to be released on Fondation and Kill The Dj + one EP with Tim Paris and Pete Herbert (aka “Challenge”) out soon on Marketing. Some Danton and Tim material is also in the pipeline. Bancal Bancal is also a club night featuring Pete Herbert, Danton’s twisted live act and an extensive back2back dj performance from Tim and Ivan. The first edition took place in Paris at Rex club and feedback from clubbers and press has been amazing so far. On thursday june 19th, they will bring the show out of France for the first time, here at BeCool in Barcelona.
In the disco room upstairs Crack & Speed’s Jef K, Cosmo Vitelli from I’m A Cliche, Baby G of LSB fame (with Pete Herbert), JL Magoya (from Deep in Madrid) and Barcelona-based Will Deluxe will keep things phat
FAMILIES (the booking agency of Alexkid, D’julz, Tim Paris and Llorca among other but also the initiator of the FAMILIESdownloads online dj mix series) is also celebrating its website’s reopening, with a revamped design.
France Touches Hong Kong Again
France touches Hong Kong, again! Hong Kong’s hottest night destination VOLAR brings together the award winning label Ed Banger Records for the 3rd installment of “France Touches Hong Kong Music Festival.” The event has music, art, lifestyle and cultural elements between France and Hong Kong which goes perfect with Ed Banger’s talented list of performers and local acts from the visual, street and tattoo scene. The one night only event takes place Friday, May 30th. Please visit frenchmay.com for more info.
France Touches Hong Kong Music Festival 2008
Friday, May 30th @ Star Hall, HK International Trade & Exhibition Centre
Time: 9:00 pm till late
Ticket Prices: $380 HKD (before May 10th) / $450 HKD (May 11th and on)
Tickets are available through hkticketing.com or via phone 31 288 288.
Flow08!
Gonna be in Finland anytime soon? Be sure to check out Flow08-an eclectic music festival that will take place on four stages and feature bands from all over the world. So far there are over sixty acts for this eco-friendly concert which is set to rock out from August 15-17. There is a style of music for every fan, including jazz, soul, indie, techno, funkadelic and good ol’ fashioned get-your-groove-on. The line-up is impressively long but top names of performers include The Roots, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, DJ Funk who hails from Chi-town, techno genius Robert Hood, Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS) a Brazilian indie band, Múm and Ane Brune, from Iceland and Norway respectively. Even if you hadn’t planned on crossing the pond, this concert is definitely worthy of at least thinking about making the trip.
Slick of the Dissizit crew must like his bacon colorful. Music met Graffiti when the writer added some street art to Roger Water’s Coachella set. The pig flew over the crowd and looked amazing. Click for more pictures.
Info & Images: Highsnobiety