Detroit’s wicked clown hip-hop group are an anomaly in pop music. They have their own face-painted fans called juggalos and have been around since 1992 but their latest song and video, Miracles takes the earnest clown-themed cake. “Magic, everywhere in this bitch!”
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Video channel: Flip it TV
A Limerick-based internet TV show by Ali Daly and Olivia Chau focused on interviewing musicians that pass through the city like The Redneck Manifesto, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Fred and more.
http://www.youtube.com/flipittv
Donald Trump gets a Photoshop faceplant & other links
Donald Trump gets a Photoshop faceplant – http://bit.ly/trumpfp
Forget the film, get Prince of Persia Retro for the iPhone – http://bit.ly/persiaretro
How Twilight works on fans – http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight
A fake BP Twitter account has been providing extra bad PR for BP as the oil spill continues – http://bit.ly/twitterbp
What happens if you upload, download and re-upload a video to Youtube 1000 times? – http://bit.ly/1000copy
Band of Blogs: Kanye’s “Power”, Christina Aguilera & MIA, CEO, Klaxons,
Christina Aguilera & M.I.A. collaborate
The two diversive artists worked together on Xtina’s new album Bionic. The tune Elastic Love works, thanks to producer Switch’s electro-bump arrangement.
Listen at the Hype Machine
Kanye’s Power leaks
Rumoured to be taken from Kanye’s forthcoming album titled charmingly Good Ass Job, Power sees the rapper break away from the 808s & Heartbreak autotune era with a track set to soul choir sample.
Listen at the Hype Machine
CEO
Eric Berglund of electronica duo The Tough Alliance makes a solo run under the CEO name and produces Balearic pop in the process. Another great release from Swedish label Sincerely Yours, who recently released JJ and Kendal Johansson.
Check out CEO at The Culture of Me
Klaxons’ Flashover
The first new sliver of material from Klaxons’ forthcoming album sounds like first album highlight Atlantis to Interzone without the “nu-rave” bleeps and with more distortion.
http://klaxons.net
Sites of the Week
The Universal Record Database
An alternative to the Guinness Book of World Records, URDB calls itself “the definitive site for human achievement” but is mostly filled with records like “longest time to balance 25 VHS tapes on chin” or “fastest time to open bag of Skittles and sort them by colour.”
http://urdb.org
We All Make Music
A resource of news, tips and inspirations for musicians by musicians.
http://weallmakemusic.com
Afrolabs
A cousin of Awesome Tapes from Africa, Afrolabs posts out of print music from Africa for download.
http://afroslabs.blogspot.com
Mark Kermode’s wildly entertaining SATC2 review
“You’re not going to get a rant…”..
Iron Baby!
World cup compilation smells like team spirit
With the World Cup just two weeks away and Ireland not present, we’ve been lucky enough to not have to endure a World Cup song sung by bland lifestyle-peddlers The Script. But there’s still some merit to football-themed songs (Put Em’ Under Pressure is a classic of course) and Irish digital label Indiecater recognises this.
Indiecater have spent a year putting together their World Cup compilation: Fast Forward together. 32 bands from across the world were asked to write a song about a country participating in the tournament in South Africa. The result is eight groups with four teams each with songs by artists like The Very Most, The Dirty 9s, Grand Pocket Orchestra, At Last An Atlas, Hunter-Gatherer, Spirit Spine and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. The entire compilation can be streamed or downloaded for €5 at http://www.indiecater.com.
Meanwhile, music bloggers continue to bare the brunt of the music industry ambivalence towards their operations. After the IMRO licence situation in Ireland last month, Google is at it again – deleting the popular Scottish music blog The Pop Cop from its Blogger service. Jason who ran the site also runs the Music Alliance Pact (MAP) project wrote about the situation on http://musicalliancepact.blogspot.com.
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