Another musician hailing from South London, Elviin brings a soulful song reminiscent of an old 70’s soul singer. The only thing I can come close to comparing his sound to is Robin Thicke, that soft spoken soul but with the ability to hit different chords at various paces, meaning he can sing an upbeat song just as good as he can give you something soulful. Almost something of a blues and jazz sound mashed together with some British spices sprinkled on top (makes sense? doesn’t really matter).
I first mentioned Kid Cudi when I told you to download his mixtape, did you? Shame on you if you didn’t but I have a way for you to kind of make that up, just read this interview with Cudi and see if you don’t rush to download the mixtape afterwards. His sound is unique, his lyrics tell segments of his life helping you piece them together, and he’ll have you party rocking easily. So read up learn about who this Kid named Cudi is, he may have left Cleveland to grind in New York, but now Cleveland may want to try and get there forgotten son back, even if they and the world may not be ready just yet for Cudi, no matter, he’s coming regardless so stand attention and make note.
Our good neighbors from the North, how they treat us so well. They gave us Canadian Bacon, my favorite Canadian Club then Steve Nash, Pam Anderson, Nelly Furtado, Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Celine Dion, pornstar Peter North and a host of others who would take too long to list, even though we could have done without Howie Mandel. The one name we will soon to be happily adding to that list is Lincoln, a young musician who can do just about it all. He can sing, rap and even produce, all this before turning 18, but no worries he’s old enough in Canada to take a drink. So while you’re sitting their wondering why were the only country who’s legal drinking age is 21, read Lincoln’s interview its good for you.
I’ve already told you about The Heavy once before, but it doesn’t hurt to give you a little refresher. So here again for the second time The Heavy will be something on a larger scale soon to come, just wait and see. And remember I told you first.
If you’re in NY today hit up Monkey Town in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the screening of the new Daft Punk dvd “Electroma”, an 80 minute film about robots in which two of the robots are trying to become human. The film was written and directed by the Daft Punk duo Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter who left the music and soundtrack for this film up to others, opting out of putting any of their Daft Punk songs in the film. If you make it out to the screening you’ll be able to get the dvd and a 40 page book that accompanies it for $15. After a decade in the game Daft Punk is still leading the way in their own way, creating what is always innovative. A few more videos of the film after the jump….
Gnarls Barkley is known for breaking the mold but this video was created, carved and made to be put in its own mold miles apart from what we know as the “music video” before. This song matches the video as if it was more like a song from a movie that was made to fit a particular scene. And that’s what Gnarls Barkley did they took a song and crafted a video around its theme exactly to the “t”. Listen to what the couple is saying throughout the video, it’s such a picture perfect shot frame by frame of exactly how a situation would be played out in time visually. Just watch the video and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
The Script hailing from Dublin has the melodies to soothe a baby and the vibe to make a hip hop fan nod their head. So, my overseas music assualt continues, watch the video and fake like you know the words to “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved” and mumble along with it at your desk.
Way down under were the toilets flush backwards (I think) comes the beautiful vocal chords of Lenka. Hailing from Sydney, Australia Lenka’s sound is soothing to the soul or just makes you feel warm inside or makes you want to relax and zone out or makes you want to roll your windows down and do your best drive by karaoke act you can muster up while forgetting gas cost you more then insurance, or sit outside with a drink (in the shade of course) and bird/people watch or it will make you write an extremely long run-on sentence about how her music and how it makes you feel. Also Lenka’s videos are pretty amazing, different, creative and very much up to TTS’s standards of approval. Check out her other video after the jump.
You know the label Ed Banger even if you don’t think you know, because if you know Daft Punk or Justice (which I’m sure you do) then you know Ed Banger. Ed Banger record label was started by Daft Punk manager Pedro Winter, a small label with about only 6 or 7 artist all building upon a sound DP showed the world. And one of those Ed Banger artist is a young girl with a quick lip and hard lyrics named Uffie. Originally from Miami uprooted to France in her teens she now packs clubs and stage dives for a living. Uffie, 20, (according to wikipedia) puts a lot of people on their heads when she comes out with songs like, “Ready to Uff” (meaning, ready to fuck) and “Pop the Glock”. But one thing is for sure no matter if she gets some bad flack from some media outlets for her lyrics the people are eating it up, both songs getting played over a million times on her myspace page. The whole Ed Banger movement is ready to be embraced by the world even if the world doesnt know it yet, even if you thought you didn’t know about Ed Banger you did. Daft Punk started the game, Justice took it to over time and Uffie is setup to win the whole shabang, putting Ed Banger on the map wordwide.
