Isle Adore

Check out Melbourne quartet Isle Adore. Lovin' the Ariel Pink-esque-nes, echoed vocals and seemingly off-key notes, in all their tracks especially 'Lazy'.


Their Grace Darling residency will be finishing up this month, so get down and see them play on 21 April, with support from 'Milk Teddy', 'Towels' and 'The Fish'.

Lazy by isleadore

Big Day Out

On a sweltering day came an onslaught of ear candy, some more demanding then others, but on a whole a coma inducing day. 40 degrees, crazy loud music, Iggy Pop, Lupe Fiasco, Tool, M.I.A, Crystal Castles and Die Antwoord. Panadol was the pill of the day but sun-induced headache or not, no patron left or right was about to forgo the live music spectacular because of a little bit of heat.


BIG DAY OUT BLUES INDEED.

An Alternative Guide to Valentines in London

Us single gals are full of ideas and if, god forbid ;), I wasn't single these are the types of things I would do with my beau. 


Leave the silky bow of cliche behind and eat some food with your hands! Click for full Skiddle Valentines Feature.

Buraka Som Sistema

Currently putting the final touches on my Buraka Som Sistema interview. Remember the above? That was 2008 when Diplo's Major Lazer was yet to exist. I do believe Buraka Som Sistema may have paved the way for the cross over between world music and electro sounds!


While working on their third album the Portuguese trio will be touching down in London to play at XOYO on 29 Jan!


Sign up to London's 'what's on newsletter' LeCool to win a free + 1 to the show. In your inbox every Thursday!


Interview up soon.

Concrete Playground: Hipstamatic For the iPhone - An Exhibition

'Budding' photographers rejoice! Hipstamatic for iPhone now has been officially recognised as a digital revolution... How ironic that we have come so far with technology and yet all we want to do is revert back to the old.. sans the effort of course. Check the whole feature here.

Adidas + Vice + ATRAK + DJ MEHDI + BUSY P 14 NOV PARTaaY!

I'm an avid VICE slagger. As much as they 'berate' the hipster they fucking bred the hipster. Oh the irony. 


But all differences aside, I will admit to lovin' their parties! With their pulling power and the $crilla in Adidas' pocket you can bet London's Sunday 4 Nov will be one hell of a party.


If A-TRAK, DJ MEHDI & Busy P ['ello ED BANG(ma face)] are on the bill then who the fook is the secret headliner???!?!?!


Better than those three? Well ma dears ma ears are pricked!


Head to www.viceland/bigfreeparty to win tickets!


Vice parties: Release ya inner hipster/hater!

ABRACADA TOUR Presents The Krays (Brodinski & Yuksek)

France's newest musical label Abracada is currently touring the globe's major cities: New York, Paris, Brussells, Glasgow and of course London.


For the launch party it'll be bringing its musical entourage whereever it goes and on 5 Nov London's XOYO will see The Krays aka Brodinski + Yuksek, Pilooski, new wave phenomenon The Aikiu (Live), the mysterious ex-member of Aeroplane and more grace it's sweatbox of a musical haven.


For FREE tickets jump over to London's LeCool find my write-up and email me! Easy!

Berlin: Electronic Beats Festival

Where would a Berlin music festival be without some involvement from Electronic Beats magazine! The prolific music magazine will be hosting their own one-day event on 4 Nov with 80s mega band The Human League, Mancunian experimentalists Delphic and electronic singer-songwriter and producer Roisin Murphy!! Unfortunately if you haven't already snagged tickets you may have to try your luck outside the Radialsystem V venue!


THE HUMAN LEAGUE



ROISIN MURPHY



DELPHIC

Bermuda Fly 6-7 Nov

Last but not least comes Berlin's Bermuda Fly. The weekend festival brings the week's musical festivities to an end and will take place at Berlin Tempelhof Airport. Think Booka Shade, Richie Hawtin et al!



Click here for the agenda!

Bermuda Festival Presents..

Continuing on the theme of Berlin's Bermuda Festival, tomorrow's launch day will see the 4-day music extravaganza offer not only live music but also talks and open house invitations.


Both Beatport and Sound Cloud will open their doors to the public. Producers, artists and composers and welcome to enter their doors, spin records, ask questions or simply introduce themselves. Both companies will have their doors open form 4 - 5 November! Details here.


On Fri 6 Nov Watergate will be hosting a talk on the prevalence and influence of Techno in the city of Berlin.


Panal members will include a sociologist, a urban geographer, an electro activist, the owner of Watergate and a left-wing affiliated Berlin politician. Quite a mix!


To register for free tickets email Sebastian Wilck.

JAZZANOVA Play Berlin's Bermuda

Berlin-based producer collective JAZZANOVA will be performing at Berlin's Maria Am Ostbahnof on 3 Nov as part of the 2010 Bermuda Festival. Between the 3 - 7 Nov musical events will be taking places all over the city. With each and every prominent music venue at their disposal expect a plethora of artists, international and local, gracing the stages. Should be a nice chilled start to what will be one heavy week!

Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

SADE IN CONCERT

In case you weren't aware Sade is coming back to the stage MAY OF 2011! She'll be playing Manchester (27/05), Birmingham (28/05) and London (29/05) and tickets have already gone on sale!!!


GET ON IT!

Baths - Lovely Bloodflow

Lovely Bloodflow from BATHS on Vimeo.


Baths is one man band Will Wiesenfeld from California. He'll be embarking on his Euro tour on 7 Nov starting at the UK's Forum. Think Coco Rosie meets Gold Panda!
Listen & buy his debut Cerulean here.


We'll be hearing him in Berlin on 22 Nov.

LEVIS PARTY - Free Kelis Gig

Untitled from Jasmine Fool on Vimeo.

It's not the best quality. Phone videos never are. Whadda ya want from me?!? Here is some footage from Berlin's Levis party at Maria Ostbahnhof. Never really thought Kelis would be a good performer but boy was I wrong. And damn she is looking good post-baby.

Dr Martens 50th + Flats + The Black Lips + Mazes

2010 marked the 50th year of Dr. Martens and on the 1 April the eponymous shoe brand celebrated with their customers in mind. 


For that one day, and in no way of an April Fools' joke, London's Covent Garden store was selling pairs of Dr. Martens for a mere £50.


To continue the party Dr. Martens are throwing a free party in association with Vice Presents.


And on 29 October The Blacks Lips, Mazes, Flats, French Kissing, Sexbeat (Dj) & This is Music (Dj) have been summoned to help out.


For free entry register for tickets at Viceland.

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Secret London Gig

Since moving to Berlin my ears have been pretty busy. From of Montreal, Shout Out Louds, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin et al. it's been crazy awesome. Though it wasn't until Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti show that my mind was really blow into a million psyched out pieces.



Ariel Pink in Berlin from Jasmine Fool on Vimeo.


What a performer. I mean the guy totally puts on a show. Dude ain't even that weird. Meeting him before the show I was surprised to see him during. He acted completely disabled. Was it just the music taking over? Was it involuntary reactions? Or just all of the above? Who the hell cares. All I know is that those baggy long johns had way too much extra room. It was definitely 'wang-ten' up at the front row.



Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Bright Lit Blue Skies" from gorillavsbear.net on Vimeo.


To cut to the chase. Ariel + band are making their way over to London to perform a secret show at CATCH bar on 2 Nov at 7pm. Tickets are only £5 and there are no advance tickets!!! GET THERE EARLY.


Definitely in my top 5 shows. Hopefully Geneva Jacuzzi will be gracing the stage prior to her bf's stage time. Geneva was originally in Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti before he had to kick her out for being tardy. In our interview she confirmed that this was anything but a hindrance to their relationship.


Geneva Jacuzzi interview pending.


Check the Facebook page for details!


Or if you are in Australia Ariel Pink will be performing on 10 Feb 2011 for a whopping $45. EXTORTION. 




Ariel Pink Crowd Surfs in Berlin from Jasmine Fool on Vimeo.


Footage from their Berlin show.

M.I.A Preforms at the Scream Awards

M.I.A preforms at Spike TVs Scream Awards.

Shout Out Louds - Fall Harder

Shout Out Louds - Fall Hard from Thomas Saurén on Vimeo.

Swedish band Shout Out Loud are currently on their European tour promoting third album 'WORK'. The title is meant to represent an embracing of the thing they love and less appear a begrudging statement. This time around the band decided they wanted to strip away a lot of the dramatic sound they had in sophomore 'Our Ill Will' and as a result they decided to work with producer Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, The Shins). Their last two records were produced by Peter Bjorn and John's Björn Yttling, though for 'Work' they were very adament about working with a non-Swedish producer.

Today I'll be interviewing the Stolkholm band prior to their show in Berlin.

Here's a mini-doco about the process of creating 'WORK'


Shout Out Louds "At Work" from Ted Malmros on Vimeo.

Check out the rest of their tour dates.

Guns 'N' Roses - Secret Dingwalls Show - CANCELLED!

Dingwalls secret Guns 'N' Roses gig has been cancelled due to reasons unknown :(