“pursuit of happiness” LISSIE
forkface7, 5. September 2010, 11:55
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Whatcha Say: The Good, The Bad And The Swift In This Week’s Reader Comments
Whatcha Say: The Good, The Bad And The Swift In This Week’s Reader Comments
This week we were rocked by Kanye West’s remix of Justin Bieber’s “Runaway Love,” rolled by Taylor Swift’s “Mine” video, shaken by Kylie Minogue’s “Get Outta My Way” video and stirred by the poster for upcoming Christina Aguilera/Cher flick Burlesque. Head below to see how our readers reacted to all this pop racket.
:: Marilyn kicked us to the curb on Mary J. Blige Tries To Get Down With “Break Up To Make Up”: “Wow…the author/ and editor-in-chief needs to be fired for posting this irrelevent and useless article… How dare u accuse an artist of Mary’s caliber of releasing something so elementary. The mere mentioning of this as a single, only makes u sond like a bitter, disgruntled, underpaid, attention-whore.”
:: Marc, however, felt Marilyn should clean out her ears: “so, what about the awful lyrics and boring chorus? when a song sucks, it sucks.”
:: Steve wasn’t feeling the amore on Watch Taylor Swift Fall In Love (What Else?) In Her “Mine” Music Video: “I don’t know I’m not really impressed. I feel like with someone with her amount of talent at writing a golden chorus should be able to venture out with subject matter a little bit.”
:: Lisa also piped up: “Wow, not really a TS fan but I was curious to see the new video. I really like it! Now, if someone could just fix her voice for when she sings live.”
IZABO- “On my way” / Director: Shushu E. Spanier
shushu, 5. September 2010, 07:06
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Official music video by the funkiest band on this side of the planet-IZABO, using lots of iPhones…
Director: Shushu E. Spanier
Art Director: Shirley Eva Bahar
Photographer: Ofir Kedmi
Offline editor: Ornit Levy
Online editor: Roy Shalev
Production house: Gravity-Rhino (Yoram Altman, Roni Kleiner, Yevgeny Romanovski, Inbal Voitiz, Lara Rozen, Liora Tamir)
Production manager: Reut Sapir
Sound Studios: SoundHouse (Yoav Sarig, Eran Barkani, Kenny Danevich)
Belly Dance: Yaelayla
Props: Yael Shnberger & Mishmish
Consulting: Maayan Goldman
Makeup: Noga Tamir & Moran Stavizki
Still photographer: Hertzel Hadar
Get the song @:izabo.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com
Official music video by the funkiest band on this side of the planet-IZABO, using lots of iPhones…
Director: Shushu E. Spanier
Art Director: Shirley Eva Bahar
Photographer: Ofir Kedmi
Offline editor: Ornit Levy
Online editor: Roy Shalev
Production house: Gravity-Rhino (Yoram Altman, Roni Kleiner, Yevgeny Romanovski, Inbal Voitiz, Lara Rozen, Liora Tamir)
Production manager: Reut Sapir
Sound Studios: SoundHouse (Yoav Sarig, Eran Barkani, Kenny Danevich)
Belly Dance: Yaelayla
Props: Yael Shnberger & Mishmish
Consulting: Maayan Goldman
Makeup: Noga Tamir & Moran Stavizki
Still photographer: Hertzel Hadar
Get the song @:izabo.bandcamp.com
catch IZABO on:
www.thesoundmakers.com
www.myspace.com
Facebook fan page
Twelve L.A. indie labels you should know: a primer
A consensus seems to be growing that Los Angeles is in the midst of a renaissance for independent music. In a recent Sunday feature, we set out to discover just how it is that while the major labels continue to suffer layoffs and severe sales losses, this city’s scrappy, savvy, taste-driven indie imprints have, in fact, been thriving. As a corollary to that, we’ve spoken to and profiled 12 of L.A.’s most active young labels, from artist-owned black metal powerhouse Southern Lord to chart-climbing indie rock outlet Danger Bird to progressive hip-hop imprint Anticon. Here’s hoping they’ll all end up in a GZA song some day.
Sargent House (Echo Park)
Longtime talent manager Cathy Pellow started Sargent House in 2006 with one artist: Seal Beach prog-punk band Rx Bandits, who were ready to call it quits after selling around 150,000 records through MCA/Geffen and, according to Pellow, "never seeing a penny." Today, her stable comprises "a middle class of awesome musicians," also proggily inclined, able to live off their earnings. She also manages a sister label co-run by the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez Lopez.
IAMSOUND (Mid-City West)
With artists as diverse as British electro-popper Little Boots, Midwestern screwgaze trio Salem and L.A.’s own Afro-pop ensemble Fool’s Gold, IAMSOUND is as diverse as it comes, offsetting a tasteful, if broad, curatorial instinct with learned business knowhow. Founded in 2006 and run by video director Niki Roberton and online marketing expert Paul Tao, the label also understands community, evidenced by its ongoing “L.A. Collection” vinyl series, featuring a genre-hopping set of local up-and-comers.
Stones Throw (Mt. Washington)
Founded in 1996 by DJ/producer Peanut Butter Wolf, a.k.a. Chris Manak, Stones Throw moved to L.A. from Northern California a decade ago in order to be closer to its flagship artist, the cult-beloved and highly prolific Madlib. With a winning catalog informed by his playful, jazz-steeped compositions (see MF DOOM’s "Madvillainy" and J Dilla’s "Donuts"), plus a rising tide of vital new acts, the label is positioned to become the hip-hop equivalent of a major indie like Sub Pop.
Hydra Head (Los Feliz)
Hydra Head’s holdings include roughly half of the metal and metal-adjacent bands currently making waves in music, from “black ambient” artists such as Alhambra’s Xasthur to Seattle sludge kings Big Business to Providence mathcore act Daughters. Isis frontman Aaron Turner co-owns the label with Mark Thompson, who can be found most days of the week at their Sunset Junction-situated record shop, Vacation Vinyl. "Music is my life’s blood," Thompson said.
Girl Crisis (The Ladies Of Chairlift, Class Actress, Apache Beat, Au Revoir Simone, Acrylics, Et Al) Cover Taylor Dayne (Stereogum Premiere)
Here it is, the latest installment from Girl Crisis, an all-female concept troupe operating on a specifically detailed concept. The idea behind it was to a) name themselves as a joke on Boy Crisis and b) exist only in web-video form featuring c) an essentially revolving cast of indie Brooklyn sirens that d) have nothing for sale and will not play live shows but e) are a “long-term” project that records covers of classic songs, learned and arranged just before performing, in a Greenpoint living room on Super 8mm camera. All of this came to be two years ago, conceived by Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek, Class Actress’s Elizabeth Harper (whose apartment hosts the proceedings), and This Frontier Needs Heroes‘ Jessica Lauretti and (sometimes Stereogum photographer) Bek Andersen, both of whom handle capturing the pieces visually while Polachek records audio via room mics. Of course, there is more. Concept!
Songs are committed to tape seasonally, the girls — who are all friends in bands that don’t get to harmonize with ladies otherwise — choosing a classic song to cover by a male singer every winter, and a female for their summer pick. (Past choices have included Nirvana’s “Come As You Are,” Sade’s “Smooth Operator,” and Chris Isaacs’ “Wicked Game.”) For this summer’s selection the lineup’s expanded considerably, the tag-set swelling to include (in addition to the aforementioned founders): Erika Spring-Forster (Au Revoir Simone), Ilirjana Alushaj (Apache Beat), Molly Shea (Acrylics), Leah Carey (Amazing Baby), Jane Herships (Spider), and Sophia Knapp and Linnea Vedder (Lights).
The song of choice this time is Taylor Dayne’s “Tell It To My Heart.” You remember the original — here it is stripped down and less confrontational — both visually and vocally — from a group of friends in the 11222 in a piece that’s a little more sultry, with a lot less hairspray.
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Read Kanye West’s Greatest Twitter Confession Of All Time
Shortly after posting his promised G.O.O.D. Friday track, Kanye West commenced with the posting of a remarkable string of tweets in which he apologized (again) to Taylor Swift for their infamous run-in at least year’s MTV Video Music Awards (calling himself “a 32-year-old child”) and mused openly about how his public image devolved into caricature. It has to be considered one of the most amazing public confessions by a pop star ever. Was it all from the heart? See highlights below.
Kanye began his stream of consciousness with a series of tweets taking shots at the press for portraying him as a monster in the wake of his stage-crashing interruption of Taylor’s acceptance speech at last year’s VMAs. (At one point, he appeared to suggest that the media was punishing him for speaking out on NBC’s Katrina telethon in 2005).
But his thoughts quickly took a turn toward (as Buzzworthy put it) “almost self-flagellating” commentary on his And it certainly appeared uncalculated.
West noted that he even wrote a song for Taylor. Any chance we’ll hear it when they re-unite at this year’s VMAs?
Tera Melos “The Skin Surf” Dir. Behn Fannin
behnfannin, 4. September 2010, 23:40
Challenging math-punk trio Tera Melos takes dorks to the dark side in the hilarious but disturbing low-budget video for “The Skin Surf.” Its scattershot imagery, stuffed with suspicious liquids and mysterious meats, makes for destabilizing viewing, even though it seems to screen as tame as Super-8. – Wired.com
Shot on the RCA DSP3 VHS Camcorder.
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My Site:www.BehnFannin.com
