Dizzee Rascal @ NME Awards - 17/02/08

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Plastic Little, a Philadelphia trio dealing in only marginally less salacious party rap than Spank Rock, opened this NME awards gig in fine style. Like their aforementioned American kin, they combined the energy of Detroit house music with hip hop and threw in some playful rhymes for good measure, at one stage treating the crowd to a couple of lines of “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now” over a remix of “I’ve Got The Power” by Snap. Diplo style mash-ups like this were a highlight of their set, with a scintillating booty-call rap to a sample of “Close to Me” by the Cure finally breaking the crowd’s unfair indifference to them. | Full Article »

Sons & Daughters - 12/02/2008

Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »

“G’an Yersel” roared Adele Berthel, instantly receiving the same rallying cry back from the several Scots in the crowd. While not exactly comparable to the more savage cruelty Scots warriors have inflicted on the English down the tributaries of history, there was nonetheless a delicious sense of mischief in the lead singer’s explanation that she cannot resist shouting this most Scottish of encouragements every time the band play in England. | Full Article »

Prefuse 73 @ Scala

Thursday, October 18, 2007 | No Comments »

The problem with abstract instrumental hip/electronica, glitch-hop, or whatever nom de jour you care to fling the way of artists like Prefuse 73, is that sometimes it can be too, for want of a better word, abstract.

Guillermo Scot Herren, AKA Prefuse 73, was in town on Tuesday to promote new album “Preparations”.

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