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Vimeo08 June 2009 The-xx
Hello All.
We’ve taken down The xx’s ‘Crystalised’ and Kid Harpoon’s ‘Stealing Cars’ videos from www.vimeo.com. We didn’t want to have to do this but Vimeo’s terms state that any video uploaded to the site become’s their property. We probably should have read this before uploading, but now that we know we can’t justify giving away the rights to one of our artist’s videos, so we’re just going to have to stick to youtube.
Enjoy:
The xx – Crystalised
Kid Harpoon – Stealing Cars
Stag and Dagger: Review26 May 2009 The-xx
Last Thursday, as you might well know from reading down a bit, was Stag and Dagger. We put on a night and had a ball.
Alongside the publicised line up of The xx, Girls, Arch M and Phantom were some surprise performances by Lightspeed Champion, Florence and the Machine, Kid Harpoon and an inspired Jack Penate.
The following photos tell part of the story:
Phantom
Kid Harpoon performing with Jack Penate
Florence and Lightspeed Champion
Gwill of The Golden Silvers, Florence, Lightspeed Champion, Tic of Phantom/Jack Penate
Jack Penate with The xx and Florence (of the Machine fame) on BVs
Some old guys
There are plenty more here
'Without love, I am nothing'12 May 2009
I don’t really believe in regrets, but if I was to start, it would be to regret not having the balls to lose a lot of money/blood/sweat/tears working with King Charles.
When Paul in Corinthians said: ‘without love I am nothing’ he might as well have been reading straight from King Charles’ manifesto. As honest and true a romantic as there’ll ever be, Charles’ lyrics are full of a bittersweet yearning for a love that he knows exists, yet always narrowly evades him. His music, on the other-hand, is a ferocious battle cry for it. To me, it seems impossible not to be moved by it.
The following video is for his new single ‘Time of Eternity’ and contains Charles in his full blooded pomp and glory.
King Charles – Time of Eternity
Young Turks at Stag and Dagger04 May 2009 Young-Turks
We are excited to be hosting Cafe 1001 at Stag and Dagger festival in London on May 21st, with some of our favourite acts around playing for us, including…
The Big Pink / The xx European Tour04 May 2009 The-xx
The Big Pink and The xx have just completed a short jaunt across the UK and Europe.
I accompanied them for part of the way and took some photographs whilst there. It’s fair to say that I think these are two of the best two news bands going. Sweeping statements like that tend to be loaded – and I’m heavily biased – so I’ll just leave you with two photos, a link to a whole load more and a couple of tracks, so you can try to see for yourself why it was such a privilege for me to have bared witness to the aforementioned dates.
Robbie Furze of The Big Pink
The rest of the tour photos can be found here.
The xx - 'Crystalised' (Video)27 April 2009 The-xx
The xx have a video for their new single ‘Crystalised’ – out today. It’s directed by Alex Flick and Masato Riesser.
The xx – Crystalised from Young Turks on Vimeo.
DOOM07 April 2009
MF DOOM is back, as DOOM. I haven’t heard the album, so I won’t judge, yet. Its release and the subsequent press it got, reminded me of how good KMD were.
In short: KMD were a 90’s Hip Hop group made up of Zev Love X, (MF DOOM before the mask went on,) DJ Subroc, (Zev Love X’s brother,) and part timers: Onyx/Rodan. Their career, although brilliant, was cut short by the untimely death of Subroc and commercially stunted by their tendency to have record covers depicting strung up black dolls.
It’s often said that Zev Love X created the illusion of anonymity/gained the mask/became MF DOOM, because of the deep grieving he went into after his brothers death and the distrust of the industry he gained through KMD’s label’s attempts at censorship.
The following two tracks give you a little sample of quite how great KMD were. If you’ve never seen DOOM’s (rather good looking) face, then this is also a good chance to peep it. The nose ring is/was a great look, as were the glasses. RIP DJ Subroc:
KMD – Peach Fuzz
Unfortunately this doesn’t have a video, but its my favourite KMD song:
KMD – What A Nigga Know?
KWIC03 April 2009
Tic: Kwes and I are on tour at the moment. Touring can suck if you don’t know how to use the time and as a novice in the live field, I never knew about the boredom, the post-gig comedown and the urge to get wasted!! As Kwes says: “it’s just something to do”.
So we found something better to do. Everyday, Kwes and I have set time aside to make tunes inspired by the city we’re in. There’s only one constraint: work quickly. Battery life requires that we use our time on the tour bus efficiently. We alternate production responsibilities, working in 10 min slots. In turn, the process has inspired a name for our collaboation.
Kwes: The name that Tic speaks of, we initially felt it was quite cheesy, but really it’s the most fitting way of describing this project. Although, we all know, names with reference for a particular music/project are not neccessities. Anyway, We called it…..
KWIC.
(Time constraints, Kwes+Tic = KWIC)
SEE!!!!!!
At first you can smell the cheese melting from the screen, but then it freezes into something quite cool.
The Mother of All Funk Chords29 March 2009
I’m incredibly tired; I didn’t really sleep last night. However, I was just sent this and its made me reaffirm everything. Life is good:
Crystalised25 March 2009 The-xx
The xx have just finished their debut single ‘Crystalised’. It’s out on the 27th of April. You can buy it here and listen here:
Enjoy
Introducing: The xx23 February 2009 The-xx
The xx are four 19 year olds, (Baria, Jamie, Oliver and Romy,) from South West London.
The latest signing to Young Turks, they’re currently in the process of finishing their debut album. Produced by the band and engineered by Cocadisco’s Rodaidh McDonald, the album was recorded in a one room studio inside the XL offices. The following photos chronicle some of the process.
(Romy – Vocals/Guitars Jamie – Beats/Producer)
(Oliver – Vocals/Bass)
(Baria – Guitar/Keys)
(Rodaidh – Engineer)
Whilst waiting for the album (September) you can go check out their myspace or just download the following:
Gucci Mane12 February 2009
1 Year, 4 Months and 4,228,108 plays late (I put it down to the time difference) but this still kills me:
Gucci Mane – My Kitchen
I'm going to miss you Felipe10 February 2009
How were we meant to make anything of 7 months? I’ll miss you Felipe.
The Grammys09 February 2009
I know I’m supposed to hate the Grammys.
“Its so corporate, it’s just an industry tool sell more records, there are too many awards, the winners are always the same and they’re so arrogant…”
Unfortunately I’ve been suckered in by the man. These will probably be two of my favourite tv clips of the year:
M.I.A. Jay-Z, T.I. Lil Wayne and Kanye West – Swagger Like Us
Radiohead (with massive marching band) – 15 Steps