TAG: Glastonbury

Mar05

Beth Ditto & The Gossip To Play Bonnaroo 2010! (Video)

My favorite festival just got even more interesting. Through the years, Bonnaroo’s been doing a real nice job booking great female artists with Patti Smith, Erykah Badu, Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, Mavis Staples, Catpower (this is a very short list), and the addition of The Gossip is a damn nice one — check this footage of Glasto’007, as well as URB writer and shooter DG Loral’s filming of Annie Clark, Erykah Badu, Neko Case and Ani DiFranco at Bonnaroo 2009, for a proper glimpse at some of the ladies that have graced Bonnaroo .

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Jan11

A Hot Minute with Hot Chip

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London’s geekiest cool kids are on the verge of releasing their fourth studio album, One Life Stand, and are poised to show the world Alexis Taylor’s amped-up songwriting and the introduction of new sounds like Al Doyle’s flugelhorn. Previous records like The Warning and Made in the Dark produced hit after hit, and Joe Goddard says he is proud of this new addition to the repertoire and the quintet couldn’t be more excited to start performing. It’s been ten years of making addictive dance floor tunes and winning videos, and it sounds like these guys still have their priorities right. Before the holidays, URB spoke with Goddard to hear the good word.

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Nov30

Blur “No Distance Left to Run” Trailer (Video)

Blur’s official reunion documentary, No Distance Left To Run, is slated for theaters on January 19th. I hope this comes stateside, not sure yet, but here is the trailer:

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Directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, the film trails the band from rehearsals to comeback shows in Colchester and at London’s Goldsmiths College, Glastonbury, T In The Park festival, Hyde Park shows, and promises firsthand insight to the innermost workings of the band.

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Sep02

Interview + Lykke Li (Video)

Lykke Li is not happy. Not in the sense that she is depressed, but in the sense that she is frustrated with her life presently. The 23-year old sweedish singer responsible for underground-gone-mainstream hits such as “Little Bit”, “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Let It Fall”, has been touring for what seems like ages, and she is tired of it. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t still in good spirits. I meet her in one of the only shady areas of Grant Park (home of Lollapalooza) that day, the media tent. This has to be one of the hottest days of the year, but Lykke doesn’t seem to be phased at all. Looking quite fashionable and calm, she sits down in the lawn chair across from me. But the biggest suprise about Lykke Li is that she could care less about …

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Sep02

Lykke Li Interview

Lykke Li is not happy. Not in the sense that she is depressed, but in the sense that she is frustrated with her life presently. The 23-year old sweedish singer responsible for underground-gone-mainstream hits such as “Little Bit”, “Dance, Dance, Dance” and “Let It Fall”, has been touring for what seems like ages, and she is tired of it. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t still in good spirits. I meet her in one of the only shady areas of Grant Park (home of Lollapalooza) that day, the media tent. This has to be one of the hottest days of the year, but Lykke doesn’t seem to be phased at all. Looking quite fashionable and calm, she sits down in the lawn chair across from me. But the biggest suprise about Lykke Li is that she …

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Aug25

EBONY BONES: Dabbling with Magic

Interview with Ebony Thomas 

Last night at 205 Chrystie, just after 1:00 am, Nirvana’s cheerleaders got an update during Ebony Bones’ set, as one of the coolest singers and the two most awesome back-up vocalists went through alternately joyous and solemn dances in the spirit of “a small village in Africa,” per lead singer Ebony’s quip. And while their garb is tribal, they are far more steeped in subculture—namely that great tradition of conceptual British art-pop informed by a societal, political, and historical consciousness, and expressed by the Bones crew to an, at-times harrowing, and often rapturous and delirious pitch. During one moment, the back-up singers vamped with a boppy, New Wave dolly coo, asked a question pondered since time immemorial by thinkers like Morrissey, Eldridge Cleaver, et. al: Why do we smile at the people that we hate the most?

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