TAG: Paper Planes

Nov30

B. Dolan’s “Weight of the World Tour” Wrap Up + Free MP3 (Video & MP3)

Show’s over for this year, kids.

I played my first set of 2010 on January 2, alongside Sleep and Cecil Otter, and the itinerary never looked back after that. All in all the schedule said I’d play 101 shows this year. I ended up making it to 93 of them before life intervened.

This year has been an absolutely unrelenting gauntlet of work, love, loss and tragedy. It included the release of my most ambitious album yet, and the most substantial platform and success I’ve ever gained as an artist. It also included the long sickness and eventual death of my father on October 26, the exact day I was set to return from the final leg of touring. These things were happening simultaneously all year long, and needless to say I haven’t quite caught up to any of it yet.

Through much of it though, the only place I found peace was during the minutes I shared on stage with you all every night. It’s corny to say ‘all of the shows were special,’ but all of the shows were special this year. To thank you for that, here’s a tune on the house.

B. Dolan – 50 Ways (Paper Planes Remix) – live in London by Strange Famous Records

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Jul28

M.I.A. Beefs With Oprah – Are You F!@king Kidding Me?

She Still Hates Lady Gaga Too 

So here’s one for the books. The weekly wackiness of M.I.A. has reached a new level in an interview with Time Out London. The embattled singer recounts of story of hanging out at the Metropolitan Ball and kicking it with David Bowie’s wife Iman and getting the cold shoulder from the mighty O. …MORE

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Jul13

The Ups & Downs of M.I.A. (2003-2010)

It’s been a rough couple of months for M.I.A. with the difficult launch of her third album, Maya. Some call it classic media backlash, while others will insist that the album’s challenging sound fails to live up to her previous efforts. But M.I.A. has always had her ups and downs. Here’s some of the most significant ones in her career.

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Mar24

The Very Best Live in N.Y.C. Plus On-Camera Personal History (Video)

During a morphological, multilingual, miliorative set of the soul, Radioclit was on deck as The Very Best brought it with frontman Esau Mwamwaya singing you to your happy place. There are few better venues

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Feb01

Diplo Covers Beyonce “Halo” (MP3)

Lat year, we eagerly watch to see if Diplo would take home a Grammy with M.I.A. and Switch for “Paper Planes (they didn’t). This year, we didn’t really have a horse in the Grammy race (David Guetta’s co-writing credit on “I’ve Got A Feelings” not withstanding). But Diplo had his own particularly skewed take, releasing a Major Lazer cover of Beyoncé’s “Halo” with Elephant Man on vocals, just as the pop starlet won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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Major Lazer ft. Elephant Man “Halo” (Beyonce cover)

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