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Parisian electro-pop ingeniue Uffie covers the classic Tom Tom Club 1981 single “Wordy Rappinghood,” with music faithfully reproduced by Ed Banger cohort DJ Mehdi. Check out this version, along with the original and the 2003 cover by art school gals Chick On Speed. Take the poll below and tell us which one is your fave.
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Ms. Anna – Uffie – Hartley’s new video for single, “Difficult” has just hit the interweb! The American born, Tokyo raised, Paris living firecracker of a popstar is on quite the roll this year with 2010 album release, Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans on Ed Bangers records. Recent hits have included the bouncin’ “MC’s Can Kiss,” produced by Mr. Oizo, another Ed Banger resident, and “ADD SUV” whose music video features a not so shabby lip smack-covered convertible driven by equally not so shabby Pharrell Williams.
Check out Uffie’s blog at http://www.uffie.tv/
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French artist Fafi designed the limited edition Uffie t-shirt for the Cool Cat’s Season 4 collection, featuring artwork for “MC’s can kiss…”
Uffie’s much anticipated debut album Sex, Dreams & Denim Jeans drops June 7th.
T-shirt available now on the Cool Cats website
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Ed Banger’s online store/blog Le Coolcats dropped the Spring lookbook for their latest t-shirt additions. Ah to be a French hipster.
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The sidewalk outside Cinespace in Hollywood was a chaos with people trying to get in 3 different lines for the sold out show. Uffie (Anna-Catherine Hartley) was back in town, performing for the first time in over a year and a half, and back where her American hype started. This was a night of leather jackets and mustaches, feminists (of both sexes) and hip hop kids. There was celebrity-spotting in the house, Steve Aoki himself and and Apl.de.ap with an entourage. Them Jeans warmed up the hipster crowd with Kid Cudi tracks that everybody sang along to.
Uffie finally hit the stage at 12:30, and she had a new DJ backing her. Uffie looked part Euro and part American Apparel, which makes sense being Miami-born, Hong Kong-raised and Paris-based. She invited the crowd to storm the stage, and her almost overly enthusiastic fans did not hesitate. Maybe this was a move to hide the lack of performance, to cover it up with fan frenzy on stage. …MORE
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