I know I've been taking the "summer hours" concept a little too seriously, but it's hard to do anything but enjoy summer when you have something stuck in your iPod like Top Ranking, Diplo's "mixtape" treatment of Santogold's debut album. Diplo's dub-bass-electro-hop concoction provides a textured playground for Santi White's angelic and sassy brand of new wave. Unreleased mixes of Santi tracks ...
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Santi's been sucked into the MTV band-a-week ecosystem, and so after following the script of mildly awkward and innuendo filled skits, it's come time for a Music Television live performance. If you've seen her this past year you pretty much know what you'll get -- White in the middle flanked by her S1W-inspired sidekicks, working Santogold singles "Creator" and "L.E.S. Artistes" -- although thi...
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--- - |- Santogold has already been labeled as being the next M.I.A(Above the two of them are posing for the cover of Fader Magazine). She has already been featured on a track for Mark Ronson's grammy winning album "Versions", opened up for Bjork, and just recently finished touring with M.I.A. So what else is coming for this new up and coming artist?? She is currently teamimg up with some hot ...
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I know I've been taking the "summer hours" concept a little too seriously, but it's hard to do anything but enjoy summer when you have something stuck in your iPod like Top Ranking , Diplo's "mixtape" treatment of Santogold's debut album. Diplo's dub-bass-electro-hop concoction provides a textured playground for Santi White's angelic and sassy brand of new wave—never a dull moment to be sure. .
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We haven't posted any Santogold, nay, Santi in quite some time. And there's no better than the present. Kick ass mix from Old Money crew. It's awesome, but can't really expend energy right now. Read on as to why my life rules. Frankly, we don't know how accessible we'll be today. Out til 4:15 in the am doing [read=killing] karaoke for the first time ever, sleeping at a friends apartment, a...
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Friday's issue of Washington Square News was the last one of the semester, which was my third writing for the paper. For this final issue, we switched things up a bit, with summer concert and album previews and single-sentence album reviews. Here are my contributions: No Fun Fest May 16 - $18, May 17 - $20, May 18 - $18, Full Festival - $50 The Knitting Factory Avant-garde, noise and ...
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--- - |- At EarDrumZ we are always on the lookout for independent artists. I love hearing new and different sounds all the time and one of the best ways to do this is through online music players. Recently, thanks to the VIRV.TV blog, I discovered a great one called The SixtyOne: A Music Adventure. The banner for the61 reads, "radio sucks, so let's do something about it". This music player sit...
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Cansei de Ser Sexy, also known as CSS, is an interesting hot Brazilian band from Sao Paulo. They have a electro-rock-funk-new wave vibe and the lead singer has a high pitched catchy voice. You probably are all somewhat familiar with the single "Music is My Hot Sex" featured in the iPod touch commercial as well as a lesser known Zune music player commercial the previous year. CSS is also feature...
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Free music warms my heart on a cold morning. This compilation features songs from Sir Mix Alot, Devo, The Clash, and remixes of Santogold's own songs. You can take a looksie at the Santogold vs. Diplo mixtape below:"Download The Mixtape Here":http://www.zshare.net/download/15896225a915034c/ Tracklist...Dub Selection Intro 3-6 Mafia - 'Late Night' (Unstoppable Mix) Santogold - 'Shuv It' (Disco D...
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Alt-pop MC Santogold will take to the road for the first time as Santigold, her new moniker, this spring. Born Santi White the MC was forced to change her name from Santogold to Sant-i-gold after 80s gold jewelry infomercial kingpin Santo Gold filed a lawsuit citing infringement. The case was still ongoing as of February despite the name change. Trouble Andrew and Amanda Blank will open on Sant...
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Nik KershawSantogoldI discuss the Philly songstress’s 80s-tinged eponymous debut with MOG outsider, the Girlfriend (aka Jill).Me: Santogold have been described as the future of music.The GF: By who?Me: Santogold.The GF: She said it herself?Me: Yeah. "I'm breaking boundaries, creating new genres!" So, when I heard the music, I thought, “I'm back in the 80s here, I'm back in short pants.” Why
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Santogold has lashed out against those who term her music 'hip-hop' as "racist".The was reacting against continual classification of her self-titled album as 'hip-hop', 'rap' or 'R&B', especially on online retail sites."It's racist. It's totally racist. Everyone is just so shocked that I don't like R&B. Why does R&B keep coming into my interviews? It's pissing me off."??Santogold with hip hop s...
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It's like a dam broke in the hip hop video market - all of a sudden there is a furious flow of killer music vids out. So many appeared over the weekend that I couldn't possible post about each one separately. Since I noticed it via OnSmash, I'll just link to the best ones so you can choose the ones you want to check out... Let me know in the comments which ones you liked and what you thought...
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Drew was on hand to catch Santigold perform at the Hollywood Bowl this past weekend. "L.E.S. Artistes" is up top, "Get It Up, "Unstoppable" and "You'll Find a Way" is down bottom."
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