Dive Off The Sun by Glass Gifts
Glass Gifts is a one-man electronic project, the baby of New-Yorker Richard Cupolo. Having remixed Crystal Castles’ recent collaboration with Robert Smith, he’s just released a new album Native Language, available to download via Bandcamp. Stream the opening track, Dive Off The Sun below.
31 Mar 2011
Arnold and Boris Are Bike Bros
Great spot by a reddit user of the Mayor and the Governator spending an afternoon riding bikes in their suits.
31 Mar 2011
Tower Bridge is Going Up
For the first time in a few months, on Saturday one of the most famous bridges in the world will stop traffic and open up to let a boat through.
Slightly disappointingly, the first boat to go through is just a regular on the Thames, the MV Dixie Queen – an American style paddle steamer – which will do the usual trick of going through, turning around by HMS Belfast then heading back out again an hour later.
The “event” takes place at 5:30pm.
31 Mar 2011
After Threat to Sue, Brick Lane Claims Olympic Gold
In a move that seems less about curry and more about currying favours (zing), Brick Lane has been named the Official London Curry Capital for 2012. This comes after the Tower Hamlets council threatened and then un-threatened legal action against the organisers over a re-routing of the Olympic marathon. This move, however, seems to ignore local popular opinion, which regularly ranks the Southall and Tooting districts over the more internationally recognised Brick Lane.
Maybe Southall and Tooting should threaten legal action? At the very least it might get them runner up status.
31 Mar 2011
Google Needs to Stop With the Social — Now
With today’s introduction of the “+1” button on certain links and internet searches, Google is making another attempt to encroach on Facebook’s social territory. This seems to be the one aspect of the internet that Google can’t get ever right, and the one they most immediately need to stop.
31 Mar 2011
The Arts Cuts in Handy Depressing Chart Form
Wondering who will be bearing the brunt of the burden in the arts cuts? An in-depth chart illustrates where the 15 per cent reduction is coming from. Here’s a hint: everywhere.
31 Mar 2011
See this tonight: Team Me, When The Saints Go Machine, Lucy Swann
March 31st @ The Lexington
The Lexington’s Ja Ja Ja night is a monthly feast of emerging Scandinavian indie bands at the best of times, but none more so than when curated by Richard Thane – editor of The Line Of Best Fit webzine, and Snipe’s resident Scandi-pop expert. He’s picked out the super talented Norwegian indie-pop ones-to-watch Team Me, solo popstress Lucy Swann, and sleek electronic pop-meisters When The Saints Go Machine. Anyone interested in the intense creativity the frozen Northern European climes inspire should head along early.
31 Mar 2011
London agenda for Thursday 31 March
1. Smash the state. With words. At protest, technology and the end of fear [Le Cool]
2. Watch Richard Ayoade’s film Submarine at the Rio [Run Riot]
3. Learn about a guy who enjoyed testing the official Post Office Regulations to their limits by posting items including a frying pan, a turnip, seaweed and even himself on more than one occasion [Ian Visits]
4. Eat dinner and talk design [Flavorpill]
5. See this tonight: Team Me, When The Saints Go Machine, Lucy Swann [John Rogers]
31 Mar 2011
Stay + by Christian Aids
With a name like Christian AIDS I was expecting something a lot more hardcore and offensive to the ears from this Manchester band. Thankfully, debut single Stay + is a pleasantly dark cacophony of dubstep/chillwave/electronica influences. It kicks off a couple of times too. Stay + is released via Double Denim, May 7th.
30 Mar 2011
Excerpts From the First Ever English Agony Aunt Column
The Awl unearths “Athenian Society” — the mother of all Agony Aunt columns that ran in London from 1691 to 1697.
30 Mar 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
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