Daily MPfree: Mountain Man
Bella Union signings Mountain Man sing dew-sweet three part harmonies over plucked strings or, sometimes, nothing at all; we were captivated recently by their final song at a Union Chapel show, performed bravely off-mic and acappella. These two songs are from their debut album, “Made The Harbour“, out now.
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12 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: PWL (Dreamtrak Remix)
Seeing as the Dreamtrak remix of Teeth we posted was so popular (12k plays in 5 days!) here’s another one, of Pagan Wanderer Lu this time. It’s a b-side from the single Banish Negative Thoughts, released digitally tomorrow. See him live at The Betsy Trotwood on Friday.
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Pagan Wanderer Lu – A Girl Named Aeroplane (DREAMTRAK DIAMOND SOUND) by brainlove
11 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: Ólöf Arnalds
Icelandic singer Ólöf Arnalds has one of those instantly recognisable, singular voices, like Vashti Bunyan or Nina Nastasia – a beautifully clear, fresh, honest sound that seems to blow negativity away from the mind. The new single Innundir Skinni is out now on One Little Indian, with an album of the same name due Sept 13th, and she supports Air tonight at the London Forum.
10 Jul 2010
Daily MPfree: A Scholar & A Physician
The best pop band you’ve never heard of, unless you were one of the 50k viewers of the She’s A Witch video on YouTube. AS&AP are purveyors of the most perfectly unhinged electronic pop music imaginable, and you can see them live at Ill Fit on July 13th.
A Scholar & A Physician – She’s A Witch by brainlove
A Scholar & A Physician – Shouldn’t Dwell by snipelondon
(Photo: Sonny Malhotra)
10 Jul 2010
Daily MPfree: Best Coast / Vampire Weekend / Kid Cudi
This unlikely collaboration comes courtesy Converse Music, who’ve presumably wooed these guys into the studio with sacks of cash and free trainers. The results? Pretty great, apart from Cudi’s tacked-on rapping. Stream it below, download it here, and look forward to the Eminem / Lee Ryan / Max Cavalera track that’s no doubt being planned as we speak.
09 Jul 2010
Daily MPfree: Common Prayer
Common Prayer is the new side project from Jason Russo, formerly of Mercury Rev. But unlike Mercury Rev’s psychedelic grandiloquence, this is a thrillingly ramshackle affair. Escaping the cultural branding of his native Brooklyn, Russo decamped to the home of Truck Festival – Steventon in fair Oxfordshire – to record Common Prayer’s debut, “There Is A Mountain”. Here’s one of the first cuts from the album – a delightfully shonky bar jam of forlorn optimism, not dissimilar to a bourbon-mellowed Walkmen, and complete with a lovely tinkly piano and whistle-a-thon ending.
08 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: Grinderman
Nick Cave’s Grinderman have announced their second album, Grinderman 2, to be released on Mute this September 13th.
They play a headline show at Hammersmith Apollo on October 1st.
08 Jul 2010
Ridiculous homophobic headline on today's Express uses actual words from judge defending right to live gay openly
There has been much gnashing of teeth this morning of a homophobic front page of today’s Express.
In fact, that ridiculous stereotypical description of the life of the gay is from Supreme Court justice Alan Rodger, known as Lord Rodger, in defending the right to live openly.
Here’s the full quote (Link is a PDF)
To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates. Mutatis mutandis – and in many cases the adaptations would obviously be great – the same must apply to other societies. In other words, gay men are to be as free as their straight equivalents in the society concerned to live their lives in the way that is natural to them as gay men, without the fear of persecution.
08 Jul 2010
Snipe Likes: The Hundred In The Hands
Part of the new crop of Warp signings, ace NYC duo The Hundred In The Hands have been remixed by well-regarded Oxford indie band Foals, who make a good fist of a traditional 4×4 dance remix, complete with a funny feelgood breakdown section.
The Hundred In The Hands album is out in September, but if you can’t wait have a nose around on their Warp page for videos and streams and all that malarkey.
The Hundred In The Hands – Pigeons (Foals XIII Remix) by thehundredinthehands
07 Jul 2010
Evening Standard lost £28.3m in months before going free, now breaking even
According to The Guardian, “made a loss of £28.3m in the 10 months to early 0ctober last year” including “£9.9m of exceptional restructuring costs including redundancies and moving from a paid-for title to a freesheet.”
Yet, a mere nine months later, the Standard is breaking even. For one single day, at least.
Meanwhile, how is it going over at the paywall-hidden Times? Not so well, it seems: Times’ pay wall results in 60 pct drop in traffic, competitors’ benefit
07 Jul 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
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