Summer Night Sketch by Cuushe
After three years of silence, Japanese dream-pop princess Cuushe is back with a new EP. Girl/You Know That I Am Here/But the Dream, out now via Flau, inhabits similarly dense and dreamy sonic territory to her lauded debut Red Rocket Telepathy. It is, in parts, like diving into a giant bowl of uncooked meringue. It also features a host of remixes, including work from Julia Holter, Teen Daze and Blackbird Blackbird. Download the Botany mix of Summer Night Sketch below.
25 Jul 2012
London agenda for Wednesday 25 July 2012
1. Create a new future, featuring drinks and live music, at Think Act Vote [Run Riot]
2. Listen to ‘the master of liquid sounds Fabio and guests’ at Cable [Don’t Panic]
3. Watch tall ships sail up the Thamas into the Royal borough of Greenwich [Time Out]
4. Chat about climate change scientists of the 19th Century [Ian Visits]
5. Eat at the Seagrass [Tired of London]
6. There is probably no better place to be than the Dalston Roof Park for Eyes, No Eyes [London In Stereo]
25 Jul 2012
See this tonight: Parakeet
London trio Parakeet (comprising members of Yuck and The History of Apple Pie) put their US alt-rock credentials to the test with this, a cover of a 1986 Hüsker Dü classic. While we wouldn’t go so far as to say it surpasses the machine-gun rush of the original – for fear of a lynching – the mournful pace and restrained guitar work certainly take the listener on something of an alternative journey. Parakeet play White Heat tonight (July 24).
24 Jul 2012
British Museum guerrilla Shakespeare protest
Mike wrote about Sunday’s witty protest from the Reclaim Shakespeare Company at the British Museum yesterday. Here’s the Company’s video of the fun.
24 Jul 2012
London agenda for Tuesday 24 July 2012
1. Hear rackety noise-gazers supergroup Parakeet at White Heat [Le Cool]
2. Listen to a lethal five piece Rasp Thorne and The Briars at the Water Rats [Run Riot]
3. Visit the Arcola Theatre for Micachu And The Shapes [Don’t Panic]
4. Bask in the sudden sunshine on 150 tonnes of sand at Camden Beach [Time Out]
5. Be lectured on the lost trades of Clerkenwell [Ian Visits]
6. Wander in Coldfall Wood [Tired of London]
7. Mazes // Virginia Wing // Apostille at the Sebright Arms [London in Stereo]
24 Jul 2012
Love Is The Devil In The Details by Olugbenga
DJ/producer/remixer and Metronomy man Olugbenga has made his debut release available as a free download from today. Epic & Blues is a collection of re-workings of some of his best remixes, plus two original tracks. Download the entire set below.
23 Jul 2012
Actors perform a fine reworking of MacBeth in protest at BP's union with the British Museum
A witty protest from the Reclaim Shakespeare Company at the British Museum yesterday. They acted out scenes from MacBeth rewritten to question BP’s sponsorship of the Shakespeare: Staging the World exhibition, in the light of that company’s abysmal environmental record. Here’s the press release and full script.
I like this protest because it questions rather than hectors, and does so with a bit of style.
The essay du jour on big energy companies’ role in climate change is by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone. It may be the most depressing thing I’ve read all year. Sample:
“The numbers are simply staggering – [the energy] industry, and this industry alone, holds the power to change the physics and chemistry of our planet, and they’re planning to use it.”
Worth a read if you can bear it.
23 Jul 2012
Plan B on why he wore a Skrewdriver t-shirt
— Plan B, explaining why he was wearing a Skrewdriver t-shirt on the cover of Shortlist. Plan B tells The Quietus that he had no idea that Skrewdriver were a neo-Nazi sympathising band.
23 Jul 2012
London agenda for Monday 23 July 2012
1. Listen to Timba Smits, the man behind lowbrow art magazine Wooden Toy Quarterly [Le Cool]
2. Hear School for Creative Startups founder Doug Richard discuss The Power of Design [Don]t Panic]
3. Some sort of Olympics PR Event to take place by City Hall [Ian Visits]
4. See the Spitalfields Dioramas [Tired of London]
5. If ‘you like megahits and stunning music’, then head to the Lex for Arthur Beatrice [London In Stereo]
23 Jul 2012
Where Do You Belong? by Digits
We first introduced you to Alt Altman, aka Toronto’s Digits, this time last year. Since then Alt has relocated to Berlin via London, released a critically acclaimed mixtape (Death and Desire) featuring LA lounge-pop chanteuse Nite Jewel and also found time to put together another brilliant EP of silky, minimalist pop. He’s devised a rather novel way of distributing the digital version of his new EP: send him a photo or a screenshot of an album by another artist you’ve legitimately purchased over the past two months and he’ll send you a link to a free download of the Where Do You Belong? EP in return – open to abuse of course, but an interesting idea. Download the title track below and catch him live at 93 Feet East tonight (July 20).
20 Jul 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
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- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
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