First Sight: Just a Number 05272011
Weird name, great song: Just a Number 05272011 make knifelike futurist pop that you’ll be seeing a lot more of this year.
16 Mar 2011
Watch: The Concretes
Concretes – Crack In The Paint
Indie filmmaker of choice Jamie Harley strikes again with this lovely video for The Concretes.
01 Mar 2011
25 Feb 2011
Queen Of Hearts
It seems Snipe favourite Dreamtrak has been working away in his neon primary-coloured audio lab, both producing and remixing an interesting new protege in Queen Of Hearts. Many switched-on sets of eyes are keenly focussed on the elegant hooks and sharp looks of this emerging pop starlet. Keep ‘em peeled… and whet your appetite on Dreamtrak’s own characteristically shiny remix of “Freestyle” below.
Freestyle (Dreamtrak Remix) by Queen Of Hearts
Photo: Jenny Brough
24 Feb 2011
Beat Connection - Silver Screen
For those who enjoyed the Young Montana remix of this track last week, here’s the video for the single itself, out on Monday.
24 Feb 2011
Sin Fang
The Icelandic indie maestro skates the Reykjavik coastline in the video for his new single “Because Of The Blood”, from the forthcoming album “Summer Echoes”.
13 Feb 2011
Planningtorock
Bolton-born, Berlin-based operatic electronica star Janine Rostron has announced a second album under her Planningtorock moniker, to be released on James Murphy’s DFA label this May 16th. It will be called “W”. It may not be about George Bush the younger. But then it could be. Whether it is or not, a new album from Ms Rostron is a noteworthy event indeed, especially in the light of her work with The Knife on “Tomorrow, In A Year”, last year’s stunning electro opera, which ran for a few nights at The Barbican.
10 Feb 2011
Martin Creed
Turner Prize winning conceptual artist Martin Creed has released a video for his new song “THINKING / NOT THINKING”. Not only is it a music video, but it’s been numbered as “#1090” which, by the Creed system, also defines it as one of the artist’s works. The release of the single coincides with Creed’s forthcoming show, “Mothers”, at the new Hauser and Wirth space in Savile Row; Martin Creed will also play a gig at Café Oto in Dalston on March 2nd.
17 Jan 2011
Vivian Maier: A Life in Shadow
Living in the shadows of history, the life and work of Vivian Maier has only surfaced thanks to an unremarkable day in the life of Chicago born real-estate agent John Maloof. In 2007 he stumbled across a box of negatives at a local auction house, he hoped to find some images he could use for a book he was compiling on Portage Park but what he found revealed a wealth of incredible black and white photographs taken in and around the Loop in downtown Chicago. Maloof began archiving the work and obtaining other boxes in search of the identity of the mysterious photographer until one day 2009 he found an envelope with the name ‘Vivian Maier’ scrawled across it. A quick search revealed an obituary from the Chicago Tribune, dated only days earlier: Maier had passed away at the age of 83.
Having only just scratched the surface of the 100,000-strong collection (a lot of it still in undeveloped film rolls), it is already overwhelmingly clear that this woman, revealed to be an eccentric free spirit and nanny, was indeed a ‘photographer extraordinaire.’ The compositions, the haunting anonymity of the subjects and the delicate moments of a private life revealed to the public make for immensely compelling images. Honest, breath taking and arresting these photographs reveal snippets of American culture from the 1950s and 1960s; kids play in the streets, dapper men and fashionable women go about their business and poverty stricken people stoop in front of shops. With her first solo exhibition running at the Chicago Cultural Centre from tomorrow until April how long will it be until Maier is perhaps considered amongst the greats?
06 Jan 2011
Cage Against the Machine Music Video with London's finest musicians
Indie London came out to Soho 6 Dec to record a charity single that organisers hope will top the charts for Christmas Day. The song: John Cage’s 4’33’‘.
The piece, which features four minutes and 33 seconds of silence, is presented as the antidote to the manufactured and manipulated product gets promoted as music.
Taking part in the recording was Adam F, Aeroplane, Alexander Wolfe, Alice Russell, Anne Pigalle, Barry Ashworth, Billy Bragg, Bishi, Bo Ningen, Chas Smash, Crystal Fighters, Dane Le Sac, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Dub Pistols, Enter Shikari, Fenech Soler, Fyfe Dangerfield, Gallows, Guillemots, Heaven 17, Imogen Heap, Infadels, Japanese Popstars, Jarra York, John Foxx, John McLure, Kilford the Music Painter, Kooks, Loose Cannons, Man Like Me, Riz MC, Monarchy, Mr Hudson, Napolean IIIrd, Olly Wride, Oribital, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Penguin Prison, Scroobius Pip, South Central, Suggs, Teeth!!!, Tom Alison, Tom Milsom, Unkle, Venus In Furs, and Whitey. (Hat tip to Skiddle for the full list)
Visit Cage Against the Machine here. and purchase your song from Fair Share Music or, if you must, iTunes
14 Dec 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
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