Archive for July, 2010

Listen To Gorillaz Live In Syria

  • July 30th, 2010
  • Posted in News

On Sunday 25th July, Gorillaz played in the Damascus Citadel, a 1,000 year old palace in Damascus, Syria and NPR have the whole concert recorded to have a listen to right here. An incredible show featuring the now familiar guest appearances from Bobby Womak, Shaun Ryder, Kano, and Bashy. On top of the usual suspects, [ READ MORE ]

Kanye West Performs New Tracks At The Facebook HQ

  • July 28th, 2010
  • Posted in News

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Kylie Minogue To Be Guest Singer On Hurts Debut Album

  • July 28th, 2010
  • Posted in News

Hurts announced today that Kylie Minogue has recorded vocals for ‘Devotion’ which will feature on their debut album Happiness. Speaking of the collaboration, singer Theo Hutchcraft said: “We wrote a song about infidelity called ‘Devotion’. Since we have enjoyed an illicit life-long love affair with Kylie Minogue we mustered up every ounce of courage we [ READ MORE ]

POP! Faces

  • July 27th, 2010
  • Posted in Design

I have nothing to say about this whatsoever other than I like it[ READ MORE ]

Wishlist – Body Talk PT2 by Robyn

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The Gully Gallery

  • July 26th, 2010
  • Posted in Design

The Gully Gallery is the online gallery space of illustrator Calum Torbett, a Brighton (and Bournemouth) based artist. Having been a fan of his work for quite some time, I’ve absolutely no excuse for not showing his work sooner. For obvious reasons I have decided to show some of his music-related output here but his [ READ MORE ]

Live Review – Wild Nothing

Audio, Brighton, 24th July 2010 Playing to a near empty venue is never going to be easy, as was the case at Brighton’s Audio last night (24th July 2010). Support band Glass Animal took the challenge in their stride, after delaying their start time by 15 minutes (presumably to see if a larger crowd would [ READ MORE ]

Introducing The Tom’s Listening To YouTube Page

  • July 24th, 2010
  • Posted in News

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the official Tom’s Listening To YouTube page. Over the coming weeks we intend on uploading many of our archived videos and new filmings. Have a look and let us know what you think! Tom’s Listening To YouTube[ READ MORE ]

Animated Albums

  • July 24th, 2010
  • Posted in Design

Animated Albums is a site that I can happily spend hours on. A very simple concept applied to all manner of classic albums has many interesting and funny results. Find more at the Animated Albums site[ READ MORE ]

As If Anyone Gives A Shit But…

I’ve decided to avoid writing about films I’ve seen for as long as possible. That way I can’t be wrong. Which I hate. Instead, here’s some films to watch out for… When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors Narrated by Johnny Depp and directed by Tom Dicillo. A biopic tracking the raucously wild career [ READ MORE ]

Album Review – Without Why by Rose Elinor Dougall

The former Pipettes singer Rose Elinor Dougall has kept herself pretty quiet since leaving her all girl doo-wop pop group in 2008, and it would appear that she has spent most of the last two years trying to distance herself from her former band as much as possible. Without Why takes the former popstrel away [ READ MORE ]

Live Review – Pet Shop Boys

Towers of white cubes loomed over the audience as the lights went down and the curtains were pulled back. Through doorways in the towers emerged Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. The Pet Shop Boys were on stage, wearing coloured cubes on their heads. Launching into ‘Heart’, their 1988 number one, the duo and their backing dancers [ READ MORE ]

Double Guitar

  • July 17th, 2010
  • Posted in Design

This is as much an impressive piece of designing as it is such a simple, well shot video. ‘Stereo’ is a video of Daniel Rose (of the band C-mon & Kypski, also worth a listen to!) playing a two headed guitar, by Amsterdam based designer Baster. Via it’s nice that[ READ MORE ]

Download A New Cut Copy Track

The new Cut Copy track is really rather good, as I’m sure you all expected. If you want to, you can download it here[ READ MORE ]

This Is NOT Song Of The Day – Free To Love Again by Katie Price

Katie Price performs new single Free To Love Again on GMTV. The YouTube description claims she is wearing  ‘a jacket made of human hair’. This is not the Song Of The Day. I have no further comments on the matter[ READ MORE ]

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