People like Grimes, apparently. They should.



Grimes’ Claire Boucher, a small woman with massive range, standing behind a series of keyboards, samplers and drum machines. Boucher cooed into a mic and manipulated her vocals as she went along, triggering each new element of her songs at will. It was difficult to know where her voice ended and the electronic gear took over, as her voice blended in with her expansive music. Despite pausing several times to ask the audience if the sound was all right, Boucher kept the momentum up throughout her set and certainly won over many in the crowd through her cute, diminutive personality, including me. I met up with her after the concert in Brooklyn.

*Intimate handshake*
Sty: This was special, you should visit us in Iceland during next Airwaves.
CB: Iceland, that´s so cuuute!
Sty: I was blown away by your confidence on stage...
CB: Yeah, I’m pretty confident, if the sound is good. I don’t really trust sound guys. I try as often as possible to get Sebastian, who runs my record label, to do sound because he’s really good at it and he knows my set-up really well.
CB: (Laughs) It’s kind of intense right now, though.
Sty: You could deff need some help, you have so much going on at the same time. I saw you lean over and press buttons on the equipment with the same hand that you’re holding the microphone with.
CB: Well, I kind of want a guy that could do all that shit, but I like seeing shows where the person is doing everything, because I feel like as soon you add more performers people start to assume something different.

At that moment next band stepped on stage and started, we made eye contact and she gave me a kiss on the cheek and took off...

Grimes - Vanessa Montreal/Canada

...so insane it’s an enemy of Batman.



Childish Gambino - Freaks and Geeks NYC

However, he would probably qualify for Duke, nevertheless, he´s rapping intensely with crazy-ass lyrics.

1 HOPE, FEW BIRTHDAYS, TRACKS FROM LAST DECADE.

Ear-catching, from the magnificent Modeselektor who are ripping up Roots Manuva‘s classic tune – ‘Witness’. Dub-Sick.




Roots Manuva - Witness (Modeselektor´s Troublemaker Remix) London/England

Bodyrox is the name for English house music DJ duo Jon Pearn and Nick Bridges. Pearn is also one half of the house duo Full Intention. The term "house music" may have its origin from a Chicago nightclub called The Warehouse which existed from 1977 to 1983.



Bodyrox feat. Luciana - Yeah Yeah





xxxxtra



Pharrell Williams - My Drive Thru (aka the Converse Song) (Feat. Santogold+Julian Casablancas





NOW SUM FREEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!! YELAWOLF!!!!



Who is Yelawolf? A shotgun-toting, trailer park-repping, redneck apologist? Or the most literary MC in years; a southern gothic answer to Wu-Tang Clan? Yes and yes. Because he's white and raps fast, he's often compared to Eminem, but a more fitting comparison would be with Ozarks novelist Daniel Woodrell (Winter's Bone), who similarly brings to life complex characters living amid meth labs, poverty and violence. "Two men stand, one's gotta go/One falls down to the ground, one walks down to the road," he raps on his breakout track "Pop the Trunk." "In the valley of the hollowed fields, in the valley of the hollowed till/This ain't a figment of my imagination buddy, this is where I live."

Despite his downright egg-headed eye for description, as an Interscope artist who has collaborated with Gucci Mane, Big Boi and Slim Thug, Yelawolf fits comfortably into the Southern rap mainstream. Born Michael Atha, with a nickname that reflects the Native American heritage of the father who abandoned him, he has been able to claw his way into an industry typically more concerned with image than insight. Not that Yelawolf's appearance doesn't turn heads; with his long, greasy hair, thin frame, and tats that creep out from his clothes (including the word "red" on his neck), he embodies the culture he represents.

Born in Gadsden, Ala. — two hours due west of Atlanta — he lived all over the country before returning home not long ago, and has no problem reconciling his love for hip-hop with his love for his hometown. "There's just something special about my state," he says. "You might see some guys with a big old rebel flag on their truck, but they'll be playing some Triple 6 Mafia, or UGK, or Lil Boosie. All they listen to is rap. It's intriguing, but it's also cool as fuck."

Yelawolf - Daddy´s Lambo Gadsden, Alabama

HÓLM!

Yelawolf ft. Gucci Mane - I Just Wanna Party from Motion Family on Vimeo.

WILLIAMSBURG ON WEDNESDAYS



I came across this band, Class Actress, at the Mercury Lounge NY in December 2009. We decided to go to the venue at East Houston St. to meet up with friends to see The Acrylics. But for me, Elizabeth Harper and the Class Actress was the highlight of the night. They’re a three piece electro pop group from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The signature to the sound is Harper’s sultry, listless voice, paired with vintage synths.

"Hey Elizabeth! Where does the name come from?"

"Hey you too! Well, I just like the double S on the class and the actress".


Class Actress - Someone Real Brooklyn/NY

This is dance music with despondency.


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The video is pure sex. Not in the gratuitous way, but in a claustrophobic, sensual mess of fingers and legs and hair kind of way. Incidentally that's exactly what this entails. A montage of fishnets, tussled hair, lips, necks, and fingers under a red filter. It fits in pretty nicely with the dark, shifting Ratatat-style synths accompanying singer Elizabeth Harper.

Class Actress - Journal of Ardency Brooklyn/NY

SOOTHING TUESDAY.


In July 2009, it was revealed that Béatrice Martin had been a nude model for the alt-porn website GodsGirls when she was a minor, under the name Bea. About 800 naked pictures were featured on the website for many months. GodsGirls removed the pictures at her record company's request when she signed her contract but the pictures keep reappearing on the web via some blogs and forums throughout the years.

In November 2009, she confessed, on the set of the TV show Tout le monde en parle, that these pictures were taken two and a half years before, confirming that she was a minor at the time, and said that she was young.




Coeur de Pirate - Comme des Enfants Montreal/Canada

Herro Yerre.



Let´s have merron.

Tchicki Tah Man no good for you. I can pray your keyboard.

Yelle - Safari Disco Club (HLM remix) Saint-Brieuc/France
Yelle - Safari Disco Club Saint-Brieuc/France

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ENOUGH OF GOOD SWEET FRENCH GIRLS.




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AFTER WATCHING THIS, SIX WORDS COMES TO MY MIND:
JA SEE ON NUDD KULL PIDU!

The Young Punx, Amanda Fucking Palmer & Peaches - Map Of Tasmania (club mix) Hairy Valley/Vaginia