Wednesday, 31 March 2010 00:00 |
By Stephanie King
When I first saw the video for Gabriella Cilmi’s On a Mission, I thought it would be funny (ha) to write a post on this embarrassing excuse for a pop song. This disgustingly infectious track has now polluted my head for one long, tawdry week and so it is with immense relief that I expel this track from my iPod never to be heard again.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 03 April 2010 22:46 |
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Tuesday, 30 March 2010 07:00 |
By Priyal Sanghavi
The Mumbai mafia is an integral part of Mumbai culture. It started in 1940 when Afghan gang lords opened whorehouses exclusively for the ruling British. Soon their activities included smuggling, extortion and contract killing. The mafia kept up with the changing city, rapidly establishing a hold over it with much blood spilt in the process.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 March 2010 16:25 |
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Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:21 |
By Stephanie King
Nah nah nah nah, Nah nah nah nah! Ariel Pink’s Round and Round grooves into being with squelchy synths and a decadent disco sound worthy of a Studio 54 mirrorball while channelling the richness of My Cherie Amour. But this is no party track. As with everything Ariel Pink does, something is off kilter.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:35 |
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010 01:02 |
By Stephanie King
Opening with a solo piano that seesaws gently between chords, there is something deliciously schizophrenic about Joanna Newsom’s Good Intentions Paving Co.
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 01:38 |
By Stephanie King
On Tuesday 2nd March The xx played a gorgeous, accomplished gig at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, building an atmosphere of hushed intimacy in which their debut album was joined by some of their Youtube-friendly cover versions. Do You Mind was the spine-tingling highlight.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 09 March 2010 02:10 |
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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 13:02 |
By Stephanie King
Finnish five-piece Husky Rescue make the kind of ambient pop music capable of teleporting you to a land of snow and ice, fresh spruce forests and eye-watering sunshine. As the cold winds push us into spring, Husky Rescue’s The Sound of Love will ripple through your headphones like a chilling breath of Nordic air.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 March 2010 13:32 |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 01:00 |
By Stephanie King
The first time I heard this song I thought it was one of the ugliest rackets I’d heard in a long time. It sounded like Love Music Angel Baby-era Gwen Stefani stripped of its haute-couture edge and replaced with the sales rack at New Look.
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:06 |
By Huma Yusuf
Pakistanis are hungry for visual representations of their own culture. What else explains the success of designer Maheen Khan’s truck art-inspired Gulabo line, the wildfire popularity of reproductions of Lollywood posters, and the prevalence of new art that grapples with Pakistani standards such as the passport stamp or Jinnah’s portrait?
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 08:20 |
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 02:42 |
By Stephanie King
The name of Gorillaz’ forthcoming album Plastic Beach provides clues to what Stylo has to offer – a sci-fi hybrid of the synthetic, the contaminated, the superficial and the beautiful. It’s got the sort of smooth, mid-tempo electro-groove that brings to mind car adverts and shopping centres; slick, mechanised and hygienically inhuman. It’s precisely the kind of uber-cool detached pop you’d expect a cartoon band to make.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 21 February 2010 13:57 |
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