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Santogold + Tegan and Sara | “L.E.S. Artistes” vs “Walking with a Ghost”
“L.E.S. Artistes” – Santogold
Some of Santogold’s other songs, like “Creator”, sound like a right rip-off of M.I.A.. This particular one is a very polished number that sounds curiously similar to Tegan + Sara’s “Walking with a Ghost”. Is she getting hot off of other people’s proven formulas?
“Walking with a Ghost” – Tegan and Sara
Gosh, isn’t everyone?
4 comments May 29, 2008
Lykke Li | “Little Bit”
I saw this gal recently at Emo’s Annex during SXSW 2008. I knew nothing about her beforehand, thinking only her name sounded like something you’d do under the covers. Pretty cute and confident performer, especially given her age.
I think she’s gonna go places.
Lykke Li – Official Site | MySpace | Wikipedia | Last.fm | Amazon
Add comment March 24, 2008
Lavender Diamond | “Open Your Heart”
I had a chance to see Lavender Diamond at Vancouver’s Lamplighter earlier this year, and because I assumed the show would be drowning in way too much hippie for my liking, I declined the offer. And it was free. I never pass up a free ticket.
So now I’m whacking myself in my anti-hippie head, because I’ve actually learned to look past Lavender Diamond’s excessive use of exclamation marks and talk about peace, love and blah, blah, blah. I must say that she’s got a refreshing take on life, something of which my embittered soul needs an ample dose. Her music sometimes sounds kitschy, sometimes sounds straight from the heart, but it’s full of a love of life that doesn’t exist in a lot of music out there.
Also when listening to them, I imagine myself walking around in crowds of dancing people, kind of like in this video to “Open Your Heart” …except I wouldn’t look half as graceful on a pair of roller skates.
Stream Lavender Diamond’s Imagine Our Love album here.
Lavender Diamond – Official site | MySpace | Last.fm | Amazon
Similar artists: St. Vincent, Feist, Regina Spektor
Add comment July 20, 2007
The Pipettes | “Your Kisses are Wasted on Me”
(Deep inhale) Okay, seriously. Could we can all this “Yay! Go team!” media hype surrounding The Pipettes? Sure, I get weak in the knees when I see a band outfitted in their Sunday’s best, but this group, fronted by three lasses from Brighton, England, just tries way too hard.
I like cute. I like quirky. And manufactured bands are okay. To a great extent, most bands and artists are manufactured, really, so any argument based on that doesn’t hold. The Pipettes’ songs are cute, saccharine, and explosively poppy, and they make an absolute perfect accoutrement on a sunny day, but their live show, as photographed above earlier this year in Austin’s Flamingo Cantina, pumps out nothing more than kitsch without sincere passion. If dance moves are your thing, then forget this and get yourself a ticket to see Britney Spears.
Anyway. (Exhale)
The Pipettes play Vancouver tonight at the Plaza Club. Despite my own bitter misgivings, I think most people will dig this sort of stuff. At least they have stage presence, and it got me riled up enough to write a post about it. That certainly says something.
The Pipettes – Official site | MySpace | Last.fm | Amazon
Similar artists: The Shangri-Las, The Ronettes, Architecture in Helsinki, The Concretes
3 comments June 15, 2007
