Soopsworld’s Week In Links: More New Music/Interactive YouTube CVs/More Ikea Cats/Frankie & The Heartstrings/Disco Al Desko

To say the floodgates of aceness opened this week would be an apt way of explaining the not one but TWO link clouds this week – one music and one that’s everything else. And that was after editing it down. Ridic.

Most people would save some of it for next week but the blog’s kind of like my attention span = high turnover but most probably like you, I keep coming back to the stuff I love. Cue gratuitous opportunity to link to Ty Segall – Girlfriend which I’ve already included before but I’ve been rinsing the Hype Machine link so much, it’s being included again.

I was lucky enough to get into  A Night With The Artisans on Wednesday at The Luminaire in Kilburn. Yep, total result landing that one – I couldn’t quite believe my luck! After weeks of playing The Kinbeats stuff on their MySpace, I really wanted to see them play live (I flew solo and sober – THAT’S how much I wanted to see them)  – they didn’t disappoint by any means but it was the openers, Onlookers that had the biggest impact on me that night. Now, it’s no secret on this site that I love 60s-ness and also am partial to VERY LOUD GUITARS – with Onlookers, they wore their influences with pride and their set was so tight it was ridiculous, I’ve been playing the 3 tracks on their MySpace ever since.  See them if you get the chance. Last on was Frankie & The Heartstrings  who, I’ll confess, I was a bit wary of until recently because there has been so much hype about them by ‘types’, I wanted to run a mile. After seeing the Tender video, I warmed – you can’t knock moves like those – but live, they’re a different league. Frankie Francis is a born front-man, charisma, attitude, shimmying, the lot – I can’t wait to see him working the inevitable bigger crowds in a few months time but I feel lucky I got to see them on their ascent.

Before we get to the music links cloud, David (of previous recommending albums on this blog fame) reckons James Yuill – Movement In A Storm for this week but also is chucking White Ring in for good measure. 

 

Those Darlins – Night Jogger Air Castles – Broken Watches Warpaint – Billie Holiday Lazertag – Strange Glow Claire Maguire – Ain’t Nobody (Memory Tapes Remix) Onlookers – Soft Hinged Brother The Kinbeats – New Morning Jukebox The Ghost – Empire Frankie & The Heartstrings – Ungrateful

 

So after last weeks Hipster piss-taking, I did a little light YouTubing and stumbled upon Spike Jonze’s take on the genre (it’s now a genre right?) and also, following on from that surreal IKEA herding cats thing last week – the inevitable parody has surfaced in response.

Before we get to the link cloud of awesome stuff – may I bring to your attention a video that came to my attention early in the week that I predict to either go super-viral and/or inspire a wave of YouTube CVs. Graeme Anthony posted his interactive CV on YouTube and it’s going off – keep an eye on him. 

Go Record Shopping With Les Savy Fav  Cache Rules Everything Around Me By Evan Roth IKEA Herding Cats Parody Vote for The Boot Sale in this year’s Virgin Media Shorts We Are Scientists Give Good Video Derek & Clive are Muppets

 

Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko

Around The World – by Nick R

 

Dammit! – by Rob

Dammit! is a club night of pop punk, nu metal and general heavy, riff laden, swear ridden, emo posing, shout along and pump your fist AWESOME!

Tonight @Camden Head, Camden High Street, NW1 0LU

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SceNick Run

Show your support for my mate Nick who’s running the WHOLE of the Thames Path for Teenage Cancer Trust.

www.scenickrun.com

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Soopsworld’s Week In Links: Soops-Woopery/Cats Go Mad In Ikea/Fever Ray/More Taking The P*ss Out Of Hipsters

There is a down-side to being a Soops that woops, especially living in London, working in an industry notorious for its insincerity and having mates that do and make stuff – they are so used to bullsh*tters that when a … Continue reading →

Soopsworld’s Week In Links: Ronson Finally Loses The Horn (section)/Kanye West’s Still a Tw*t/Les Savy Fav

I bet Mark Ronson hasn’t got half way through the day and looked down to realise he’s wearing mismatched ankle boots, one black and one dark purple. Such was the reality that faced me Monday lunchtime when going for a … Continue reading →

Soopsworld’s Week In Links: Lissie/Holy Ghost!/Caribou/Spotify Disco Al Desko

Yes, it’s that time of the week already – and what a flip-sided week it’s been! Monday and Tuesday, man, I was just in a whole world of ‘meh’ then come the end of Wednesday and the Good Karma Dude … Continue reading →

Soopsworld’s Week In Links: Dirty Projectors & Bjork/more Tom Jones/Spotify Disco Al Desko

You’ll have to forgive the lack of words this week – solid data entry all week has fried my brain cells and I fear I may actually turn into a robot second or at least start speaking like one. Either … Continue reading →

Soopworld’s The Week In Links: The Strokes/The Shins Cover Squeeze/Sky Ferreira/Spotify Disco Al Desko

One thing guaranteed to put a big Cheshire Cat grin on my face is witnessing a packed, sticky indie dancefloor in the early hours of the morning roaring ‘Juicebox’ like their lives depended on it. You can imagine how sick with jealousy I was of the charmed few that managed to get into the Strokes gig at Dingwalls in Camden on Wednesday. Quite possibly one of the worst kept secret ever, news that ‘Venison’ were playing went viral Tuesday late Tuesday morning and all hope of getting a ticket unless you knew someone that knew the band evaporated swiftly. I’m not bitter, I saw them at Ally Pally on the Reptilia tour (an aircraft carrier of a venue that appears to be an acoustic vortex but hey, I still saw The Strokes) and mere mention of them has had me adding them to Spotify playlists and soundtracking journeys to and from work all over again. Say what you will about them but there are only a few bands that can have that effect on people. Without The Strokes I wouldn’t have gotten into Television or The Velvet Underground nearly as much, without The Strokes I probably wouldn’t have become so obsessed with the New York music scene that preceded and followed them, without The Strokes – indie dancefloors wouldn’t be nearly as well dressed.

 

 

Oh and Big Brother & The World Cup have started as well – I might write about those next week. No link cloud this week cos have had my nose stuck in Malcom Gladwell books all week and meant to be giving my poorly eyes a rest from computer screens for a bit. Here’s a link to The Shins covering Squeeze’s Goodbye Girl (via @PMA)  and the link to the new Sky Ferreira single ‘One’ though.

 

Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko

 

Two playlists this week, one from my friend Devi and the set-list from the other night’s Strokes gig (I’m not bitter – REALLY I’M NOT)

 

Chilled – by Devi

 

Strokes ‘Secret’ Gig Set List (no I didn’t get in either) – by Soops

 

 

The Soopsworld Week In Links – I <3 HypeMachine/Hurts Do Vickers (not literally)/ Macca In The Whitehouse/Spotify Disco Al Desko

Contrary to popular belief, this blog is NOT sponsored by Spotify. Trust me, not from lack of trying, rare is it that you find a product you love so much you’d seriously consider wearing green accessories daily to endorse said … Continue reading →

The Soopsworld Week In Links – I <3 HypeMachine/Hurts Do Vickers (not literally)/ Macca In The Whitehouse/Spotify Disco Al Desko

Contrary to popular belief, this blog is NOT sponsored by Spotify. Trust me, not from lack of trying, rare is it that you find a product you love so much you’d seriously consider wearing green accessories daily to endorse said product. I draw the line at tattoos, though – bet there are some people out there with ‘MySpace Is Da Sh*t’ tattoos that are feeling right kn*bheads right now…(sorry Myspace, I miss you and your customizable pages but then the spamming started and everyone went to bland old, privacy-is-so-last-century Facebook because Friends Reunited was too naff – quick history of populist social networking there for you!)…

Anyway, another thing I happily will woop until the cows come home about is Hype Machine. Aah, how I love this site, basically you sign up in, like 30 seconds and then, whoosh – a utopia of new tracks collated from the music blogosphere is there for you to explore, play and share until your heart’s content. AND they do a radio show. I seriously considered getting the Hype Machine cushions at one point, such was my love for Hype-M. If you aren’t signed up and like me, discovering new music makes you grin like a d*ckhead with glee (or you quite like it, anyway) – get thee signed up immediately, it’s ace.

Right, what else this week – on the link cloud it’s even more random than usual. I appear to have become subconsciously rather obsessed with Hurts it would seem, as I said in a previous blog before, they are pretty magnificent live but I’m also loving the remixes coming out and also the cover versions. Hurts themselves covered Diana Vickers (who I have a confused relationship with because I really wanted to hate her but her album is actually rather good pop = wish she’d stop rocking that Kensington rock chick yah look, not a good association… I digress) ‘Once’ which is STUNNING. You’ll have to check the link ASAP cos to my knowledge, Radio One don’t keep the Live Lounge stuff up on the site for long. There’s also a cover of the FIRST single by some bird called Catherine AD who I’m afraid I don’t know but it’s very lovely.

There’s a link to Paul McCartney, Jack White, Seinfeld and apparently Dave Grohl but I didn’t catch him, amongst lots of other VERY famous people singing Hey Jude with Barack Obama at the Whitehouse because it’s a) surreal as hell and b) I, like pretty much everyone, have a great fondness for Macca. Oh and the stream link to the soundtrack to some film called TWILIGHT – ECLIPSE that apparently is a big deal or something. J

 

Hurst cover Diana Vickers ‘Once’  Stream the Twilight – Eclipse soundtrack  - Paul McCartney, Jack White, Seinfeld & Barack Obama and others singing Hey Jude in the White House Catherine AD covers Hurts ‘Better Than Love’ The Like ‘Release Me’ (Bygones Remix) The All Important Question – How Many Justin Biebers Could You Take In A Fight? A Thundercats re-make is in the pipeline *has Thunderkittens with excitement*

 

 

Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko

First of all here’s all the Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko playlists we’ve had so far = awesome, subscribe away.

That’s what I call Britpop – by Nicole K

Fly’s tunes –  - by Fly

SceNick Run – by SceNick

Kitsune Kimaison by futurenoise

 Jazzy Souly Stuff by Nicole K

Song For Strangers by indiekid

The Summer is ahoy – Nicole K

 wimbledon,usa – Alex C

 “It’s more likely that all four of The Beatles would be getting back together than us reforming” – Felix

danceyaldesko – by Soops

 Ultimate Bliss by Jo Bliss (my DJ mate from Exeter – she’s awesome)

 Supriya ‘Power Ballad’ Friday by DeBo

Extracurricular by DaveDel

Summer of Love by Shola Aleje. 

Electro-therapy induced trip: A journey to take before going out – Mitch Tolliday

SooPop by sarkyfox

plaid is rad by Soops77

un grand groupe d’airs by Dolton

And here’s this weeks:

brighton beachy  - by Soops –  basically inspired by my attempt to recreate a mixtape my friend made me when we were 17yrs old of the tracks we used to dance to in the mod room at Brighton Beach. The mixtape died (as did the friendship) but the playlist lives on…

You love it really… by Devi     - PERFECT for a Friday afternoon, unashamedly indie-pop = enjoy.

Soops  by Mark McD  - this week’s professional contributor, Mark Dj’s all over the place but you can catch him at Mish Mash on Mondays @ The Lanterns

The Soopsworld Week In Links : Pixelicious, SATC2, Christina Aguilera & M.I.A, Arcade Fire and Spotify Disco Al Desko

First of all, it’s not just about discovering & sharing musical treasure in Soopsworld, y’know – following on from Mr Ronson’s pixelicious(and horn-section free, phew)  Circuit Breaker video debut t’other day, the inevitable ripples of all things pixel have popped … Continue reading →

The Soopsworld Week In Links : Pixelicious, SATC2, Christina Aguilera & M.I.A, Arcade Fire and Spotify Disco Al Desko

First of all, it’s not just about discovering & sharing musical treasure in Soopsworld, y’know – following on from Mr Ronson’s pixelicious(and horn-section free, phew)  Circuit Breaker video debut t’other day, the inevitable ripples of all things pixel have popped up on my t’internet radar. Fans of eBoy quite possibly will do a little whoop of excitement on seeing THESE BAD BOYS = a-frickin-mazing. Keeping up with the creative footwear theme, the always stylish  Cool Hunting tipped me off to The Sneaker Colouring Book , the publisher are running a competition to win £100 of their books too so download the designs here, colour in your bestest designs and email them here before this Monday (31^st May).

Second up, may I just apologise to my demographic for my failure to get remotely excited by the UK release (or any other country’s for that matter) of Sex And The City 2. I’m sorry, I just aint feeling it, however, here’s a nice link to the trailer so you can get all whooped up into a frenzy before you go see it. Manolo-tastic.

Before I get to the link cloud, may I please bring your attention to the ridiculously catchy, DESERVES to be Top 10 ‘We Want To’ by New Young Pony Club which was released a couple of weeks ago.

 

 

 Ever since baby bro included it in his Spotify Disco Al Desko playlist (wimbledon,usa for the curious) t’other week, I have been OBSESSED with it, buy it immediately.

On the link cloud this week it’s as random as ever, we’ve got a website where you can create your own beatbox, uber-pop from Christina Aguilera’s collaboration with M.I.A, we’ve got the recently tweeted Arcade Fire tracks, the gorgeous Follow Me Down by UNKLE (ordered my copy of the album today – it’s delicious), the Miike Snow track ‘The Rabbit’ because they’re outrageously talented beings that everyone should see play live at least once in a lifetime, the MySpace link for Metric so you can try before you buy and, cos I haven’t mentioned them for a while – my favourite White Rabbits track off their album It’s Frightening (listen to it in an open space, full volume if possible – when the piano solo kicks in, it blows your senses)

 

Have it:

Create Your Own Beatbox(via @trendhunter) via @RCRD_LBL Kelis – Acapella (Friends Electric Mix) Christina Aguilera (feat M.I.A) Elastic Love The  two Arcade Fire tracks leaked this week (via @PMA) – The Suburbs & Month Of May UNKLE – Follow Me Down  Janelle Monae – Tightrope(feat Big Boi) Miike Snow – The Rabbit  Stream the Metric album here White Rabbits – They Done Wrong/We Done Wrong

 

 

Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko

This week’s Disco Al Desko contributors include regular desk-dj and total legend, Nicole K, retro connoisseur Fly and for those of you that have Spotify Premium on your iphone and are fellow runners, my friend Nick’s training playlist.

That’s what I call Britpop – by Nicole K

Fly’s tunes –  - by Fly

SceNick Run – by SceNick

My friend Nick is, lunatic that he is, running the WHOLE of the Thames path in a week (yes, you read that correctly) to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust, go to the website – give him money.

www.scenickrun.com