Alright? A Very Sarcastic Person here. So I suppose you’re expecting me to pour cold water over this year’s Mercury nominees, aren’t you? Because that’s what you’d expect of someone totally sarcastic, wouldn’t you just? In fact, that’s what you’d expect from Vice isn’t it? Something disparaging about how the Mercury prize is as edgy and relevant as a grandmother made of cotton wool. And you’d sit back and feel oh so bloody superior in your shitty office job knowing that someone had conformed entirely to your narrow weave of prejudice. Then you’d lean over to your dumb-as-muck colleague and relate this, and the two of you would chortle heartily about how bloody good you are at reading between media lines, ha ha ha. Then you’d go back to fiddling with Microsoft Excel and wishing you were dead. Well screw you, I’m doing it anyway.
Sincerely,
A Very Sarcastic Person
Read more »
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 | 9 Comments
Tagged: Bat For Lashes, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Kasabian, La Roux, Lisa Hannigan], Mercury prize, Speech Debelle, The Horrors, The Invisible
Everyone says singles are an antiquated form, but that’s only if you’re going to buy them, not if you’re going to steal them, or just take the piss out of them. Here’s the first of our weekly Vice singles round-ups, complete with words, pictures and, occasionally, mildly relevant videos. Read more »
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: a grave with no name, alan pownall, Chris Cornell, Deerhunter, Fleet Foxes, Flipper, freemasons, Kanye West, Keri Hilson, La Roux, Moby, Modest Mouse, Ne-Yo, sally shapiro, slow club, sophie ellis bextor, The Cameleonz, The Enemy, Thee Vicars, Tommy Reilly, White Lies
After sleeping on it for a while, it seems like things might be looking up for Dubstep. Skream’s simple but brilliant remix of La Roux’s “In For The Kill” is all that I’ve listened to this weekend and now Joker’s “Digidesign” has finally been given a release on the consistently ace Hyperdub label.
Read more »
Posted on February 19th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Andy Blake, Bloc Weekend, Dissident, DJ Benetti, dubstep, Hecker, Homerton Strangler, Joker, La Roux, Louis Enchante, Prancehall, Rusell Haswell, Skream, Spacestep
I just can’t tell the difference between 2009’s big pop contenders. Two women in one year is always going to be confusing, but when they’re both making music electronically? What’s going on? I feel like a blind man stumbling through a snowstorm. Help!!!!!!
I drew up a comparison chart to help me, you and everyone else decide which one of these girls is which. I think this will be on every single editor’s wall by nightfall. Don’t you?
Read more »
Posted on January 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tagged: 2009, BBC, Hype, La Roux, Little Boots, New Bands
