Photo: Lasse Kofod
Where: Lille Vega
Why: Pharoahe Monch absolutely mashed it yesterday.
Photo: Lasse Kofod
Where: Lille Vega
Why: Pharoahe Monch absolutely mashed it yesterday.
tUnE-yArDs (Merrill Garbus) is currently signed to the British independent record label 4AD. Continue Reading →
Edan has a ridiculously fresh approach to music making Continue Reading →
“Black and Yellow” was Wiz Khalifa’s first no.1 in the U.S….. Continue Reading →
Tyler The Creator is part of the OFWGKTA crew, or Odd Future, which is slightly easier to remember. This tune has my toes curling, but of course you’ve already heard it, with its million of plays on youtube alone.
This Richard Hawley music vid is pretty old and it took me a while to place the tune, Continue Reading →
Any man who can inspire a stadium of people to do the Funky Chicken whilst wearing a pink jumpsuit and faux white leather booties is a genius.
The Niels Bohr of funky chickeness, one might say.
SLACKERS DELIGHT NO. 1 BOOK RELEASE
Thursday the 10th of March 2011 from 19.00 – ?, at Mesteren & Lærlingen, Flæsketorvet 86, 1711 København V.There will be cheap beers, fresh people and Slick Nick, Cheese-A-Lot and Tue Pack will spin some dusty funky vinyl.
Jai Paul is a 21 year old from North West London with a fresh view of modern pop music. Signed to XL, he’s been hot on the blogs, most notably for his cult track BTSTU. Continue Reading →
…… of The Good Natured’s “Your Body Is A Machine.”
Why I posted this track:
1. I ride my bike fast when it’s on le cans
2. Opening lines and mid track vocal ‘break’ of the phrase ‘I feel you beating’
3. It pumps
Sometime or other Thom Yorke was gonna have to admit he wanted to be part of Bitchslap’s next dance competition and it seems he’s finally found time in his schedule. His audition tape to BS certainly suggests he might be a strong contender in April. Continue Reading →
Our friend and videographer, Simon Weyhe, whom we also featured for his photography skills back in Bitchslap Issue 7, has just released his latest project called Turntables in the camps
www.turntablesinthecamps.org Continue Reading →
From 70′s roots-reggae, through dub, some years of obscurity, to hooking up with Massive Attack, from the opening salvo of “Blue Lines” to the most recent “Heligoland”, Andy has contributed on all ‘Massive’ albums, most notably with “Skylarking”, or maybe “Angel”, no hang on, defo “Spying Glass”, hmmm more difficult than I thought.
SPECKTORS – DU VED DET! Enjoy!
Video artist & director Chris Cunningham’s big break was being head hunted by Stanley Kubrick, which must have been the dopest ever phone call, ever, anywhere……
Cunningham has gone on to make some of the most interesting video work of our times.
We’ve been keeping tabs on ENVY ever since her ’07 Tongue Twister Promo. Set you on Fire & Normal kept the bar high, and now her latest offering ‘Nadine’ is another large step in the ‘this kid is gonna be huge’ direction. Out 15th March, check it…
If you don’t live in the UK but still like watching BBC stuff that isn’t the usual BBC Entertainment channel…., then Bitchslap magazine would definitely not advocate that you work out how to hide your IP address online and then log onto BBC iPlayer to watch some of the best documentaries about music you’ll find in the whole wide world.
One of the upcoming programmes of interest is a look at Reggae’s past in the BBC’s … Britannia series……. check ‘em out, or defiantly don’t, our legal team would like to add.
Any rudeboy who can rock a purple suit like this dude, deserves our respect.
Goodness, what a weekend. Bitchslap was invited by Burn Energy down to Innsbruck for the Air and Style – something I haven’t checked out since ’98 when fluoro was only in for the 2nd time, and switch back 5′s made the crowd go bananas. I guess a lot has changed.
Full gallery after the jump