Stereo MCs – ‘Boy’ (Official Video)
Been a while since we’ve heard anything from the Stereo MCs, and most of us are just getting this song of theirs out of our heads for the first time in 19 years.… Continue reading
Category Archive: Videos I’m Diggin’
Frank Turner – ‘Photosynthesis’ & ‘The Road’ (Official Video)
Not going to Glastonbury Festival this weekend, partly because I don’t have a ticket and partly because I live over 4,550 miles away. But if I was going and I was driving down… Continue reading
Africa Hitech – ‘Out in the Streets’ (Video)
Africa Hitech aka Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek recently delivered 93 Million Miles – a ‘2Future4U’ album from the duo that’s yet again chock-full of production that’s a few light years ahead of… Continue reading
Macklemore – ‘My Oh My’ (Official Video)
I’ve only lived in Seattle for a year, I’ve only seen two baseball games in my life, I’d probably need directions to Safeco Field, and I’d probably need to check what an RBI… Continue reading
What an Astronaut Sees from Space (Video)
The best way to watch this is to load it into your personal cinema multiplex and have it playing on 15 giant screens at once while you mute the sound and your… Continue reading
Boom Clap Bachelors – ‘Falder Ind Og Falder Ud’, ‘Combiner’, and ‘Tiden Flyver (Live Acoustic Version)’
From Copenhagen, Denmark. Boom Clap Bachelors are a collective of musicians that include producer Ronni Vindahl, singer Coco Maja Hastrup Karshøj and producer Robin Hannibal (the last two also do their own thing… Continue reading
SMOD – ‘Ca Chante’ (Official Video)
Loving some Malian folk hop for a Thursday night! Cool fact! SMOD’s frontman Sam (guy with the guitar) is none other than the son of Mali’s premier musical couple Amadou and Mariam! Another… Continue reading
Dananananaykroyd – ‘Black Wax’ & Dolby Anol – ‘Puppies’
As if it wasn’t enough to get all sweaty shouty and rock out with your mates while trapped in a glitter maelstrom (vocab), the Glasgow band then went and called themselves Dananananaykroyd (gets… Continue reading
Cornershop – ‘Non-Stop Radio’ (Official Video)
Cornershop come back strong with a lo-wave Frenchified simple disco edit as part of frontman Tjinder’s Singhles Club (genius) that boasts a video of stop-motion bat flurries, sting rays that look like burger… Continue reading
Korean Garage Rock with Galaxy Express – ‘Jungle the Black’ (Official Video)
Fresh from tearing SXSW to shreds (and then shredding the shreds) back in March, the Korean garage rockers Galaxy Express mean business with their riotous and hyper-energetic track ‘Jungle the Black’. On hearing… Continue reading
Blind Melon – ‘Three Is a Magic Number’ (Video)
I’ve never had to concentrate so much on getting the lyrics right for a song before. 3 x 9? Really? You want the answer before the next chord change? Good job I’ve got… Continue reading
‘The Milk’ Knows You Got Soul: Essex, Hugs & Rock ‘N’ Roll
Rather pleased with that title. Dear The Milk, if you ever want to use that as a name for a future album, single, or racehorse, you’re quite welcome. The Essex, UK band bring… Continue reading
Soil & “Pimp” Sessions – ‘A.I.E.’ (Live on Later… with Jools Holland)
If you haven’t heard of Japanese jazz act Soil & “Pimp” Sessions, you need to shut down your computer right now and go and buy all of their albums and book flights,… Continue reading
Wiley – ‘Numbers In Action’ (Official Video)
UK grime godfather Wiley proves he does more than just ruminate on who’s wearing his Rolex in this brand new vid for brand new cut ‘Numbers In Action’ – giving bedroom producers everywhere… Continue reading
The Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’ (Official Video)
Still one of my favorite songs. Still one of my favorite music videos.
Ghostpoet – ‘Survive It’ (Official Video)
The future of U.K. hip hop is here. Enter Ghostpoet. A confident yet chilled cadence like no other and rhymes so laid-back you’d think they were recorded while sat in a deckchair. Truly… Continue reading
Duff aka Da Flow – ‘Ruin’ (Japanese Grime Music Video)
With a beat and flow that sounds much more Bow than Tokyo, Japanese grime is well and truly gaining some great sinister stringed, heavily bassed-out, walloping beat momentum right now from artists like… Continue reading
Jamie Woon – ‘Lady Luck’ (Al Fresco Version Recorded Live in Cambodia)
New Malden, London, UK soulstepper Jamie Woon records an acapella version of ‘Lady Luck’ live from a boat in the middle of a mangrove swamp in Cambodia. Not a bad way to… Continue reading
Photek – ‘Ni Ten Ichi Ryu’ (Official Video)
Listening to Benji B‘s recent show – where he interviewed the legendary Photek (and played wall-to-wall Photek productions from back in the day to the present day) – got me seriously inspired to… Continue reading
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – ‘I’ll Take Care Of U’ (Official Video)
Meet Nisa Rodriguez, a 19-year-old boxer and single mother from the Bronx, New York. This video follows her as she works for a spot on the U.S. 2012 Olympic Boxing Team. So much… Continue reading
Blueprint – ‘So Alive’ (Official Video)
Fully experience what it’s like to be a wayward and errant paper plane (or rogue origami cathedral) by watching the official video to the fantastic ‘So Alive’ by Blueprint below. You can check… Continue reading
Radiohead – ‘Single Lotus Flowers’ (Video)
While everyone and their chihuahua sets the internet ablaze with chitter-chatter about the new Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’, nobody seems to have noticed that Thom Yorke completely wholesale-ripped-off Beyonce’s moves for… Continue reading
The Cinematic Orchestra ft Roots Manuva – ‘All Things To All Men’
I don’t think I’ll ever tire of listening to this amazing, amazing, amazing song. What makes it even better is that it’s accompanied by a video shot by a SPbGATI (St Petersburg Academy… Continue reading
Brazilian Taxi Driver Does a Scarily Good ‘Billie Jean’ by Michael Jackson
Brazil’s got talent. Bacana! [If you haven’t checked out Aloe Blacc’s stripped-down lounge soul cover of ‘Billie Jean’ yet, you need to do so right now]
GD & TOP – ‘Don’t Go Home’
My new favorite band. A flawless performance in every way. Extra points for ‘BlingBling Shop’ in the background. To be honest I wasn’t expecting Korea’s answer to Ja Rule’s gravelly baritone rap voice… Continue reading
Wanda Jackson ft Jack White – ‘Thunder on the Mountain’ (Official Video)
If I had to list my favorite genres of music, rockabilly probably wouldn’t be the first, second, or even twenty-seventh style that springs to mind, but anytime Jack White is involved with anything… Continue reading
Portishead – ‘Strangers’ (Live from Roseland NYC)
Temporarily forgot just how great Portishead are. Especially with this relentless derk-derk-derk hook that sounds like a busy signal on Jupiter. Dude busting moves at 1:37 is how I will dance to everything… Continue reading
Macklemore – ‘The Town’ (Official Video)
Mustachioed Seattle rhymesmith Macklemore throws down some love for all things 206. Happy 2011 everybody.
Gold Panda – ‘Snow and Taxis’ (Video)
I’m kind of glad the Panda didn’t go with the cliched ‘snow and taxis’ slow-motion-New-York-yellow-cabs-in-a-snowstorm vibe. Instead he’s all like, “How awesome is vegetation!”
Jamie Woon – ‘Night Air’ [Produced by Burial] (Official Video)
As the days get shorter and the nights grow longer, Jamie Woon (who you might remember from Debruit’s ‘I’m Goin’ Wit You’) turns in a soulful and heartfelt orchestral ode to maneuvers in… Continue reading
Jamie Lidell – ‘Little Bit of Feel Good’ (La Garage Mix)
Apparently in French ‘La Garage’ is roughly translated as ‘live version of song accompanied by cool malfunctioning-television video’. Jamie Lidell: fusing feel-good soul with a little bit of electronica one beat, bar, beard,… Continue reading
Jed and Lucia – ‘Apostrophe’ (Official Video)
Beautiful autumnal listening from the Ubiquity Records camp. Usually known for their raw, deep-dug, soul-rich hip hop and hypnotic house numbers, here the label has made bold strides into whispery acoustic territory with… Continue reading
Fenech-Soler – ‘Stop and Stare’ (Official Video)
If Passion Pit were from England, listened to nothing but late 90s trance, wore sequined t-shirts, sped up their bpm’s a lil bit, and didn’t whine so much about being a ‘sleepyhead’, they… Continue reading
Lenny Fontana – ‘Spread Love’ (London Elektricity Live Version, Zero Tolerance Mix, Nu:Tone Remix)
We’ve been having some absolutely beautiful late summer/early autumn days here in Seattle recently – blue skies, sun, and a ever so slight chill in the crisp air. Got me thinking that summer… Continue reading
Aloe Blacc Performs a Cover of Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’
Aloe Blacc is perhaps best known for his plinky-plonk piano summer feeling-broke-feeling-good track ‘I Need A Dollar’. Here however he turns the tables on us and delivers a raw, stripped-down, half-time soul cover… Continue reading
Pharoah Sanders – ‘Greeting to Saud’
Cloudwalking desert jazz that sounds like someone tinkling on a piano half buried in a sand dune inside a lantern-filled Abu Dhabi souk. Love it. Here’s an interview with the tenor sax-toting legend… Continue reading
Stevie Wonder – ‘Sesame Street’
Proof that 1972 was a great year for music and television and music television. If this two minute snippet is anything to go by. From back when the Voicebox was the apex of… Continue reading