Posts Tagged ‘grace jones’
Sometimes – in fact all of the time – attending Record Store Day can feel a bit like being a kid in a candy store. For Notion’s Coco Wong – who’s recently moved to the UK from Hong Kong – this is more true than ever. Here, she tells us …
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Tags: Alien Days, Dutch Uncles, grace jones, Hong Kong, Just Like Honey, Last Shop Standing, metronomy, MGMT, Pip Paine, Psychocandy, Record Store Day, RSD, RSD13, Slave to the Atypical Rhythm, Slave to the Rhythm, The Jesus & Mary Chain
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Notion’s online editor Seb Law recently caught up with the rather dazzling MC Gaff E for a chat about her globetrotting lifestyle, rich visual style and the influences that make her so, well, colourful…
Planet Notion: Your live shows are very visual. When you’re writing music, do you think about …
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Tags: Barbarella, Berlin, Burning Man, Carley Hague, Flash Gordon, grace jones, House of Drama, Jack Smith, london, MC Gaff E, Mongo, My Bad Sister, new york, Noel Fielding, paris, Tokyo, Ylva Falk
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Okay, so here’s some advice. As much as you’re gonna want to drink gallons of The Beer on Friday and Saturday until you collapse in a sleepy, smelly mess inside the oriental pavillion in Victoria Park, it’s OBLIGATORY that you pace yourself and make sure you won’t be an entire …
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Tags: Azari & III, Chaka Khan, Felix Da Housecat, grace jones, Hannah Holland, I Am A Camera, lana del rey, lovebox, Niki & the Dove, patrick wolf, ronika, Saint Saviour, sam sparro, Tyson
Posted in Dance, Disco, Do Not Miss This, Electronica, Embrace the Weekend, Experimental, Festivals, Free Playlist, Gigs, House, Mash Up, Mixtape, MPFrees, Music, New Age, News!, Pop, Remixes, Singles, Synth Pop, Videos | No Comments »
When I first met I Am A Camera’s Francesca Ross five years ago, we were, each of us, living in quite a different incarnation to the present one. I, for my part, was a music lawyer, helping out in the negotiation of a recording contract for a then up-and-coming …
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Tags: Deltasonic Records, Disco punk Electro Funk, grace jones, I Am A Camera, interview, lana del rey, lovebox, omar kashoura, pet shop boys, Ramones, The Berlin Stories, The Coral, The Zutons, Tigerpicks, Without You, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yoko Ono
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As the end of April is rolling around, and it’s miserable weather again, I am certain that most of us are already reminiscing about summer; sipping cocktails on a beach, having a swim in the sea, lazing around all day and getting-up-to-things-we-probably-shouldn’t-repeat (or remember) all night…
But the best thing …
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Tags: Azealia Banks, Beirut, Blues Fest, Camden Crawl, De La Soul, Erykah Badu, festivals, Field Day 2012, grace jones, Grimes, Hudson Mohawke, July, June, Lovebox 2012, May, Parklife, Ronnie Worrd, Rustie, SBTRKT, Summer, Tensnake, tickets, Toddla T, Van Morrison
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It’s been a decade, yes, a decade since Lovebox appeared onto the music and dance scene. But unlike your typical summer festival this iconic event is a celebration with unreal dance floors and even more unreal acts.
The three day extravaganza will feature the insane bass, crazy synths and body …
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Tags: birthday, Bobby Womack, Crystal Catles, damian lazarus, grace jones, June, Kelis, london, Lovebox 2012, Magnetic Man, music, Summer, tickets
Posted in Dance, Do Not Miss This, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, Festivals, Hip Hop, Mash Up, Mixtape, Music, News!, Synth Pop, Techno | No Comments »
Finally the moment has come where we can imminently announce the LOVEBOX twenty-twelve Sunday headliner. She has been a running favourite for a decade now and has returned to ‘grace’ the stage this year, alongside the ecstatically bouncy pop star, Grammy and Brit winner Mika and Felix Da Housecat.
We …
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Tags: 2012, announcement, artist, female, festival news, grace jones, headliner, lovebox, music, news, sunday
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There’s much anticipation as Grace Jones announces that she will be releasing her album Hurricane off the back of her performance at Wireless festival on July 3rd. The re-release of the now classic album will have a Dub twist and is produced by Ivor Guest.
The cover is a striking …
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Tags: dubstep, grace jones, hurricane, Ivor Guest, Philip Treacy, Wireless
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Lovebox, the seven year old festival held in Victoria Park, is often dubbed London’s most fashionable festival and this year stood as proof that the festival gets more stylish the older it gets. A lot of new festivals have sprung up over the past five years and some, particularly city …
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Tags: grace jones, grandmaster flash, lovebox, peaches, roxy music, victoria park
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