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Music
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Rocking The Daisies Goes To Switzerland – Launches TV Show [Video]
12 Apr 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The Film Guy hooked up with Craig Bright (Daisies Festival Director) and Alain Ferrier in Switzerland last year, to document one of the biggest Rock festivals in the WORLD with over 240 000 tickets sold in literally a few hours! Obviously our boys got “golden” backstage passes and lived it up 2Oceansvibe style getting right into the Paleo groove […]
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Fight For Your Right Revisited
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Beastie Boys’ new album is about to be released and that means their incredibly star-packed short film “Fight For You Right Revisted”, premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, will also soon see the light of day.
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Album Review – The Best Of Nelly Furtado
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dear Nelly, I remember when I first laid eyes on you. It was in the video for Turn Off the Light. I was just one of the guys at the time, not really taking any notice of the pop tarts on the scene – Britney, Christina, Kylie and the rest. But there was something different […]
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There Are No Good Puns About LCD Soundsystem Retiring
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
But they did, playing their last show at Madison Square Garden last Saturday, stretching the last hurrah out over a 230-minute show. Which is pretty long, as these go. They played all of their songs, and I mean all of them – from the Billboard Top 10 ‘This Is Happening’ to song titles I had to google.
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What’s in my bag? Free songs by Cortina Whiplash, Irvine and Gravity Wins Again.
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Zef Side One Of The Best On The Internet
28 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Die Antwoord’s “Zef Side” has been chosen by the Guggenheim Foundation, the people who decide who’s who in contemporary art, as one of the top 25 videos on the internet in the last two years.
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What’s in my bag? Free songs by Olinosterfant, Don’t Panic and Danti Daxi. Step inside.
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Unreleased David Bowie Album Pops Up Online
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I tend to die a little bit inside every time music heroes try to put out new material after they’ve peaked, but I really like David Bowie so I guess somebody up there likes me. An unreleased 2001 Bowie album called Toy made its way to the internet earlier this week.
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
18 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Are those free songs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Tracks by Mr. Cat & The Jackal, Pixie, and The City Is The Dessert.
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Die Antwoord Release Short Film: Umshini Wam [VIDEO]
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun), a short film directed by Kids writer, Harmony Korine, and starring Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-Landi premiered today at the SXSW festival in Texas. The premise: Ninja and Yolandi are wheelchair-bound,dirt poor gangsters, intent on gaining more street cred by upgrading their wheelchairs for higher-end models.
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Microsoft Kills The Zune; Techies Everywhere Need New Thing To Mock
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At long last, Microsoft has taken their iPod-but-worse MP3 player, the Zune, out behind the shed with a shotgun. Microsoft announced that they would stop making new versions of the music/video player due to “tepid demand.”
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RIP Dave Brubeck Drummer Joe Morello
15 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Joe Morello, virtuoso drummer to the Dave Brubeck Quartet and contributor to such legendary recordings as Blue Ronda a la Turk and Take Five died at his New Jersey home on Saturday at the age of 82. No cause of death has yet been announced.
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Lady Gaga Gets Another Plagiarism Accusation
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Producers of a South Korean girl band are claiming that the egg-hatching singer has snatched parts of their song. They claim that her new single “Born This Way” shares “similarities” to one of the songs they wrote.
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What’s in my bag? Free songs by Fire Through The Window, ekhouvanjou, okay! and Sergeant Fu. Step inside…
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The New ANC Album – A Little Musical Propaganda For Everyone
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Did you know that our ruling party just dropped their new album? It’s all part of their local elections campaign, and it’s totally awesome. No, really, forget the new Radiohead or Lady Gaga, this is what you should be listening to right now…
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aKING Launches New Album Tonight In Cape Town
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African band aKING will rock the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town tonight as they launch their third album, “The Red Blooded Years”. The album, described by the band as “effortless and balanced”, is included in the ticket price of R150. How’s that for effortless?
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Die Antwoord ‘Rich Bitch’ Music Video – Feat. Julius Malema As Toilet Paper
09 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
I first heard about their new music video on News24, but that story was to do with the fact that Die Antwoord’s new music video, ‘Rich Bitch,’ could not be viewed in South Africa. Even though it is on YouTube, a message appears, stating ‘blocked for territories outside of the US and Canada.’ Thankfully 2oceansvibe’s […]
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Benassi Remakes The ‘Satisfaction’ Video For Equal Pay
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In support of Equal Payday, which seeks to address the disparity between male and female salaries around the world, Benny Benassi has remade the sexy-construction-outfits video for ‘Satisfaction’ to mark International Women’s Day. It’s a little bit amazing. Satisfaction came out in 2002, by the way.
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Album Review: ‘Live On Ten Legs’ By Pearl Jam
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
When you go and see U2 in concert you expect a religious experience of some kind. And why wouldn’t you? God is on lead vocals after all. And the price of the ticket leads you to believe He’s going to pay you some special attention, forgive you for your sins and send you on your […]
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What’s in my bag? Free songs by Die Heuwels Fantasties, Moses Metro Man, and Dance, You’re on Fire! That’s right folks, step right up.
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Kim Kardashian Premieres Song, And Finally Kills Pop Music
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanks Kim, now when my kids ask me about music back in my day, I somehow have to keep a straight face while telling them how much better it was. But seriously now, this song is bad, like so bad it’s magnificent.
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Five Seconds Of Every #1 Song, Ever
28 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the Andrew scale of brilliance this rates a 987.2. On the pages pages that follow you can listen to brief clips of every number one song listed up to 2011.
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MK Awards 2011: The Good, The Bad, And The Winners
28 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Hundreds of skinny jeans walked around the CTICC on Saturday evening for the MK Awards – a first for Cape Town. But not everyone who attended thought it was awesome. Quote of the week: “Somewhere Jack Parow cannot be thinking that this mess was quite piele.”
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Music Feature: Three Tracks You Have To Hear This Week
25 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What’s in my bag? Free songs by Dans Dans Lisa, P.H.Fat, and The Lottery Tickets. Step inside.
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Justin Bieber’s Hair Earns More Money Than You Do
25 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Never mind Libya, the biggest story this week has been Justin Bieber’s hair. And yesterday things got even more exciting (if you’re a tween), when the pop culture deity decided to donate a lock of his mane to another famous lesbian, Ellen DeGeneres. She then did what any other sensible person would do when receiving such a prized gift, she put it on eBay.
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Is The New Radiohead Video One Big Hoax?
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Did Radiohead really allow a pretentious hipster to choreograph their latest video or is the joke on us?
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You’re Going To Want To See Spoek Mathambo’s “Control” [Video]
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, I think this is the coolest think I’ve seen today – the music video to glam-rapper Spoek Mathambo’s reinterpretation of Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control,’ shot in Langa, Cape Town, and directed by crazy influential photographer Pieter Hugo.
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Is The New Radiohead Video A Hoax? [UPDATED]
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Did Radiohead really allow a pretentious hipster to choreograph their latest music video? Find out after the break…
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New York Times Ad Slams Grammys For Being Out Of Touch
22 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Music executive Steve Stoute took out a full-page advert in the NYT’s Styles section on Sunday to display his open letter to the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, slamming the Grammys for having become “a series of hypocrisies and contradictions.”
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Bono And Yvonne Chaka Chaka Sing “Stand By Me” At Cape Town U2 Concert [Video]
19 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
One of the classic moments during last night’s U2 concert at Cape Town stadium was when Bono and Yvonne Chaka Chaka covered the classic Ben E. King hit, “Stand by me.” The whole also sang along. We managed to catch the moment on video camera. Follow the link to check it out!
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