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Music
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Katy Perry And The Broken Record [VIDEO]
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In news certain to make the Kloof Street set spit up their Vida all over their vintage Converse, Katy Perry has become the second artist in music history to send five singles from an album to the number one spot in the US.
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German Nationalist Punked By ‘Trojan T-Shirt’
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Souveneir t-shirts handed out at a rock festival in Gera, eastern Germany, were decorated with skulls, right-wing flags and the words “hardcore rebels,” to appeal to the vaguely neo-Nazi crowd the festival attracts. Except when the shirts got washed, the douchey decorations faded, replaced with anti-extremist slogans.
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How Your Father’s Music Indicates What You Listen To Today [Chart]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In honour of Father’s Day yesterday, this nifty flowchart got put together acknowledging the influences that fathers have on our taste in music. The infographic handily predicts the kinds of music you’re liable to listen to based on what your dad was playing when you were growing up.
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Listen To The New Bon Iver Record
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You guys dig Bon Iver, right? They did ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ back in 2007, and they’re releasing their new album a little later this month. But because Bon Iver loves you, you can stream the new tracks for free over here. Click through, children.
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Norway To Train Foreign Diplomats In Black Metal
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In yet another move to convince us that Scandinavian politics makes sense: the government of Norway is inexplicably offering to ‘train’ foreign diplomats in the ways of black metal. As in, the musical genre. Specifically, ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’, which you would know by now if you were a foreign diplomat in Norway.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jamming With The Large Hadron Collider
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you think about it, music is simply data ordered in a specific way by a clever human and then executed by either man or machine. So why not take some existing data from a very clever machine and see if it makes music? Well that’s what the very very clever people at CERN have done.
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Win Tickets To U2 Concert On Friday!
14 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
2oceansvibe is giving away TWO tickets to the Friday U2 concert at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town. To enter the competition, all you need to do is buy 2 tickets to the MegaMillions lottery at the 2oceansvibe Lottos website. The current jackpot there is R300 Million ($40Million). So even if you don’t win the U2 […]
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Taking Your Home Vinyl To The Next Level
02 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Now while we do spend an inordinate amount of time in the aisles of Mabu Vinyl, I must let you know about another source I have for vinyl. And not just any vinyl, NEW vinyl. Many people are unaware that limited numbers of LPs are pressed, every time a new CD is released. Follow link […]
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So I Went To See Gary Thomas At The Waiting Room.
02 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Hey guys. I’m Gary Thomas. Welcome to The Waiting Room. We’re going to play you some music, in case you were wondering about all…this.” So began Gary Thomas’ Long Street gig last night. It stayed awkward, but the music got better as the night went on.
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The Dirty Skirts – ‘Strike The Match’ Music Video – 2ov EXCLUSIVE
25 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
We managed to nail down another exclusive music video – this time from one of our long-time favourite SA bands, The Dirty Skirts. It’s always too long between albums, for fans of the Skirts – but the boys managed to put this little beaut together to satisfy our cravings. And what a powerhouse song it […]
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Just Look At This Video Of Kids Tripping Out
11 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Just look at it. Kids, music, drugs, concerned parents, American news networks, middle America – it’s all there. This report cries foul on i-dosing (not an Apple product), whereby ne’er-do-well teenagers whittle away their misspent youth getting high on binural frequencies. I’m calling BS on this one. [VIDEO]
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