Thursday, January 8, 2009

Who doesn't love Kid Sister?

I've been waiting for Kid Sister's Dream date to drop for a minute now, and i'm still waiting. Till then I'll get by listening to Pro Nails over and over and reading articles like this from Pitchfork.

Interview: Kid Sister with Pitchfork

Video: Kid Sister (with Kanye) - Pro Nails (from Pitchfork.TV)

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Download: Peter, Bjorn & John - Nothing to Worry About

Kanye's blog has come up trumps again! Apparently PB&J sent this track straight to Mr West, now that he's all buddy buddies with the Swedish wonder trio. Either way it means more beautiful music across the airwaves! Enjoy!

Download: Peter, Bjorn & John - Nothing to Worry About

Video: Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit: Kamphopo

Another one from the Fader, this is a video for Esau Mwamwaya's great track Kamphopo, which is taken from one of the best albums of 08, The Very Best featuring Radioclit. It's actually a mixtape, but you wouldn't know the difference. Esau takes his african roots and his unique style and applies them a number of hot indie instrumentals to amazing effect. From Vampire Weekend to MIA, Esau definitely has a great taste in music.

Download: Eminem [ft. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent]: Crack a Bottle

Onsmash have a new track from Eminem! And it features Dr. Dre! and 50 Cent! I'm exhausted. It's not bad, but it's no I Get Money.

Download: Eminem [ft. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent]: Crack a Bottle

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Download: Skillz and his 2008 Rap-up


Can't believe I nearly missed this! Skillz is a Virginia rapper who's been poppin and the fringes of hip-hop fame for over a decade. Each year he raps about the popular news stories of the year. Oh yeah, and it's pretty funny too.

Download: Skillz - Rap-Up 2008

Stream: Ciara feat. Young Jeezy - Never Ever

Ciara is back, coming in early on in 09 with Never Ever.

Watch the First Episode of Superstars of Dance


Over the last few days we've been previewing the new dance show from Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe and now you can check out the first episode at the following address.

www.watch-superstarsofdance.com/

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Garry Stewart, ADT and the Superstars of Dance

These two Articles have just popped up in the Adelaide Advertiser (represent!) and News.com.au , and it's great to see that Garry Stewart and ADT crew are doing so well. Pure Funk have worked with the ADT in past and been amazingly impressed by the job Garry does with his talented stable of dancers. Can't wait to check it out!

THEY have only just returned from a starring Hollywood role, but there's no slowing down for Garry Stewart and the Adelaide-based Australian Dance Theatre.

The company has just taken part in Superstar Dancers Of The World, a primetime dance series for NBC which airs next week in the US.

But they'll be back in rehearsals in the Adelaide ADT studios tomorrow for the opening night of the Sydney Festival, for which the city's CBD will be tranformed into an epic outdoor celebration of music and dance.

ADT will perform in Martin Place alongside Bangarra and Sydney Dance Company as part of the "movers and shakers" – showcasing the best of the best of Australian dance.

Another major highlight of the festival will be delivered by ADT creative director Garry. As one of Australia's leading choreographers, festival director Nigel Jamieson asked Garry to create a specially choreographed dance performance for the opening event, Festival First Night.

Just after sunset on January 10, all 10 open-air stages across the CBD will stop and an anticipated 250,000 people will perform Garry's dance, The Sydney, simultaneously, transforming the CBD into possibly the world's largest dance floor.

The dance will apparently be set to a collection of dance music from the Balkans.

FROM choreographing a performance to move a large audience to getting a large audience to move . . . Garry Stewart is Australia's lord of the dance.

Australian Dance Theatre's artistic director and the man behind Sydney Festival's communal dance, The Sydney, Stewart has just returned from showcasing some of the country's best dancers in a US reality TV show which will be beamed to millions.

Called Superstars Of Dance, the show has been dubbed by some as "the Dance Olympics". It pits dancers from eight countries: Ireland, India, the US, Argentina, China, Russia, South Africa and Australia against each other.

While he is sworn to secrecy on the results of the show until it airs, Stewart praised the Australian dancers, who "did an exceptional job and matched the quality of everything else there".

For Stewart it's a case of going from one extreme to the other, as he will now watch The Sydney, executed by about 250,000 Sydneysiders, as part of Festival First Night on January 10.

Download: Double Ghostface!

EastofLa.com has some Ghostface Killah tracks from a comp of Ghost's greatest hits. They recommend picking it up and I shall be doing just that this very afternoon! Ghost has proven to be the most consistently superb member of the Wu-Tang Clan, and every album is always followed by the type of critical acclaim that most artists are lucky to see once in their lifetime. Enjoy these nuggets and check out the album.

Ghostface Killah-Run (Remix) (Feat Jadakiss, Lil' Wayne, Raekwon And Freeway)


Ghostface Killah-Back Like That (remix)(Feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo)

Superstars of Dance - Australian Duo in Close-up



Profiles taken from burnthefloor.com

The guy and girl who form the duo component of the Australian contingent for the Superstars of Dance Comp are Giselle Peacock and Henry Byalikov. I thought you might want to know a little bit of background on them, leading into the comp.

GISELLE PEACOCK

Giselle has been dancing since the age of 10 and has devoted her life to competing in International Latin Dancing. Achieveing great results in many Championships including 4 times US Champion, 2 times World representative, 2nd in Under 21 at the Blackpool Championships in England.She also studies and trains in other styles of dance including Hip Hop, Jazz, and Modern Dancing.Giselle still actively competes, coaches and performs all over the world, and has appeared in television shows including Secret World of Ballroom Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance. Giselle has been touring with Burn the Floor for 2 years.

HENRY BAYALIKOV

Henry Byalikov's passion for performing arts was clear from the age of nine, when he commenced his dance career, specialising in the technical style of individual and coupled Ballroom.
His pursuit of dance was rewarded with titles such as the New South Wales Open Champion as well as international and national finalist and semi-finalist in the World Championships.
Over the last few years, Henry has crossed over from Ballroom dancing to a number of other genres, as seen by his appearances on Strictly Dancing and So You Think You Can Dance in Australia. His latest appearance was on Dancing With The Stars.
Trained in a number of styles, including animation hip hop, Henry has just joined Burn The Floor.

Download: Hot Chip - Hold On (D.I.M. Remix)

Nashville Nights found this gem of a track from Hot Chip, apparently it popped up in live set from Digitalism.

Download: Hot Chip - Hold On (D.I.M. Remix)

Friday, January 2, 2009

Top Ten Hip Hop Video's of 2008

Going vid crazy today! SouthSide50Videoz has put up their top 10 Hip Hop video's for 2008, making it a little easier to find our favourite jams of last year. I was a little partial to Common's summertime smash Universal Mind Control myself.

Video: T-Pain feat Chris Brown - Freeze

Fresh for 09! Here's T-Pain with the baby-faced maestro Chris Brown trying to do for Pain's track what they did for Brown's 'Kiss Kiss'.

Learn to Leap - Dance Lesson

Just for Kix is an online learning program (yah, you have to pay), and they have some pretty good stuff on there. Here's their latest promo.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Download: Boyz Noize - Shine Shine Remix, Kanye West - Sly P

A couple of new/nearly new tracks to start off the year. The always ear-shattering Boyz Noize and an unreleased and un-autotuned Kanye West. Shalom.

Download: Boys Noize - Shine Shine (Shadow Dancer remix)

Download: Payback" (unreleased) - Kanye West ft. Timmy G, Sly Poloroid (via eastofla.com)