The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Phenomenal Handclap Band "15 to 20" Official Video

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Noticed a band called 'The Phenomenal Handclap Band' was featured heavily in this year's Glastonbury lineup, which was obvs reason to check them out.

The XX & Florence Welch - You've Got The Love (Live @ Glastonbury 2010)

oh my fuck, this be the real shit.

The xx performed their cover of Florence + the Machine's Youve Got the Love last night at Glastonbury and were joined on stage by the one and only Florence herself!

What is so impressive about this performance is how she sounds EXACTLY like the recording, which I thought was the product of some intricate mixing of her original vocals. The way she makes her voice do that--- oh. Just oh. And I love the way crowd cheers when she comes on.

She has cemented her place in the monarchy of music and I cant wait till she's queen.

And it's nice to see The xx with such a huge stage and audience, very well deserved. It's crazy to think that it's been less than a year since their debut album dropped- oh the power of the blogosphere.

More info and link download here.

"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness . . . in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man dwelling in the darkness of primordial light." - Jung, 1970 (144-5)

cutest/best magazine cover ever!

This applies to my life like you wouldnt believe.

Fuck yeah Freja.

High Line expansion!

So I've never been to New York, and I REALLY want to go. Sidenote: I might end up going in August avec mon bro-bro, which would be the. coolest. thing. ever.

But when I finally make my way to the Big Apple, I need to see something called The High Line. The video below provides a good visualization.

The High Line is an elevated park in the Upper West Side's Meatpacking District. An old elevated railway was about to be torn down, but a group of architects, planners and community activists, fought to save it to turn it into a park.

They won the battle and turned the old railway into an elevated park; a natural oasis in an urban jungle.

The High Line has been championed as a hallmark of intelligent, forward urbanism. In fact, the idea has been floating around to try the same thing with Toronto's Gardiner Expressway.

Anyway, theyre expanding the High Line, which are what the pictures above are about. It looks so cool, such progressive architecture and design.

I cant wait to see it in real life. More info on the expansion here.

"Toronto, we love you. Let's hear you scream for yourselves!"

Is anyone else super excited to see This Film is Broken? It's basically a music concert documentary of Broken Social Scene's free Harbourfront concert last July. Oh and like, there's love in it or something.

I'm excited to see it cuz I was like there last summer. And it remains to this day, the best concert I've ever been to. They played something like 5 encores, the music just never ended.

These guys like 'fall in love' or something.

So there's an exclusive engagement for 'This Movie is Broken' at the Scotiabank Theatre in downtown Toronto this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (June 25-27, 2010) so I thinking I might try to go see it!

Anyone in? I dont care if I know you.... welll, wait... okay maybe.

Brendan fucking Canning. My friend once met him in person and said he looked homeless.

But if I do go see, I will post something about. most likely, about how freaking awesome it is. well, minus the sappy love shit. BUT, it is a film about Toronto and a Toronto band FOR Toronto, so I'll probably fall in love with it.

I'll always remember when Kevin Drew said "we live here, we love here. we break up here and make up here." This band does anything but break things.

tooo funny

I seriously want to know where Alice Glass shops. Because I want to shop with her.

I am SOOO excited for my skype date with my friend Kate tonight :D

Do you ever not talk to someone for a while and then realize just how much you miss them?

My friend Kate is my BB, or as I like to call it: my Best Bitch, which on the hierarchy of friends is higher than friends. Kate is my sounding board. Talking to her is like being filled with butterflies.

So I'm just really excited because we've been really busy the past few weeks and it's shown me just how much I miss her. Like intensely. I CANT WAIT to tell her all about what's happened in my life, because so much has happened.

There were times where I just really wanted to call her up and tell her everything.

I cant wait to hug her through my computer camera.

Lykke Li - Possibility

sometimes this song just gets me through tough times.

Two Door Cinema Club

There's a band out of Ireland that getting a lot of press, theyre called 'Two Door Cinema Club.'

Two Door Cinema Club - This Is The Life

The interesting thing is that they are holding a remix competition for their song 'What You Know' (above) that is also getting a lot of press.

This track by French DJ The Noisy Freaks is currently one of the front-runners:

Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know (The Noisy Freaks Edit) by The Noisy Freaks

Listen to the orginial track, download stems here. More about the contest here. People who made that website here.

Maybe who I am is exactly who I'm supposed to be.

Marry me Florence

Flo, i.e. Florence Welch, the lead signer of Florence + the Machine, can do no wrong.

Florence & The Machine - Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer Cover) by Secret Hipster

I have no idea who Robert Palmer is, but easily found myself singing along, totally enraptured by Flo's sweet flux.

Favourite Band at the moment

Geographer. That's their name. They are awesome: synth pop lullabies and sugarhappy beats.

Geographer - Kites

Obviously, I have to love them because their name is 'Geographer' and I'm a geographer, yeah.

So I was like, "I like you already" and then I listened to their music and was blown away-- it was like being caught in a Hadley Cell near the equator.

Geojoke.

will post more on these guys once i fully discover there sound and such

Tom Ford loves ravens and blue and nicolas hoult

OOOOOh! Tom Ford's Fall Winter 2010.11 Eyewear campaign features Nicholas Hoult.

Oh, his skin.

Hot stuff(ed).

He totes looks like Tom Ford in the one. Crazesauce.

Now the best part is that the female version of the ads feature Freja Beha Erichsen, who is ONLY MY FAVOURITE MODEL EVER! For serious.

She looks so good in these ads! They are too hot. I cant even deal.

Tenderoni videodrop

Kele, the frontguy from Bloc Party, is venturing off by himself and this is the first single et. video from his upcoming album:

The first thing that popped into my head was.. okay no, the actual first thing was, "omg he's RIPPED!" but the legit second thing that popped into my head was "is this for the upcoming TRON movie?" I mean those costumes look like they belong in the trailer.

The third thing that popped into my head was "what the fuck is a tenderoni?"

But all jokes aside, I'm actually diggin this. The synth. The beat. The nakedness. I dontknow, it feels very slick and intelligent. Kele Okereke (sp?) is an intelligent guy, so it makes sense that his 'solo scene' would be sleek and attractive.

He's not in the business of half-assedness; after all, Bloc Party's debut album reached #3 in the UK and propelled the band to fame. It takes guts to make a big debut.

I'm considering this Kele Okereke's official 'coming out' and I'm excited for the rest of the songs off his album, AND the fact that he's playing Osheaga in Montreal in August. Hot damn tenderoni! mmh

Uffie feat. Pharell Williams - ADD SUV videodrop

The official video for the lead single off Uffie's debut album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans dropped and man is it coolbeans:

It's hard to believe this is Uffie's first album, after being a mainstay of underground electro music for years. Chances are youve heard of her, heard a song by her, or been sent a link to 'Pop the Glock' or 'Tthhee Ppaarrttyy' from a musically-inclined friend you trust.

She's a an example of someone who's music and lifestyle attract their own kind of attention. She moved to Paris when she was 18; born in Florida, grew up in Hong Kong. Scanning her wikipedia page leaves more questions than answers. And she's only 22. And she has a kid.

It all begs the question, who is this Uffie chick?

Her success only adds to her mystique. I mean who wouldn't want to be her, or at least be her for a day. Every google-able picture of Uffie is like a piece to a never-ending puzzle. This aint your Grandma's jigsaw.

oh man, my brother just left for a month long trip by yelling "peace and blessings. peace and blessings!" out the car window. Love him.

If you dont know where 'peace and blessings' is from, please watch this gem of a video. Youll thank me later.

Gaga bakes cakes!

Talking about her new upcoming album, Lady Gaga confessed that for the past three years she's been baking cakes:

I think I'm gonna get the album title tattooed on me and put out the photo. I've been working on it for months now, and I feel very strongly that it's finished right now. It came so quickly.

Some artists take years; I don't. I write music every day. Why are we still talking about 'Don't ask, don't tell?' It's like, what f—king year is it? It makes me crazy! And I have been for three years baking cakes—and now I'm going to bake a cake that has a bitter jelly.

The message of the new music is now more bitter than it was before. Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

First of all, I dont know about you guys, but most of the cakes I eat dont have jelly in them. When I think of jelly, I think donuts. So if she's been baking donuts at her local Tim Horton's for the past three years and is now gonna throw some salt or cigarette butts into the jelly mix, that would make sense. Otherwise, Gaga please know your desserts.

I'm just kidding, I love this bitch. She can do no wrong. She is so strong and I absolutely love her for standing up for the gays without shying away from the usual "maybe if I say something gay-positive, people somewhere will hate me."

Thank god for you Lady Gaga, there is definitely a special place reserved in heaven for ya.. along with Cyndi Lauper. Omg, could you imagine! Fiercest heaven party!

This is pretty exciting- that her new album is gonna be political. What she says about 'Dont Ask, Dont Tell' is the most bang-on comment about the subject I've heard from an American citizen in the past year. Seriously, why are 'we' still talking about it?

Thanks Gaga for pointing us monster-folk in the right direction. I know she likes to make sandwiches (**clap, clap, arrgh bite**) but I for one, cannot wait to try one of her cakes.

California Gurls - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg (MSTRKRFT Remix)

Holy crapnuggets!

MSTRKRFT may have succeeded in making a catchy song-- Katy Perry's "California Gurls"-- even catchier. The Toronto electro-remix genii put their signature synth spin on the current #1 song.

Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls (MSTRKRFT Remix)

The perfect time for a remix if you ask me, and it's good to have MSTRKRFT back in the mixing bowl doing what they do best.

But 'Gurls?' Seriously?

Come on Katy, I know it's all "fun and hip" to spell things wrong but you have to think about your tween-age audience. Dont lead them astray in the world of grammar; it starts early. Pretty soon theyll be spelling words like "boiz," "wurd" and your name like "Katee."

I wanna meet the marketing genius who came up with the idea of spelling it wrong. I can just imagine some hip twenty-something wearing yellow Kanye glasses in a boardroom somewhere extolling the benefits of spelling shit wrong: "and if we spell it with a 'U,' we can increase our profit margins by 15%" or something like that..

Thanks annoying marketing guy who's getting paid more than me. Thanks.