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Forget Jay-Z: Introducing DELS with Shapeshift

// July 30th, 2010 // View Comments // b-music

DELS new single Shapeshift kicks ass; solid beat, wobbly grizzlin’ nintendo digital bass sounds and a retina burning video. Joe Goddard (from Hot Chip) produced the single and Us design studio brought the video to life. The young MC has been creating a buzz ever since John Peel heard him as a teenager and put him on the radio. F*%k Jay-Z, make way for London’s hottest rapper. Shapeshift takes us back to a childhood where our biggest dream was turning into something else….

Fire Action! – White Dress | London Music Scene

// July 26th, 2010 // View Comments // b-music

Fire Action! is a rock-n-roll-indie group formed from the suburban London music scene. The video is tragic, astonishing & alarmingly cool. Their sound grooves catchy 60s melodies and jacks up to the heroin induced melancholy of the Velvet Underground. Their brand new track “White Dress” will feature on an EP released next month. Check out the fresh blood of Fire Action!…

Banksy Hits Glastonbury Festival 2010 With Peace and Love

// June 30th, 2010 // View Comments // b-inspired, b-music, b-scene, b-street

Banksy decided to hit Glastonbury this year, but is it really a Banksy or imitation? I wish I could’ve made good old glasto for its 40 year anniversary. Looks like it was a corker!

Photos below all sourced from an excellent photography feed, Boston Globe’s Big Picture.

C.W Stoneking: 1920s Jungle Blues

// June 18th, 2010 // View Comments // b-inspired, b-music

I’m still buzzing from seeing C.W Stoneking play in Deal two weeks ago in association with Smugglers Records. Fortunate to film this intimate folk celebration, I decided to edit together a video that expresses the atmosphere of the night. C.W and his primitive horn orchestra took the audience down rivers sweeping through jungles and 1920s Blues. A certain war torn fabric tears through the sound and the cutting virtue of C.W’s vocals are goose pimply blood warming. All this set in the great old Astor Theatre.

Watch and enjoy the jungle calypso murder ballad ‘Love Me or Die‘ and ‘Don’t Go Dancin Down The Darktown Strutter’s Ball’…..

Crowdsourcing Artists Brings Johnny Cash Back To Life

// June 11th, 2010 // View Comments // b-music, b-wired

This is a crowdsourced art project and a half. In the name of Johnny Cash, GET INVOLVED! Have your chance for your drawings to be in a new Johnny Cash music video. Go to this website and re-draw any number of frames to help form a new music video for ‘Ain’t No Grave’. This project is truly remarkable. It poignantly affirms through a crowdsourced collective & a love for Cash and his art; no grave can hold his body down.

You can watch back the video in all manner of ways…this is what you get so far with ‘Most Brushstrokes Per Frame’ selected,