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BENJAMIN BRATT AND A JANITOR WALK INTO A BAR...
Posted by The Voyeurs
Tags: The Voyeurs, Benjamin Bratt, A E, Things People Say, NME, Spaceland, UK, Indie 103
OUCH!!
So tonight, our song "THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY" will be featured on an episode of "The Cleaner" starring Benjamin Bratt. I don't think it's about a janitor......Either way, tune in TONIGHT (Tues. Sept 30) to A & E at 10pm (Pacific).
For all ya'll LAer's, we are playing a last minute show tomorrow night at Spaceland as part of CLUB NME. It's sponsored by Indie 103.1 FM and NME Magazine from the UK. We play at 9pm and it's 21+.
I guess that's it for now. Keep listening to our RCRDLBL tunes and if you want more, go to www.myspace.com/wearethevoyeurs!
Goodbye!
Sean Voyeur
Classic Video: "Buffalo Gals" - Malcolm McLaren
As you can probably tell, we here at SEEN love hip-hop and its culture. For our next classic video we are going with a video that was essentially England's first exposure to hip-hop culture. Malcolm McLaren is best known for managing and mentoring the Sex Pistols, giving them the punk style and attitude he brought back from New York and his exposure to the New York Dolls and Richard Hell & Tom Verlaine (who later formed Television). However, McLaren was also instrumental in bringing hip-hop culture to a more global audience.
In the 1984 BBC documentary "A Hip Hop History" McLaren tells the story of when he was looking for a backing band for Bow Wow Wow (which he was managing at the time). He was taken to a street party in the South Bronx where he experienced the full force of hip-hop culture first hand. He was blown away by the sounds coming out of the sound system and the impressive acrobatic dancing that would break out in the middle of the crowd. McLaren tried to describe his first hearing of scratching: "the sound coming out was totally inarticulate, it was a load of rough noises, noises that sounded a little like guitars but like a concrete chisel sound..."
He took that experience back and incorporated it into his album 'Duck Rock'. The album also features the track "Double Dutch" which is heavily influenced by African rhythms and singing years before Paul Simon would gain attention with the concept. Not only was the track one of the first to hit the UK charts that featured record scratching (appearing before Herbie Hancock's "Rockit") the video showed all of the elements of hip-hop executed by the masters. Break dancing by the Rock Steady Crew, scratching and rapping by The World Famous Supreme Team and huge graffiti murals by the legendary Dondi White (RIP) when it had not yet gained "art" status in the UK.
You will probably recognize the "Buffalo Gals" tribute lyrics being incorporated into Eminem's "Without Me", which is just another great example of the cyclical nature of hip-hop. Enjoy.
DSCVR DIM MAK - WHITEY!
Oh yeah, we're back. Remember the sweet DSCVR DIM MAK posts of yesteryear, well yeah, we can't stop touching our back catalog. It's too good! Today we want to remind you of how super awesome UK crooner Nathan J Whitey and his project WHITEY is and how you should make sure that the band's tunes make their way to your ears today. Whitey is currently in the studio and readying a new album for all of us to feast upon this year. In the meantime check out the first single off their debut full length "The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train".
SHITDISCO JOINS THE DIM MAK FAMILY DOWNLOAD REACTOR PARTY
In case you didn't notice we peeps at Dim Mak made the announcement a few weeks back that we'd be the official new home to UK party band Shitdisco and we seriously couldn't be more psyched about it. We plan to release the US version of their album Kingdom of Fear some time in the spring. The US release will feature some pretty cool additions like some pretty sweet never heard before remixes and bonus tracks. Have yourself a taste with a listen to your new favorite house party track "Reactor Party".
DOWNLOAD: Shitdisco - Reactor Party
Welcome Drowned In Sound! Congrats To Drowned In Sound!
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There are many reasons we wanted to partner with the UK online publication/record label Drowned In Sound (aka Drwnd In Snd) for our launch. The first of which is, like us, they love talking about the latest bands that have caught their ear and we feel they do it with conviction, expertise and enthusiasm (more on that in a bit). The second is that they love taking things one step further and releasing music from their favorite bands (for those keeping tabs their Drowned In Sound Recordings put out the first-ever releases from the Kaiser Chiefs and Bat For Lashes). In short, they are our kind of people.
Before we bounce you to their blog, we wanted to congratulate the DIS crew on their win last night at the Record Of The Day Awards where they won "Best Online Music Publication" and beat out some website called NME.com.
In the months to come, you can expect the DIS team to be blogging on the regular and featuring their editorial team's favorite tracks of the week on their RCRD LBL blog. Think of it as an online version of the import section of your local record shop, only the records are free and everything is good.
CHECK IT: iLiketrains
iLiKETRAiNS are five guys in their 20s who hail from Leeds, England. Unlike other bands from that city (Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, etc) iLiKETRAiNS sound more like the morose alcoholic at the end of the bar than the rowdy youth partying in the booth next to him. They're like a shoegaze band fronted by Morrissey, and all of their songs are inspired by notable events in Britain's history ("Spencer Perceval", for example, is about the first and only assassinated UK prime minister). Their debut record, The Elegies to Lessons Learnt, is one of the best post-rock records of the year. Spinner just featured their new single "The Deception", as their MP3 of the day, so be sure to check it out.
CHECK IT: The Rumble Strips
It was a sad day when UK Northern soul act the Rumble Strips had to cancel their upcoming tour with RCRD LBL-affiliates Cold War Kids: they were slated to play two nights at Webster Hall, and a show like that could have catapulted the Strips to a new level. It's not every day that we encounter a band that can make us grin at the drop of a pin (or entire horn section). The Rumble Strips bring back old school ska (and we mean real ska like The Specials, not grown-men-in-baggy-shorts ska) with a distinct blue-eyed soul vibe. Front man Charlie Waller is the lynchpin of the operation, with acrobatic vocals and a handsome demeanor. Indie blog Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream just featured two songs from the Rumble Strip's debut album Girls and Weather so check it out.
Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
