Archive for August, 2008
This week’s new crop of videos were delivered fresh today from our turbo video oven - to view correctly, spread butter on the top and lick your screen to taste. Alternatively, you could just click the handy play buttons on the videos - the choice is yours. This time around we welcome back the Black Kids and Santogold, as well as saying a big hello to Ginger Woz Red - crap name, jaunty tune. Here goes…
RealMusic Blog still remembers sobbing into our pint of cooking lager the day Freddie Mercury died. So imagine our surprise when a press release dropped into our inbox today proclaiming that a new Queen album was about to be born. Was it all a hoax? Had Freddie got tired of lying down and regained vertical status? Alas no - rather, Brian and Rodge have recruited a new singer for their band who now perform under the name Queen + Paul Rodgers…
Wouter de Becker (Wally to his mates) is the brains behind award-winning Aussie act Gotye, as well as being the drummer and singer with his other band, The Basics. But it’s Gotye (pronounced Gaultier) that’s been catching the world’s attention of late, being compared to Beck and winning the Australian ARIA for Best Male last year, the Aussie equivalent of The Brits. Belgian-born but Melbourne-based, his second album “Like Drawing Blood” is a fantastic patchwork of samples and styles, held together by Wally’s soaring vocals and intricate arrangements. Far more than just another pop pony, RealMusic Blog chatted to the very charming and humble Gotye about fame, fortune, his DIY approach to music and why he’s living back at home with his mum and dad…
This week’s No.1 record in the UK official charts is Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl”. Apparently, what with Katy being a girl and all, this is a bit risqué - but as she says in the song, so long as her boyfriend doesn’t mind (RealMusic Blog is guessing that he doesn’t so long as there’s a video to watch), then everything’s OK…
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