The brand new video for the second official track off the Bag Raiders‘ self-titled debut album. Directed by Fleur & Manu.

Amazing tune for what I’m sure will be a cracker of a debut LP due for release October 1st. Video is directed by Kris Moyes who I’m pretty sure (anyone confirm?) is the brother of Kim Moyes of the Presets fame….

According to every rapper’s autobiography track it includes selling snowflakes/crack, dope or other narcotics on the street, getting shot or shot at, then rapping about it in an autobiographical song. But according to tha non-hustlers anthem it involves designing ghetto fab street wear clothes, skate decks, harry high pants retro jeans from Japanese selvedge denim… and T-shirts… lots of T-shirts. Such is the story of Ben Epstein the “Token Neurotic Jew from New York” and Cam Calderon the smooov latino man who is about 5’7″… two homies from BK or somewhere in NYC living day to day selling jeans at Barneys, and doing other shit to make it happen. They are joined by Scott “Kid CuDi” Mescudi, that guy from American Pie, Shannyn Sossaman as their hipster cool supporting cast friends!

Speaking of Kid CuDi… the man released a show related mixtape produced by DJ Green Lantern… get it courtesy of the HBO website right HERE

The show is pretty much the coolest, brooklynest, hipsterest, streetest shit going on… you’ve seen it in blogs so check it out on TV. You know it is that cool it is produced by Mark Wahlberg and his Entourage team.

Check out the show site here

Also wanted to mention Aussie homeboys the Bag Raiderz track “Shooting Stars” featured in the latest episode (06)!!!

While it doesn’t officially get announced till tomorrow, here’s a short list of the artists I heard Vijay rattle off earlier on Triple J:

• Vampire Weekend
• Tegan & Sara
• Spoon
• Silverchair
• Grinspoon
• Empire Of The Sun
• British India
• Lisa Mitchell
• Kisschasy
• Miami Horror
• Bag Raiders
• Kid Koala presents The Slew (live)
• Muph & Plutonic
• Killaqueenz
• Funkoars
• Illy
• Jonathan Boulet
• Ajax
• Yacht Club DJs

I’ll add to this as more names come to light, or you could wait for tomorrow’s announcement… So onto the dates:

Saturday 1st May – GTM Bendigo, Bendigo’s Prince of Wales Showground
Sunday 2nd May – GTM Townsville, Murray Sports Complex – Townsville Cricket Grounds
Saturday 8th May – GTM Maitland, Maitland Showground
Sunday 9th May – GTM Canberra, The Meadows, University of Canberra
Saturday 15th May – GTM Bunbury, Pat Usher Foreshore Reserve

Almost let the week slip without some music. Tsk… Tsk… Tsk… I’m gonna blame the weather or perhaps that much of my day is taken up with work (ala corporate day slave type) and nights hanging with mates and/or seeing Girl Talk and/or Them Crooked Vultures. The latter being an absolute monster gig in some rather disgusting heat at Festival Hall. I am working on a YouTube page for the site so I can upload my shitty mobile videos of such gigs up. Can’t be a paparazzo at every gig…

Anyway, my selection of tracks for the past fortnight (well, I did miss out on last week’s post…) is after the jump…

Tim & Jean – Come Around
One of the finalist in this year’s Triple J Unearthed High competition. Nice bit of synth pop goodness which reminds me a bit of Passion Pit or of Walter Meego. You can’t help but think happy thoughts and good times. Kinda like the summer holidays really…

Cassian – Fuck Song
Yes, I know, I wrote about Cassian last week and yes, it’s been floating around the web for a while now but it’s so damn groovy! Think more 80s funk/porn groove though and let’s be honest, deep down we all love it. I guess it makes the name of the track that much more appropriate.

Big Scary – Hey Somebody
Ah, Big Scary. Not a true description of the duo. Scary? No.., Big? Very soon I think . With vocals that remind me of a mix of Jeff Buckley and Robert Smith and a wicked indie garage rock sound, think a bit of Strokes, Whites Stripes and even Kings Of Leon. They’ve even supported the Editors during their nation tour earlier this month. A big thanks to our music mole, Hall-E for introducing these guys to my ears.

Alberta Cross – Song Three Blues
Some more blues/rock/croon for your ears. This is the opening track to their debut ‘Broken Side Of Time’ and really sets the mood of an album full of epic riffs and brooding blues. One of my favourite albums from last year.

Miike Snow – Silvia (Sinden Remix)
Something a bit different from Sinden here. Normally one would expect a fidgety ghetto house killer but what you get here a piece of I guess you could call blissful progressive house. The vocal track is kept to minimum here but when it is introduced it is a nice compliment to the rest of the music.

Bag Raiders – Nil By Mouth (Knightlife Remix)
Gonna throw it out there that this track probably isn’t the most well known of the Raiders tracks. When you take two of the big breakout local electronic acts from last year and let them flex their synthy space disco muscles you will eventually finish with something a bit special.

Broken Bells – The High Road
Another collaboration band here. Broken Bells is a new project between Danger Mouse who is one half of Gnarls Barkley amongst other things, and James Mercer of The Shins. This track is the opening single to their forthcoming album in March and I’ve gotta say I like what I hear.

Grizzly Bear – Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover)
Wow! What a cover! 2009 indie darlings Grizzly Bear have recently in the country on tour and popped into Triple J for their ‘Like A Version’ breakfast segment and decided to cover this Hot Chip classic. Funnily enough, Hot Chip are also the feature artists this week also.

And done! Hope that covers everyone for last and now this week’s music fix. Now to gear up for Calvin Harris tonight and the monstrosity that is the Big Day Out tomorrow. As always, if you dig the artist/music the go buy it whether physical/digital and go see them live. Your conscience and the artists will love you more for it!

Thank god it's Friday

Three Frames… Amazing what one can do with just 3 frames.  For added effect, browse the site with any form of electronic music and you’ve got yourself a match made in heaven.

A heads up that the site may not be exactly safe for work so you’ve been warned… When you get a chance, check out the sister sites Keggers Of Yore and Aloha Friday for more photoblog goodness.

On a side note, see you all tonight at Roxanne’s for some Ajax/Baggies goodness…

Sorry folks I completely let this one slip off the radar. Probably because the only news I heard about confirmed artists were the Beetroots and Chicane from my sources. That and I was unsure whether my trip back to the motherland was gonna be around December… Anyway, the lineup has been confirmed now and it looks to be pretty solid with the return of the ‘mau5 and the Italians. Anyway here’s you’re 2009 Stereosonic line-up:

• Deadmau5
• Axwell
• Fedde Le Grand
• John Dahlback
• The Crookers
• Surkin
• The Bloody Beetroots feat. MC Justin Pearson
• Miss Kittin & The Hacker
• Marco Carola
• Chicane
• Cut Copy DJs
• Drop The Lime
• Renaissance Man
• Alter Ego
• Zombie Nation
• Umek
• Hudson Mohawke
• Tim Sweeney
• The Cobra Snake
• Kidda
• Juan Kidd/Jason Herd
• Grant Smillie
• Andy Murphy
• Acid Jacks
• Grafton Primary
• Canyons
• Knightlife
• Bag Raiders
• + more to be announced…

Here are the tour dates for your city:

Saturday 28th November – Moore Park, Hordern, RHI & Surrounds, Sydney
Sunday 29th November – Claremont Showground, Perth
Saturday 5th December – Bonython Park, Adelaide
Saturday 5th December – Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne
Sunday 6th December – Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane

Tickets go on sale August 20th so don’t muck about when that day rolls on through. So my fellow paparazzos (I think paparazzi is the correct plural term but meh…), are we ready to rock out?