Bliss N Eso - Addicted

It's been impossible to escape this awesome Aussie hip-hop tune this year.

It's been on high-rotation on national radio, Sports Tonight highlight clips and the One HD NBA commercials.

Now after three months in the making, Bliss N Eso return with the highly anticipated clip for Addicted! The moving graffiti in the clip is animated entirely in stop motion using over 2,200 photos.

The clip was shot in a warehouse in West Auckland (NZ) which was previously the headquarters for bikie crew "Headhunters". It features artwork from world-famous graff writers Askew One and Deus, who spent six days straight working their way around the warehouse and used over 300 cans of paint.


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De La Soul - Eye Know

Wayne S is a cool cat who is all about his hip-hop, and through Wayne and Ren-Dawg over the last 18 months I've been schooled in the way of the hip-hop.

Wayne thinks this song should be song of the month, but sadly that ain't the name of the game here. haha. This is what he had to say...

Eye Know featured on De La Soul's landmark first album 3 Feet High and Rising. It's easily in my top five hip-hop tracks of all time. The sampling is so fucking tight and the lyrics are just amazing. This shows how beautiful hip hop can be.

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Weezer - Memories

Weezer are in my top five favourite bands of all time, they've been a bit hit and miss over the past few years (we're talking about Beverly Hills, what was with that song!) but this news single is a little slice of Weezer heaven.

They've teamed up with the boys from Jackass, and there's some classic scenes from the movie that have made it into the clip.

I'm also back at home in South Australia visiting some friends and family so this tune seems appropriate for today.

So get emotional and reminisce about the good old days like I am! Love to all. xxx


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Band Of Horses - Laredo

So the Melbourne Cup was yesterday and unless your one of the lucky few the majority of you would have lost money on the race yesterday.

That's why you should have put your money on Band Of Horses, they're always a sure thing. As soon as I put any of their albums on I know I'm winning!

I love this film clip, it's so great. A beautiful song and stunning black and white photography come together to make one beautiful clip.

Reminds me of the old west and makes me want to hit the road and head out to the country.


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Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

Tommy F gets deep and talks us through one of his favourite songs of all time...


Girls' 2009 release 'Album' is among my favourite...albums of all time. At it's core, it's a selection of break-up songs sung in a a way that invokes images of early Beach Boys stuff, with a slightly off-key drum beat. But It's so much more than that.  Album is an expression of years of heartbreak, sorrow and repression, expressed in a collection of heart-jerking break up ballads.

It is clear that the break up, while the premise for the album, is merely a vessel for lead singer Christopher Owens to explore the tragic nature and events of his upbringing. Fuelled by copious amounts of pills and influenced by early punk among other things, Owens has constructed an complex album that moves me every time I play it.

Hellhole Ratrace is my favourite track from it.  From the opening line: "I'm sick and tired of the way that I feel, I'm always dreaming and it's never for real" to the steadily building crescendo: "But I don't wanna cry my whole life through, Yeah I wanna do some laughing to, so c'mon and laugh with me. And I don't wanna die, without shakin' up a leg or two, yeah I wanna do some dancing to, so c'mon and dance with me" this is a song that I can play over and over again.

The guitar follows suit, with a thick reverb building to climax that never quite happens. And all offset by an eerily effective off-beat drum sequence, giving the impression that this is not just the pining of a ditched lover, but a greater expression of the sorrow flooding the lead singer.

But that's enough warbling from me, play the song and hopefully, you will like it too!


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Queens Of The Stone Age - Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

A QOTSA and Josh Homme, you certainly know how to make a repetitive song about drugs sound awesome!

The first time I saw QOTSA live it was at the Sydney Big Day out with Nick Oliveri playing totally naked and freaking everyone quite a bit. It's sad that he's not in the band these days - I guess he freaked everyone in the band out a bit too much as well. It was certainly a memorable set, and I went out and purchased their album the next day.


I once heard that the whole QOTSA band were in drug and alcohol rehab and decided that they'd play a free gig for the patients in the hospital, which I thought was a really nice thing to do.

Unfortunately Homme and Co had their power cut shortly into the first song... they had decided to open up with Feel Good Hit Of The Summer. Nicotine, valium, vicodine, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol, co co co co co co co cocaineeeeeee!


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