For the first time in its Illustrious History MAD DECENT is coming to Birmingham on Saturday the 23rd May. The hands and minds behind some of the freshest sounds around including BLAQSTARR, RYE RYE, CROOKERS, RUSKO, FAKE BLOOD and so many more, are taking over THE CUSTARD FACTORY for a night and BIGGER THAN BARRY are their hosts.
What had all the trimmings of a publicity stunt, possibly torn out of the diary of the ‘Artist Formerly Known As’ or P-Diddy, is actually a result of a fussy judicial process. Newly ordained Santigold, the electro princess doomed to loose the ‘o’ that tied her name together, has been receiving heat from a terrible filmmaker come jeweller who is busy publicising his own debut album ‘I Am The Real Santo Gold’ (which luckily you can find on You Tube).
N.A.S.A. (North America/South America) – an ongoing creative collaboration between Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon will release their debut ‘The Spirit of Apollo on Anti on February 16, 2009
We haven’t been this excited by an albums line up in long while!
Album guests include: Tom Waits, Kanye West, Karen O, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Spank Rock, David Byrne, MIA, RZA, Santogold, George Clinton, Chuck D, Sizzla, Method Man and many more
Illustration by Ties Albers
Her glorious single ‘LES Artistes’ is playing on the BBC and her face is peering out from behind her Noo Yoik sunglasses on mainstream and style magazine covers. There is a big buzz on those websites around her gigs in small but perfectly hip venues in London. Santi White’s alter ego Santogold has scaled the heights of the music and style credibility cliff; but is she about to take flight on a paraglider into the mainstream? The people who ought to know say she will.
