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It seems that we’re not the only ones that dance madly in the office to FAKE BLOOD… Good work, crazed dutch djs. We approve.

..so on this day of links being rounded up we start with THE LOW ANTHEM’s televisual debut on Later! Lovely stuff. //then the Rough Trade albums of the year – THE LOW ANTHEM (#2) (wow!), THE HORRORS (#3), YEAH YEAH YEAHS (#12), ANDREW BIRD (#28) and THE BIG PINK (#37). Wonderstuff. // then there’s YIM  YAMES’s news on all [...]

New video from Wakefield’s best.

Watch WHITE LIES do their best Tony Hart impersonation // Crowned King of Dubstep, Joy Orbison, remixes FOURTET’s new single, ‘Love Cry’. Pitchfork say ‘Holy Moly’ (8). We say ‘true’. // ANDREW BIRD scores film, covers Kermit the Frog // Watch MONSTERS OF FOLK ‘Say Please’. DO it.  // BABYBIRD, the comeback gig and the Female Depp Army // [...]

I like to think of CHUNGKING as the ‘being-fed-aphrodisiac-soaked-grapes-by-a-semi-naked-Michelle-Pfeiffer-on-a-cloud-of-butterflies’ band. This is where ‘Angel Eyes’ has the power to transport me, the easily succumbed lover of all things Chungking. Yes, they share a name with a much lauded mid-nineties film about the relationship between a Hong Kong policeman and his lover. No, they are not a distant chinese relative of boxing [...]

Give me the links. they say! Well, here they are:
BIG BOI  back with new track ‘Shine Blockas’ ft Gucci Mane. In Pitchfork’s own words – ‘not a moment too soon, hell-bent on royally fucking up your 2009 best-of list’. Quite // Spike Jonze and KAREN O  talk Where the Wild Things Are! // Watch video of MONSTERS OF FOLK dressing [...]

#13 – HAPPY HALLOWEEN
As much as Halloween is a vehicle for feeding obese 15 year olds mini mars bars and facilitating casual vandalism (my bin is still giving off the scent of burnt plastic – I know where you live, chavy chops), it’s Friday. And you know what that means – themed playlists deftly crafted by a [...]

Gareth and Sophie presented this at a big Chrysalis International get together last week. We thought it was too good to keep to ourselves. We’re really proud of the diversity of songs here –  Some frontline, some catalogue, some special composition, some re-record, some cover.. done.

The most played track in Chrysalis HQ over the past few weeks is from one of the most diverse, exciting, but also mysterious artists in our catalogue. The track is ‘I Think I Like It’ and the artist is FAKE BLOOD, aka Theo Keating. He’s produced some of the most cutting-edge, cross-genre dance music of [...]

OUTKAST are an outfit whose name – in a hyperbole friendly world - so easily could sit in the same clause as ’seminal’, ‘definitive’, or ’pioneering’. They have sold over 25 million copies of their eight studio albums (hang on, 25 million.), won 6 grammy awards among countless others, voted Pitchfork’s song of the decade for ‘B.O.B.’…
But for those who didn’t have MTV in the early noughties [...]

Have you seen this from THE BIG PINK? We like…

I know we’ve put a lot up along the Jeffrey Lewis / THE CRIBS line of late, but this is just SO worthy of two minutes of anyone’s time that we thought, if you hadn’t already, you’d better take  a look..

- Michael Schenker and friend (with more hair than Don King and White Snake put together)
Imagine if you will a land inhabited by hair-perming, leather jacket-wearing, motorbike-riding, stadium-filling guitar gods. Their trademark? – hair Legolas would be proud of. Their weapon? – the face melting solo. Their unsung King? – Michael Schenker. While the Darkness were busy doing potato paintings and eating [...]

The brand new joint venture operation of Chrysalis UK with Cloud 9 Music in Benelux, which started on the 1st of July 2009 at the Cloud 9 Office in Amsterdam, celebrates its first signing!! WAY OUT WEST! To have this seminal dance act join our roster is fantastic and we’re thrilled to be working on ‘We Love [...]

As much as we’re not trying to become THE CRIBS exclusive unofficial fan blog, we do think this is *******g great.

Every now and then something appears out of the blue that leaves you a shocked and awe struck mess on the floor, wondering what it in holy smoke it was that sucked the last echoing breath of air out of your lungs and drew an impromptu thousand yard stare from beyond the backs of your eyes. Well, on encountering the lush sounds [...]

Merry Friday!
Here is the lynx:

and here are the links:
Our very own Matt Bishop of Switches provides the excellent soundtrack to the new Gordon’s G&T ad with Gordon ‘Haven’t I got a potty mouth!’ Ramsay. Nice! // Listen to the new collaboration between Jim James (My Morning Jacket), M Ward and Conor Oberst.. // Take yourself on a journey [...]

THE LOW ANTHEM are my band of the year (so far), definitely my album of the year (so far) and maybe gig of the year (so far). (It is only August).
First saw them in a daytime show in a bar on 6th street, Austin. SXSW was in full swing and they were pissed off, it [...]

‘Off off off with your head. Dance Dance Dance till your dead’. This is not an excerpt from a dance-off cussing match between the fire creatures from Jim Henson’s 1986 masterpiece, Labyrinth, and Fred Astaire. No. This is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Their new video appears to have been filmed at Shunt Vaults in London Bridge. Videos involving Michael [...]