Hey - the Ting Tings are over from Manchester to play a sold-out show at Bowery Ballroom tonight. They are my favorite band in the world at the moment and I’m super excited to see them in a small venue before they head out to play massive summer festivals like Glastonbury and Lollapalooza. I looove their music and Katie’s style is sick - her look is like a younger Kylie as styled by Topshop and Urban Outfitters for a Nylon magazine shoot. I love pop music and pop fashion and they are like a perfect storm of pop - but with the cool edge that the British do so well. x eddie
This spring and summer you’ll be hearing “Lights & Music” by Cut/Copy and “Blind” by Hercules and Love Affair everywhere - from a rooftop party in Brooklyn, to a basement on the Lower East Side, from a pool party during Coachella, to a terrace in Ibiza. If you’re going to Miami Winter Music Conference later this month, forget about it - get ready to hear these tracks at every cool party. They are both hands-in-the-air warm weather anthems (although “Blind” has a nice moody undercurrent), and you should get to know them now so you can beat the rush to the dance floor at that first outdoor party. x Eddie
Hey - I’m back in New York this week and tonight I’m going to see Yelle at the Knitting Factory. It’s her first show ever in the US and I’m really excited to see her. Check out the cool video for “A Cause Des Garcons” - the best bit is when she poses for the cover of “Yelle” magazine and changes outfits like 6 times in 20 seconds. She’s going to be at Coachella this year too - can’t wait for that. Yelle is the best…I love Yelle. x Eddie
I’m totally obsessed with Youtube. In fact, other than episodes of Gossip Girl (another obsession) that I purchase from iTunes and loads of movies that I buy or get from Netflix, it’s pretty much the only thing I “watch” these days. (If I’m not watching any of the above, I’m often reading a giant stack of fashion magazines or a book, editing photos, listening to music, looking around the Internet, or I’m out somewhere.) Speaking of obsessions and Youtube, I’m bananas for The Kills video for their new track, “U R A Fever”. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s “Outer and Inner Space” (a grainy black and white 1965 split-screen film of Edie Sedgwick talking to herself), the video takes a song that is pretty amazing on its own merits and sends it into the art-punk stratosphere. They even shot the clip with the same type of Norelco camera that Warhol used…which gave me a note-to-self to go shopping for a vintage film camera. Check out the old brocade sofa, the smeared lipstick, the split-screen, band member Hotel’s beat-up leather jacket/white shirt/skinny tie combo…wow. Some fashion show producer should take this clip and build a show around it. Videos like this are why Youtube is so exciting - all this great new music that seems to be all over the TV and radio when you travel in Europe, but that you never used to see/hear in America is now at your fingertips. The Kills new album is out on March 10th.
Hey - the Ting Tings are over from Manchester to play a sold-out show at Bowery Ballroom tonight. They are my favorite band in the world at the moment and I’m super excited to see them in a small venue before they head out to play massive summer festivals like Glastonbury and Lollapalooza. I looove their music and Katie’s style is sick - her look is like a younger Kylie as styled by Topshop and Urban Outfitters for a Nylon magazine shoot. I love pop music and pop fashion and they are like a perfect storm of pop - but with the cool edge that the British do so well. x eddie