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Stop what you're doing right now and watch this video from French singer-songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg. It features the following objects, which you will not see in any other music video this year: :: A giant walnut :: A man with half a beard :: A monster in a bath :: Spongebob Squarepants ...
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Beck
SpongeBob SquarePants
The Big Pink don't know how to spell Dominoes, but they do put on a good show. As proof, here they are on Jools Holland making it look easy. The Big Pink - Dominos (live) I'm just a sucker for a lady drummer.
Music
"Hey, what's that going on over there? It looks like a girl band making a video. We should stick around and watch - they might do some killer dance moves, or jump on a car, or fly on strings, or have a food fight, or put a squirrel on their boobs. "Oh, wait, it's The Saturdays. Let's just go ...
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The Saturdays
Bargain Hunt
It's, what, five months since Mark Oliver Everett released his last album, Hombre Loco, and now he's back with an entirely new batch of recordings, End Times. "Prolific" musicians are usually just workaholics with no sense of quality control - but there is always something worth listening to on ...
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Eels
The Beatles
In her last video, Alicia Keys made solid objects disappear with a blink of her eyes. In her new one, she raises a puppy from the dead just by touching it. We get it, Alicia. You're a superhero. But that still doesn't excuse the purple catsuit. Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart
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Alicia Keys
I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting much from Rihanna's album launch last night. That pinched, whiny noise she refers to as "singing" isn't really my cup of tea, and her eyes are so dead they may as well be marbles. Despite those setbacks, she's managed to make a decent clutch of hit singles ...
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Rihanna
Russian Roulette
It has been an astonishing 12 years since Beyoncé recorded her first album with Destiny's child, at the tender age of 16. Since then, she has been at the forefront of R&B;, shaping and redfining the genre's sonic boundaries with every self-penned release. But we know precious little about ...
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Beyoncé Knowles
Destiny's Child
People always focus on Jack White in The Raconteurs, but I've always had a soft spot for Brendan Benson - whose Byrdsian melodic tendencies drag the White Stripes mainstay closer to pop than he usually dares tread. With Jack off (fnar) doing his Dead Weather thing, Benson has finally got round ...
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The Raconteurs
The White Stripes
Right Hand Hi is quickly becoming one of my favourite rap tracks of the year. Perky and sassy and cheeky and funky, it's everything the Eminem's comeback and Wale's debut promised, but failed to deliver. Speaking of which, I reckon the BRAND NEW video could have done with a dollop of Slim ...
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Eminem
Brand New
Hey, has anyone heard of this cool new band from Brooklyn called Dirty Projectors? They make weird fluttery art-rock then genetically splice it with dreamy R&B; melodies, to create a mutant musical hybrid that will MAKE YOUR BRAIN MELT LIKE AN ICE CREAM ON A CAR BONNET IN KAZAKHSTAN (but why ...
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Solange
That's the question being asked by the excellent, data crunching Times Labs Blog today - and, surprisingly, they conclude that recording artists make more money today than they did five years ago. The figures show that, while record labels are suffering, concert promoters, songwriters, venues ...
Music
After yesterday's dynamic and spectacular Lady GaGa video, whatever we wrote about today was destined to seem a bit flat by comparison. Nonetheless, Nelly Furtado could have made a bit of an effort. Cue up the next three minutes, in which you will see the Candian singer 1) Standing in a ...
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Nelly Furtado
Lady GaGa
Nelly
Quite literally... Yes, the video for the starts-off-dodgy-but-ends-up-amazing Bad Romance has been unveiled after scenes of palpable apprehension on certain parts of the internet. Lady GaGa's site even crashed last night as people tried to log on to watch the (stunning) clip, only to find ...
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Lady GaGa
The new new new new Sugababes have scuttled off to Radio One to plug their new new single, About A Girl, with a live lounge performance. I'll be honest here. I haven't written anything about the single before now because I think it's a rather feeble effort. The production is flaccid, the ...
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Sugababes
No, wait... Come back. This is exquisitely beautiful, I promise. Snow Patrol - Ray Of Light
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Snow Patrol
So said Janet Jackson on her first ever hit single, What Have You Done For Me Lately - a song so good that people spread the rumour it had been written by Prince (this was 1986, when Prince could stir up a hit record with about as much effort as it takes the rest of us to stir up a cup of tea). ...
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Janet Jackson
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall for this journey: It gets better if you translate Nadine's tweet into her Derry accent: " Nayaxt time I'm in Nyaaashville, remind mae to gyet a druyhver with Jay Pay Ay-ess. My accent and his, oh bruther. We fianally mayade it tae the studio, so we did... ...
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Girls Aloud
The success of Mini Viva's Left My Heart In Tokyo took a lot of people by surprise. It was by no means a bad song - but Radio 1's unwavering support was unexpected in a year when manufactured pop has been overshadowed by the home-crafted synth odysseys of Little Boots and La Roux. It doesn't ...
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Sugababes
The keytar is a mystery. Is it a guitar? Is it a keyboard? No-one knows for sure. What is certain, however, is that the instrument carries a curse. Sling a keytar over your shoulder and you instantly transform into a grotesque, shaggy-permed wedding singer circa 1987. Or Jean Michelle Jarre. ...
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Muse
Last night's Jools Holland show starred Jay-Z, Foo Fighters, Norah Jones and Sting. Live music doesn't get much better, does it? Because I am jammier than a Jammy Dodger, I got to go to the recording. As usual, the best bits were the ones you don't see on camera. Such as Dave Grohl and Taylor ...
