Defy

In a week during which it seems like all Muslims have been placed into one big homogeneous box, here's Hanni El Khatib to mess with people's expectations.  Spooky video; I appreciate the normal America locales of multi-lane roads and big box stores.


The UK is so cool that this little track reached number one in 1978:

Digging the jazzy music in this new De La Soul track:


Lastly, if you work from home or are just able to listen to LOADS of music at once, you could do worse than check out this 1000 song playlist that Caribou's put together on youstube.  I took a listen earlier and didn't hear a single dud -- mind you, I barely made a dent.  He recommends putting shuffle on but I'm thinking it'll be easier to keep track of things if you go sequential.

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Gorillaz are back with a new album out next week. It's another concept piece and I have to say I'm a little surprised -- I thought they'd called it quits after some big shows in Las Vegas were billed as their last ever. But here they are, and they'll be playing Coachella next month too. The new album, 'Plastic Beach', can be heard in full here. I've given it a listen and I'm pretty pleased, there are some very nice tracks and some cool collaborations (half the Clash, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, and Mark E. Smith are some of the stand-outs). Might even be worth a vinyl purchase in fact. Hear it yourself and let us know what you think. If you're a bit ADD you can hear a mix of all the tracks at the Gorillaz Youtube site, and watch some other vids and things too -- vid for the first single should be up tomorrow.