Beyoncé - Single Ladies (live)

I'm just thinking if they can bring in Rihanna who is not that great, why not Mrs Shawn Carter (Why?!?! Why?!??!)? She's got a killer all-female band Suga Mama with TWO drummers. Even that's fuckin' over the top for me.

Wah piang eh!!!

Kinho and me over MSN.

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well, time to get yo'ass to heeren and ask her to star in the latest lard bro mtv haha

Maria fuckin' Ozawa! Or should it be fuckin' Maria Ozawa? Hurhurhur...

For those who are not familiar with her, ahem, body of work. Here is her profile. Below is a picture of her.



Yeah... I'm sure the boys and I can think of a good concept if we can afford to get her to appear in a music video... Hell yeah...

Astroboy teaser

It's like we never grew up! You can bet your last Telecaster that Jonny Greenwood will be queuing up to catch this!

Quite a pointless but visually exciting exercise if you ask me...

Odette Yustman

If you have caught the nausea-inducing Cloverfield (I really suck at watching and playing movies or games with the shaky 1st person perspective), you might have remembered the really cute brunette which the male lead braved through the devastation to rescue. That's Odette Yustman. Looking at her fine form, it's pretty understandable why someone will risk limb for her.

She stars in an upcoming horror flick by David Goyer (the guy who wrote 'Batman Begins'). The trailer is below. Not that scary.



Check out the official poster. One of my favourite sites CHUD mentioned her "camel-toe will be probably the best special effects the film will ever have". And it's free! Check out the additional comments here.

The Hoosiers - We Didn't Start The Fire (live)

Okay, I've been posting YouTube music videos the whole day but check this out!!! It's a fuckin' insanely amazing cover of the classic (depends on how you see it) Billy Joel song. I heard them a bit through their really great cover of Justin Timberlake's 'Love Stoned'. Their own tunes are really good too. Run Rabbit Run and Cops And Robbers/ Mockumentary.

Garuda feat. Andy Gusmarro & Nadirah T - I Gots Mine

I didn't know Sharhrinn's got his own music video man! Hahaha. He helped us out on The Lard Brothers' track 'Wish You'll Never Leave Time' along with DJ Koflow.

伍佰 - 你是我的花朵

Taiwanese rocker Wu Bai's ode to Beng-techno, 'You Are My Flower'. I love this song! It's fuckin' hilarious!

Ugly In The Morning - Me Not Humphrey At 23

Ugly In The Morning Singapore from Kenny Png on Vimeo.

This will be the first single from their sophomore album. Kenny shot the one-take video. It's pretty funny.

Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

Robin sent me this video after we heard Nat spin it yesterday. The video is pretty good. Somehow it reminded me of Negishi-kun from Detroit Metal City. Probably because it sounds like trendy French pop. Hahaha...

Songs I really like in 2008...

I think this is in no particular order.

Keane - Spiralling



This song is perfect! Not a wasted note. Including the percussive intro!

Common - Universal Mind Control



Though Lupe Fiasco is cool, I wish they'd bring in Common next year for WorldWide Fest.

Kanye West - Love Lockdown



Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa



I'm not a fan but this song and the original video is winning me over.

Jerome Kugan - This Excellent Love



*weeps tears*

Zero Sequence - Transcendence



Okay, I couldn't find the 'Grim Phantasm' video so I used this instead.

Beyonce - If I Were A Boy



I like the ballads from the album more.

Hercules And Love Affair - Blind



The original version with Antony Hegarty can be found here.

Plainsunset - The River Song



I love this song. The best Concave Scream song which Concave Scream didn't write.

Eli Stone

Sometimes you see George Michael singing 'Faith' in your office.

Caprica trailer

The Lard Brothers boys and all our usual geeky friends (Yeeyong, Billy, Robin, etc) whom we hang out with are HUGE BattleStar Galactica (BSG) fans. Except for Max. He only likes Take That. That's all he's raving about these days. This is the trailer for the spin-off prequel from BSG.

BSG returns for the final season in another 23 days! I can't wait! Woo hooo!!!

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button trailer

David Fincher (he did Seven and Fight Club), Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Nuff said!

Favourite albums of 2008 part 10

Numero diez: Allura - Wake Up And Smell The Seaweed



It will always seem biased when you write about one of the bands which you work with. While I quite like the debut EP, there's this nagging notion in the back of my mind that something is truly missing from the album. I can't decide if it's because it's an EP which is just wrong to me these days. I prefer to listen to longer albums which means more songs. Or it requires more intricate layers (more vocal harmonies and other instruments) cause songs, at least to me, could be peeled back like onions. But as usual, it's the singer who sells the song. Inch has a very "niao-niao" (Hokkein for "feline") timbre about her voice which is intriguing. And they have funny song titles which is normally half the battle won.

Rock In The Fine City

Kinho found this blog which reviews and talks about the past Singapore rock'n'roll bands. This one-man love affair (I've no idea the writer is) with our independent rock music heritage which easily trashes most stuff that I've read before. Yeah, even that crappy Aging Youth web-zine.

The review of Humpback Oak's career brought a tear to my eyes. And this one about the Boredphucks' Banned In Singapura as well. Makes me feel like digging out the demos to catch their paean to MediaCorp star Zoe Tay's Singlish English and Ah Lians which is simply titled 'Zoe Tay'.

Fuck yeah!!!

Favourite albums of 2008 part 9

Numero nueve: Akira Kosemura - Tiny Musical



I discovered his stuff when I was in HMV, Tokyo. Some of you might know that a few Singapore acts really worship these Japanese ambient acts. So I chanced upon Akira Kosemura's latest album and had a listen on the player. Well, I wasn't gonna get it unless I was sure. It was Yen2,300 which worked out to be $32 for the album. CDs are fuckin' too expensive there.

It was pretty amazing. Simple but yet very elegant. But being the Singaporean I am, I decided to scout for the best offer out there. Unfortunately, there weren't and I got myself a 1st-hand copy at their 2nd-hand outlet, Disk Union. Fuckin' Japanese... they drive a harder bargain than us Singaporeans!

The album is still pretty amazing. Check out the collaboration he did with a dancer using the piece 'Light Dance' below.

Nick Chim

Just a man, an acoustic guitar and his feelings. No, it's not James Dean Bradfield (who has proven that he IS the only required Manic Street Preacher!) this time.

When rockers are tired of the crunchy distorted electric guitars, most of them retreat to the quiet confines of an acoustic side-project, exploring their emotions and feelings keenly. Nick from Vertical Rush does the same thing, tapping upon his love for folk troubadours. I like 'Our Love Has Grown So Cold' in particular with the melancholic cello droning in the background. Nice. Check it out. I think a debut (solo) album is due soon.

Hey, not everyone goes out and records a hip-hop-based album of covers when he is bored. Some people like acoustic songs more!

Favourite albums of 2008 part 8

Numero ocho: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes



I love the tune 'White Winter Hymnal'. Check out the subliminal vocal harmonies. Kick ass! So Beach Boys!

Favourite albums of 2008 part 7

Numero siete: Black Kids - Partie Traumatic



Robert Smith, look what you have spawned.

Produced by Bernard Butler, Partie Traumatic is the debut album from a racially diverse group from Florida. It's a collection of uptempo catchy pop tunes sung by a guy who looks like a bastard child of Robert Smith and RuPaul. Yes, RuPaul. Check out the live performance of the first single 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You'.

Favourite albums of 2008 part 6

Numero seis: Jerome Kugan - Songs For A Shadow



Jerome played for one of our shows in October which I missed as I was out of the country. Apparently, the rest of the guys were instant converts when they heard his soundcheck. That's pretty telling of his talents. Weiyuan insisted I listen to his new album which I did.

It's really great.

You can call the album a folktronica one; the tunes are generally acoustic songs embellished with minimal electronic flourishes. Jerome reminds me of Haykal in a way where both of them are poets first, then musicians though Haykal's lyrics are usually the stream-of-consciousness type where Jerome takes a storytelling approach at times. Of course, as with 50% of all KL indie releases, Adlin is involved; he plays electric guitar textures on 'This Excellent Love'.

And it's that voice as well. I'd be akin to call him Malaysia's Antony Hegarty. Well, which I just did. However, Jerome never over-emotes or becomes too melodramatic for the song, keeping it sweet and tender at times and sarcastic in others. Check out his songs (the full album) on his blog and the live performance of 'Tomas' below.