Just seen this on The Fader - Shakira's sampled/semi-covered The xx's track 'Islands' on a new track called 'Explore'.
It's only a short clip, but it sounds pretty good. If only this was her official World Cup anthem, instead of the risible, burping 'Waka Waka', which is really more a Fozzie Bear catchphrase than a song.
Still, nice to know the 'Hips Don't Lie' singer has eclectic tastes. Next week: Natasha Bedingfield remixes Fuck Buttons' 'Flight Of The Feathered Serpent'.
Our favourite blog today is animatedalbums.tumblr.com, which is the work of a talented fella who calls himself Mr Dormouse.
Check out the full range of his album sleeve animations. They're quite something.
So there's an election on tomorrow (May 6). You may have heard. The consensus in the media is that young people in the UK don't really care about politics.
If you believed what you read in the papers, you'd think the current generation were more interested in snorting mephedrone and stabbing each other than in voting.
We thought that was a bit unfair, so we conducted a bit of research of our own. We polled over 2000 people between the ages of 16 and 24 and asked which issues they were most concerned about.
What's this guy on? Whatever it is, we're not sure we ever want to try it.
This is kinda cool - Julian Casablancas has made a promotional video for his upcoming tour that borrows the visual style of '70s American cop shows.
Really reminds us of the Beastie Boys' legendary 'Sabotage' video.
Leftie journal New Statesman have picked out their top 20 protest songs.
Now it's traditional at this point to belly-ache about the fact there's no hip-hop, only three female artists in the list blah-di-blah. But, you know, it's political magazine, not a music mag, so it's not like they were gonna acknowledge riot grrrl.
What is telling though, is the absence of any songs from the past twenty years (apart from 'Killing In The Name'), and it's always a fault of these lists that they completely ignore metal - I'd argue Metallica's 'One' and System Of A Down's 'BYOB' are as incendiary protest anthems as you'll find anywhere.
Anyway, New Statesman's list is after the jump. What are the most glaring omissions?
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