Au Revoir Simone – Shadow’s

The female trio from Williamsburg finally released their first video from their album ’still night still light’ earlier last month. Check out ‘Shadows’.

Mini Terry Richardson

Unkle York and Tokyo Element recently released a Terry Richardson figurine. The New York fashion photographer (son of the late photographer Bob Richardson) can be seen in all his glory; plaid shirt, white shorts, tennis shoes and wearing his trademark over sized glasses. Not sure if I would drop the $220 USD it’s been priced at on a figurine but there’s evidently a booming market out there for ‘limited edition (insert subject here)’. Paris boutique Colette have stocked these mini Terry’s in limited numbers.

Ice Cream

It reached 32 Degrees celsius in the afternoon and immediately the day started flooding back memories of the ice cream truck and Eddie Murphy’s classic stand up comedy video ‘Delirious’, god knows I’ve worn that tape out during the 80’s.

Coltrane and Davis

Undoubtedly one of the most influential line up’s in Jazz history gathered together to record the seminal album ‘Kind of Blue’ in 1959 at Columbia’s 30th Street studio in New York.

Miles Davis (Trumpet) – John Coltrane (Saxophone) – Julian Adderley (Saxophone) – Bill Evans (Piano) – Wynton Kelly (Piano) – Jimmy Cobb (Drums) – Paul Chambers (Bass)

Here’s some film footage of Miles Davis and John Coltrane performing ‘So What!’ in 1959.

Charlotte Gainsbourg ‘Heaven Can Wait’

Here’s the new video to the first single from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s forthcoming album ‘IRM’. Beck has collaborated on this track and has also produced most of the album too.

Supreme X Damien Hirst

Another one to file under interesting collaborations, this time New York skate brand ‘Supreme‘ have teamed up with British artist Damien Hirst to come up with their latest line of decks. Hirst’s trademark colourful spots and jar poison labels clearly dominates each design in the brand’s new line. Supreme’s new collection is available from the 19th November.

Innervisions

I spent a good period of my Sunday listening to Stevie Wonder, in particular his two greatest albums ‘Innervisions’ and ‘Songs in the Key of Life’. This video of Stevie performing ‘Living for the City’ is straight from 1974. Oh the joy of Youtube!

Inside The Actors Studio – James Gandolfini

I first came across the ‘Inside The Actors Studio’ series while I was sick in bed in Delhi back in June. While the presenter can seem a bit dry at times, I don’t think I’ve ever come across a more in depth interview of an actor before, the show has a real knack of covering every angle of an actors career. I’m a huge fan of the HBO show ‘Sopranos’ so I thought I might share this video I found of James Gandolfini inside the actors studio.

Wall of Sound

Swedish company ‘brothers’ have released the ‘Wall of Sound‘ and it looks like it could be the biggest ipod speakers ever to be produced. The 125 Watt, tube amplified, 28-element speaker measures in at about 3 ft x 4 ft. The speaker peaks at about 95db, enough to send any neighbour into hysterics. Oh and it weighs in at just under 100kgs. Cost? $4495 USD.

The Beatles Re-mastered onto USB?

After digitally remastering and re-releasing all of The Beatles back catalog in September, EMI and Apple have announced that they will be creating limited edition Beatles USB apples, these will hold 14 beatles albums in FLAC 44.1 Khz 24 bit and MP3 320 Kbps formats. Limited to 30′000 with a release date of December 7th.

Albums included on the USB apple:

Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be, Past Masters