Just as Janet Jackson has said in her first message since her iconic brother died. And as Leopard Lady cruises the friendly waves of YouTube, she finds more evidence of this inevitable truth. French DJ and Producer, Martin Solveig, delivers us a fantastic Michael Jackson influenced track and a video to match with a Jacksonesque dancer in a glass box. This track is actually from a few years back and his latest offering is a gorgeous collaboration with the very hot Dragonette and again, a video to match… gorgeous, that is.
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July 2nd, 2009
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June 12th, 2009
Every record comes at a set price; visit HMV and you’ll see something around the price of £11.99. Granted, it may be a little more in your local independent record shop, but you can’t barter on the price. Matthew Laidlow looks at the current trends of music sales and distribution…
June 8th, 2009
Leopard Lady is a huge fan of the extreme entity that is Peaches and plans on donning her prized Peaches T, brandishing a puffy pen and acquiring a wearable signature from the woman herself….
March 27th, 2009
Marilyn Manson and co. will be releasing their 7th studio album The High End of Low in late May with a appearance on the Mayhem Festival in the States this summer. He updated his MySpace picture which had him with less cosmetics then ever on… Will his fans like the new change? And will he be able to make the same music that he made back in the 90s that made us all want to cross over to the dark side?
March 13th, 2009
Pop Royalty captured through the video eye of Berlin based, South African born artist, Candice Breitz. Leopard Lady will carry the experience of King (A Portrait Of Michael Jackson) happily for the rest of her days. It helps in remembering the King of Pop as he should be remembered not, sadly, for most of his post-80s career and personal life moments…
March 4th, 2009
“I am currently working with Damon Albarn on a new album project with other guests. I am also involved in Africa Express, a series of events promoting African music. We’ve had some hectic shows at Glastonbury, Liverpool, Lagos and Kinshasa, and there’s more to come in 2009.”
It’s hard not to be a little overcome in the presence of afrobeat originator Tony Allen. After all, Brian Eno has described him as “perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived.”
March 2nd, 2009
Oasis and The Killers are set to headline Virgin Media’s V Festival in Chelmsford and Staffordshire on 22 & 23 August. Fatboy Slim, Keane, The Specials, Elbow, Pendulum, The Tings Tings, MGMT and Lady Ga Ga will also be playing at what will be the V Festival’s fourteenth year. The Virgin Mobile Union stage sees lyrical genius Peter Doherty take to the stage and will be joined by a load of other acts to be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday. Read on for details the full lineup so far…
March 2nd, 2009
Ian Easton has only got himself a preview copy of the new Peter Doherty album, Grace/Wastelands. To hear his verdict, quotes from the Babyshambles man himself, as well as details of the track listing, Peter’s tour dates and how to get a free (legal!) download of one the tracks, read on…
February 3rd, 2009
Mr Laneous (& The Family Yah) hail from Leopard Lady’s own hometown of Brisbane. They have an early slot on the Boiler Room stage at Australia’s Big Day Out festival and have drawn a nice crowd who are soon jumping and getting down. Superstar frontman, Lachlan Mitchell has united a band comprised of some of the funkiest that said River City has to offer and Leopard Lady has seen them display high levels of funkiness in other live outfits as well. The band gives off a raw energy together with very tight grooves and infectious beats.
January 19th, 2009
If you believe the BBC, then you’d be lead to believe that 2009 is the year of the synth. Their annual Sound of 2009 list is stuffed full to bursting of electro-tinged wonders that’ll no doubt end up going the way of the Joe Lean and his infamous Jing Jang Jong (remember them? Thought not). Don’t believe me? Then feast your eyes on the following five fantastic reasons to get excited in the guitar all over again: Muse, Red Light Company, White Lies, Red Light Company, Green Day and Arctic Monkeys…
January 6th, 2009
On the strength of a YouTube gem from Melbourne band, Miami Horror, Leopard Lady ventured down to the Gold Coast, rife with Schoolies, one rainy night in the last days of 2008 (Lightning strikes and thunder cracks!). People really should check out said YouTube clip of their song Don’t Be On With Her. They have managed to create an authentic 80s video complete with distortion at the intro which makes it appear to have been taped off a TV program. Leopard Lady found an affinity with this project and was instantly intrigued to see Miami Horror live.
December 19th, 2008
Almost all of the advance press about last week’s visit from Sweden’s Love Is All at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto focused on the undercard for the night, Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts. Their primitive Joy Division-meets-Velvets-meet-Spector drone pop is very much in vogue and the extra gossip angle of their drummer Frankie Rose having left equally buzzy New York outfit Vivian Girls under less than amicable circumstances was irresistible to local music scribes.
December 17th, 2008
On the 19th of January, the uber-sexy record label DFA are throwing a killer fiesta at (Le) Poisson Rouge, a new, rather luxuries opium-den-for-millionaires resembling music club in Greenwich Village. Label co-founder, LCD Soundsystem frontman, and cute pug owner James Murphy is going add his special disco always-anywhere-anyhow DJing, along with Pat Mahoney, while the electro-furious Juan Maclean plans to perform a “live acid” sets. Add Italians Do It Better superstars the Invisible Conga People and you need no longer wish for “a partridge in a pear tree”…
December 17th, 2008
Rhys Bobridge was Leopard Lady’s favourite dancer on the Aussie version of So You Think You Can Dance. His look is always striking and he certainly can move! Coming second place isn’t too bad and now he has a single out called Hot Summer which is being seeped into Australian homes via the Ten Network ad spots. The video for Hot Summer, with it’s gorgeous tribal, feathery costumes that inspire images of the cast of Mad Max having a dance party in the jungle after a long day of paint ball skirmish…
December 11th, 2008
If you’ve not heard of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour’s feisty psychedelic soul yet, listen up. First off, the crew has been taking the world by storm: first in the Apple i-Touch commercial “Around the Bend,” then being featured in Nylon Magazine, Anthem, NYLON, GOOD Mag, AOL and Yahoo!… They even debuted a slew of songs on the addictive Gossip Girl. But these days you never know about new bands- sometimes they could have a killer track and then flop in their live show. So we were nailbiting with anticipation when The Asteroids Galaxy Tour landed on our shore, debuting here in NY with two shows. No worries though; they were riotous live…
December 10th, 2008
Blur have confirmed that they are all set to reform in 2009 and will play Hyde Park, London on July 3. This will be the first time the original foursome have played together since naughty Graham Coxon left a few years back. Kinks’ fan Damon Albarn has been busy being the sound behind the animated Gorillaz, working with Clash man Paul Simonon on The Good, The Bad & The Queen and resurrecting Monkey magic in time for the BBC’s Beijing Olympics stings. Cheese fan Alex James has been busy on a farm somewhere, writing columns for British newspapers and trying to conduct an orchestra for a BBC reality TV series…
December 2nd, 2008
We live in troubled times. Turn on the news, and all you seem to hear is how the world economic system is plunging further and further into recession. The news is bleak, but many independent musicians can at least take some solace in the fact that they have day jobs to subsidise their musical endeavors. Not so Sydney based artist Sui Zhen.
December 1st, 2008
We all know what Britney Spears has been through in the past 2 years. From the media frenzy around her publicity stunts to her nasty divorce and child custody court visits, it’s a understatement to say the odds are against her. But have no fear Britney Spears is not making a comeback, she claims to never had left…
November 28th, 2008
The Wombats are having a punt with “Is this Christmas?” At the other end of the spectrum, as far removed as squeaky pop as you can get Adam Ficek is joining the race with his Christmas single “Horses” from solo project Roses, Kings, Castles. Glasvegas are a strong contender with “Please Come Back Home” from their mini Christmas album A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) being released on 1st December. So with Christmas round the corner, who do you want to be singing along to this year?
November 26th, 2008
Tame Impala are one of the awesome acts already confirmed on the V Festival Australia lineup for March & April ‘09. Check out the video for Half Full Glass Of Wine - one of the corking tracks on their brilliant debut EP which will be available to download here in the UK on 1 December. Tame Impala join The Killers, Snow Patrol, Kaiser Chiefs, Duffy, Elbow, Louis XIV, The Do, The Temper Trap and Canyons on the V Festival Australia bill - with more acts to be announced soon. Tickets are now on sale…
