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Lizzo & Sad13 (Aka Sadie Dupuis) – Basement Queens

Matias Calderon — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:38:52 +0000

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]I[/su_dropcap]sn’t great when two amazing artists reunite to create one incredible track ? This is what happened when Speedy Ortiz‘s frontwoman Sadie Dupuis who uses her alias Sad13 and rapper Lizzo decided to create one track together called “Basement Queens”

This track was produced by Computer Magic and takes part of a project by Google Play. In this track, you can listen the strong rock vibe by Sad13 and the powerful verse of Lizzo that we love so much. You can listen to the track if you click here and watch the process of the making of it below :

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What you might have missed because of the Holidays

Matias Calderon — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 16:18:18 +0000

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]A[/su_dropcap]fter a few days of well-deserved vacations, the whole team of Highclouds is back on track to keep you posted with the best in indie music. We maybe stopped for a few days but the music world didn’t, so here is a small non-exhaustive list of what you might have missed while you we were drinking/eating way too much

– British rapper Little Simz shared a surprise EP where she collaborated with Mick Jenkins, Jesse Boykins III among others. You can listen to the entire EP via Bandcamp below

AGE 101: DROP X by Little Simz

– Frontwoman of Speedy Ortiz Sadie Dupuis shared the demo of their Christmas song. You can download this demo for free, following the Soundcloud link

– Even after their break-up in 2011, LCD Soundsystem shared a Christmas song. According to James Murphy, he has been singing this record for 8 years now and “feels like something that could only have happened a very, very long time ago”.

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– Grimes shared an unreleased track taken from the period of her 2010 album “Halifaxa”

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– Miley Cyrus shared a Christmas song recorded with The Flaming Lips. You can check the artwork below

– Singer of Radiohead Thom Yorke shared the song that was supposed to be the track of the last James Bond. Finally Sam Smith made the official, but you can now listen to the Radiohead track. You can also download the track for free following the Soundcloud link

– Lauryn Hill shared a cover that she made of the amazing 60s track of Nat King Cole called “A Cradle in Bethlehem”.

– Timbaland shared a mixtape where he collaborated with Young Thug, Rich Homie Quan, Tink, 2 Chainz, PC Tweezie and many others. There is also an unreleased track with Aaliyah. You can listen to it here and watch the artwork below

– Hudson Mohawke shared an interpretation of John Carpenter‘s Escape From New York theme as part of LuckyMe Advent Calendar. The track is called “Escape” and you can download it for free following the Soundcloud link. You can also check DJ Paypal track called “No One Else” shared for the same campaign that you can also download for free

– Aphex Twin shared two new tracks on his Soundcloud account. One called “pianopkupt1 [norm]” that you can download for free and another one called “T17 Phase Out”. You can listen to both track below [UPDATE :] Aphex Twin has deleted every track from his Soundcloud Account

– Kendrick Lamar shared a 7 minutes long video featuring two tracks of his last album “To Pimp A Butterfly” called “u” and “For Sale”. The video is called “God Is Gangsta” and it was filmed by Jack Begert for the “u” side and the “For Sale?” part, directed by PANAMÆRA.

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– After the release of his track “Monstruosidad“, Arca shared another new track for free called “Urchin”

– Pusha T shared the video for “M.P.A.” taken from his last album “King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude”. Directed by Shomy Patwary, the video features A$AP Rocky and The-Dream
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– Kanye West shared a new track during New Years Eve called “Facts”. It reminds the release of “Only One” release during the 2015’s Eve. You can also check the artwork below

Watch Speedy Ortiz pay tribute to David Lynch in their new video “My Dead Girl”

Arnaud Marty — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:49:09 +0000

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]M[/su_dropcap]assachussite 4-piece indie rock band Speedy Ortiz just gave the video treatment to “My Dead Girl”, a track celebrating the women independence and taken from their third album “Foil Deer”, the second to be released via Carpark Records.

The video takes place in the universe of David Lynch‘s filmography. The guitarist Sadie Dupuis interprets different emblematic roles that were written by the iconic director. We notably recognized the singers from “Mulholland Drive” and from “Blue Velvet”. You will also see a lot of muppets in the Elle Schneider– directed clip. As Schneider explains, “Lynch’s masterful style, while often blanketly described as surreal, comes from a more idealistic viewpoint of willfully, almost forcefully, naive wonder about the world that isn’t often explored when his work is referenced or homaged.” (source: Vanity Fair)

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Here are some explanations of the song by Sadie Dupuis: “So the song sort of turned from an ode to independence into a mourning of the depressing footnote that comes along with female independence, which is that we always have to be on guard against assault and harassment and violence, always. And that’s a direct result of rape culture. You can go from feeling like the most powerful person in the world to feeling terrified just because someone is walking too close to you. And I guess that’s what the song is about—the simultaneous freedom to be whatever you want, to do whatever you want, coupled with the unfortunate reality that there’s always someone trying to take that power away from you.” (source: Noisey)