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Proper news o'clock: we are going to stop updating the Lipster. There are a few things we'd like to post first, and some loose ends to tie up (do you want an interview with Adele that we've been sitting on for about a year? Go on then), but after the next couple of weeks, we will be no more...
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A couple of weeks ago we did this interview on the phone with Caroline from Kap Bambino, who is very French. She was brilliant even though she had flu, and told us about loving Kurt Cobain's hair, being too rock & roll for electro and smoking cigarettes and waiting for death.
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Mike Bones did the Questionnaire over email a few months back and managed to sound like a bit of a berk about heroin, but we still love his music. As does Alexis Taylor, who has covered What I Have Left in his own dreamy style. Link after the jump:
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We've got an interview with Caroline from Kap Bambino coming up later this week, which covers the following topics: Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain's hair, pizza and wine. To get you excited here's an mpfree of Dead Lazers. It sounds like Atari Teenage Riot without the drums:
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Lady GaGa. Provocateur. Chameleon. Self-created Pop Art work. But hang on a minute, we've just seen Lady GaGa's 19th single from The Fame, Love Game:
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"Really quite delightfully daft" is how Wendy Roby describes WhoMadeWho, and it is the most apt description we have come across yet. So we talked to drummer Tomas Barfod to find out what makes them them that way. Please imagine the following answers spoken in a thick Danish accent, which is part of the reason why this was our favourite interview in aaaages.
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Henry VIII fever! David Starkey is on Channel 4 tonight talking about how Henner's childhood might have made him handy with his chopping block, while you can see just how massive his armour was in real life in London right now, should you wish. So let's see how My Tiger My Timing, Frankmusik and Franz Ferdinand would shape up as his wives!
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Kelly Rowland was always the self-hater's favourite Destiny's Child. With neither the self confidence or belief to match Beyonce's superstar status, we liked her "no really I don't mind holding the coats while you do the solo" vibe. Well after two solo albums she's pulled the double whammy of leaving both Matthew Knowles and her label. Here are some suggestions of what she could do next.
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DREAM TEAM ALERT! Drop The Lime, our favourite Ritchie Valens-loving bass wobbler, has remixed Little Boots' new single New In Town. You never needed a Dave Pearce-style Weekend Anfem like you need this one. It is double-good. After the jump:
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Those Gallows! Their video for Vultures (Act II) - not I, or even IV, but II, damn you - is a messy affair that is very on trend with its whole "apocalypse" feel. But here is what they meant to say.
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Something extra special for this week - we've only gone and got an amazingly proper big competition for you. To celebrate the launch of Hilfiger Denim's Spring/Summer 2009 collaboration with The Virgins*, we're giving one boy reader and one lady reader the chance to win the clothes of their chosen gender in this here picture...
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AK Momo are nothing to do with tennis ace Amelie Mauresmo (this is a joke for French people! Hi France!) but they are Swedish, dreamy and they sound like somebody's stuck Kate Bush, CocoRosie, Goldfrapp and The Female Eunuch in a blender and pressed "weeeee". Here, have a listen:
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Now that YouTube's gone back to no-pop-promos basics - ie "this video is not available in your country, so be off with you to more illegal places" - it is good to see that the stars of music are still endeavouring to keep up a presence. Pharrell, in particular, has had a very good week. See:
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Inspired by nothing more than getting stuck in an unfortunate and all-consuming DVD loop, here are this week's singles as characters from Freaks & Geeks. Starring Jack Penate, Lissy Trullie, Yo! Majesty, Joe & Will Ask? and Mr Oizo.
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