Over The Counter Culture

Impressive track (Rolling Stone) from unknown Glasto bit-part, Eliza Doolittle. Should be a hit; hopefully the nasty ad men won’t spoil it by tacking a crappy TV advert to it! Her EP’s out soon. The first half is great: distinctive, retro soul with a distinctive London bite. But it creeps too close to gym cafe music with Don’t Say No though, you might want to give that track a miss. Bang Back, the final track, is supposedly just a demo (wondering what it’s doing on an EP), and is just plain irritating Mariah Carey shite. ED’s a name worth watching out for, assuming she can avoid the poppy crap (which may be a label demand, to be fair to her).

Download “Eliza Doolittle – Rolling Stone”

(disclosure: she’s a fellow Arsenal FC fan, and this may or may not be the reason why of all the good music I’ve recently discovered very recently, I chose to share this!)

There’s been a spate of big works hitting urban walls recently. Here’s a quick roundup:

Conor Harrington – Shoreditch:

Fauxreel (Dan Bergeron) – Toronto

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada – IDENTITY/Madrid

and last but certainly not least – JR (the guy who put huge murals on the Palestinian security wall) – Tate Modern and Lexington St

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Yes, it’s obviously a (very funny) send-up of the current idiocy that is Carbon Offsetting. Their About Page has more detail on why that is.

…but this is definitely NOT what labs are like (via Behance)

(Also, I graduate 2 weeks from now – and will hopefully never have to pipet anything ever again)