Cashmere Mixtape - Mistletoe & Grime

1. Dizzee Rascal for Prime Minister
2. Dizzee Rascal - Pussyole (Old Skool)
3. Fake Blood - MARS
4. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
5. Don Rimini - unknown
6. Tommy Sparks - I'm A Rope (Drums of Death remix)
7. Tiga - Mind Dimension
8. Drop The Lime - Hear Me (Drums Of Death remix)
9. The Shamen - Move Any Mountain
10. East 17 - Stay Another Day

Merry Everybody! I'm done.

x

Damn it feels good to be Kermit...

Yo K-Frog.

This shit is real.

Genius at work...

This is pure brilliance.

Adam of 'Adam & Joe' had this gem of an idea.

It's disappointing knowing that Paltrow's head isn't really in there though...

Public Enemy soundclash - click to download

This is HEAVY.

Harder Than You Think reworked by 'upandcoming' producer Superfrank. This won the recent Public Enemy remix competition.

SF's earlier remix of This Song by ugly northern monkeys The Enemy is an absolute winner. Baggy beyond belief.

www.myspace.com/superfrankmusic

Format Magazine - Lego Fabulous

Loving these classic hip hop covers.

How about Kool Keith's 'Sex Style' in Lego? Or The Beatnuts 'Milk Me' Horny plastic ladies laid bare....

Lykke Li gives the Kings a seeing to - click to download

Swedish fairychild Lykke Li gives us her take on CM's favourite Nashville honeys with a re-working of Knocked Up.

It also gives us a chance to post this lovely old shot of them, hairy brothers and cousins... mmm.

Bad boy pumps

Just wanted to pop these puppies up. You can get them at the Reebok pop up store on Bowery, NYC. Open til 14th December.

Bad ass.

North meets South - Battle of the Brothers - click to download

Mr Simons himself alerted CM to this one, it works like a treat.

Two of our favourite duos nestling together on a cosy dancefloor.

It's just rock n roll...

Who is Fake Blood?

Why it's our dear friend DJ Touche of Wiseguys and Black Ghosts fame.

Theo, Cashmere Misfit salutes you.

CM has been pumping out the Fake Blood mix of Black Ghosts Anyway You Choose To Give It for some time - absolute killer.

Props for MARS. A classic in it's infancy.

We're not worthy.

Beard of ZEVS!

Super cool French street artist ZEVS hosts his first ever solo show in Zurich this Saturday.

I'm lovin' it.

Visual Attack
Gallery de Pury & Luxembourg
Limmatstrasse 264
8005 Zürich, Switzerland

Tame Impala - Psychedelia revival wanders on...

A favourite new band round these parts. From Perth and signed to Modular, these beauties have a sound that makes you want to munch your fill of sweet wine and mushrooms.

This video is pyschedelic loveliness.

Duuuude, pass the tabs...

College Misfit - Doctor Sharkey

Feargal Sharkey is a hard Northern Irish dude and he's now going to be a doctor. The University of Hertfordshire are honouring him for his contribution to music.

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat?

Congratulations Dr Sharkey. We salute you.

(Even if this whole 'honourary' thing is a blatent cheat)

Chromeo get the BACARDI treatment - Click to download.

Following on from the recent release of a series of exclusive Metronomy remixes, Bacardi has commissioned another set of killer mixes (of the track 100%) from our friends at Fools Gold. Chromeo played at their B-Live event at the Pemberton festival in Canada earlier this year.

Enjoy this.

Modular Records party - The Coronet, London - This Saturday

Features Aeroplane (whose Grace Jones remix was featured on here a few weeks ago), The Presets, Cockandbullkid and lots of other filthy delights.

Only a score to get in.

Unfortunately it's in Elephant & Castle.

Enjoy.

Cashmere Misfit on BBC6 Music breakfast show

It's always nice to know someone's paying attention eh?

BBC 6 Music has been peeking at CM's blog and as cited yours truly as the inspiration for their lead phone in today -"best and worst band names of all time".

You can listen again here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/shaun_keaveny/

Extra additions to the worst names ever included Then Jericho - ouch.

Props to Keaveny and crew.

Holler!

Best and worst band names ever

A lighthearted game for a rainy Monday. Here's the CM Top 3 on each, all open to dispute obviously....

Worst:
The Lighthouse Family
Brand New Heavies
Big Country
(Runners up: Radiohead, The Beatles, Arctic Monkeys....)

Best:
Queen
The Fall
Queens Of The Stone Age
(Runners up: The Black Keys, The Sex Pistols, Public Enemy...)

Diplo Blows Your Head - first vinyl release in 2 years!

One Misfit to another - Dizzee Rascal for Prime Minister!

Said Rascal to Paxman on our very own Newsnight:

"It don't matter if you're white man, black man, martian man....
Yeah, I could do it. Dizzee Rascal for Prime Minister, yeah?"

American Misfit wins - thanks to John Taylor

Let's celebrate with this little ditty from Taylor which I've been holding back for a few weeks. Now I love Duran Duran as much as the next man but this is painful. Some would say Partridge-esque even.

Hey ho. Here's to the dawn of a new day!

Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me

Great track and a simple, clever video. Ben Westbeech delivers a soulful male vocal and manages to sound credible, no mean feat. This is proper catchy.

Snoop and Massive Attack - 100 Suns vs Snoop

Damn this shit works.

Christ on a bike...

Jesus Jones are back. They kick started their tour last night at The Luminaire in Kilburn. Yours truly was lucky enough to be among 200 odd portly middle aged men reliving the halcyon days of '93. Here they are in a more innocent time. So thin, so pale, so English.

She's 56. She's bonkers. She's Grace Jones.

Mad as a box as frogs, still relevant, still sounds incredible. Check this Aeroplane remix of Williams Blood.... deep, heavy and so very Ms Jones.  Sweat it off baby, sweat it off.... 

Nana Misfit

This little old lady just got herself all muddled up didn't she? Wrong.

Pop Up Fun - Shit Disco / Fierce Panda

I'm not mad about the song but the video's a simple, brilliant idea.

Cashmere Mixtape Vol 2.

1. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Into The Unknown
2. Kings of Leon - Crawl
3. Ladytron - Runaway
4. Friendly Fires - Lovesick
5. Mystery Jets - Hand Down (Riton Mix)
6. The Cool Kids - Basement Party
7. Tone Loc/Peaches - Wild Thing
8. ZZ Top - Legs
9. Tronik Youth - Laugh Cry Die
10. Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen
11. When In Rome - The Promise
12. Talk Talk - Believe

I'm on a T.O.D. Back soon...

Ultimate Misfits Unite!

What a pair. Chris Cunningham and Grace Jones collaborate for Dazed's next issue in a 12 page visual story. It's all about the devil inside. No shit.

Rogues - Not So Pretty

I'm feeling this demo from these young'uns. Currently unsigned.

Ratatat - Shempi (video)

Ratatat - Shempi (video)

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Eurogirls go to Baltimore 12"

Fuckin' A. Featuring Orgasmic Feels Like Saint Tropez and other booty beauties. Gonna make you sweat....

Misfit - Never Mind The Butter - Where's the Sex Pistols?????

I saw it with my own eyes for the first time tonight. Johnny Rotten, the protagonist of punk and self proclaimed 'anarchist' is hosting a simply delightful warm and cuddly commercial for Country Life butter. Ok the premise is, it's all about Ingland but WHAT???!!!

Check him out as he chows down on a slice of hot buttered loveliness.

What's next? Mark E Smith putting his feet up for DFS?

Answers on a postcard please.

Kings of Leon - hotter than a dose of cystitis

Only By The Night, featuring the unfortunately named Sex on Fire, is another triumph from this band that just keep on delivering.  They have a number one single and album here, headlined Glastonbury, play Wembley Arena in December (sold out show), yet two weeks in New York played a show to just 2,000 people. Their loss is our gain.  Yankee misfits. You want to see me Crawl?

Misfit - MOMA and Devo

Just enjoyed a trip to New York and checked out the Looking At Music exhibition at the MOMA, this video from Devo is weird as. You can't get better than a Kwik Fit fitter....

Elbow win the Mercurys

Like Doves, like Interpol, Elbow seem to encourage a fanatic fanbase who feel that the band are plated in gold and can do no wrong.  I'm a Doves band kind of kid, but fair play to Elbow who've worked hard and done this without label backing.  And Richard Hawley's on the record and that's a good enough reason to give anyone a prize. Soft as a bag of tits.

Why do they all thank God? MTV Video Awards last night.

Everyone's favourite mixed up misfit, Britney is back; clothed, full of hair and coherent.

"Oh my god I'm speechless. I'd like to thank God for blessing me like this" ???
"My beautiful family" ???

The girl's had a pretty rough ride recently to say the least and I wouldn't be far from knocking down on the doors of God and/or family to lay a portion of blame there.

At least she's upbeat though eh?

Misfit mammals.

Ligers do exist!

Nokia offers unlimited music downloads

Comes With Music will be launching in the UK this side of Christmas, offering buyers of selected handsets unlimited music downloads for one year. Universal, Sony BMG and Warners have all signed up to be part of the service.

White Denim - car wreckers, weird kid and fat bird.

New single - Shake Shake Shake - video is redneck city.

Mountain Dew drinks launch digital music label

Cool Kids have penned the latest track. Mmmm. Drink it in.

Misfit Marion

Suge Knight, founder of Death Row Records, was arrested yesterday. Assault, drugs and weapons. His real name is Marion. Bless.

Air France commissions exclusive tracks for new album

Exclusive tracks from Boards of Canada's Hope Sandoval, Telepopmusik and The Shoes, plus more as featured on their in-flight channel In The Air.

Zut alors!

1- THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Asleep from day
2- ALPHA - Elvis
3- *NOUVELLE VAGUE - Confusion
4- FINK - Trouble's what you are in
5- *HOPE SANDOVAL - Wild Roses
6- TUNNG - Bullets
7- TWO FOR THE ROAD - Road Trip
8- APPARAT - Hailin' from the edge
9- *TELEPOPMUSIK - Ghost Girl
10- FOUR TET - Everything is alright
11- *THE SHOES feat. KELLY DE MARTINO - 7 am
12- JOSÉ GONZALEZ - Down the line
13- KELLY DE MARTINO - Long, long, long
14- BOARDS OF CANADA - Dayvan Cowboy
15- ASWEFALL - Between the miles

Hedi Hi.

Hedi Slimane's new book 'Rock Diary' charts a life in music through a fashionable lens.  It features the ubiquitous Doherty and Winehouse, some beautiful pictures.... and then Johnny Borrell.

Josh Homme to produce Arctic Monkeys!!

Word on the street is they're to travel out to the desert to get some Homme style lovin'.

Oh yeah.

Beta Bleeps - Hereldeduke - click to download

Something for the weekend. At the risk of sounding like a 70's dad.... It's a catchy little number. Kind of Beta Band, Avalanches and something I can't quite put my finger on....

Rage play Reading tonight.

Oh yes. Loving Zack's 'Fuct' T in this. A classic 90's number. Up there with 'Junkies Baddy Powder' and coloured denim.

Converse continue their march over music

Converse Festivals is a social networking site based around sharing festival experiences. Join a group and upload pictures of yourself wearing a bad felt jester hat or being sick in a ditch. The guys there have got their eye on cornering the music market and they're not doing a bad job at all.

Come on, we all love Converse.

Puppet Misfit

Heard Interpol on the radio this morning and was compelled to find this again.

Charlie White who created this for 'Evil' is a dude. This was his first video.

Babes and Boots - click to listen

The Sugababes latest single is a cover of 'Girls' - as featured extensively on the Boots TV campaign.

I'm loving this idea. In today's climate a TV or profile ad campaign synch is a holy grail for artists, offering the kind of promotional platform of a magnitude that most label marketing budgets simply can't stretch to.

Can't get your track on an ad? No need.

Why not just cover a track that's already being hammered by a brand and cash in on the existing national awareness.

There's surely a partnership on the horizon here.

Sugababes own brand baby oil, hair straighteners or razors?

Here come the Girls.....

B-Live Metronomy remix - click to download

This is a Fontan remix of 'A Thing For Me' from Metronomy's forthcoming album.  It was commissioned exclusively by Bacardi.  Sweet.

Faces of the Earth

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Misfit - Lady Rider Elissa Steamer.

Gold medal at the 2008 X Games. Champion.

And Nice Boards by Para Rockwell.

Misfit

Misfit - Ladytron track meets New Order vid.

Recession? Goth revival? Ladytron are bleak as you like but this works really well.

Cashmere Mixtape Vol 1.

1. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream (Part 2) - My Morning Jacket

2. This Rhythm (Radio Edit) - Filthy Dukes

3. Anyway You Choose To Give It - Black Ghosts (Fake Blood Remix)

4. Crimewave - Crystal Castles

5. Michael Douglas - Neon Neon

6. We Have Explosive - Future Sound Of London (2006 edit)

7. Big Prinz - The Fall

8. Paper Planes - M.I.A. (DFA Remix)

9. Stomp It To The Ground - Friend

10.Brick House - The Commodores

11. Limousine - Black Kids

12.Wildcat - Ratatat

13. Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen

14. Faded Lines - Secret Machines