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my dear friend, danish singer Oh Land is moving to NY tomorrow!
(She modeled for Cream of the Crop 2009 winter collection)
She is working on her new album and you can get to see the process of her making it at;

#1 Oh Land / Singing in a suitcase from Sabine Storm on Vimeo.

I’m so excited to hang out with both her sweetest boyfriend Eske (super artist) and her.

Welcome to NYC!!!

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Bad Romance- Lady Gaga- (check out Alexander McQueen’s crazy shoes Gaga’s wearing!)

Pursuit of Happiness -Kid Cudi- (shot in Jane Hotel)

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John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten/Sex Pistols) and Keith Levine from Public Image Limited on Tom Snyder talking way ahead of their time. This is from 1980.

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This show started at 12:30am! Nneka looked like a little girl when she entered the stage, but once she started performing her power exploded and swallowed the entire audience in the ballroom. She’s got both a very sensitive angel voice and a deep strong voice and uses those two different tones of her voice efficiently in order to tell us what she wants to say. Her songs hit your soul.
People requested more songs even though she was supposed to be the opening artist for the legendary ROOTS!
And of course the roots’s performance was extraordinary.

夜中の12時半ショーが開始。ステージに上がったネッカは少女のように華奢にもかかわらず一度歌い出したとたんに観客全体を飲み込みました。天使のような繊細な声と深い強い歌声を使い分ける上手さが印象的でした。魂に語りかける歌声。
ルーツのオープニングアーティストとして登場したにも関わらず観客からはアンコールのリクエスト。
勿論その後のルーツのパフォーマンスは言うまでもなく圧巻でした。

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♡ Nneka

Nneka was born and grew up in Nigeria. She is a daughter of an Igbo Nigerian father and a German mother. She moved to Germany when she was 18 and that’s when she pushed her career as a singer. “Nneka” means “Mother is supreme, mother is the best” in Igbo language.
She released 2 albums including the songs “Heartbeat” and “Africans”.
Amazing artist…

Nnekaはアフリカのナイジェリアで生まれ育つ。ナイジェリア人の父とドイツ人の母を持つ。18歳の時にドイツに移り住み、本格的に音楽活動を開始。”ネッカ”はイグボ語で”母は至高、最高”の意味。

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We were lucky enough to see famed author and thinker Salman Rushdie perform with one of our favorite bands, dredg, this past Thursday in a benefit show for Housing Works. The bands latest album The Pariah, The Parrot and The Delusion was influenced in part by Rushdie’s Letter to the Sixth Billionth Citizen “Imagine There’s no Heaven”. Rushdie was originally asked to write a letter to the then soon to be born sixth billionth citizen by the United Nations in 1997. The members of dredg came across his essay as they were preparing their album and realized some of the thinking and ideas paralleled each other so the the art work and of course some of the lyrical content. The essay deals with themes regarding religion and its role in our society. Rushide says in his essay that religious practice and blind faith often lead to wars and misunderstanding. He feels that freedom “comes down to a willingness to think for yourself” and not being constrained by religion’s rules. Whatever your personal beliefs may be it is sure a thought provoking piece. 

The two groups came together for the performance for a benefit that Spin magazine put together for Housing Works a non-profit bookstore that donates all of its profits to services that help people living with AIDS. Rushdie read a couple of his pieces, including the essay and dredg performed songs from their album. Everyone charmed the audience during the question and answer period and the evening ended with drinks at the Thom Bar at Thompson Hotel.

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先日の木曜日ハウジングワークスへサーモン・ラシディー(作家)とクリームが大好きなバンド、ドレッジとのベネフィットショーに行ってきました。ドレッジの最新アルバム’The Pariah, The Parrot and The Delusion’はラシディー著 ’Letter to the Sixth Billionth Citizen ”Imagine There’s no Heaven”’から影響を受けているそうで今回のイベントの運びとなりました。ラシディー氏は1997年に国連よりこのエッセイをもうすぐ60億人にたどりつくであろう人類にむけて書くように依頼されました。ドレッジのメンバーのひとりが彼らのアルバム作成時にこのエッセイを読んで自分達のつくってるもののテーマと歌詞に重なることを発見します。エッセイでは現代社会で宗教がどのような役目をなしてるかを説明しています。ラシディー氏は宗教の習慣と閉鎖的な信仰は戦争と誤解を導くだけで、自由とは自らの思考することを望むことであり、宗教によって縛られるものではないと言う。自分の思想が何であれ、このエッセイで氏の言う事に反映されることができるのです。
スピンマガジン主催でこの2組の共同パフォーマンスが実現しました。ハウジングワークスは本屋さんで、収入の全てはエイズ患者などへ寄付されます。ラシディー氏がエッセイを含む彼の作品をいつくか朗読し、その後ドレッジがアルバムからの曲を弾き語りしました。メンバー達(ラシディー氏を含め)は最後の質問コーナーで観客をさらに魅了し、その後はトンプソンホテルのトム・バーへと移動してイベントの成功を祝いました。素敵な夜でした。

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♡ phoenix

i’ve heard about this French band here and there but last night i saw them on Jimmy Fallon ‘s late show (i always switch to his show after letterman) not knowing it was phoenix and fell in love. check out their other songs including their hit song “if i ever feel better”. THEY ARE REALLY GOOD!!! (below is video from Jimmy Kimmel Live)

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