Filed under: Download, Music, Must Listen, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Bobby Valentino, Feat Lil Wayne, New Tracks, R&B, Sexy Girl, Your Smile
Bobby Valentino is back and we’ve got these two brand new tracks for you good peoples!
Bobby Valeninto – “Your Smile“ Feat Lil Wayne
We’re actually feeling both these tracks at the moment, so they both come recommended.
Have a listen and let us know what you’re thinkin. Do you like the new Bobby Valentino or are you not feelin it??
Peace, Love & R&B
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Random | Tags: British Summer Time, Clocks Forward, Random
That’s right y’all the clocks moved forward on sunday night and you had better believe it was hard to get up this morning!
But BST is the best time of year, the sun is out longer, the sky is brighter and damnit people are just happier! Fingers crossed we get a good summer this year, otherwise we just might have to consider emigrating!
Get your sunshine on, look out the Windowpane
Filed under: Music News, Must Read | Tags: Adele, Black Music, Duffy, Estelle, Interview, Soul, The Guardian
We don’t like this here at PinBoard.
During an interview with The Guardian, Estelle expressed her frastration with what she sees as “blindless in the British media and music industry to Black talent“. The singer, who is currently sitting at the top of the British charts also went on to question the promotion of an overwhelming white generation of young British singers…
We’re not saying Estelle is 100% wrong here [that's not to say we think she's 100% right either btw!], but it’s what she goes on to say that really doesn’t sit too well with us…
Estelle went on to single out Adele and Duffy saying:
“I’m not mad at them, but I’m wondering – how the hell is there not a single black person in the press singing soul? Adele ain’t soul. She sounds like she heard some Aretha records once, and she’s got a deeper voice – that don’t mean she’s soul. That don’t mean nothing to me in the grand scheme of my life as a black person. As a songwriter, I get what they do. As a black person, I’m like: you’re telling me this is my music? Fuck that!“
It’s one thing to express an opinion on the current situation in the music/media industry regarding [a lack of] multiculturalism, but to go on and bad mouth other artists for having the success they have had – is a whole different [and rather ugly] matter.
It’s not hot to come down on those who have had success or are having success just because they are singing Soul music - they really are not the ones you need to be venting your frustrations out on. Estelle is obviously proving that there is more than enough room for more artists [from all ethnicity's for that matter] to make an impact in the British media, but by knocking other artists in the way she has appeared to have done here – well, it’s not only nonconstructive, it also weakens her credibility.
That’s our take on the matter anyhow…What do you think?
Peace, Love & The Universal Language [Music]
SpeakerBox
P.s We can’t help but think, that maybe this whole issue/interview is more in the name of publicity than political awareness. It comes at an all-too-convenient time we think…Hmmm..?
Filed under: Classic Moments
B I G!
Peace, Love & Classic Moments
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Gigs, Music News, Must Read, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: 2008, June, Mariah Carey, Paul O'Grady, Selfridges, The Friday Night Project, Tour, UK
Mariah will be arriving in the UK on April 1st and will doing a whole host of cool things…
On the day of her arrival [April 1st] she will be exclusively signing her latest single “Touch My Body” in Selfridges, Oxford Street @ 5pm [you needs to be there!]. She will also be hosting The Friday Night Project that week (one of the best shows on TV at the moment!), which we think is pretty damn cool! As well as all of this, she will be on the Paul O’Grady show on April 4th.
…And as mentioned previously on PinBoard, London seems to be the place for major artists at the moment and we can now add Mariah to the must-see gigs this summer. Rumour has it that the biggest selling female artist of all time [don't hate us Madonna/Whitney/Celine/Barbara] will be touring in the UK around June-ish. We’ll be thurr…will you? As soon as we know more (dates/ticket info etc) you’ll know more!
So get ready London, the DIVA is coming…
Peace, Love & Mariah
P.s Er…We’re just hoping all this isn’t some April Fool’s day joke?! LOL!
Filed under: Music, Must Listen, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Black & Gold, Funky, New, Sam Sparro, Video
This tune is B I G!
Sam Sparro, an LA based-UK signed artist is about to blow up [we think] and here is his newest tune/video. The dude is funky…
We’re hoping he does well, the PinBoard crew have seen him live and his voice is SERIOUS…
To check out more from Mr Sparro go to his Myspace Page – HERE
Peace, Love & Funky Music
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Music, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Hip Hop, Hip Hop Saved My Life, Lupe Fiasco, Video
We posted this last week and just wanted to give it another chance at the top of the Blog.
Go HERE to watch the new video from Lupe Fiasco…
Peace, Love & Hip Hop Saved MY Life
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Music, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: CRS, Hip Hop, KanYe West, Lupe Fiasco, Pharrell Williams, Us Placers, VA$HTIE
This tune was on the KanYe West mixtape “Can’t Tell Me Nothin”, which surfaced about a year ago…so, it’s been around for quite some time…But yet, many people haven’t heard about it or seen this video.
We love, love, love this tune not only because it brings three of the biggest/coolest/dopest rappers of the moment together for the first time: KanYe West, Pharrell Williams & Lupe Fiasco, but also because this video is SO heavi!
Check it out:
…What do you think??
Peace, Love & Us Placers
SpeakerBox
P.s Check out the supa talented, supa successful and supa, dupa young director of Us Placers HERE…
Filed under: Dumb [Funny] Stuff, Must Watch | Tags: BBC Interview, Diva, Hangs Up, Mariah Carey, Radio Show
Mariah Carey + Radio Interview + Presenter with Bad Research =
*Watch Till The Very End*
W-O-W.
Peace, Love & The Ultimate Diva
Filed under: Download, Music, Must Listen, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Christette Michele, Hip Hop, Rising Up, The Roots, Wale
The Roots are legendary, we know this…And they’re back…Did you know this?
There’s really no point in us trying to convince you about this titanic rap group, if you’re not convinced thus far, you probably never will be. It’s hard to conceive any Hip Hop fan (or music fan for that matter) who do not dig The Roots. Their jazz, funk, electro, groove, drum & bass filled Hip Hop is nothing less than inspiring, thought provoking and straight up crazy [in that very good way]. They have been around forever and have yet to come out with anything less than outstanding – and i’m sure if they had, it would have more to do with our lack of understanding, and less to do with their lack of quality [that's how much we trust them!]
This track has been floating around the TinterNet for some time now, so we thought we’d pop it up for you good people to have a listen. It’s rather big. The track is taken from their up-and-coming 10TH (yes, 10th!) album “Rising Down”, set for an April 2008 release.
Have a listen to “Rising Up”. We are LOVING the live instruments, no one does it like The Roots.
The Roots Ft Wale & Chrisette Michele – “Rising Up”
PinBoard Public Announcement: Citizens of the TinterNet, if you haven’t already you MUST educate yourselves on The Roots! Grab as much of their music as you possibly can, however you can!
Peace, Love & The Roots
Filed under: Music, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Back of the Van, Electro, Ladyhawke, Pop, Video
Ok, so, we understand that this post may seem a bit strange, esp in relative terms to our previous posts – HOWEVER, music is music [at the end of the day] and we think this track is rather BIG!
PinBoard has a particular history with Ladyhawke and are totally over the moon that things are starting to happen for her. This video is a THROW BACK to some SERIOUS 80’s, electro, pop, type thing…but the tune is dope. Seriously. Even if you don’t like it at first, we promise you, you’ll LOVE it after a few listens. Summer 2008 is gonna be all about Ladyhawke and you heard it HERE, on PinBoard first.
Check out “Back Of The Van”:
For more information/good stuff from Ladyhawke check out her Myspace page HERE
Peace, Love & Ladyhawke
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Music, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Ego Trippin', Hip Hop, Life Of The Party, Snoop Dogg
After the H U G E success of “Sensual Seduction”, Snoop Dogg is back with this little banger.
“Life Of The Party” – The video’s ‘aiight’ (standard Hip Hop video really) and the tune is definitely a head bopper. Is it the best thing The Dog Father has released? Well, not exactly but hey…have a listen and check it out…
Snoop has come a long way from his early West Coast Gangsta vibe back in the early 90’s. The PinBoard crew think this is a good thing. SO many rappers stay in one state of mind for years – progression is natural and without it you can’t really stay current/relevant. Snoop has found a balance – he’s still respected as a rapper (granted, not the most influential right now but still) and as a figure of ‘pop’ culture. We’ve seen Snoop in porn flicks, movies and TV shows and yet he still maintains his street cred…That’s a good look no?!
Peace, Love and D-O-’Double G’…
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Classic Moments, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: All The Man I Need Live, Classic Moment, Live, Must See, Video, Whitney Houston
We went with this choice today, just because a) she sounds amazing and b) many people have forgotten, what it is, Whitney Houston does (You know, sing, without looking/sounding like a crack head!).
It is a shame what happened to her, but hey, moving on – she’s on the mend and is recording an album under the supervision of Mr Clive (Genius) Davis, which is set for a “holidays” release (October/December 2008). We. Can’t. Wait.
Just LISTEN to this:
Peace, Love & Classic Moments
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Download, Music, Must Listen | Tags: Leona Lewis, Misses Glass, New Album Track, Spirit, US
As like nearly every British artist does, Leona has recorded a couple more tracks for the U, S of A version of her massive album “Spirit”.
We don’t really understand why labels do this, we understand they want to make the record as great as possible, but what’s that saying about us? Like, if you think that the album would have sounded better with this added track, why the heck wasn’t it on the UK version? They do the same thing with music videos too – Leona’s video for “Bleeding Love” was pretty ‘polished’ for a [new] UK artist (we thought this was because it would translate better to US audiences), so why then did she have to re-record a NEW video for the U, S of A? Very annoying in our opinion!
ANYWAYS…With that rant over, here’s the new track. It’s an upbeat track and as mentioned previously on PinBoard, exactly what the album needed more of in our opinion.
Have a listen and tell us what YOU think:
Peace, Love & Baby Diva
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Music, Music News, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: E=MC2, Love Song, Mariah Carey, New Music
While browsing YouTube (as you do!) we fell upon this video, dunno how new/old it is, but it’s of Mariah in the studio singing a new track that’s gonna be on “E=Mc2″ - called “Love Song”.
We kinda like it…”Touch My Body”, the first single off of her up-and-coming album wasn’t really do much for us…esp with that [dumb] video – but today was the first time we actually started bopping to it – so we think it’s growing on us. This track though, is cool – its very promising and while we dont want a totally slow album, we all know Mariah delivers on those big ballads!
The video quality isn’t that great (bootleg we believe!)…
Peace, Love & Mariah
Filed under: Movies, Must Watch, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Box Office, Icredible Hulk, Iron Man, Movies, She Way She Move, Summer
There are some serious movies coming out this year…
While we love the small indie flicks here at PinBoard, come Summer Time, we’re ready for those massive, super-big, mega box office smash movies…They really are the best!
So, here’s a few movies we’re waiting on to come out and do their thing this coming Summer.
How She Move:
Iron Man:
The Incredible Hunk:
We can’t wait to see them, can you????
Peace, Love & Box Office
SpeakerBox
Filed under: Classic Moments, Movies, Things We're Diggin' | Tags: Rockers
I am not ashamed to admit this is probably one of my favourite movies at the moment. If you want to witness true Jamaican music, culture and characters, the 1978 classic Jamaican movie Rockers is just the film for you.
The story centres around ‘Horsemouth’, a drummer living in the heart of a Kingston ghetto who plans to make extra money by selling and distributing records across the island on his Lion of Judah painted motorbike (love it).
To be honest the budget is quite clearly non-existent and the acting hammy, but what truly carries this brilliant film is the music. With appearances from Reggae icons Gregory Issacs, Burning Spear and the late great Jacob Miller, the movie takes you to the heart of true reggae music. If you want to escape the cold, and watch how a true Rastaman skanks, than watch this, (and subtitles are a must!)
Little One (Contributing Writer)
Filed under: Dumb [Funny] Stuff, Hate Post, Music | Tags: Hate Post, R&B, Ray J
This is exactly the kind of R&B we can’t stand. Sorry Ray J fans (are there any?), but WOW.
We thought we’d post this video so you good folks could have a look-see and tell us what’s up? We being a little too hard on Brandy’s baby brother? Or is this video (like his very personally video with Kim K) another flop?? We know what we think…
…What do YOU think?
Peace, Love & Bad, Bad R&B
SpeakerBox
TV, what a past time - where would we be without it?
When there is nothing else to do or we get home from work, TV is where it is at. So what’s going on with the lack of programmes to watch? This time last year we were fighting about what to watch first, Heroes, Lost, American Dad, Family Guy, The Shield, The Wire, My Name is Earl, Scrubs and even Eastenders. But things have dried up on an unspeakable level.
Filed under: Dumb [Funny] Stuff, Fashion, LDN Life | Tags: London, streetwear
*We love a bit of alliteration on PINBOARD*…But back to the matter at hand…
From living in London our whole lives we know to avoid central London on a Saturday. So for the first time in a very long time we met up with some friends around the Soho/Covent Garden/Carnaby Street area. Where is the streetwear/point in all this I hear you wonder, well everywhere we looked yesterday afternoon we noted guys and their girls dripping in all the S/S 08 collections from some the streetwear brands. (We hate that term streetwear, any ideas on what to change it to would be great!) We spotted everything from ninja style all black gets up courtesy of Supreme and Visvim, plentiful Bathing Ape stadium jackets with matching Bapestas and low-riding APE jeans to the young’uns (usually boys aged 15-17) kitted out in newest Stussy tee, Vans and carrying as many Footpatrol bags as they could (RIP to the store).
Now we love our streetwear here at PinBoard, ain’t nothin’ wrong with it and we do appreciate seeing a well dressed brother or sister in some nice get up, but put all these people together in one small area of London, looking at each-other from the kicks up hanging outside the Bape store, Hideout, New Era and Stussy and my oh my it just leads to one thing, looking FOOLISH.
Why do they look foolish? Because instead of going about their routine of going from one shop to the next, they stop and stare at each-other. Girls stare at the girls and their guys and the guys stare at the guys and their girls, we wonder, what are they looking for? We know it may be a bit of a game, but seriously, people need to cool it down and get on with their business and know that wearing these labels is not a unique thing.
But we shall end this post with saying that we hereby declare that Saturdays in central/Soho/Covent garden/Carnaby are to be known as Streetwear Saturday. Next time you are around the area on a Saturday afternoon look out for it and you will see what we mean. And if you find out why they are all staring at each-other so much, let us know.
