Video: Coldplay, “Strawberry Swing”
- story Peter Macia
At some point along the path of FADER history, liking Coldplay became a shameful secret. But then the silent few became the majority, and for a few glorious months, Coldplay reigned the intra-office airways. These were known as the Ides of Martin and interns were forced to patch together colorful uniforms out of promo totebags and march through the hallways with the editors on their shoulders singing all the words to Viva La Vida. The editors thought about what Chris Martin and Jay-Z talked about over after-dinner whiskeys, and daydreams of B and Gwinny picking out flip-flops in Tulum while giggling about each other’s favorite colors distracted them all. Good times. Out of nowhere, a video for “Strawberry Swing” brings it all back, thanks to the inimitable direction of London-based Shynola. We know it’s a couple days old but we wanted to wait for the embed here, provided by Babelgum.
And also, it should be noted that it is the first video for Shynola since the loss of Gideon Baws, one of its founders and a brilliant illustrator, who passed away late last year after contracting viral myocarditis at the age of 33. This video seems a fitting tribute to Baws and his family, and if you look closely during the opening seconds, you can see a portrait of Baws hanging on the wall next to Martin’s illustrated bed.
Freeload: Drake, “Congratulations” + So Far Gone Mixtape
- story THE FADER
T-dot resident/Degrassi High alumnus Drake recently released his So Far Gone mixtape which we’d actually been semi-heavily anticipating after a year or so of listening to him kill freestyles and guest verses with Lil Wayne and Kanye, whose styles he happens to mash together pretty effectively. The tape, oddly enough though, is mostly Drake singing-with-emotion rather than rapping, but this bonus track (from the physical release) is more like it with him going in on a chop of Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida.” YEAH GOING IN ON COLDPLAY SO WHAT. If you happen to be in Toronto tonight, Drake’s throwing a party with Lebron James (dude makes friends) to celebrate So Far Gone’s release. Find him on Facebook to get details.
Download: Drake, “Congratulations”
Download: Drake, So Far Gone mixtape
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posted on Feb 18, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Coldplay, Drake, freeload, hip hop, Kanye West, Lebron James, Lil Wayne
Watch M.I.A. Do the Preggy Roll During “Swagger Like Us” at the Grammys
- story THE FADER
We’d already moved on to the History Channel and Diplo’s Twitter by the time it happened live, but watching the S.L.U. crew in tuxedos and a sheer maternity mini might have been worth staying tuned in for. Watch it above, until it gets taken down, along with a few other notable Grammy peformances moments after the jump.
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posted on Feb 9, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Coldplay, Estelle, Grammys, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, M.I.A., T.I.
Video: Coldplay f. Jay-Z, “Lost”
- story THE FADER
SuperBesties Jay and Chris Martin spent hours on the phone together planning which army jackets to wear in their new video for the remix to “Lost.”* The song and video will be available on next week’s release of Coldplay’s 8-song Prospekt’s March EP.
*Imaginated
Freeload: We Just Listened to Four Mixtapes in a Row
- story THE FADER
The last time we actually sat down and listened to a bunch of mixtapes that all came out on the same day, we had a beautiful apartment in Manhattan, a carton of cigarettes cost a dollar and dudes actually still sold mixtapes on Canal Street. Now we share a wall-less storage space in Bushwick, beg loosies off publicists and get our songs one at a time. But yesterday reminded us a little bit of that ol’ special feeling as Google Canal Street gave us a handful of new mixtapes from GLC, DG Yola, Charles Hamilton and that surprisingly crazy Jay-Z/Coldplay project from Mick Boogie, all of which we thoroughly enjoyed listening to in their entireties. Get them all below… we’ll be downstairs buying two dollar rainbow keffiyehs.
Mick Boogie and Terry Urban present:
VIVA LA HOVA
DJ Geno Presents GLC: I Ain’t Even On Yet The Mixtape
DJ Panic & DG Yola: Still Standing
Charles Hamilton: The L Word Mixtape
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posted on Oct 29, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Charles Hamilton, Coldplay, DG Yola, freeload, GLC, hip hop, Jay-Z
Video: Jay-Z Targets Michigan and Gets Lost on a Coldplay Song
- story THE FADER
We know we are constantly telling you that so and so is the biggest whatever ever, but Jay-Z is the dude. Yesterday, we reminded you that he worked with the United Nations to bring safe drinking water to Africa, and today we’re putting up a video of Jay stumping for Obama voters in the battleground state of Michigan. This will probably have no bearing on whether Blueprint 3 is a return to form, but, you know, JAY-Z IS PARTICIPATING IN A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. Anyway, he also slapped this verse on the remix of his buddy Chris Martin’s band’s song which according to Nah Right is not actually that new. Any excuse to post a Coldplay song…
Download: Coldplay f. Jay-Z, “Lost (Remix)”
Video: Kanye West f. Chris Martin, “Homecoming”
- story THE FADER
Wait, really dude? You got Chris Martin to be in the video and it’s not the two of you performing on mountaintops in IMAX? “Homecoming,” according to some of the more Joel-appreciative members of the music cognoscenti is the best song on the album and deserves a video with like hot air balloons and pterodactyls and stuff like that. Call Peter Jackson. That dude is DOING NOTHING. Still a great song though and has us hyped for that Coldplay album (Did we know it was produced by Eno? Is that good?) and Kanye, once again, in general.
