Santi-land continues! Check out the music video for Big Mouth, the first single from Santigold‘s upcoming album Master of My Own Make-Believe directed by Cody Critcheloe of SSION (who also directed MNDR’s #1 in Heaven). Be sure to check out my reviews of Santigold’s first two gigs of 2012 featuring brand new material here: Monday 1/16 and Tuesday 1/17!

Visit Santigold.com for more updates and your free MP3 of Big Mouth!

Santigold is back full-throttle and beyond ready to unleash this album, you can tell by the way she beams onstage when performing the new tracks. It truly is exciting to see and you should all prepare yourselves for what is about to come, it’s going to be MASSIVE. Check out a few more videos I snuck from last night’s set below including Karen O’s cameo! More videos HERE.

Setlist for 1/16 & 1/17:
Go // LES Artistes // Lights Out // God From The Machine // Get it Up // Hold the Line // Starstruck // Anne // Say Aha // Disparate Youth // Creator // Freak Like Me // Unstoppable // Brooklyn Go Hard // Shove It (w/ Spank Rock) // Fame // Big Mouth // B.O.O.T.A.Y. (w/ Spank Rock)

Fame:

Stream: Santigold – Unstoppable by diplo

I was so bummed out when the Afro-Punk Festival was cancelled back in August as a precaution for Hurricane Irene (which was all hype). The stellar line-up included Janelle Monae, Cee-Lo Green, Res, Ninjasonik, Das Racist, Kenna, and Santigold. This was also to serve as my Santi fix for the year in anticipation of the new material, and my first time seeing her live since Lollapalooza ages ago in 2009!

Fast-forwarding to last night, the first of two sold out consecutive last minute warm up shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg. Santi looked and sounded 100% on top of her game and truly excited to be onstage again. Her dancers, band, costume/prop designer, and the person in the horse costume (?) also deserve just as much attention for their theatrical performances which rounded out the dazzling 17 song set.

The new songs: Go, God From The Machine, Disparate Youth, Freak Like Me, Fame, and Big Mouth were catchy, entrancing, unique and anthemic. I cannot wait to own them, the album needs to drop ASAP! Santigold plays Music Hall of Williamsburg again tonight (I’ll be there with a better camera this time) before joining the west coast leg of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers tour.

Stream: Santigold – Go (Feat. Karen O.)

I urge you to not miss this one, especially if you too are dying to hear some new Santigold material. Check out a few tracks from festival acts below and gather up your crew. The festival schedule is available HERE along with directions. Visit AfroPunk.com for more information.

Santigold featured in Paper Magazine's Summer 2011 Issue

Full Line-up
Cee Lo Green, Santigold, Janelle Monae, Fishbone, Toro Y Moi, Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely, Ninjasonik, Cerebral Ballzy, Gordon Voidwell, Reggie Watts, Res, Joi, Rocky Business, Straight Line Stitch.
Just added: Gym Class Heroes, Das Racist, Kenna, Tamar-kali, Bad Rabbits, Joe Jordans Experiment, Jersey Klan, Radkey, and DJ’s Stack-Aly, Jillionaire, Dances with White Girls, D://BOi, dj.shErOck, toni*K!

Stream: Santigold – Unstoppable
Stream: Janelle Monae – Faster
Stream: Cee-Lo Green – No One’s Gonna Love You (Band of Horses Cover)
Stream: Res – They Say Vision
Stream: Kenna – Freetime

#1 Bjork: The second song from Björk’s cross-platform interactive album Biophilia is out. Stream Cosmogony below. [ALL NEON LIKE]
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

#2 Feist has just released the first in a series of teaser videos on on her official website. It’s a noisy instrumental track layered over a black and white time-lapse scene. If this is where she is going with her long-awaited follow up to The Reminder, then my mind is blown. Stay tuned to ListenToFeist.com for additional video updates.

#3 Friendly Fires have covered Lady Gaga’s Edge of Glory for BBC Radio 1, and it sounds fantastic. Listen below:
mp3: Friendly Fires – The Edge of Glory (Lady Gaga Cover, BBC Radio 1)

#4 Karen O. “will unveil her “psycho-opera” at St. Ann’s Warehouse in October as part of a week-long showcase of art, music, theater and film works known as the Creators Project.” [Wall Street Journal] I’m at the edge of my seat for more details!

#5 M83 (aka Anthony Gonzalez) has released the first song from his upcoming double album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (due October 18, 2011) titled Midnight City. Stream below:
Midnight City by M83

#6 No Doubt are in the studio with Major Lazer (Diplo & Switch) penning tracks for their long long awaited follow up to Rock Steady, this should be interesting…

#7 Portishead have announced an expanded US tour to supplement their ATP curated residency in New Jersey. Get your tickets for Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC, full tour dates here.

#8 Santigold and Spank Rock are the face of Alexander Wang’s Fall 2011 T Campaign. The video clip features a new mix of Santigold’s Collaboration with Karen O. Go. Santi is also featured in Beastie Boys‘ latest single Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win, and as a doll in the accompanying Spike Jonze directed video clip. I’m beside myself with anticipation for the new album!

PHEW.

Santigold Live at Terminal 5, 6.9.09

Today just got 1000x’s more awesome! Santigold is back with a brand new track, and she’s brought along the inimitable Karen O. of Yeah Yeah Yeahs along for the fun. (Britney and Rihanna should watch and see how a real collaboration is done!)

Speechless!!! Can’t wait to hear the rest of Santi’s upcoming record.  Read Life and Times‘ exclusive Santigold interview and stream the track here!

Stream:: Santigold – Go (Featuring Karen O.)

mp3: Gorillaz – Stylo (Radio Edit) or zShare

mp3: Dan Black Featuring Kid Cudi or zShare

mp3: Fatboy Slim David Byrne and Santigold – Please Don’t or zShare

Major Lazer at Terminal 5, 10.10.09

We arrived at Terminal 5 for HARD before midnight to catch Major Lazer‘s set. The whole time I was under the impression that it was just going to be a “DJ set” …but I was way off. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I turned to a friend and said “this is fucking crazy” or “this is insane!”

Terminal 5 was an absolute circus on and offstage. The crowd looked about ready for a rave, while the onstage dancers during Major Lazer’s set performed some of the most jaw dropping stage antics I’ve ever seen including, ladders, weightlifting, gold booty shorts and scandalous dance moves.

Crookers at Terminal 5, 10.10.09

Diplo sans Switch represented Major Lazer, with special guests Nina Sky for Keep it Goin’ Louder and Santigold for Hold The Line. It was a solid 1 hour set show that went above and beyond any of my expectations.

Italian duo Bot and Phra aka Crookers slid right in after Diplo wrapped around 1 AM. Crookers’ set focused heavily on connecting with the crowd through the music and visual montages that rotated between Peter Cottontail, text, animation and footage of Crooker’s DJing live via the camera attached to the turn tables.

I’d seen Crookers DJ at Webster Hall with Annie Mac earlier this year but this was a much grander scale. I was greatly impressed yet again, left anticipating the full-length debut this January, titled Tons Of Friends. Spotted at HARD: M.I.A. and Trouble Andrew.

MP3: Crookers – Knobbers or zShare
MP3: Proxy – Raven (Crookers Remix) or zShare
MP3: Major Lazer – Jump Up (Featuring Leftside and Supahyp) or zShare

Crookers

Ida Maria Citi Stage Saturday 2:15PM >>

We’ve seen Ida Maria a handful of times this year in intimate venues such as Bell House, Music Hall of Williamsburg and Mercury Lounge so it was interesting to see what she’d do onstage at a festival in broad daylight.

At the beginning of her set I got the impression that she felt a bit constrained and tame waiting to bust out (see pic.) Once she loosened up a bit Ida released her signature growl and shriek, locking in everyone’s attention and awe. The absolute highlight of Ida’s set was when she dumped water onto herself before diving into a spectacular cover of The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog.

Chairlift Citi Stage Saturday 3:30PM

Chairlift opened their set with the fabulous cover of Snoop’s Sexual Seduction and set the loungey seductive tone for their hour long set. There were a few sound issues but the trio powered through and delivered a strong set that served as yet another great platform for infiltrating mainstream.

<< Arctic Monkeys Budweiser Stage Saturday 4:30PM

My 3rd time seeing them in one week and I’m not sure i would’ve turned down 10 more opportunities to see them. Arctic Monkeys have matured and progressed in the ways every great band should and this set was an undeniable Lolla highlight for everyone who caught it. A.Turn and co.’s set was 10 min longer than at APW, so a more well rounded performance was able to take shape featuring the achingly epic 505 as set closer. The crowd went seriously bananas (read: crowdsurfing, moshing, pushing, flailing) and the band deserved every bit of excitement and enthusiasm hurled their way. [Jess]

Santigold Playstation Saturday Stage 5:30PM >>

Call me naive but I honestly didn’t think Santigold would draw in the immense crowd that she did on day 2 of Lollapalooza! Bon Iver played the Playstation stage the night before as well and surprised me with the number of people squeezed in to catch his set.

Santigold donned a gold jumper and gold sneakers to a huge crowd that ranged from ghetto to prep. It was pretty awesome sweating my ass off in Chicago with a bunch of strangers chanting “Brooklyn we go hard, we go hard!” in unison..if only they knew the half of it!

MP3: Basement Jaxx Featuring Santigold – Saga or zShare

Glasvegas Vitamin Water Stage Saturday 5:30 PM

Glasvegas’ crowd was surprisingly subdued, most likely due to the fact that the crowds were stalled across the park as the overwhelmingly large Arctic Monkeys crowd was leaving and the just as incredibly large Santigold crowd was filing it. Despite the serious festival gridlock, Glasvegas played a tight set as more and more fans trickled in to catch James Allan expertly belt out favorites like Geraldine and Daddy’s Gone. [Jess]

<< Lykke Li Citi Stage Saturday 6:30PM

I had to unfortunately leave the Santigold set a few minutes early in order to make it in time for Lykke Li. I saw her only one week prior at All Points West but I just can’t get enough of her captivating set. Her set from Lollapalooza was extra special in that she brought on Miike Snow singer Andrew Wyatt for the cover of Kings of Leon’s Knocked Up. It was a great and unexpected treat!

MP3: Miike Snow – Plastic Jungle or zShare

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Budweiser Stage Saturday 8PM >>

One week prior we caught Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ killer set at All Points West, so this time around it was all about singing and dancing our asses off. We found a comfortable spot and literally danced until we were (almost) dead, scaring bystanders! Jess said it best:  it was our own Saturday night dance party featuring Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Indeed it was, and also a great prelude to another epic night out in Chi-town.

MP3: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero (Erol Alkan Remix) or zShare

Santigold at Terminal 5, 6.9.2009

Santigold checked in earlier this week regarding work on her sophomore album, the follow up to Santogold (is the album still called Santogold or did they change that too?)

Production credits for the as-yet untitled album so far go to Pharrell Williams, Diplo and Switch….yummy! Of the album that will resume recording in August, Santi White had this to say about her work with Pharrell:

“We went in the studio and he was like, ‘I’ll just play the buckets’. It was like, ‘Boom, ah, buh-doom, ah!’”

Label me excited and anxious! Check out our coverage of her amazing show last week at Terminal 5 HERE.

MP3: Santigold – Say A-Ha (Cosmic Phones Mix) or zShare