Grum’s new single “Through The Night” is on heavy rotation at the Mr. Newton HQ at the moment. It’s so awesome…it makes me want to DJ at a sweaty Fashion Week dance party just so I can play it at the peak of the night! It’s that kind of jammy-jam. And the video! I mean Taylor, I’mma let you finish, but Grum has made one of the greatest videos of all time!
Summer anthem much??
(P.S. – I’m usually a big fan of singles rather than albums…but in this case (Crazy for You – Best Coast) you should really buy the whole album…most of their songs sound the same…and I mean that as a compliment…the whole album is like one big hazy, sunny, distorted, fuzzy, pop dream…it’s great to listen to the whole thing straight thru.
P.P.S. – Have you ever gone to the beach and laid on your back with your head facing the water and done the upside down “the ocean is now the sky” thing that they do at the beginning of this video? It’s really freaky and cool…it’s like waves are breaking across the sky…I just did it a few days ago at Jones Beach…haha! Yes, I’m a dork. I don’t care – it’s summer and I’m having fun… xx)
Hey – how’s it going? So it’s Thursday afternoon…just hanging around the Mr. Newton HQ in Williamsburg, Brooklyn…listening to some fun music with my interns – the usual. It has me thinking back to earlier this week (Monday to be exact) when I was out shooting street fashion in Nolita…I’d stopped by Ruby’s for their dead-on-authentic-yet-not-contrived-in-the-least Bondi Beach cafe vibe…and for a bowl of perfectly al dente spaghetti pesto and a fresh mint-and-pineapple smoothie (yum!)…and I ran into my Aussie friend M. and she was saying that her family is here from Sydney for the entire month of August and that they had rented a house out in Montauk. All of which got me thinking about summer vacations…and beaches…and surfing (I don’t know how but it looks like it would be amazing)…and Montauk…and Australia (I love it down there)…and about how August is such an awesome month to just lay around and do not much of anything.
Well, if you’re hanging around with friends and family during these last weeks of glorious summer, I thought that I would put together a little 21-track summer playlist for you. I used to DJ full-time for the fashion industry…and still do so occasionally these days. I also want to say – I don’t put any of these songs on here if I don’t genuinely LOVE them! I don’t make playlists to show how cool I am…or to demonstrate how ironic or cheeky I can be. I’m listening non-stop to every single one of these tracks below and they are listed here purely because I think that they are rad…and you should try to find all of them. Speaking of dancing, I’ve got to wrap this up and get out of here soon…I’m heading out to the sold-out Chromeo show at Bowery Ballroom tonight! Talk soon…xx Mr. Newton
I know it’s only April 19th but I think we’ve got a good candidate here…
Hi – I hope everyone’s Monday is off to a great start! I had inspiration from so many sources over the weekend…fashion music photography movies travel magazines food (the roast chicken at El Malecon!)…I thought I would share a few of my weekend obsessions with you.
Hurts are one of my very favorite groups at the moment. I’ve never heard a modern group that sounds more authentically 80′s – as though they were time-warped from the age of Bronski Beat and Soft Cell. Their self-described “slow disco” sound would have provided the perfect soundtrack to a late night at the Blitz club circa-1982. They’re in the studio currently working on their debut album due out mid-August 2010. You can find “Wonderful Life” and two other great tracks now by clicking on the “Mr. Record Store” link on my sidebar and searching MP3 blogs via The Hype Machine. (Hurts currently have no tracks for sale in the UK iTunes store – where I usually get most of my music.) I’m a bit obsessed with the minimal black-and-white video they made for the track as well!
Oh and speaking of music and video – this weekend I watched Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways. I’d seen the Dakota Fanning/Kristen Stewart movie (twice) recently and really liked it and wanted to know more about them. I watched “Edgeplay” via Netflix streaming (another obsession)…though if you search on Youtube someone has recently posted it there in like 12 parts. (Actually it’s really hard to find there – search for “Runaways documentary” and you’ll see what I mean. Here’s the link though.)
Finally – though a blogger I may be – my obsession with print and with magazines and with collecting magazines will never end! I spent some serious quality time this weekend with the brand-new self service No. 32 – believe it. xx
self service photo by Ezra Petronio
Up early today and getting some work done at home…already listened to this about 4 times this morning…thought I would share. Super excited for the new Goldfrapp album on Tuesday! I’ve been out of town for much of this year so far but I’m heading out soon to shoot street fashion today in Manhattan for the first time in 2010. I’ll be sharing those shots with you here soon of course. First though I’ve got well over 100 more photos to post from Paris Fashion Week! xx (P.S. – The weather here is insane today and has been for the last few days – 70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky – loving it. Went out yesterday evening to Ryan McGinley’s photo opening in Soho which turned into a big downtown NYC street party with people blocking Grand Street on skateboards and bikes and drinking in the street until the cops and fire dept. came – yay SPRING! “Oh oh oh I got a rocket…”)
Cassette Kids – Lying Around [Official Video]
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Hi there…you know…I was lying around this morning…listening to some music…and umm, it was really rad music…so I thought you guys might like to know what I’m listening to recently. As some of you know, before I became obsessed with street style photography, I used to DJ fashion shows and parties and stuff. I DJed the official kick-off party for New York Fashion Week…the end-of-the-season party for Saturday Night Live…the opening of a dental school at NYU (hey, it was a paying gig). I still keep my music collection bang up to date…so that I’m ready to DJ at a moment’s notice…I’m not exactly sure why I do this…because it takes a bit of effort…and I don’t DJ very often these days…I think partly it’s just a case of “once a DJ, always a DJ”. I was always the one taking over the music if a friend’s party started to suck…so I was sort of DJing before I was a DJ…and I’m still DJing now…in my mind at least. Everything on this list has recently been in heavy rotation at the Mr. Newton HQ – believe it. There are so many tracks and artists here I’m obsessed with…ugh – just listening to “Dance In The Dark” gets me excited to see Gaga at Radio City later this month! The Sounds remix…the Hazlewood album…the Camera Obscura cover of Abba…Madleen…Annie…Fred Falke – you really should try to find this whole list. Lots of them are available in the US and UK iTunes stores – others can be found by searching here. Oh, and the Ke$ha video? I pretty much just posted that because I thought she looked hot lying around in her hotel bed. xx Mr. Newton
These cuties are Au Revoir Simone from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They DJed the Refinery 29/Madewell party last night. Did I mention that “Paris” – by Friendly Fires ft. Au Revoir Simone (Aeroplane remix) is one of Mr. Newton’s tracks of the year for 2009?? That song is amazing – it sounds best turned up loud…
On the street in Williamsburg last weekend…either she’s on point with the nouveau Navajo trend or I’ve been listening to “Thunderbird” by The Golden Filter way too much and am now starting to see things…xx
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