Posts Tagged ‘MIA’

Photos: Virgin FreeFest 2010 (Night)

Finally! The second half of our belated FreeFest photo roundup. Check out the first installment here.
The evening portion of this year's Virgin FreeFest was bookended by two equally cool events. It started with randomly meeting Mark Ibold, bass player of Pavement, and ended with making out with M.I.A. (really!sorta!) But more on that shortly...

Leakproof: Rick Ross, Rye Rye, Outasight, Jadakiss

A weekly roundup of unreleased songs, new singles, and assorted musical detritus trickling out to the Web.
Rick Ross (feat. The Dream): “I Really Want”
Even though one of Rick Ross’s exes sided with his rival 50 Cent in their much-publicized beef, and another, it has recently been revealed, has a budding amateur porn career, it [...]

Lance Reddick’s Adventures in Competence

Via Pitchfork, I learn that Lance Reddick—better known as Lieutenant Daniels on The Wire—has recorded an album of jazz vocals. Painfully smooth, soporific jazz vocals. I suppose this is in keeping with the horrible track record that former Wire actors have had with their careers. But it's still sad to experience the aural equivalent of [...]