Showing All "Santigold" Posts
May 19th, 2008 4 Comments
With her spread out style and numerous monster jams, it's not easy to understand Santogold's Commercial Appeal. If it seems like we're reporting on it every other day, it's because we practically…   Read Story »
May 16th, 2008 26 Comments
What do you get when you combine the selling power of Bud Light's Santogold with the laconic New York charm of the Stroke's Casablancas and the non-laconic L.A. sizzle of N.E.R.D.-y Pharrell Williams…   Read Story »
May 2nd, 2008 8 Comments
Yes everybody's crushing on Santogold. The record's so solid that Santi and Downtown thought it didn't even need this sweet and mellow reggae jam on its tracklist, apparently. Which is crazy because…   Read Story »
Apr 26th, 2008 5 Comments
Greetings from Indio. We saw lots of stuff yesterday: Les Savy Fav, The National, Cut Copy, The Verve (!), Aphex Twin (!!), Jack Johnson (!!!). And so far one celebrity (does Whitney Port count?).…   Read Story »
Apr 25th, 2008 6 Comments
You can't blame people for thinking Santogold's long awaited debut LP would come on M.I.A. style: there were the preadvertised producers (Kala cohorots Diplo and Switch), the panglobal beat-infused…   Read Story »
Apr 18th, 2008 18 Comments
Months after Kala made M.I.A. one of 2007's most Sri Lankan crossover stars, Maya's still bringing the bangas to the people with an orgiastic stage show and hypercolor fabric patterns. Indeed our…   Read Story »
Apr 17th, 2008 5 Comments
There's the "L.E.S. Artistes" video, and there's been plenty of chances to catch her live, but for the Santogold fan with that deep down and unquenchable thirst, this "Creator"'s for you. MTV can't…   Read Story »
Apr 14th, 2008 13 Comments
Saturday night's Live featured Ashton Kutcher as host, Ashton Kutcher in one too many Cool Pix commercials, and Gnarls Barkley as musical guest. We never got around to posting Gnarls's show at…   Read Story »
Mar 17th, 2008 7 Comments
This is it everybody, the last photo post of SXSW '08. That means it's time for our superlatives, so welcome to our list of the SXSW 2008 Top Five. These are the bands who delivered sets we could not…   Read Story »
Mar 6th, 2008 9 Comments
We've been waiting on this one awhile, nice to see it drop just in time to remind people about how tough it's gonna be to get into Santogold's shows at SXSW next week. (She's worth it.) Santi's…   Read Story »



































