Damn, in keeping with my Santi Love let’s all be impressed by her confidence to keep this remix off her record and give it to www.budlitetime.com! This track is banging! And now I’m thinking about buying Bud Lite. So mission accomplished. I have been target marketed.
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Kind of… In an earlier santi post we wondered out loud why LES/Brooklyn hipster poster girl would work with Ashlee Simpson. All do respect to both parties but how the f**k did that happen? In an interview with Popjustice.com Santi kinda explains herself and surprise surprise, her reasons are the same as mine for dating a woman in college that managed a Godiva Chocolatier… Chocolate and money.

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In an effort to bolster their video offerings LastFM/Presents has begun posting artist interviews. They have launched with Moby, Spoon, Steve Aoki and my raison d’etre Santogold, and assorted less clickable artist. The first batch of artist seem to have been interviewed over SXSW this past March. And for some reason the videos are not embeddable yet, but I am sure they are working on that?

Santi’s album does not drop till next tuesday April 29th but someone at Bud Lite’s Ad agency is way on the blog tip for tapping “Creator” for this spot.

I’m glad Santi is getting paid. And I’m even applauded her efforts on Ashlee Simpson’s lead single “Outta My Head (Blah Blah Blah)” And that song is a steaming pile. Santi wrote another track on the record but I can’t bring myself to listen to it.

Congratulations Santogold is Brooklyn’s Bjork,( kinda like I am the black Brad Pitt). Santogold has decided she is going to be an artist and not just a charicature of an brooklyn indie princess. This video ( directed by who? ) clearly shows she is going to push the enevelop of what is acceptable for women in hip hop to be portray as. Horse? Check. Uniformed sycronzied dancers? Check. Post apocolyptic smoke? oh yeah. And more vibrant crayola colored explosions, throw up, squibs and disembowlments than you can ask for in a 3 minute video!!! It’s kind of like the video I wish I made when I was 15 instead of spendng all my money on dime bags.

They seem to be doing all the right things. They just signed Kid Sister. They also just released the Santogold single on


. This year the reportedly have releases from Amanda Blank and Gnarls Barkley coming out. Great. Not to mention they are currently riding the wave of Justice and Spank Rock taking over the scene. (Justice at Madison Square Garden? Really? How’d that happen?).

I know the Downtown office’s must be busy. SXSW is coming up I’m sure they will be cazals to buy and all skinny pants to iron. But FOR THE LOVE OF GOD Downtown, UPDATE your website so you can show the fans some what’s going on! We need to know!
Let us know what downtown release’s you are looking forward to in 2008.