Cool Hunting
| 04 September 2006view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
The Fratellis
by SummerSeventySix
The Fratellis are a slightly cartoonish trio called Mince, Barry and Jon who have been touring the UK solidly since the Spring and are now reaping the rewards with their latest single Chelsea Dagger. They deserve it. It's a perfect slice of British, glam-tinged, swaggering power pop with a great rumbling bassline and do-do-do singalong chorus. Previous releases Creeping Up The Backstairs and Henrietta are nearly as good, coming over like a frenetic, polished, 60s-influenced Arctic Monkeys and should, in my opinion, be made available on every pub jukebox that still exists. The fact that the band is named after the baddies in The Goonies is yet another feather in their cap.
More will be revealed next week when The Fratellis much-anticipated debut album Costello Music hits stores on 11 September 2006. It's already available for pre-order at Amazon UK.
Roddick vs. Pong
by Josh Rubin
Seen in January during the Australian Open, this American Express ad is back for another round during the US Open. You don't have to be a tennis fan to appreciate Ogilvy's clever combination of live action and animation to show a real life game of Pong being played on the court by Andy Roddick. Further promoting AmEx cards, the ad shows the url stoppong.com which has an 8-bit style, tennis theme Pong game developed by Fuel Games.
