(Old Lady Soverign photo: she's chopped that side 'tail into a colored, layered shag but we've no press shot of that one at the moment)S-O-V's back .... with a vocoder in tow. The first single off mouthy Brit Lady Sovereign's upcoming album, "I Got You Dancing," has the pint-sized rapper bragging about her skills moving the sluggish to the dance floor with plenty of help from glitchy, Missy-ied beats and computerized alterations of her vocals. The song is the first single off her next full lengt
Lady Sovereign: Smelt it, dealt it, one stinker of a showWe posted the video from Lady Sovereign's performance at Rickshaw Stop on May 24, but for those who want to skip to the highlights (or lowlights, as it were), she performed a whopping three songs, total.
She stopped her set two songs in to go on a rant about the sound, qualifying her harsh words by saying "I'm not being an asshole, I'm just honest." She then dragged out her complaints, adding, "I will never play here again, I swear that.
SF Weekly writer/blogger/video-spotter Eric Arnold passed this little clip my way from a recent Lady Sovereign stop in Seattle on May 21. According to the dude behind the camera, the Sov stopped her in-store at Seattle's Easy Street Records after "almost one song" before rambling (he alleges drunkenly) to the crowd. (Eric suggests, "No more pre-show pints for our pint-sized femcee, perhaps?").
​If you've ever packed it into the Make-Out Room on a Saturday night, you have El Kool Kyle to thank for making you sweat. The El Superrritmo DJ goes crate digging across continents to bring back the best the barrios have to offer (and over Halloween weekend, you can take advantage of his sonic travels by grabbing a free El Kool Kyle mix at his club night). Kyle tells his story better than we can sum it up, though--especially if you flip to page two of this interview, where the dude tells his