Carey Mulligan scoops best dressed award

Young actress's kooky fashion savvy beats Victoria Beckham and Yasmin Le Bon to Harper's Bazaar's best dressed crown.



The young British star Carey Mulligan, has been crowned the Best Dressed Woman of 2010 by the UK glossy, Harper's Bazaar.

The 25-year-old actress outclassed more seasoned contenders for the title such as Victoria Beckham, Tilda Swinton, Natalia Vodianova, and even the Prime Minister's wife, SamCam.

Mulligan, described by one of the judges, the designer Erdem Moralioglu, as being "Like a Godard starlet - but totally modern", has rarely been off the fashion radar since her much-nominated appearance in "An Education".

With the assistance of her stylist, Tina Laakkonen, she continually challenges and surprises with her insider knowledge of the latest lust-have names. In the last year alone, she has worn Lanvin, Vionnet, Azzaro, Nina Ricci, Giles and Bottega Veneta, together with Chanel, Prada, Miu Miu, Elie Saab, Proenza Schouler and, the Singaporean, Nepal-raised and New York-based, Prabal Gurung, who is one of American Vogue's Anna Wintour's 'hot' names to watch.

Mulligan's only slight fall from style grace happened in the aftermath of her recent break-up with actor, Shia LaBeouf, but even then she managed to make grunge-y jeans, a scraggy T-shirt and no make-up look appealing rather than appalling.

Victoria Beckham was the runner-up in the Harper's Bazaar Best Dressed poll, with Yasmin Le Bon in third place.

The judging panel, which included the magazine's editor, Lucy Yeomans, Sienna Miller, Stephen Jones, Kim Hersov and Moralioglu, selected the Top 20 women who represent all that is great about British style today, ranging in age from Coco Sumner, the 20-year old daughter of Sting, to Bianca Jagger, 65. The list also included the mother-and-daughter duo of the 'Brazilian Bombshell', Andrea Dellal, and her shoe designer-daughter, Charlotte.

Others listed included Alexa Chung, Florence Welch, Kristin Scott Thomas, Natalie Massenet, Kate Moss, Stella McCartney, Sienna Miller, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Shingai Shoniwa of The Noisettes.

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Follow Music Bloggers on Twitter

While Elbows can be an easy way to get all of your music news in one convenient location, some people may appreciate up to the minute tips, notes and news. For this, we turn to Twitter.

This is, of course, not a complete list. If your favorite blog is not listed, check their site or search for them on Twitter. If you’re a blogger and not listed, post in the comments and I’ll try to update accordingly.

http://puddlegum.net - @puddlegum
http://www.eachnotesecure.com - @eachnotesecure
http://blog.ipickmynose.com - @ipickmynose
http://holeytonal.com - @holeytonal
http://www.donewaiting.com - @donewaiting
http://www.earfarm.com - @earfarm
http://blog.largeheartedboy.com - @largeheartedboy
http://loudersoft.com - @loudersoft
http://www.hardcandymusic.com - @hardcandymusic
http://blog.wired.com/music - @listeningpost
http://www.drownedinsound.com - @drownedinsound
http://dctobc.com - @DCtoBC
http://nasdank.com - @NASDANK
http://radioexile.com - @radioexile
http://captainsdead.com - @captainsdead
http://www.nialler9.com - @nialler9
http://www.somuchsilence.com - @somuchsilence

And, of course, you can always follow our updates here: @elbows

Updates:

http://www.blackcountrygrammar.co.uk - @jonthebeef
http://neonlimelight.com - @neonlimelight
http://www.popsense.com - @PopSense
http://www.howwastheshow.com - @howwastheshow
http://www.buzzgrinder.com - @seancannon
http://www.ninebullets.net - @autopsy4

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 and is filed under Lists. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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Ignoring Kanye: Five Items That Have Nothing to do with Kanye West

Kanye West has been hogging the Elbows’ Hot Artist chart since shortly after the MTV VMA’s when tracks from his upcoming album, 808s & Heartbreak, started leaking like?Valerie Plame’s whereabouts. As much as we love us some Kanye, there’s got to be more, right?

The fact is, the entire list has stood somewhat stagnant with Radiohead and MGMT occupying their assumed positions in the top five. The new Oasis release,?Dig Out Your Soul, has secured them a top spot as did the Department of Eagles with their debut, In Ear Park.

If you only follow the top artists, you might be surprised to notice that some other, non-Kanye items might?be of interest:

5.?Wassup 2008
The guys that appeared in those annoying Budweiser commercials from 1999 - 2002 are back with political / social commentary.

4.?CMJ 2008 Recap
Last week was the 2008 CMJ Music Festival in NYC. ?A ton of shows took place and a lot of bloggers are buzzing about their experiences, posting pics and reviews of new bands.

3.?M.I.A. to release new EP
The thought-to-be-retiring, recently knocked-up summer superstar, M.I.A., announced that she will be releasing a three song EP including a remix of Boyz featuring Jay-Z.

2. Bloc Party’s Intimacy Gets Physical
For those of you (myself included) who purchased Bloc Party’s Intimacy in digital format, this might not seem like that big of a deal at first glance. However, if your album art has been a black square that says Intimacy in it, you can now grab the official album art from iTunes (or Amazon). Also, there are some bonus tracks floating around.

1. Q-Tip is Back
Blogs have been buzzing lately about Q-Tip’s first album in 6 years and first official release since 1999’s Amplified. The word is that?The Renaissance is more sing-songy than rap, but there hasn’t been a lack of praise.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 and is filed under What's Hot. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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Bloggers Dumping Blogspot

Over the past week, music bloggers using Google’s Blogger.com have been complaining that their posts are being removed without their consent. While Blogger allows users to quickly toss up a site, seasoned writers often graduate to a more robust software package such WordPress.

It seems as though this recent censorship is convincing more and more Blogger users to jump ship. This week, veteran music bloggers, Quick Before it Melts and The Music Slut have made the jump, not only to WordPress, but to their own domain names. (congrats to them)

With Blogger removing more and more posts daily, how long will it be before more music (and other) blogs move to WordPress? If you have a story about Google censoring your posts, leave it in the comments. If you’re switching to WordPress, check the Elbows Music Blogger community here to get started or start a new discussion if you need help.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 and is filed under Blog News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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Roundup: Music Bloggers Get Out The Vote

Tomorrow is election day in the US and bloggers are urging people to find their local voting locations in order to cast their ballots.

Here are some posts from around the music blogosphere:

Vague Space’s 50 Songs for 50 States
Leading with five election-related tunes from the likes of Sufjan, Radiohead and Death Cab, Vague Space did their homework coming up with a song for each of the 50 states.

Jordan Shaw Endorses The Cobrasnake
He may be Canadian, but we’re living in a world where American politics affect every country (especially our friendly neighbors to the north). That’s why JSHAW is openly endorsing The Cobrasnake.

Donewaiting.com Has a First Hand Account of an Obama Rally in Ohio
With Barack Obama drawing huge crowds across the midwest, it’s interesting to get a first hand account from a participant. But, only as a music blogger can do,?Wes Flexner reports on the selected music in his excellent recap.

Invisible Oranges Shares The Results of The Economist’s World Vote Experiment
Two questions raised here: What if the world could vote? and, given those results, Why is this even close? Even if you don’t stay tuned for the grindcore tracks, the commentary and link to The Economist are worth checking out.

Lastly, this video has been making it’s way up the Elbows Hot Video list:

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These are, of course, just a few of the music bloggers actively talking about this election. For more topics, try these tags and /or searches: vote, politics,?election, obama, mccain, palin

This entry was posted on Monday, November 03rd, 2008 and is filed under Roundup. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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Bot Changes

I just wanted to post a quick note to say we’ve changed the way the bot will be crawling. If you’re using either the manual or automatic pings, this will not affect you - we will still crawl these as they come in.

Otherwise, here are a few things to take note of:

Unapproved blogs get crawled at night. If you submit a new blog, you’re going to have to wait at least a day for it to be approved (but probably longer).Crawling has been optimized so that we get through all the blogs within 90 minutes during off-peak hours. We’ll monitor to see if this remains similar throughout the day.If you’re a very active blogger, you will be prioritized over bloggers who post less frequently. This is an attempt to decrease the number of failed scrapes. We don’t want to scrape an inactive blog more than an active blog.

Also, we will probably be implementing some sort of “holding pattern” for inactive blogs. This will probably mean that, if you haven’t posted anything for a week or longer, we will only crawl once per night.

Again, if you’re using the pinging services, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about - we will still crawl them as they come in. This is probably the best way to get us your posts as quickly as possible. Another thing to take note of is, if you are using feedburner, pinging MAY not always work as quickly. This is because feedburner caches your feed and your latest post does not always appear immediately in your feedburner feed. If you are concerned about this, send over a link to your raw feed and we’ll replace the feedburner link with it.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 and is filed under Elbows News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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My Old Kentucky Blog Presents: LaundroMatinee

My Old Kentucky Blog founder,?Craig “Dodge” Lile, has launched a new site featuring exclusive performances from groups such as Dr Dog, The Spinto Band and Bon Iver.

After recording audio from more than 80 performances at?Pendleton Heights High School, Dodge and?high school radio station general manager and teacher, Jeff DuPont, with the video expertise of?Tim Wilsbach began recording both audio and video. A few weeks back, they started making it available via LaundroMatinee.com. It has a very personal feel to it and is definitely worth checking out. Their Bon Iver session can be seen here.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 and is filed under Blog News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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The Machine Gets a Voice.

Welcome to the reincarnation of the Elbows Blog. This time, we’re going to attempt to focus on what’s happening in the music blog community with a little chatter about new features on Elbows mixed in.

Our posts here will be at our discretion. If you wish to follow every word of the Music Blogosphere, see the Elbows main page here or visit the Elbows Music Blogger Community for discussions.

We hope you enjoy and, as always, if you have tips or feedback, please message us at info@elbo.ws

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 and is filed under Elbows News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.

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