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Remixes: Death Cab vs Madonna
2007-12-27 21:07:00
Who knew that a ridiculous bullshit pop song like "Hung Up" could be classed up so well? Well, that's what Party Ben when he mashed up the "Hung Up" vocals with samples from "Soul Meets Body" by Death Cab (one of my all-time favorite songs). And the result? Doesn't suck at all. It's actually kinda cool.
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Music Videos: The Go Team
2007-12-27 04:37:00
We're back from Christmas Break, and we're posting one of our favorite music videos of the year. The Go Team 's Youtube-famous Ms Pacman video was wicked and we just wanted to post it in the five minutes we have to throw up a new post. Happy holidays, enjoy the vid.
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Random Track of the Day: The MIA-Timbaland collaboration
2007-12-21 00:02:00
I've been meaning to post this ever since "Kala" was released, but I just never got around to it. "Come Around" was a track that MIA and Timbaland collaborated to produce that was originally intended to be included on "Shock Value", but for whatever reason, it didn't make the cut, and ended up on MIA's new album instead. It's "Shock Value"'s loss; this song is better than 90% of that album. At least it eventually found the light of day, because it's ridiculously addictive. Also, the song proves why MIA is one of my favorite lyricists working in the music industry right now. The lyrics are copy/pasted below the Youtube embed. The "In a far away land" verse is ridiculous. In a good way, obviously. M.I.A.:Check my coat in and I paid the dollar,Sidekick rings, "what's up? holla!"Text the address, I'll see you laterBaby come downCome down, come down, come downrun down, run down, run downRun, make a run, make a run, make a run, make a run, make a run downA dun da da dun da da dun ...
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Covers: Jamie Cullum British-ifies "Frontin"
2007-12-20 23:59:00
Here's another cover in the category of "Hip Hop Covers That Most Hip Hop Fans Would Despise". Jamie Cullum did a British Jazz-sounding cover of Pharrell's old hit "Frontin", and it was really cool even though on paper you would expect it to be boring as hell.
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New music: Lupe Fiasco
2007-12-19 03:48:00
The new Lupe Fiasco album "The Cool", came out today, and it sounds amazing. It's an album that you can't really fully process at once, so I need to find time to listen to the whole thing without distractions. So far, I think the best song on the album is "Streets on Fire", which just radiates intense atmosphere from the first second. I wish there were more people like this guy in the music industry.
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Music Videos: MIA (mostly) Uncensored
2007-12-18 02:56:00
I love the new MIA single so much. "Paper Planes" is ridiculously addictive, so I was disappointed when MTV fucked up the music video by watering down the concept and then editing out the gunshot sound effects that the song is so memorable for. And MIA was PISSED. Luckily, a better version of the video has surfaced since then. It doesn't have nearly as much edge as the original concept, but the audio of the song is completely intact.
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Live Music: Tori Amos ("Get the Fuck Out!")
2007-12-14 23:36:00
I love this video so much. Tori Amos is doing a damn good job of performing "Code Red" when a couple girls in the front row start to disrupt the show. So, Tori stops the song out of nowhere and says "Get the fuck out of my show", and tells them that the front row is only for people that care about the music. And it was awesome. There's about eight minutes of fantastic performance to go with it, too.
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Music Videos: The White Stripes
2007-12-14 03:27:00
Yay! The "Conquest" EP by the White Stripes just got released. The video for the EP's title track has been floating around the internet for a few weeks now, but it's worth repeating a few times so I'm posting it anyway. Crazy-good stuff.
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Remixes: Hollaback Killers
2007-12-14 03:12:00
This remix is ridiculously cool. It flawlessly remixes the march-stomp from "Hollaback Girl" to match the vocals of "Somebody Told Me". It puts a really interesting twist on both songs. I could live without the synth riff from Hollaback that gets dropped in half-way through, but the rest kicks ass.
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Music videos: Amy Winehouse's "Love Is A Losing Game"
2007-12-11 23:45:00
The new video for "Love Is A Losing Game " just came out. It's nice. I really would have rather seen "Me and Mr Jones" or "Addicted" be her new single, but this'll work too.
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Acoustic: Jeff Buckley
2007-12-11 03:04:00
Just in case I haven't said this enough times on this blog: This man is so fucking talented. I went digging for some acoustic versions of Jeff Buckley 's work this afternoon, and here's the two best tracks I found during the short amount of time I had. The first is "Last Goodbye"-- this version is a little more alternative and less "radio friendly"-sounding than the album version, and it's a sound that works extremely well for the song. The second is "Lover You Should Have Come Over", a version that's a little quieter but still packs just as much intensity as the original. I always thought that the album version of LYSHCO was his best song, even beating his cover of "Hallelujah". I can't believe that dozens of artists aren't lineing up to cover "You Should Have Come Over" the same way dozens of artists lined up to cover "Hallelujah".
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Remixes: Tegan & Sara v Mylo
2007-12-07 23:55:00
Another track from our playlist of all-time favorite mashups. This one is the Party Ben mashup of "Walking With A Ghost" by Tegan and Sara and "Paris Four Hundred" by Mylo . The combination works 20 times better than you would expect it to.
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Covers: Chromatics does "Running Up That Hill"
2007-12-05 23:40:00
I never cared about Chromatics that much (mostly because I thought "Nite" was one of the worst songs I had ever heard), but this is some pretty good work from them. They did an electro-style cover of "Running Up That Hill " by Kate Bush and recently made famous to a new indie generation by Placebo. It's a nice half-way point between the two; it's not ridiculously over-the-top (not just regular over-the-top, but 80's over-the-top) like the original, and not dragged down by ugly vocals that take several listens to get used to. Don't get me wrong, I think Placebo's cover is brilliant, but those vocals are really hard to take the first few times around. But this is the near-perfect balance of subtlety and accessability.
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Covers: Tegan and Sara do "Umbrella"
2007-12-05 03:22:00
It's not news that Tegan and Sara are one of the many, many artists to cover "Umbrella ". However, the only videos I found when I first look had such bad audio quality that I could barely get through watching the whole thing. But yesterday, I found a 2-minute clip that, although short, is still worth it for damn near perfect audio quality (at least compared to the others). Turn your snob off for a couple minutes and just enjoy a nice cover of one of the year's most entertaining bullshit pop songs.
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Random Track of the Day: Leticia Wolf, Part 2
2007-12-03 23:15:00
We've posted about an awesome but relatively unknown artist named Leticia Wolf before; we talked about her "Heart-Shaped Box"-ish sounding song "Married to Grunge" two months ago, snd now we've found a track of hers that we like even more, so we're posting that too. It's an earlier song called "drain" (no capitalization), and it's a much different side of her than we saw in "Married to Grunge". This is a much more real and vulnerable side that really lets Wolf's lyrical skills show through. "Married" coasted on the lyrics (repeating the same line 20+ times) but made up for it with an intoxicating instrumental and production, while this is more lo-fi and basic guitar work with deeply personal and well thought-out lyrics. It's a lovable and relatable breakup song that's so smartly written that it makes you want to cheer for a verse describing how she cleaned her tub during the weekend. You need to hear it to believe it.
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Essay: Of Montreal frontman on why Punk/Indie elitists can go fuck themselv
2007-11-29 23:02:00
Kevin Barnes, one of the most creative and interesting artists in the indie world, has written a brilliant article about how ridiculous the old-school-punk mentality is, especially when it comes to whiny indie elitists slamming bands for becoming commercially successful. I agree with every single word in this piece. After the ridiculously unfair backlashes against The Killers, Rilo Kiley, Against Me, and countless other indie bands lucky enough to discover mainstream success, it's good to see someone in the industry taking a stand against all the bullshit.Here it is:Selling Out Isn't Possibleby Kevin BarnesAre you a sell out? Yes. Don't let it bother you though, cause apparently Iam also a sell out, and so are your parents and everyone you've ever known.The only way to avoid selling out is to live like a savage all alone in thewilderness. The moment you attempt to live within the confines of a socialorder, you become a sell out. Once you attempt to coexist you sell out. Ifthat'...
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Remixes: Skeewif's Bitter:Sweet remix
2007-11-27 23:16:00
God bless Bitter :Sweet and their crazy songs. The coolest duo in electronic music create the most remixable songs in the industry. "Dirty Laundry" was a irresistable piece of underappreciated brilliance, and damn near every remix I've heard of it has been genius. The best of the pack though is the Skeewiff remix. It strips the original down and then glosses back over it with a new slick rock-tinged riff that draws you in and doesn't let go. One of my favorite remixes of the last few years.
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Covers: Shawn Lee does Kylie
2007-11-27 03:24:00
I'm in love with Shawn Lee and his Ping Pong Orchestra, and Lee's work is actually one of my strongest influences as a producer. I still have his "Hits the Hits" album in heavy rotation on my iPod a month and a half after its release, which is impressive considering how A.D.D. I am about music sometimes. We talked about his Bollywood take on "Toxic" a while back, and now we're back for more. The closing track is one of the albums strongest songs; a jazzy instrumental cover of Kylie 's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". He didn't just switch out some instruments; he clearly put a lot of thought in tweaking the song just right so it would be completely different from the original, but still instantly recognizable. Impressive work. Expect more posts related to Shawn's album in the future.
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Remixes: Raconteurs vs Gnarls Barkley mashup
2007-11-22 00:12:00
The Legion of Doom is responsible for the some of the best mashups in the business, and this one's near the top of their list. Indie rock and R&B soul are really fucking hard to mash together, but this is an example of how to do it RIGHT. It's "Steady As She Goes" vs "Crazy", and it owns.
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New Music: One Republic
2007-11-20 23:20:00
OK, here's the thing: "Apologize" does nothing for me. I think it sounds like it's O.R.'s trying too hard. So I was really surprised when I heard their new album, "Dreaming Out Loud", and really enjoyed it. It's not groundbreaking, but it's totally listenable and worth an hour of your time. I assumed One Republic was going to turn out to be one of those 1.5-hit wonders like The Fray, but this is a really solid album that could put them on the map for a while. Here's the video for their upcoming single "Mercy", a song that's ten thousand times better than anything I had come to expect from "The Apologize Band".
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Live Music: Justice Live Set
2007-11-19 23:29:00
If you don't give a fuck about electronic music, move along, you can come back for tomorrow's post. But if you do, you might be interested this: Someone posted a video of 10 minutes of a live DJ set Justice did during the I Love Techno 2006 event. I recommend watching this to any DJs reading this blog, because it's pretty cool to see them in action for a long period of time.
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Live Covers: Ryan Adams does Alice in Chains
2007-11-17 00:05:00
On his live tour for "Easy Tiger", Ryan Adams (with The Cardinals) has been covering "Down in a Hole" by Alice in Chains, one of the best songs from 90s rock. He totally sells it, and it's brilliant. Totally worth the nine minutes.
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Music Videos: Gwen Stefani regains some credibility
2007-11-15 23:12:00
"The Sweet Escape" was a fun song, but it wasn't enough to forgive the godawful shittiness of "Wind it Up" and 2/3 of her last album. But this new single is good enough to put the past behind us. "Early Winter" is Gwen's best song in years, and I would love it if it was a huge hit. Unfortunately, the commercial failure of "Return of Saturn" taught us that America doesn't like Gwen to be serious, so this might end up being as obscure as "Now That You Got It". Too bad. It really is amazing.
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Random video craziness: God the DJ
2007-11-15 02:12:00
Not many Youtube videos are worth 7.5 minutes of your life, but this one absolutely is. It's called "God Is a DJ", and it's the most wickedly surreal short film I've seen in forever. It's ten kinds of brilliant, and whoever made it deserves all the money and success in the world.
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Random Track of the Day: Sia
2007-11-13 23:21:00
I've gotten so used to thinking of Sia as the down-tempo performer from Zero 7 and "Breathe Me" that I was a little shocked when I heard this song. In "The Girl You Lost to Cocaine", from her new album "Some People Have Real Problems", she's pissed. Really pissed. And it's amazing.
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Remixes: Eurythmics vs Eminem
2007-11-13 00:21:00
This mashup is hella old, but it's one of the best ever made, so I'm posting it anyway. I will never get sick of this.
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Random Track of the Day: Ryan Adams
2007-11-10 01:27:00
I kinda forgot what a good album "Love is Hell" was until I ran across it yesterday while I was iShuffling (my word). Yeah, there's a stretch in the third quarter where the album wallows way too much to be engaging at all, but there's still some classic stuff on there. One of the more impressive tracks was its quiet opening song, "Political Scientist". It doesn't do anything special sonically, but the lyrics are ridiculously well-written. They're the kind of lyrics that you can study for days and still not get a complete understanding of what he's trying to say. It could be about corruption, and how politicians sit on the sidelines of their town while the core falls to pieces. It could also be about The White Stripes. Really, it could. Check out the bold lyrics below the audio. Is it one, the other, both, or neither? Or does it even matter? He is drinking water from the faucet from the river From the tributary it comes through rusty pipes Outside his window sees the water That...
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As Seen on TV: "Stripper" by the Soho Dolls
2007-11-08 23:54:00
New segment: posts about awesome under-the-radar songs that have gotten some exposure from being on big TV shows. I actually discover a lot of music this way. I might never have heard of Sia if she hadn't been played on "Six Feet Under" ("Breath Me") and "Nip/Tuck" ("Numb"). I might never have heard of Page France if they hadn't been played on "Weeds" a couple weeks ago. I might never have given The Bravery's last album a second chance if "Believe" hadn't been plastered all over "Friday Night Lights" ads. So, now we're going to start pointing out the best unknown songs to surface on TV soundtracks. First up: "Stripper " by the Soho Doll s , a Eurotrash-influenced pop gem that's rock-bottom shallow but still adrenaline-filled. NME put it best by calling their music an ?Utterly magnificent slab of haughty electro-sleaze which makes Peaches sound as predatory and erotically charged as KT Tunstall. Let them get frosty on your ass ? it is winter after all.? The song got a pretty good...
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Live Music: Tori Amos
2007-11-08 00:26:00
OK, so if you like Tori Amos at all, you've probably heard about her recent performance of "Me With A Gun". The song is normally acapella, but yesterday she performed it with a full band. She performed in the character of Pip, one of her alter egos created for "American Doll Posse". The performance is totally chilling and a little scary, since the new instrumental for the song is really dark, apocalyptic rock that Marilyn Manson would play on a bad day. Even though using the props is a little hack, it's a brilliant performance overall.
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Music Videos: More Jenny Owen Youngs
2007-11-07 01:07:00
I heart this video. It's the video for Jenny Owen Youngs' surreal indie pop cover of "Hot in Herre", and it's completely fucked up in the most awesome way imaginable. It's a demented gem featuring hard-partying eskimos and polar bears, a hillarious contrast with the sluttiness of the original song.
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