New single from the Flux EP!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Leading the way for a 60's soul revival comes Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings. They are a great band that sort of grew from the rap collective The Soul Providers. Their gimmick is to make it look real. So the videos look old, the music is recording on old analog equipment and the soulful singing is done courtesy of the lovely Miss Sharon Jones!
Friday, November 16, 2007
2008 Independent Album of the Year Awards
And the nominees for 2008 Independent Album of the Year, are....
* Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
* Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)
* Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
* Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing)
* El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux)
* Justice - † (Downtown / Vice / Ed Banger)
* Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
* Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
* Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
* Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
* Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
* The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
All these are super great albums! Although I have the album and have tried to get into them, Beirut and Panda Bear I cannot quite get into.
http://www.plugawards.com/general_vote.php
The Killers - Tranquilize
New one from The Killers off their new album of bsides and rarieties called Sawdust. This is Tranquilize with the classic Velvet Underground alumni Lou Reed!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Jay-Z is the American Gangster
Jay-Z isnt my favorite rapper. But with this album, that is the unofficial soundtrack for the movie of the same name, he changes his pace a little bit. His lyrics are a bit more thick and the beats are all smooth Motown sounds sampled oh so perfectly. P-Diddy does the beats! Which is crazy because I dont really like him either. But yet here they are creating what seems to me to be a perfectly flawless album. Here is a great live track from the album!
RIP Lee Hazlewood
This was Lee Hazlewood's last recording before he died of cancer in August. It was recorded a month before his death.
Saul Williams
Saul Williams has a great new album produced by Trent Reznor called Niggy Tardust. Here is a great video of him performing "Black Stacey" off of his last album.
The National - Slow Show
The National has the best album of 2007 so far if you ask me! It is called Boxer, go pick it up!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Coheed and Cambria - The Running Free
Here is the new single from Coheed and Cambria's new album. The album rocks, this is probably the weakness song on the album, which isnt a bad thing!
Jacques Brel
I dont know much about Jacques Brel except that he was a actor and director as well as a popular Belgian, French singer. But man with this guy sings he owns the song! He puts is all into it. This performance is really cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Brel
Dj Lobsterdust - Saysayism AllStar Jam
Lobsterdust has been making these awesome mashups for a couple years now and I anxiously await every new one. This one is so cool. Who else would mash Rhianna, Mary J, Michael Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, Diana Ross, Nelly Furtado, Rick James,Teh Temptations and Paul McCartney!
Friday, November 09, 2007
Example (of good rap)
Great new rapper Example out of London shows us some of his excellent word play with backing vocals by the Carpenters!
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
This is a great video! And it has Sarah Silverman so why wouldnt it be!? This is off the new album.
Rilo Kiley Begs You To Shake That Moneymaker!
Great lead single from Rilo Kiley off of their new album, Under the Blacklight.
Atreyu Becomes a Bull
Atreyu has a great new album out called Paper Sails and Lead Anchors. This is the lead single Becoming the Bull. Not the best song on the album but the only video so far.
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