W.T.F.

I know I'm a whole season behind on finding out about this video, but gawd damn its rad.  Why can't every video be this cool?!  Bewbs, cosmos talk, light bulb sword fighting, randomness, & bewbs.  Had to spread it:

EL GUINCHO | Bombay from MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral on Vimeo.

Covers & Remixes

Unless you live under a rock, you are aware of the new Beastie Boys album that is about to drop.  They've got a new video for the lead single, with cameos galore.  They streamed the whole album at MSG after it leaked the other day.  Found this remix of Make Some Noise by Passion Pit on both Stereogum & Pretty Much Amazing.  And now you can haz:

 

1077 The End - Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise (Passion Pit Remix) by 1077 The End

This next on is a cover by Teen Daze, who we've covered before, of Japandroids awesome sauce song Wet Hair (via I Hope Your Ears Bleed).  Has a great 8-bit feel to it, and in this guy's opinion is a excellent take on the song.  Teen Daze should be on your radar. Let me help you:

Just saw Cut Copy & Holy Ghost! at the Troc the other week, so this remix seems appropriate.  (Quick footnote, if you are not already listening to the Holy Ghost! album and enjoy 80's dance music, I urge you to drop whatever it is you are doing and get said music in your life stat.  They are for serious.)  Here is Detroit DJ Carl Craig's take on Cut Copy's Need You Now (via A Heart is A Spade), one of the better tracks on a very good album put out by Cut Copy earlier this year.

Need You Now (Carl Craig Remix) by cutcopymusic

Last one is another cover of a band I got to witness in person last night at the First Unitarian Church, Tame Impala.  Here is sample master Mark Ronson take on their song.  You can download it for free over at Some Kind of Awesome.

I'm in a fun mood

http://twitter.com/#!/yvynylI fortunately missed the week of rain we just had by escaping to Scottsdale, AZ for the week.  Went out there for work and thought that would be the perfect opportunity to catch up on music posts after work.  But Tecate and Old Town Scottsdale thought otherwise.  Such is life.  So now I've got about a months worth of links that I'm whittling through and sorting into topics to talk about.  This first post is just cause I finally feel like the season has changed and nice weather is here to stay.  

I BRING YOU FUN SONGS:

And we'll start this post off with some beach sounds and 80's nostalgia.

Here's a great song from Monster Rally called Island on Fire via I Guess I'm Floating

This gem right here, in all its swayze-esque glory, is from Okay Colour called Sounds of Summer.  

Very fitting start to the post.  (via Rose Quartz)

Sound of Summer from Okay Colour on Vimeo.

I mentioned a couple of posts ago how much I've been enjoying the findings of Mark over at yvynyl.  I'm telling you, he finds some pop awesomeness from all over the map and here is some examples of what I've loved from there over the past month.

Slowdance - Sweetness

Gardens & Villas - Black Hills

Gardens & Villa - Black Hills from Drinking From a Hose on Vimeo.

Generationals - Ten Twenty Ten

Ten-Twenty-Ten by Generationals from Jubadaba on Vimeo.

(Can't give him full credit for this one, RCRD LBL sent me the track beforehand but he does dig up the choice video to his credit.  Kudos.)

What's that you say folk music and electronica have no business being in the same room as each other???
  Cram it with walnuts cause here are two awesome examples of how it they make sweet sweet music babies:

First one I found on "I Guess I'm Floating", which is a relatively new site to me at least.  But from what I've read so far, he will be staying in the RSS feed.  Great way to mix samples with slide guitar.  The band is called Bantum and if you like it check out their bandcamp page:

This other folk electronica artist is much more well known and has been praised by the blogosphere.  Bibio does a good job of blending genres and here is a video for a track of his latest album Mind Bokeh:

familiar faces

Taking a quick break from new acts to run through some news on people you have, or should, know about:

New J Dilla.  I've said here before that this guy has been putting out more music after he passed then 2Pac and that trend continues.  FACT and Nah Right have video of Dilla's mom talking about a new album called the Rebirth of Detroit".  Here it is:

Staying on hip hop somewhat, DOOM and Thom Yorke are apparently doing an entire album together.  Mr. Yorke has now put out an album with Radiohead, is doing stuff with Burial & Four Tet that I am a giant fan of, was working with Flying Lotus, and now is working with MF DOOM.  I barely have the time, energy, patience to write on this thing once a week and he's got 4 projects going.  Way to set the bar jerk.  Here is some of the new music:

Thom Yorke Live DJ Set @ Low End Theory LA 3.9.11 from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.

Another collaboration that promises to be interesting if nothing else is the Flaming Lips & Neon Indian.  Go over to Disco Naivete to hear the first leak of a track they've done together.  It's called "Is David Bowie Dying?", so I'm thinking an upbeat track....

Last thing I've got for you is some Tropicalia collaboration called Red Hot & Rio 2 from the Red Hot Organization.  The first time they did this they got some amazing admirers of Bossa Nova and did a tribute album.  This time around we've got Beck, Neon Indian, Javelin, and many more paying homage to the late 60's genre that is stupendous.  It is without a doubt on my radar and if you'd like to hear/learn more about the genre here is a link to a Yours Tru.ly article (complete with examples) of some of the people that will be covered on this album.

Until next time.

bandcamp

this one time at...um

In my past few posts on here as well as my FB page (run tell e'rebody!) I've been linking up and talking about this page that is new to me bandcamp.  It's like the crazy love child of soundcloud, myspace, & iTunes.  

It's not as feature rich as soundcloud's player is, as members of soundcloud can enter comments anywhere along the waveform timeline, but can still be shared to any number of social media outlets (FB, Twitter, Blogs, etc).  You can create a band page that is comparable to myspace without all the spam/pedofiles that still lurch on myspace (does ANYONE other than bands use myspace still?)  And lastly, you can set your price for music or allow the end user to pick how much they want to pay (ala In Rainbows model) which is much better for up and coming artist then having to shell out most of their money directly to Steve Jobs.  While I believe it is still in its infancy, I really think that this has the potential to be a game changer.  It has good parts of three, at one time, solid outlets all rolled into one.  Some numbers directly from their homepage:

Heartening factoids:

• On Bandcamp, albums outsell tracks 5 to 1 (in the rest of the music buying world, tracks outsell albums 16 to 1).
• On name-your-price albums, fans pay an average of 50% more than whatever you set as your minimum.
• We've driven 871,737 paid transactions and served 12,858,249 downloads to happy fans.

Below are some examples I have in my ever growing laundry list of shit to talk about:

yvynyl has been my go-to lately for happy music.  He has been on point, not that he wasn't before, but as of recent I've really been enjoying the stuff he's sharing (see:  Denver - Los Adolescents).  Here he has a pop gem call After Cards by My Parasol.  Enjoyz:

Next up is Niva.  I've recently been doing a lot of music chatting with a buddy who's just getting back into it but has always had a great ear for good acts.  Was on the Hot Chip and La Roux train well before anyone else I know just as two examples.  He sent me a link for this awesome video and then the next day, awesome-sauce website Disco Naivete had a post about it.  Below are both the bandcamp and video:

NIVA // the boy from the sun from Joseph Rodrigues Marsh on Vimeo.

Last one for today is from Visitation Rites, one of the Altered Zones gang, and the bands name is Sun Glitters.  It's some new "chillwave" that I love oh-so-much.  I agree with VR that "Too Much to Lose" is the best track of the bunch, but i'll let you decide.  And with that i bid you adieu....