December 2008
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Delorean, back to the... studio
Spanish remix crew Delorean were kind enough to send around a new remix of The Big Pink’s, Too Young to Love to hype their forthcoming EP. From the guys: Actually, the remix seems to be perfect as a prelude to our next release with the fluokids related brand new label FOOLHOUSE. After remixing The Teenagers, The Mystery Jets, Lemonade and The Big Pink, time has come for our own stuff. The...
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Mad Decent Xmas
Just got this in the mail from Diplo and the crew over at Mad Decent. Looks weird as hell, but I lovvve me some Paul Wall. Happy holidays people.
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Now this is happening
CotP is proud to announce that we are now officially hooked in with technorati and the hype machine. Feel free to show us some love at both sites and keep checking back for more awesome songs, commentary etc. Cut Copy - Feel the Love
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M83 Loves Action Sports
Above is the trailer for the absolutely fantastic new quicksilver/red bull sponsored snowboard epic, That’s it, That’s All. Featuring Travis Rice and bolstered by an epic soundtrack the movie is borderline life changing, even if you’re not a fan of the slopes. Imagine Planet Earth + snowboarding + great music. A recipe for success if you ask me. Despite the thrill of the whole project, I often...
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Blood Bank
Wisconsin native, Justin Vernon, the man behind Bon Iver, has a new EP titled Blood Bank out jan. 20th. According to label jagjaguwar: “As much as Emma is about the cold, the Blood Bank collection is about the warmth that gets you through it. You can feel the air move. Like a fire you’ve been stoking for hours and finally got to sustain itself, the heat blisters your face while your back is...
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Face Control
Subpop recently posted the cover art (above) and track listing for the Handsome Furs upcoming release Face Control. Perhaps you can divine some sort of indication of how this CD will sound from the track listing, but for the rest of us we will just have to wait with bated breath until its full release in march of 2009 (or the inevitable leak at some closer date). Handsome Furs is the creation of...
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Christmas Break
Something about this time of year makes me very nostalgic. Okay, so its not really a mystery… going home, spending time with the family, the whole thing. However, this year this feeling has infiltrated my taste in music. Two artists in particular have been making the rounds, Phaseone and Weird Tapes. Both are a relative mystery to me, which seems fitting for their brand of eery, spacious...
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Joe Biden = A.C. Slater?
A slew of good stuff coming at you today: MGMT, Hot Chip and Peter Gabriel, Lily Allen, and season 2 of Flight of the Conchords -I’ve pledged fandom to MGMT, and it’s interesting to hear an early incarnation of the group. Wesleying has uncovered “Supervolcano” that Andrew VanWyngarden wrote in lieu of giving a presentation for an Environmental Science class. MGMT -...
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Beef in the streets...
Quick link sesh this morning. The Periodic Table of Awesomeness via Dapperstache -From New York Magazine this week: Reasons to Love New York, a short profile of Julia Ormond and Vik Muniz on his new exhibition at MoMA -I love me some internets, but I don’t think I’d pick the internet over sex…would you? Apparently 48% of women and 30% of men would (big surprise on the disparity...
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Doizenberry 12.16
For whatever reason, the sites I frequent have been littered with fantastic videos the last few days. And as is my duty to you, here’s another Doizenberry coming at you. The folks at Google Docs say “Happy Holidays!” via spreadsheet D-Dot talks about making “Hypnotize” with Biggie via A-Trak Okay…so…maybe Kanye samples a lot, but I still like his...
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Beats and beats and beats...
Good day, madams and sirs. Since I haven’t been posting all that much about music, I figured I’d let you in on some of the stuff that’s been in heavy rotation in my headphones of late. 1) The new Clipse mixtape, Road to Till the Casket Drops. I’ve been a big Clipse fan since “Grindin’,” but their latest stuff is fantastic. I’m know Clipse gets a...
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Culture Club 12.15
I’ve got a ton of good stuff to read from this weekend and this morning. -Four items from the Times: The Sunday Magazine had its annual Ideas issue this week; Frank Rich on accoutability and regulation under the Bush Administration; James Ryerson on David Foster Wallace’s senior Philosophy thesis at Amherst, and a piece from a week and a half ago that I missed on content and whether,...
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"Straight out of Billund, is a brother who will...
I was a big Lego geek as a kid. When I was acting out, my parents used to sit me in front of some Legos and I’d be straight for hours on end. As you’d expect, I was pretty stoked when I came across Format Magazine’s re-creation of some of hip-hop’s classic albums using those wonderful little Danish plastic pieces. Here’s a few of my favorites: On repeat right...
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Kanye and Bush
Three more videos for your dome: An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at George W. Bush this weekend…apparently, this is a horrible insult in Iraqi culture. Why is Bush dapping up Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki? I’m working on a review of Kanye’s 808s and Heartbreak that’ll be up after I give it another listen, but in the mean time, Mr. West was on Saturday Night...
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VideoDoisenberry 12.15
Will be back with more stuff later on, but first, a video blast. First up, Over at PitchforkTV, they’re streaming a chapter of the new Soulwax film, Part of the Weekend Never Dies. I’ve seen the whole thing, and it’s dope, so check the clips Pitchfork puts up over the next few weeks and months. The best of pop culture’s motivational speeches, in 2 minutes. “They may...
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Paris
I love Paris. I want to live there. I want to drink wine in some sort of cobblestone courtyard during the day and then rage in all night discoteques with the likes of Justice and Daft Punk. I went to a new bar last night and the DJ abbbbsolutely killed it. I am pretty sure this song was played. It is equal parts awesome and relevant to my previous statements. Paris (Aeroplane Remix) - Friendly...
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Quick Weeeekend Links
I haven’t been able to get the Kid Cudi vs. Crookers - “Day n Night” jam out of my head. Props to Rob for putting me up on that. Check the video -To go with their year in review stuff, the Village Voice just put up an interview with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon -The A.V. Club asks some of the actors/musicians/writers/etc. they’ve interviewed about their favorite...
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Video Blast, 12.10
-Check this cool mini feature on the collaboration between the Hundreds and Disney THEHUNDREDS // DISNEY // THE LOST BOYS from Bobby Hundreds on Vimeo. -Going along with the live painting videos from last week, check out Sketch Theatre -Mario Kart, in real life MARIO KART (REMI GAILLARD) by nqtv -How did “Jizz in My Pants” make it past NBC Standards and Practices? -Finally, a...
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Culture Club, 12/10
Long time no blog for me, but I’ve got some good stuff saved up. -Jumping in Art Museums is a funny little way to celebrate art. -Somebody’s been mining Life Magazine’s archives and putting together The Best of Life’s photographs on tumblr -Food begats art for Anna the Red -Check this dope Q and A from The Fader with Femi Kuti, son of Fela and brother of Seun -From The...
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Photographic memory
I have yet to post anything about Radiohead, but they are easily one of my favorite bands, if not THE favorite. Although they haven’t been doing much lately I stumbled across an epic collection of b-sides and rarities the other night that is definitely worth checking out. Serious props to the kid who put these psuedo-compilations together. He clearly put a lot of time into them, creating new...
Honorable Mention
In the wake of numerous end of the year lists I have spent some time catching up on a few sleeper albums I never really got around to. One of the most notable is the Noah & the Whale LP Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down. As evidenced by the title, it is a pretty mellow affair. Lead singer Charlie Fink is one of those brooding optimistic types, best compared to Andrew Bird . The type of guy who...
A Cross the Universe and Jigga
I am an unabashed Justice fan. I don’t love everything from the Ed Banger crew, but I love me some Justice, enough to have trekked to see them three times in nine months. You can imagine, then, that I am pretty excited for next Tuesday, when the new Justice documentary and live record A Cross the Universe hits stores. Yeah, I know I could download it now for free, but I like to throw a...
Yesayer + Chairlift
Yeasayer and Chairlift at the 6th and I Historic Synagouge (thus all the menorahs and jewish stars in the background). Half the show was spent watching from pews, it was bizarre. Thanks to Alex for the pictures. If the girl from chairlift is reading this, callll me. Chairlift
Video Blast.
A few more videos for your dome today…some music related, some not. 1. CLICK Through and check out Nil - Ma Disconica (Monome Live Remix). None other than Busy P himself has been pimping him. If you can only watch one of these videos, make it this one. 2. CLICK Through for Kanye’s long press conference in which he discusses the new album, the Glow in the Dark Tour and Pastelle, his...
Long Live the BBC!
A whole bunch of videos coming at you today. First, from the BBC… The BBC never ceases to amaze me. Somehow, the BBC has developed into the reputable worldwide news source, a major television service and still has a pulse on the street art/underground art world and dope music. If only America could turn PBS into something more than donation drives and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. BBC...
CONGRATS!
Yo, I’ll have more coming soon…but a quick congrats to our boys Samuel, B-Roc and JPatt on Samuel’s record deal with Startime/Columbia. Samuel’s been doing it with the HeavyRoc boys for a while now and it’s great to see him blow up like this. Congrats!
"I wish that I had Jesse's girl...but I'd rather...
Unlike my comrade-in-words Heavy D aka Dijon aka Dyyyyyelan (The Best Rapper Alive), I’m not going to shy away from the popular kids in picking my favorite six albums of the year. In my opinion, there’s a reason the popular kids of the music scene are popular, and it’s because they make good music. Without further ado, here’s my top 6, in no particular order. 1) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes...
The Very Best, of '08
As I said before, ranking things makes my head hurt. Inevitably I become bogged down in the details and am infuriated with my own selections. So, in an attempt to avoid such a self-defeating task I am simply going to write about a selection of my favorite music from ‘08, in no particular order of course. I think bands like Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes etc. will get enough recognition (and...