January 2009
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It was acceptable in the 80s...
I don’t know exactly what this image means, but I’m excited. I’d love to see a DJ Mehdi remix of Koushik’s “Lying in the Sun.” That would be official. I’ve got three tracks for your dome that I came across on the HypeMachine this week. Each track is quite different from the next, so it’s a little odd that they all stuck out to me this...
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Coachella!
I’m going to Coachella this year and they just announced the lineup. It is dope. Sure there’s not a lot of DJs playing that I’m all that interested in, but everything else is dope. If I have my druthers (which I probably wont due to set times, etc.), I’ll get to see everyone I want to. I’ll settle for some combination of the following: Friday - People Under the...
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Culture Club 1.30.09
Short Culture Club today… Music -Sasha Frere-Jones of the New Yorker talks with Muxtape’s founder, Justin Ouellette, about getting shut down by the RIAA and how Mux is kinda, sorta back. -The long-awaited N.A.S.A. album will come with five interchangeable covers designed by Shepard Fairey, Sage Vaughn, The Date Farmers, Marcel Dzama and Mark Gonzales. The liner notes features images from...
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Love Juice
I finally figured out what the sample was on “Day One Fans” (thanks for nothing people!). I FIEND this song. It feels like it should be scoring some sort of awesome 80’s sci-fi montage. Possibly why Danger dubbed it the “TV remix”. Shame on me for not having this earlier. (Pic via DD) Symbolone - Love Juice (Danger TV RemiX)
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We're Tapes
When I put Memory Cassettes new song on at home my roommate was quick to ask “Who is this”. When I (condescendingly) told him the name, he replied “Whoa! That is exactly what it sounds like…a memory…cassette”. This is what I like to call the musical onomatopoeia phenomenon, when a band/song/album title exactly describes the sound of the music. (I just blew your mind, I know) The first time I...
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Dippppppplooooooo...
Diplo is the man. If you had played me this track when I was 12, I would’ve said something along the lines of, “this shit is chron-bomb!” because “chron-bomb” was the highest level of achievement in my mind at that juncture. Dead Prez - Hip Hop (Diplo Remix) Sorry for the post and run…in my other life, I work at a school and due to the massive snow storm,...
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Culture Club 1.27.09
Hola. Got some good reads (does that work…like “eats”?) for you today. Music-Related -Chromeo’s Dave1 on FaFo, getting in the studio to record the next album, P-Thugg’s talkbox and romance -Check Pitchfork’s interview with Little Boots -Here’s a piece on Grammy-nominated Diplo from the Guardian (more on him in my next post) -Check these Jay-Z rehearsal photos from 13th...
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Chala chaiyya, chaiyya...
Jean Yves Lemoigne I loved Slumdog Millionaire. I’m not usually a fan of movies like that, where the guy gets the girl and everything works out, but this one was spectacular visually, and the romantic angle wasn’t too over the top (I mean who DOESN’T obsess over their crushes from kindergarten?). But what really got me hooked, besides the Bollywood routine at the end of the...
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Boisenberry Jams...
I’m not as big a fan as my boy Rob, but I really enjoy a lot of A-Trak’s work, plus he’s the man (world-class DJ, dope producer, Kid Sister’s boyfriend, brother of Chromeo’s Dave1, head of Fool’s Gold Records, Kanye’s tour DJ, all around nice guy)…follow the link for his blog, it’s phenomenal. Anyways, Busy P just leaked A-Trak’s remix...
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Video Doizenberry 1.26.09
A few new videos for you on this brisk afternoon… -Proppers to Pitchfork for the new Cool Kids video for “Pennies” -Here’s a cool behind-the-scenes video with Dot Da Genius (he of Head Banga Muzik Group and “Day N Nite” and “Dat New New” production fame) and Kid Cudi showing a small part of the beat-making process -Lady GaGa - “Poker...
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When are fires ever friendly?
In addition to being a few days late with this video, I was a little late to the jamboree with Friendly Fires, but now I have seen the light. Upon first listen in the fall, they sounded like a band to pay attention to in the future, but also one that hadn’t really put it together yet. Since everybody likes comparisons, the two I noted a few months back were “a not as BIG sounding...
Dark was the night
Inauguration was indeed the jam. In the Obama spirit, here is a good cause you can get behind. The Red Hot organization, that raises awareness and money for HIV/AIDS related causes is releasing its 20th compilation, Dark Was the Night. The track list is incredible featuring the likes of grizzly bear, spoon, bon iver, david byrne, the national, arcade fire, feist, beirut etc etc. If you...
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Culture Club 1.23.09
HIGH-FIVE INAUGURATION! Funny or Die’s Inauguration coverage -Inauguration was great. I’ve never been happier than I was on Tuesday around noontime. I’m working on a longer piece on my experience than this that I may put up here once I catch up on sleep and get over this nagging cold, but being on the Mall for Obama’s inauguration and that speech, far away as my friends and I were (Heavy...
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Aer - OBAMA
Inauguration weekend here in DC, so it will most likely be radio silence until Wednesday as I will be too busy partying for change! Picture me in jean shorts with an American flag bandanna drinking Budweiser on the Lincoln memorial fist pumping to “Born to Run”. Yep, its going to be that awesome, and there is a 90% chance I will actually be doing all those things. Also, in case you...
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New Beirut video, Handsome Furs single, Charlie...
Oh man lots of good stuff kicking around today. Above is Beirut’s new video for La Llorona, which I am assuming will appear on March of the Zapotec which drops 2/17 via Condon’s own Pompeii Records/Ba Da Bing. (via S.Gum) ———————————————————- On another front, a song has...
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Culture Club 1.14.09
Links of the Day -The Top 25 Bushisms of the last nine years, courtesy of Slate. Among my favorites: “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and...
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Merriweather Post Pavillion
I have put off jumping into this debate as long as possible, but I guess its time for me to share my thoughts on Animal Collective’s latest, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Initially, all of the ridiculous hype turned me off from even listening to the album. Then people began calling it the album of 2009, which didn’t do much in the way of changing my mind. Since end of year lists already...
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Doizenberry 1.12.09
Here’s an interview with Flickr-phenom Merkley (photo stream link NSFW, interview is SFW) An architect or designer called Planda created this video and model for a Justice themed, †-shaped house…set to “Genesis” Finally, three videos from PSFK: an interview with the now-iconic artist (courtesy of the Obama prints and shirts) Shepard Fairey before he blew up the way that...
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Fever Ray
Get the full album tomorrow (1/13) as a digital download and check out the Fuck Buttons remix over at stereogum. (I was pretty sure CotP was going to get the exclusive release for that one, but you win some, you loose some.) Either way I am psyched for this album. And you should be too. Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
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Culture Club 1.9.09
Bienvenue a Le Culture Club. Got a bunch of stuff for you today…I’m trying to keep it short so as not to dominate the entire page. -That’s a dope photo up there, no? Well, believe it or not, whoever shot that image didn’t have a gagillion dollar Tilt Shift Lens. No, no, they used TiltShiftMaker.com. Go check it out…a lot of fun to play with. (via BB) More...
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Minty Fresh Beats = King(s)/Queen(s) of mash-ups?
Jaydiohead is the new mash-up of, you guessed it, Jay-Z and Radiohead. I’m a bit of a mash-up head…not as much as our boys Karp and Rob, but I get down to mash-ups. That said, I don’t think my judgment has been clouded with Jaydiohead; I think this piece of work is much, much better than the traditional mash-up. Not unlike The Grey Album, you recognize the backing tracks and...
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Video Doizenberry 1.8.09
I’ve been catching up on the internet, as I had a semi-hiatus over the holidays, but now I’m back and I feel pretty good about some of the stuff I’ve got for y’all. I’ll do the music-related videos first and then some other cool stuff to finish up. Music Stuff -You have to click through for Sasha Frere-Jones’ interview with Bon Iver, but it’s well worth...
Wavves
I had a great analogy all planned out to describe the sound of Nathan William’s Wavves, but then I read this on Destijl, who will be releasing Nathan’s latest album, Wavvves in early February: “thanks to the eager bloggers, you may have already heard wavves. if you have not, we can say that few things are more annoying than reading a string of sound references. so how...
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Born n' raised in the county of Dade
Unlike Sam, I do not believe that everything cool comes from Brooklyn. In reality everything cool these days comes from Miami. For example, Rick Ross and… Rick Ross. Okay, so Miami isn’t really that cool, but we can assume that it has had some positive influence on Australian dj/remixer Miami Horror. He has an awesome remix of fellow aussies, The Presets’ song, Talk Like That...
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Bearbot.
“Obama…Barry Obama.” I’m been jamming out today to this mash-up artist Bearbot. Like everything else that’s cool, including Biggie, TV on the Radio, hipsters and Stephon Marbury, Bearbot is from Brooklyn. A lot much of the mash-up culture, particularly of late, is to mix the old with the new; most of Bearbot’s stuff is contemporary vs. contemporary which makes...
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Hollahollaholla.
Sup. I’m back with a vengeance. Sorry for going incommunicado for a little while there. I’ve got a few tracks coming up from the dude Bearbot in a minute, but a first some cool stuff and a little housekeeping. I’ve kind of been keeping up with the music scene, but expect a ton of links and videos as I sort through all that in the coming days. - Here’s a quick interview...
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Komodo, song and lizard
Just yesterday I was having a scintillating conversation about how komodo dragons can asexually reproduce through a process known as parthenogenesis. Awesome, I know. Oddly enough, just minutes after I received an email from the Belgian brother duo Hermanos Inglesos with their new track “Komodo”, so naturally I was pretty psyched to listen. Since I started writing at CotP I have been...