May 2009
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Insound + CotP Soundscreen Design Summer 09...
Do you like scuzzed-out LA noise-rockers No Age? Do you like fashionable v-necks? Do you like free stuff? Well then man do we have the contest for you! We have teamed up with internet shop-all Insound to give away the beautiful Tee you see above. According to the dudes at Insound the Soundscreen Design project was ” driven by the desire for impeccably designed band merchandise produced in...
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Sunset Rubdown, Dragonslayer
If there’s anything I hate about a band its that they take themselves too seriously. Spencer Krug, with his multiple side projects (if you can really call them that anymore), dedication bordering on insanity and harsh self-criticism, seems like the perfect candidate. But for some reason he just does not strike me as that kinda guy. And its not just the hysterical promo video or the...
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The Cellar Door: Wu-Tang, Fat Jon and EST
When D got the ball rolling with The Cellar Door, I was pretty excited. We’re a fly by the seat of our pants organization here at CotP, so I had no idea D was going to do so. There’s lots of stuff I wasn’t up on at the time of its release and have since learned much more about, but in my mind, The Cellar Door is also an opportunity to look back on some of the stuff we listened...
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Culture Club 5.25.09
-Evan Roth of Graffiti Research Lab is holding a contest to see who’s the bigger asshole: Shepard Fairey or the Associated Press: Is it the artist who has amassed a small fortune based on “appropriation” yet still sends cease and desist letters to other artists for appropriating his work? Or is it the largest (and only) US based nationally-oriented news service which fails to recognize...
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Two Weeks Video
Two Weeks
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All We Do is Juke
Happy memorial weekend folks! I’ve got big plans down here, hopefully everyone has some fun to look forward to. We have been writing a lot about Dark Night of the Soul in recent days and the compilation is well worth the chatter. It appears that the thing will never actually see the light of day due to disputes with EMI, so in this rare incident I encourage you to go track this thing down...
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Doizenberry - Alice and Wonderland vs. Three 6...
I feel like I’ve seen this before, but this is a tremendous video mashup of Alice and Wonderland and Three 6 Mafia’s “Smokin on the Dro” The new Don Diablo with Example track, “Hooligans” is the jam Don Diablo and Example - Hooligans (Extended) I posted some stuff from Multitouch Barcelona a little while back…they’re back with a new...
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Love Is a Wave
I haven’t really gotten into Crystal Stilts yet, but this video is definitely pushing me in that direction. mp3:Crystal Stilts - Love Is a Wave
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Homonyms: Col(o,e,u)r - M83, Calvin Harris and...
Welcome to Homonyms, a new series from your friends at CotP. We all remember from 3rd grade Language Arts lessons what homonyms are: words with different meanings that share a spelling and/or a pronunciation. This series will look at songs or albums that share titles or have very similar titles. At times, the meaning of the word will be the same from song to song. But while today’s...
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Culture Club 5.19.09
Before I get to the links, I’d like to wish Laura a very Happy Birthday! Hope you’ve enjoyed it! Music -A-Trak talks with P4k about his favorite music and some hidden gems -Great series of videos of Nina Simone’s at the 1969 Harlem Festival. Some great stuff in there, part 5 was my personal favorite -Due to problems with EMI, Dark Night of the Soul isn’t actually coming out, so...
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Three Tracks...
I’m super busy today at work and am heading to NY as soon as I get out, so I don’t have a lot of time to post, but I wanted to throw up three tracks that have been in heavy rotation for the last few days with brief descriptions. I don’t know much about Mr. Hudson, but he definitely sounds like BBC Radio 1 hip hop DJ Tim Westwood (look it up). Getting the auto-tuned Kanye on...
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Culture Club - Glorious Day Edition
Good morning everybody! I’m in the middle of listening to Dark Night of the Soul. I’m not sure what I think of the album as a whole but it’s definitely not what I was expecting. It’s very mellow; I don’t know what others will classify this as…to me there’s kind of a folky/Americana-y sound to the entire record. Leading off the album with the Flaming Lips was a great move. I heard a lot of their...
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Dark Night of The Soul Resurfaces
Last week I directed people to a stream of the new Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse collab, Dark Night of the Soul, but unfortunately the tracks dissapeared pretty quickly. If you are still anxious to get a listen you can head over to NPR to stream the album in its entirety and get a few more details on the project from the always eloquent Robin Hilton. The first track, “Revenge”, by the...
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Doizenberry - De La and Grizzly Bear
Couple videos for you today Check De La Soul’s video press kit that came with their debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. There’s a lot to like in this video; I really enjoyed KRS-One’s bit where he was so clearly stoked on De La’s music (via PSFK) Grizzly Bear circa May 2009 is the new Animal Collective circa January 2009. Jokes aside, there’s GB stuff everywhere these days. I highly...
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Wierd Tapes Remixes Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Just yesterday I was thinking how I haven’t heard anything from the WE’RE TAPES crew in a while, but today I finally got my long awaited update. COTP favorite Weird Tapes has put his stamp on one of my favorite It’s Blitz tracks “Heads Will Roll”, not that you would recognize it from this version. The remix manages to stamp out all of the spunky, 80’s...
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Wilco Loves You, Baby
I just goy my first few listens to Wilco (The Album) and I am very satisfied (camel with a birthday hat satisfied). It seems like it will be a bit of a grower, but the first impression is strong. Definitely not the return to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot that I imagined, this album feels more like a combination of the best parts of Sky Blue Sky and Summerteeth’s “Shot in the Arm” (blood...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [and more Grizzly Bear]
I was under the impression that the new Phoenix album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix was coming out later this month, but its up now on Itunes for those of you who were patient enough to ignore the leak or who just want a better quality version. Either way it is definitely worth the money. Quite possibly the perfect pop record, every song bursts with energy and demands your attention - played in any...
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Culture Club 5.12.09
I’m still catching up on the internet after ditching my RSS Reader, so only a few links to pass on today. Enjoy! -Out.com has released their Power 50 of the 50 most influential GLBT people in North America. I wont lie, I’m a little surprised to see Barney Frank up at #1, especially after the auto-company hearings -Former New Yorker writer Dan Baum has been posting about his time writing...
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Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks + Remix
You have probably all heard the incredible first single “Two Weeks” off Veckatimest already, but now you can also hear the swanky, dance remix by having-a-big-month remix kid, Fred Falke, over at P4k. Just a coincidence that this is all being released exactly two weeks before the official release date of Veckatimest? I think not! Clever, Grizzly Bear. (The guys have a new site up, but...
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Doizenberry - JT/Samberg
Two quick videos to pass on this afternoon… Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg follow up “Dick in a Box” with “MotherLover” Great idea and execution of “Lollipop” by Courtney Woolsey or “The Chordettes” (via BB)
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Culture Club - Maine Loves the Gays Too Edition
First things first, as a former resident of the wonderful State of Maine, let me say bravo to Governor John Baldacci for signing gay marriage into law. Here’s hoping for New Hampshire now in the next few weeks! Second things second, go watch this slow motion HD shot of a great ride. I’m not even going to embed it because you WANT to watch this in HD…let’s get to the rest of the...
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[The Cellar Door] El Guincho - Alegranza
The Cellar Door is a sporadic COTP feature that highlights great albums you might have missed the first time around. Probably because we did too… Way back in October I shamelessly plugged a mixtape put togethor by Barcelona pop/tropical/clubber El Guincho to win a free record and some concert tickets. I had heard Alegranza once at the time and digged the mixtape, but didn’t really...
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May 68 and (One eskimO + Don Diablo)
The history of popular dance music acts from Manchester is not a long one. The Bee Gees kicked things off in the disco era with all the jams from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Truthfully however, as much as we all enjoyed “Stayin’ Alive” between the ages of 4 and 7, it and the rest of the SNF stuff is not representative of their sound; the rest of their catalog ranges...
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Mini-Doizenberry 5.7.09
Good day everybody. Been jamming out today to a variety of beats, some of which I hope to post a little later this afternoon. Not sure why HypeM is only sporadically picking up our tracks, but rest assured, we’re working on it. Only a pair of videos for you today…not a lot of video stuff I was into this week. Enjoy! Here’s a fun video with Reflection Eternal (Kweli and Hi-Tek)...
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Well Known Pleasures
Still no internet in the casa, but I broke down and went to my local coffee shop. I may or may not currently be sipping a cappuccino (I am…). I got hooked on Austin’s Vega a couple of months ago when I first heard “Well Known Pleasures”. His glossy brand of synth-pop really stands out from the pack for me. For some reason I really dig his voice (perhaps a nice change from...
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Dark Night of the Soul
I recently moved into a new apartment and have been cast back into the stone ages without Internet (shudder). So until then I can only post from work and will not be able to upload any music. Lucky for all of us, the music you need to hear right now is streaming over at Chrysalis Music Blog. There have been grumbles about the mysterious collaboration between Sparklehorse and Danger Mouse in the...
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Culture Club Cinco de Mayo Edition
First off, I’d like to wish a happy birthday to our boy Jacob, who happens to share his birthday with a certain Mexican holiday. Also a belated happy bday to John and an early one to Anna. Several of our friends once convinced everyone at a Cinco de Mayo party that the holiday was celebration of the Mexican New Year and got the entire party to count down as midnight approached. This has...
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Monday Doizenberry - Remixing and Tracy Morgan
I promise I’ll post something besides videos later this afternoon. I’m about half-way through Rip: A Remix Manifesto and I’m really enjoying it. The film is available for a pay what you want download here and under its Creative Commons license is available for remixing. Rip focuses on American copyright law and spends a good period of time profiling and talking with Girl Talk...