July 2010
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WatchG5, for a lazy Saturday
The Times actually did a nice job with the above piece on a week with The Roots. I just wish it was longer
Check out this brilliant rendition of “So What” from Miles and Coltrane with the Gil Evans Orchestra at CBS in 1959. Really great stuff here
You can hear a short clip of “Give Me a Break,” Starsmith’s upcoming debut single, here. Of...
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G5: Weekend Link Dump
Again, I’m sorry about the fake Daft Punk tracks posted here earlier today. I’m on my guard now.
Bun B talks to The Fader about various things, including Trill OG and his group side project with Freddie Gibbs, Chuck T of the Cool Kids and Chip tha Ripper
Things don’t look good for a US Spotify debut in 2010
Bangs’ ad for Honda’s Jazz model is hilarious
Kanye...
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More Possible Leaks from Tron: Legacy
I know I’ve been posting far too much about Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy score/soundtrack. With every leak, real or not, there’s been an accompanying post in this space. For this, I am not sorry. I’m really bloody excited for new works from Daft Punk. We haven’t heard new material from everyone’s favorite helmeted French house musicians since 2005’s...
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WatchAwesome, weird video for “Don’t Turn the Lights On”.
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G5: More from Tron, Kanye & links
1) Turn’s out that “leak” from Tron: Legacy was fake. Again. Oy.
2) Having joined Twitter yesterday, Kanye West rolled through their HQs as well for another impromptu performance
3) Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker does the 5-10-15-20 thing with P4k. I always enjoy these
4) Funny stuff: imagining Jay-Z’s LeBron diss track. Hov owns a minority stake in the Nets,...
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WatchGrab Freddie Gibbs new mixtape Str8 Killa No Filla over at XXL now. The tape features “National Anthem (Fuck the World)” which got the video treatment recently.
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WatchWhy you should still be stoked about Delorean:
Truly, they’re a great band. Delorean are able to merge live instrumentation with samples as well or better than any of their contemporaries. That they can translate their rich studio recordings to the live stage is tremendously impressive. They’re the logical evolutionary mixture of what dancepop and dreampop (I’m not sure what...
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WatchNeon Gold premiered the video for their latest obsession, The Naked & Famous, today. I sought this song out a while back when I first heard it as the opening track on the Knocks Transplant II mix-tape and I have been listening to it non-stop ever since. The whole thing feels like it was built to soundtrack summer home movies of road trips with your friends. I normally pretend to be too...
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WatchG5
1) Bro-ettes and bros, Russ Chimes’ upcoming EP Midnight Club is going to be boss.
2) This weekend’s Sunday Times Magazine featured a long piece on the sub-genre to New Orleans bounce called sissy bounce. I’m digesting the piece, but my initial thought is that a bit too much is made of the fact that the sub-genre’s performers are gay or transgendered. This piece...
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WatchI’ve watched this video ten times and I’m ready for ten more. Aren’t old people the best? At first watch, our hero — a ringer for friend of CotP/Vice President Joe Biden, only if Joe Biden had a Pauly D blow-out and an affection for nose candy — and his actions are hilarious. He’s far too excited about playing David Guetta to a bunch of high school kids. But...
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New Daft Punk from Tron
Unlike the last time we leaked something from Daft Punk’s score of the upcoming Tron reboot and we had several thousand more hits than we normally do, these clips were actually created by Daft Punk. The verdict? Well, they sound much more like parts of a movie score than typical tracks from everyone’s favorite French duo. This isn’t all too surprising, but it the film maker...
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Stray streams...
Like our dear friend Red, I’m “known to locate certain things from time to time.” This is not something I’m particularly proud of, but, like anyone whose Clark Kent job it is to further integrate technology into the workplace, I know how to find certain hard-to-get items on the interwebs. I’m not nearly as good as my friends Pedro (who is in China and as a result,...
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WatchGroup of Five
1) Above: rap videos are every bit as predictable as you would have guessed: “Boats*Cars*Dollars*Girls*Helicopters*Jewellery*Skylines”
2) Doc Funk normally captions hoops photos, but he’s taken a break for some Deep Thoughts with Rick Ross
3) HypeTrak interviews friend of CotP Samuel about his upcoming debut, New York City and his Drake cover, recently blogged by...
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WatchArcade Fire released this promo for upcoming MSG show and it features a teaser of their new song “Rococo”, which people have been raving about. I am excited for this album. Really excited.
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WatchGroup of Five: Evening Edition
1. Big Boi performs “Shutterbug” with The Roots on Late Night last night (via @jose3030)
2. Diplo has been less than enthusiastic is his support for M.I.A.’s new record (of which he produced two cuts). Now he’s back with today’s quote of the day from an interview with BlackBook:
“I think she’s a really controversial artist and she’s...
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WatchIt’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from Nil. This video is among my favorites from the interwebs. I love the simplicity; the lights of the monome are enthralling. It certainly doesn’t hurt that “Ma Disconica” is a jam.
mp3: Nil - Ma Disconica
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WatchWednesday Group of Five
Jewel, with an ugly business suit, a wig, a fake nose and butt and the help of the folks at Funny or Die, went undercover to blow away some folks at an LA karaoke bar recently. Good to see she doesn’t take herself too seriously; although, she was awfully happy that the crowd at a KARAOKE BAR knew the words to her music.
A new study out of Italy has found that the...
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Mumford & Sons - Live at Bonnaroo
When you take a break from doing something, you often forget what you had been working on. Just before a few weeks away in June, I came across two fantastic tracks from Mumford & Sons’ set from Bonnaroo — a spirited cover of Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” with Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch and a country-fied rendition of “Roll Away Your...
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The Knocks
I mentioned yesterday that we’d have new stuff from B-Roc soon, and here it is. The Knocks second single for “Make It Better” will be out as a 7” on Neon Gold on July 27 and is available for pre-order at the NG shop.
“Make It Better” is a departure for B-Roc and JPatt. Gone are the thumping drums and dance-floor chants; in their place, the sounds of...
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B-Roc - The Transplant 2
B-Roc is head of HeavyRoc Music, half of production duo The Knocks, a great friend of the blog and a stand-up young gent. Here’s why you should go download his latest free mix, titled The Transplant 2, over on the HRM’s website, in list form (lists are so hot right now):
B-Roc mixes The Naked and Famous, Elton John, Penguin Prison, Lil’ Wayne, Daft Punk, M.O.P., Ellie...
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Head over to Adultswim to check out the results of their 8 singles/8 weeks campaign with Kia. The Cults and Washed Out tracks are two of my favorite from the summer so far.
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