Don't let the name fool you, this is a Justice-produced tune. Its all about this animation though. Reminds me of old Saturday morning cartoons, only electro'd. Result: awesomeness.
7/8/09
Wale - New Soul
wale - new soul (f. yael nakim)
New track by DC-based rapper Wale. I dig. He drops a line about twitter, but I forgive him because I like him better than fellow freshmen rappers Asher Bro-rap Roth and KiD KanYe, er, KiD CuDi.
Here's his collab with Lady GaGa:
Wale freestyles:
7/7/09
Passion Pit - The Reeling
Awesome video by Passion Pit - much better than the recently released Kids video by MGMT. Oh, MGMT always trying so hard to be "trippy." In 2009, trippy is the new sober!
7/6/09
Wavves knows whats up
Hello lovers new and bored, yours truly has just returned from an epic hiatus which included beaches in Mexico and one big rave in LA. But now, with the drugs and shamanistic curses adequately purged from my system, I am ready to return to doing what I do: getting you to hear some awesome music.
wavves - so bored
Now the lead singer has gotten into some trouble. Apparently all the helium blog hype got to his head and made him think he was better than the drugs, took a bunch of painkillers and ecstacy before playing his first show on an extensive European tour, and fucked up badly. But that's ok. Honestly, the kid sort of looks like a douchebag. But here is a video for their other single, No Hope Kids. Wavves understands you.
Ok, so this song is by a band called Wavves. They come out of San Diego, California, so typically they are all about that laid-back, not-gibbn-uh-fuck attitude. Sunshine and beaches, man, those are things that do not go well with productivity. What the hell is productivity anyways? People on the internet call Wavves a mix between the Beach Boys and the Sonic Youth, two bands that were big before I was born and have not listened to. Personally, I call Wavves "hella chill." And really distorted. Take this track, "so bored." The vocals come out at you through a wall of static foam. Everything in the track has to reach you through an ocean of hazy noise, till you're drowning in sine waves and jaded disillusionment. It's kind of like watching the TV on a dead channel, only cooler.
6/23/09
People Under The Stairs
First saw these guys put on a legit show in the Gobi tent at Coachella. They had the crowd going, everyone yelling awwwwwwwwww shit! in unison. People Under the Stairs are from LA, been around for awhile, making hip hop with that classic sound, like Tribe. The perfect kind of sound for those orange nights in The Bay after the sun is done scorching the hell out of the place, and all that golden mass of land exhales, cooling it off to make for well...a warm San Franciscan night. Check it outtttttttttttt
people under the stairs - san francisco knights
6/13/09
Fresh Daily - Hard Work
Brooklyn based raper Fresh Daily drops a raw, recession concious flow, but the main reason I like this track is because hearing any flow over a FlyLo beat is the shit. If this is what FlyLo produced hip hop sounds like, I can't wait for more tracks with his production to drop.
fresh daily - hard work
6/11/09
Yacht - Psychic City
Described on their lame blog as a "subversive damaged zombie pop banger", Yacht's new single off their forthcoming See Mystery Lights fufills none of those abstract descriptive adjectives yet still is a great song. It's bubblegum, it's saccharine, it's a sunny day. The kinda song that'll inspire pasty kids everywhere to shed their hoodies and get some Vitamin D. Yay!
yacht - psychic city
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6/10/09
What the fuck is a Veckatimest? Part 2
I wanted to like Veckatimest, I really did. But with the album’s pretentious, abstract-proper-noun name and all the press hype, I doubted the music would deliver on any of its promises. I could tell first off that the album was trying to be big. It was ambitious, layered, complex – I decided to withhold judgments based on my first intuition: that the album is a slow, meandering bore.
Repeated listening only consistently reminded me how dull it is with every revisit. I mean, it sounds good but it doesn't sound interesting. Singer Daniel Rossen’s vocals sound like a heartbroken wounded animal attached to a reverb pedal. The kind of wounded animal that you wish Papa would go out and back and shoot with his rifle to put out of its misery.
For a band named after the California state animal (Rossen is a LA expatriate, NYU alum), Grizzly Bear doesn't come off sounding very fierce. Two Weeks’s poppy piano melody is catchy, but the rest is just this anamorphic melacholic haze. And this is supposed to be their accessible record? T
As for all the other songs, they all sound like endings to sad movies. I’ve imagined my own ending to Veckatimest: the band riding off into the Western sunset, fading into the distance until it’s nothing more than a black speck on the memory of this summer’s better moments.
grizzly bear - veckatimest
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6/9/09
Ian Barry is the Rosa Parks of Weed
Remember that story about kid who smoked a joint in front of his class that I blogged about a couple days ago? Apparently it has gained worldwide attention and Ian Barry, above, has done much for opening up the national dialogue on marajuana legislation.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, you are looking at the Rosa Parks of weed.
Thanks to blogs, Ian's statements have been multiplied and amplified far beyond what a single individual, much less a 17 year old high school senior, is capable of. A video of the historic deed has surfaced as well (warning: this video is not suitable for minors or people with a low tolerance for young whippersnappers).
And so, the Internet has turned what was doomed to be a stunt worthy of merely yearbook notoriety into a potent statement of rebellion. Is this what political activism looks like in 2009?
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