Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
FIFA12 Goes Street, Gets a Co-Sign from Drake & Lil Wayne
Drake, Weezy and nationally-ranked Connor Chinn in the same advert? One of these things is in no way like the other. And by that I mean one of these guys would probably get in trouble for talking publicly about guns & drugs use and calling people by the "N" word. The other two? They just get rich for doing it. The world is a funny place.
Remember When Tommy Heinemann Fronted Wolfmother?
They'll never top the MSTRKRFT remix of "Woman"* so he may as well try and win the Eastern Conference.
*That link has boobies & blow in it. Probably not the best look for watching on the job unless your job is working for Dov Charney, Eliot Spitzer or Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
NSR: Some Late-Night Lasciviousness with The Weeknd
It's midnight. What better time to watch footage from The Weeknd's 1st-ever live show? I know @IamFaux is going to hate on me for loving this but this record really is the finest piece of narco-pop/sex-hop this year.
NSR: Miami Knights Mix
In honor of Barcelona going H.A.M. with ticket sales to tomorrow night's match in Miami, here's a mini-mix of robotic, 80's-tinged bangers mixed by Vazetti that are South Beach ready. Turn it up and watch in wonder as your officemates contemplate if you took ecstasy for lunch.
Metronomy "The Bay"
It's Friday. Time for some weekend rock*.
*I just made up a new subgenre. $5 and a copy Luke Rodgers' rap sheet says that NME bites it by September.
Today In Celebrity Glory-Seeking: G N' R x USWNT Edition
It's official: everyone has had something to say about the Women's World Cup except for me. Once the former bass player for Guns n' Roses/Velvet Revolver chimes in on Wambach, Morgan, Rapinoe & co. you know the USWNT lovefest has officially turned into FrontRunnerPalooza. Can't wait to hear what Bobby Dall out of Poison has to say about the ladies during next year's Olympics; I bet he's got some awesome hairstyling tips for some of the longer-haired players.
Messi x Ray Hudson x The Wizard of Ox
The Wizard of Ox is Crazy Ray Hudson, Barcelona and house music all at once; if this isn't the most Miami thing you've seen all day your name is either Luther Campbell, LeBron James or Franco Panizo.
NSR: M83 "Midnight City"
Sh!t. Yes. Anthony Gonzalez is back with more of the maudlin electro-pop that made Saturdays = Youth so cotdamn unimpeachable but with a pinch of the great, grating texture of Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. This is what I will be listening to for the rest of the day. Or at least until The Wizard OX drops another prog-house remix featuring Ray Hudson.
NSR: The Horrible Crowes "Behold The Hurricane"
My love for The Gaslight Anthem is well-documented so I will not regale you with further confessions of affection for Brian Fallon and co. I will however mention that Fallon has a new side project called The Horrible Crowes and basically songs like GA on the mellow although Fallon says this is his chance “to experiment with the darker side of soul music.”
Have a listen to “Behold the Hurricane”, the first track the The Horrible Crowes debut, and draw your own conclusion.
Rancid x San Jose Earthquakes Players X 1906 Ultras
Notorious soccer-rockers Rancid tackle Sham 69's "The Kids Are United" with the 'Quakes and 1906 Ultras riding shotgun. Punk. Rock.
Martin Solveig ft. Kele: Ready 2 Go
There was a time when Kele Okereke and Bloc Party were it. Then they went on hiatus and Kele went solo and it all pretty much went to sh*t. Now he's singing on songs for French people to use in the most French videos around not featuring Pepe Le Pew.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. But on the bright side we'll always have "Helicopter."
The Crew's Tommy Heinemann Would Like to Sing You a Song
I think I'm going to become the full-on Randy Jackson of American soccer and start a show called "MLS' Got Talent." I wonder if Temryss Lane will be my Paula Abdul? And I'm sure Paul Garnder would love nothing more than to play the evil Englishman, so he can be Simon.
As for contestants we'll have Brek Shea showing off his art, Charlie Davies planking and Michael Harrington beatboxing like it was 1984. The Crew's Tommy Heinemann can also com on and sing flip-flop rock songs for however long it takes his band Stones Cry Out to get an opening gig on the next Jack Johnson tour. We'll make dreams come true!
NSR: Chiddy Bang "Mind Your Manners"
This may end up being my summer rap anthem. You have to have a new one every summer, you see. If not there is virtually no way to time-stamp the drunken, sweaty capers that make the season so memorable. Except for photos on Facebook.
Although Chiddy Bang's recent mixtape wasn't all that and producer Xaphoon Jones' penchant for utilizing sped-up indie songs for hooks might get him pigeonholed as a nuevo College Dropout-era Kanye West, this track is just fun for fun's sake with a hook that's hard to hate. A sing-a-long head-nodder for ages 13 to 39.
NSR: Washed Out "Amor Fati"
Ernest Greene's Washed Out are back to reclaim the Kings of Blissful, Tripped Out Summer Sounds™ crown that they wore so well in 2009 during the height of chillwave mania. Check out new track "Amor Fati", one of the standout from new album Within and Without, which can be listened to in its entirety at EMTheories (or downloaded from some sketchy site in Russia). Enjoy.
Demitrius Omphroy Drops Anthem for the Facebook Generation
Since he hasn’t seen much time on the field —which is shocking because the way Toronto is playing right now you would think they’d be looking to try anything and anyone at this point— tattooed rookie winger/defender Demitrius Omprhoy is keeping busy in T.Dot with off-the-field pursuits. Pursuits such as dropping guest verses on pop music pearls aimed at 12 - 25 year-olds like the social media-meets-autotune pileup that is “Facebook Chat.”
Surely some of y’all are going to howl once you hear this but bear in mind this is pop music...and pop music is for the children. You may think this is juvenile, which it is to a degree, but it’s supposed to be. So if you're over the age of 25 and you don’t hate this song you are basically deep in the throws of a Wooderson-like quarter life-crisis.
NSR: SBTRKT "Trials of the Past"
The debut full-length from SBTRKT comes out on June 28th. If you haven't heard it head over to the Hype Machine and get your head nodding. But only if you can deal with the fact that he let Drake remix "Wildfire" and his insistence on wearing Jamiroquai-gone-tribal masks.
Viva Futbol #73
50? Really? Ugh. I love you Alarazboy but I think you just jumped the shark here cousin.
Video: Total Skills Volume 44
Younger readers may not be aware of this but at one point and time Busta Rhymes was a highly acclaimed rapper. Mind you the song featured in this clip is in no way proof of that, but I just thought you should know.
NSR: CHLLNGR "Ask Me"
My former work wife and author of the upcoming (and allegedly controversial) memoir/design for life Record Collecting for Girls put me on to this new clip from CHLLNGR today. The visuals are beautifully creepy while the track boasts some seriously The Chronic-esque keys and a haunting, implied-dub bass line.
This could be the soundtrack to True Blood-like Halloween sex if we were all refined enough not to dress like a sexxxy nurse/pirate/cop/insurance adjuster on October 31st. But we're not. And this is why we can't have nice things.