After hearing this song 3 times a day for the past month at work it finally sucked me in with its catchiness. Much like Lookbook, it’s a style of music that I despise but the undeniable awesomeness of it just makes it impossible to hate. Plus they kinda remind me of an electro-pop version of Taking Back Sunday which is a plus in my book.
Neon Trees – “Animal” (from Habits)
Check it out kids, Ryan Adams is back! From the forthcoming full on metal record, Orion, due out sometime soon. More info. available HERE.
Ryan Adams – “Electrosnake”
I love the beat on this track.
“Living Life Too Tough” comes off the brand new The Let’s Be Professionals mixtape from the Twin Cities’ The Tribe & Big Cats! available for download HERE at Midwest Broadcast.
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Hot track from Minneapolis’ Nyteowl! If you are a fan of Daft Punk, Phoenix, Sebastien Teller, and basically all things French and electronic sounding then be sure to grab a copy of the debut Romantic Life in April.
The CD release party is April 24 at the Hexagon Bar, with Lookbook, FoodTeam, and Cepia (Ghostly International). This is a special lineup as FoodTeam (Ryan Olcott) helped produced the album, Lookbook sang guest vocals on the track “Do it Right, Tonight”, and Cepia (Huntley Miller) mastered the album.
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Pretty hot mashup track from the Hood Internet featuring:
2000 – Dr. Dre vs Radiohead
2001 – Missy Elliott vs Daft Punk
2002 – Ludacris vs The New Pornographers
2003 – Kelis vs The Rapture
2004 – Twista f/ Kanye West vs Arcade Fire
2005 – Three 6 Mafia vs Sufjan Stevens
2006 – T.I. vs Peter Bjorn and John
2007 – Rich Boy vs LCD Soundsystem
2008 – Lil Wayne vs Hot Chip
2009 – Jay Sean vs Phoenix
MP3: The Hood Internet – “Decalogue (The Hood Internet vs. The 2000s)”
I don’t know guys. Is it just me? Am I the only person that thinks this is just kind of lame? I mean, as I said before, I’m all for bands putting their own personalities into cover songs but c’mon, do we really need to hear a bunch of nerds from an Ivy League school take all the soul and feeling out of one of my favorite Rancid songs? Maybe if they were from an OPERATION Ivy League school. Ha! No? Hmm… fair enough.
If I wanted to hear the white man bastardize roots music I’d listen to The Police.
I’ve come across two interesting Replacements covers during my internet journeys the last few days and thought I would share them with you.
The first is by the U.K. band Kindness and comes courtesy of the excellent Aquarium Drunkard website. Their take on “Swingin’ Party” is a little too Blondie “Heart of Glass” for my taste but I give them credit for switching it up a bit.
The second is by the always entertaining Duane Peters and his new band The Great Unwashed. The version of “Skyway” they do is very reminiscent of GG Allin’s cover of the Warren Zevon classic “Carmelita” as featured in the movie Hated. It’s scratchy, slightly off-key, and feels very off the cuff.
In both cases I’d rather listen to the original version but I always enjoy hearing how other bands interpret the Replacements’ catalogue. If nothing else they’re both a hundred times better than THIS unfortunate trainwreck.
Ho. Lee. Shit. So, apparently this came out like a year ago but I just recently found out about it. Criminal, son! Fuckin’ criminal! These are probably the best Misfits covers I’ve ever heard. Words… fuckin… words can’t even begin to explain.
David Pajo of Slint recorded an entire album of Misfits covers and, as Travis Keller of Buddyhead said, “stripped em down to sound allot like Elliott Smith songs”.
You can order the record directly from the label but as it is on back order and I have not yet procured a copy myself, I’m not gonna tell you what label it is on. Sorry, but I need to make sure I get it before all you assholes snatch ‘em up.
Once they’re back in stock I’ll post the info here. Until then, enjoy.
David Pajos – "Hybrid Moments"
“Where Eagles Dare”
Debut album New Love from Minneapolis’ Mike Swoop dropped today. It’s a solid record full of RJD2-quality instrumental hip-hop, but with more funk, soul, and jazz grooves worked into the mix. There’s also guest spots from Big Quarters and Toki Wright. Pick up your limited edition copy HERE for $10.
Mike Swoop – New Love
01. On My Mind
02. No Room
03. Fiend feat. Big Quarters
04. Seeing Dubble
05. Artisan
06. Spice Interlude
07. Let it Go feat. Toki Wright
08. Spread it Thin
09. No Go Die!
10. Gain
11. Where Do We Go feat. Kavorkian & Allpurpose
12. Up Late
13. A Better Idea
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Listen via Bandcamp:
Let’s inherit the earth, cause no one else is taking it,
Come on and do your worst, before the moment’s past.
In bedrooms across England, and all the Western world,
There’s posters and there’s magazines,
The music isn’t ours.
Cause we write love songs in C,
And we do politics in G
We sing songs about our friends in E minor.
So turn out the stars now and take up your guitar,
And come on folks let’s try this at home.
Let’s stop waiting around, for someone to patronize us,
Let’s hammer out a sound that speaks of where we’ve been.
Forget about the haircuts, the stupid skinny jeans,
the stampedes and the irony, the media-fed scenes
Cause we write love songs in C,
And we do politics in G
We sing songs about our friends in E minor.
So turn out the stars now and take up your guitar,
And come on folks let’s try this at home.
Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean
is not sitting round and waiting for the lights to go green,
and not thinking that you’re better because you’re stood up on a stage.
If you’re oh so fucking different then who cares what you have to say?
And there’s no such thing as rock stars, there’s just people who play music,
and some of them are just like us, and some of them are dicks.
So quick, turn off your stereo, pick up that pen and paper,
you could do much better than some half-assed skinny English country singer
Cause we write love songs in C,
And we do politics in G
We sing songs about our friends in E minor.
So turn out the stars now and take up your guitar,
And come on folks let’s try this at home.
Now that’s fucking punk rock.
Frank Turner – “Try This at Home” (from Poetry of the Deed)
Wisconsin’s Yellow Ostrich, a band I’ve written fondly about in the past, has another solid record out as of last week. If you are into smooth indie rock with glitchy beats and a vocalist that sounds like Jeff Magnum then grab their newest album (and previous two albums) for free on their Bandcamp page.
Visit HERE to download.
Great new mashup of DMX and the xx from the Hood Internet!
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MP3: The Hood Internet – “The XX Gon’ Give It to Ya (DMX vs The xx)”
