This commercial for Rhapsody (don’t worry, I’m not earning a commission), featuring the Cool Kids and some dude singing in his towel, cracks me up every time. Seems like something I might do, especially if the Cool Kids were just rockin’ my family room.
And that T-shirt with the wolf on it … priceless.
By the way, you can pick up the Black Mags single on eMusic now.
My brother covered this Low track on Saturday night at Modified with one John O’Reilly on drums.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Do you ever neglect an album for one reason or another when it first comes out only to find out about five months later that it’s really awesome and you wonder just what in the hell you were thinking? No, of course you don’t. You’re not dumb like me.
I’m going through that moment with Common’s Finding Forever, which was released July 31. Nobody will ever accuse me of being ahead of the curve.
Perhaps I was scared off by Electric Circus or the Gap ads (“peace, love, gagGap”)? I’m not sure, and I’m not interested in over-analyzing it because Finding Forever recalls Common at his best – that means, to me, One Day It’ll All Make Sense and Resurrection, an album with a song that inspired a regular feature around here.
But how do I know that I really like Finding Forever? I don’t even mind Lily Allen’s cameo on Drivin’ Me Wild. That takes some serious doing.
I posted recently about the Peaches remix of Tone Loc’s Wild Thing. Well, a little surfin’ on YouTube turned up this live gem: Tone Loc and Peaches performing the remix together at an URB and Delicious Vinyl party on Nov. 4 in Los Angeles.
Man, how great is Tone Loc’s voice?
Original video for Wild Thing:
I’ve been pretty upfront about my fondness for Travis (click, click, click, click). So I am super excited to be seeing them – for the first time – on Sunday at Marquee Theatre in Tempe.
I’ve posted two of the band’s videos from the new album The Boy With No Name and somehow forgot this one for Selfish Jean, whose rhythm lines bear an uncanny resemblance to Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life. I have no idea if the song has anything to do with this, but I like the updated model of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues video concept.
Apparently, Pitchfork isn’t the only one to hate Bangers & Cash.
El-P and Cage (inebriated perhaps?), backstage at the mtvU Woodie Awards. Ouch. (Good lookin’ out, Sneak Move.)
Earlier this year, I posted about Bloc Party performing in the VW Green Room, a smallish, acoustic session that doubles as genius marketing for Volkswagen. (Proud owner of a Mazda 3, in case you were wondering.) The sessions are aired, I assume, on WFNX in New Hampshire.
So if you can just get past the corporateness of the whole thing, it makes for some pretty great music.
Spoon stopped by for a performance a few weeks ago and played three tracks off Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.
Here’s video of The Underdog, courtesy of WFNX’s YouTube page.
In which Bloc Party channels visual effects from classic video game Rampage (which you can play here, by the way) … or as commenter jimmytj999 says at the YouTube page (and I quote): “lol wtf @ video.”
My thoughts exactly. I mean, when did C-3PO become a Power Ranger?
But, seriously, folks … this song is growing on me, even though I sort of expect Cher to bust out the chorus to Believe at any moment.
I’ve discussed D-Nice once or twice around here. (Maybe even three times.)
Well, the former Boogie Down Productions member and solo rap artist (now a photographer) is branching out with a YouTube series called D-Nice Presents: True Hip-Hop Stories. The latest installment of the relatively new series features a short sit-down interview with Dres of Black Sheep, who talks about the making of the classic joint The Choice Is Yours and how the ever-present third verse (“Engine, engine number 9”) came about. I mean, how classic is this song? Consider the lyric: “And, pass the paper, cross the fader / Black Sheep getting played, like a Sony in a beta.”
Check out the interview:
Yup, just like the one here, where he performs Sharks at the Pitchfork Festival. Did I mention his set was kinda sorta awesome? Oh yeah, it was.