Some amazing tracks for your funktacular weekend.
A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
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Now they have their debut LP, Partie Traumatic, out on July 22nd on Columbia Records. What’s the deal with it, you ask? Well first let me mention that it was produced by Bernard Butler of Suede. Butler’s sound is deeply ingrained in this album letting the Black Kids stream out a record heavy on the Cure/Suede amalgam. It almost brought a tear to my eye. The Black Kids have thoroughly invested themselves in this album (they really play their hearts out on it). Black Kids bring their energy and then some, but great production wasn’t sacrificed to capture it (a feat that’s much harder than it sounds). So if you’re in the mood for jump up and down disco funk indie sing along Suede/Cure jamboree music then pop in that audio jack and enjoy.
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It’s a sweet little song that aptly describes new, young, puppy style love that goes through stages of “the right amount of awkward”.
You accidentally / called me / baby
Cheers to that!
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Blend the old-school R&B sound with a quirky hybrid of hip-hop and pop and you get Little Jackie, the creation of genre-defying singer-songwriter Imani Coppola and programmer Adam Pallin. With a nod to the soulful Motown rhythms of the past and a sneer to many of the social and cultural issues that consume the public today, Coppola has crafted an album of musical sugar and spice, filled with sweet, saccharine-tinged melodies and spicy, bold commentaries.
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me MP3 | Download
Little Jackie - The Stoop MP3 | Download
Little Jackie - One Love MP3 | Download
Well, that troll over in Hollywood Perez has posted more music that I want, and whatever lola wants! So, here is the direct link on his site (hidden of course, but no longer!) to download the new Love to Infinity remix of Dolly Parton “9 to 5″.
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 (Love to Infinity Remix) MP3 | Download
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I’m having one of those music-related/caused moments right now. I just listened through In Ghost Colours again with a little lump in my throat and I’ll be damned if Cut Copy hasn’t made the best album of 2008.
Cut Copy - Feel the Love MP3 | Download
Perhaps its the fact that I always had a soft spot for The Verve and was never content with them being pigeon-holed into the “Oasis-sound-alikes” category (despite being out before Oasis), or perhaps the Oooh-oooh aaah-aaah noises in the song sound creepily great but the new single by the newly reformed (again) Verve is quite a decent song altogether. Check it out.
The Verve - Love is Noise MP3 | Download
One of the best pop moments of the year is the mini temper-tantrum conveyed on the stompy hook to The Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name”, though it was never quite understood how anyone could think of TT super-hottie Katie White as a forgettable entity. Anyways, English rapper Dizzee Rascal takes on the dance fizzer in this Live Lounge cover.
Dizzee Rascal - That’s Not My Name (Ting Tings Cover) MP3 | Download
Everyone loves a good party, and the fact that this one takes place in some random spot reserved in your brain for rediculous horns, back beats and whiney falsetto vocals is no reason to stray. The new Bloc Party single is by far one of their biggest leaps in the hardcore dance music scene.
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So a freakin’ spitfire out of New Zealand called “Ladyhawke” released her single over seas on June 30, 2008 and I’m bloody’ happy about it! This Cut Copy remix is by far amazingly better than the original, guess it’s the familiar undertones of CC that keep me listening, but either way the chorus is hooking me like a whore on Las Vegas Blvd. Take a Listen and let me know what you think.
To quote “I wanted to capture the “happy sad” vibe that so many eighties classics had.” -L
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (Cut Copy Remix) Download | MP3
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Hungry?
But don’t want to put on any more pounds for the summer?
Have afunky-fresh-discobeat-solid drum line- sinpired lunch!
Its all the rage.
Gabrielle -Forget About The World (Daft PunkRemix) download | mp3
Oh, and don’t get cold! Grab some Covers!
The Kooks - Violet Hill (Coldplay cover) download | mp3
play on words are fun times.
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Sometimes people stop and say
“Hey there kind sir…what have you added on your playlist lately”
and I go
“Wow, now that you ask I’m not sure, let me check!”
and then they go
“OK, I’ll wait here”
Lucy & The Caterpillar - Beans On Toast
Justice - Sure You Will
Elbow - Back To Black (Amy Winehouse Cover)
Elbow - One Day Like This
Lykke Li - Breaking It Up
Black Kids - Hurricane Jane
We all loved having a Brim full of Asha, tonsand tons of Brims all over our Asha’s, and the sad thing none of us knew what the banana it meant. But, Cornershop is always there, in our head singing that damn song when we least expect it, even to this day I’ll pop out that ole’ ditty on a rainy Thursday and sing all the way home. So, in respect to the Brims and the Asha’s..here are three more tracks, including a oh-so-Bollywood M.I.A. remix.
Cornershop - Battle Of New Orleans (Peel Session)
Cornershop - Topknot (MIA Remix)
Cornershop - Hot Rocks
To download these songs through Friday, right click on the links and hit “Save Target As”:
- Kerli “Walking on Air”
- Albert Hammond Jr. “GfC”
- Street Dogs “Two Angry Kids”
- Great Lake Swimmers “Your Rocky Spine”
- Costanza “Just Another Alien”
Kerli, “Walking on Air”
Swirling rhythms and clapping complement a spooky but uplifting song about a creepy little girl on this track from the Estonian artist’s debut album.
Buy the album here.
Albert Hammond Jr., “GfC”
The Strokes’ guitarist goes solo again with this twangy, garage-rockin’ single off his sophomore album, “¿Cómo Te Llama?” Catch him at the Union Square Virgin Megastore tonight at 8 p.m.
Buy the album here.
Street Dogs, “Two Angry Kids”
The Celtic punks reminisce about the rough and tumble good old days growing up in Boston on the band’s latest album, “State of Grace.” They’re at Nassau Coliseum July 26 for Warped Tour.
Buy the album here.
Great Lake Swimmers, “Your Rocky Spine”
Fans of Showtime’s marijuana-fueled series will recall the Canadian folk band’s bittersweet tune - available on “Weeds: Music From the Series Vol. 3″ - from the cliffhanger of the “Grasshopper” episode.
Buy the album here.
Costanza, “Just Another Alien”
The Brooklynite (by way of Rome) manages to make a litany of US Customs and Border Patrol-style questions sound sexy on this track off her new album, “Sonic Diary.”
New York Post
By MAXINE SHEN
Out there! There’s a world outside of YONKERS! Just saw Wall.E last night with my pal Jessica and I couldn’t get this freakin’ song outside of my head. So… here you go world! Find adventure in the evening air, and ride through town!
BUT, don’t come home ’til you’ve kissed a girl (ewww!)
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