With America’s birthday coming up in July, we have a lot to look forward to:
But let’s not forget how awesome June was. So we’re going to try something a little new here. Every month I’m going to post my top five songs for that month. To add to the confusion, it won’t necessarily be new releases. Instead it will be the top five songs I’ve added to my iTunes collection for that month. In no particular order:
Error :: Love - Dangerous Dance
In what will probably be the funniest movie (or only funny movie) this year, Pineapple Express, released a red band version of the trailer a little while ago. It’s pretty much the same thing except 3 more swear words, 2 genitalia references, and a few more weed references. Is Seth Rogan killing it or what (bet you never heard that on the internet before)?
Besides, all this gives me an excuse to post a Them Jeans remix of M.I.A.’s Paper Planes. Not a bad trade off, eh?
In this era of electronic music, will the phrase “guitar pedal” be synonymous with bicycles and DIY bicycle gangs or will the world find a way to pick up physical instruments when music recycles itself back to the 90s again? Either way, these new pedals will be finding their way on my bicycle this summer.
Hey! Lupe Fiasco’s got a new single out. Justice is remixing his latest. That’s probably going to disable the internet once it hits. Try this one for now.
Continuing on with today’s unrelated to MP3s or music posts, Dirty Agency officially endorses MONEY$NAKE as its message board of choice. Good friend / often collaborator / mentor, Frank is currently running this board which is pretty much about nothing at all. This makes it full of potential to be completely inappropriate and do the trolling that the internet has meant to be about since the beginning of time. Besides, I’ve posted an exclusive remix to the board that is sure to make you absolutely sick to your stomach. Go!
I have to admit, I’m pretty impressed with myself right now. It’s not often I build something of such sheer awesomeness that I feel the need to go on the internet and be like HOLY SHIT DUDE! But seriously, I’ve been a little lax lately while I’ve been setting up this beast in my studio. More on this mess and gear listing after the jump.
One of the better reads out on the market has now just thrown its name into the MP3 game. Featuring 320 kbps tracks with no DRM, check out Wax Poetics‘ new digital download store. Plenty of great re-issues here that are too numerous to even list. $1.11 per track is a bit steep but where else are you going to find Luiz Bonfa re-releases in that quality? Now and then it’s good to pay for your music, especially when it’s damn near impossible to find anywhere else.
This new musical experience has made thousands of new releases and vital reissues available for download. The tracks for sale, in digital format, will interest all of our readers, as the stock spans Brazillian to breaks, Latin to lounge, and of course, plenty of classic and unearthed jazz, funk, soul, and hip-hop.
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Yesterday, I watched a lecture on music from Evelyn Glennie, a world renowned deaf percussionist. In it, she talks about listening to what is NOT in the music she is reading in front of her. Rather than simply playing back that which is in front of her, she separates the technician from the interpreter.
It’s difficult to even begin to review Gregg “Girl Talk” Gillis’s follow up to Night Ripper. While preaching through a MySpace account with a simple “I Am Not A DJ”, Feed The Animals reinforces the notion that Girl Talk is not modestly regurgitating the last 40 years of music into our ears. Gregg is now toeing the line on so many different facets. This proverbial line is bordering on legality, composition and music theory, art, DJing, remixing, society, and (of course) partying. On the internet, we often call that last sentence “nuthugging”. However, let me explain…
No disrespect to the guy but seriously… how old?
I keep hearing people tell me that 30 is the new 20. No. 30 is when I have to start putting on a suit to work and think about having kids but god bless the people who never give it up. People like this give me a lot of hope being in my mid-20s and playing music that isn’t my own. I’m at the age where people either still get kind of pumped on the next U2 single or they start a DIY CD-R punk record label. Ugh… my life doesn’t fit in either of those!!! :-(((((
But man, Busy P even made Murs look good. The last person to do that was this guy:
Sorry. Not diggin’ it, Murs. I don’t know how Pedro pulls it off. As far as I remember, being the 30-something pop punk band still playing at local battle of the bands made you semi-creepy for no reason other than you were old. Times are a changing, man. Time are a changing.
The new Batman movie is coming out next month and from as far as I can tell, it’s going to probably make up for wasting my money on The Happening. I thought this might be a good opportunity to go over the history of how awesome Batman soundtracks used to be. Do it!
