AM & Shawn Lee, Celestial Electric AM & Shawn Lee – Can’t Figure It Out AM & Shawn Lee – Somebody Like You Celestial Electric, a new album by AM & Shawn Lee, is the best thing I’ve heard this year. A seamless fusion of organic and digital, 70s style dancing robot soul. Sounds old…
Summer Mixtape – Songs 7-9
As the season winds down, I’ll leave you with these three gems. May you slumber till you wake up in the fall… Josh Rouse – Magdalena Little Joy – The Next Time Around Santo & Johnny – Sleepwalk
Hulu Hooping – Portlandia
This is an often hilarious show that airs on IFC, starring SNL’s Fred Armisen and some woman from some 90s band. Its sketches skewer everyone from bike messengers with tribal earrings to holier-than-thou vegans to people who only listen to NPR and drink PBR. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out. http://www.hulu.com/portlandia
Popularity Contest (Music Edition)
Number of Facebook Fans (in millions) Eminem – 44.4 Lady Gaga – 38.3 Katy Perry – 33.0 Linkin Park – 30.5 Justin Bieber – 29.8 Bob Marley – 27.0 Beyonce – 24.0 Taylor Swift – 22.8 Usher – 21.1 Black Eyed Peas – 20.8 Beatles – 18.9 Metallica – 18.7 Miley Cyrus – 15.5 Alicia…
Netflix Picks: The Parking Lot Movie
Fascinating doc about a group of over-educated young men who all work as parking attendants at a lot in Virginia. Putting up with monotony is a large part of most jobs, so it is easy to identify with their plight (as well as their disdain for rich bitches in luxury SUVs). The long hours they…
Summer Mixtape – Songs 4-6
A trio of covers… Wilson Pickett sings the Beatles (w/ Duane Allman on guitar)… The Staple Singers soul up a Buffalo Springfield tune… The Black Keys get bluegrassed… Wilson Pickett – Hey Jude The Staple Singers – For What It’s Worth Pickin’ On Series – Tighten Up
My Five Favorite Beardos
beardo, n. a weirdo with a beard “I wear a lot of Axe body spray, but I live in a black neighborhood. Over there, they call it Ask body spray. If you don’t get that joke, then you’re not racist.” — Zach Galifianakis Love is a tired symphony you hum when you’re awake — Sam…
Remix/Mashup Monday – Radiohead
Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place (Gigamesh/DiscoTech Remix) Radiohead vs Dave Brubeck – Five Step
Summer Mixtape – Song #3
Sunny, rollicking, folk rock song to sip iced tea and lemonade to. Vetiver – More Of This
Unjustly Obscure Albums – Vol. 6
Jack Peñate, Everything Is New Shape-shifting London-based pop auteur Jack Peñate decided to try out a slew of genres for 2009’s aptly titled Everything Is New, an effervescent nine-track rendering of Afro-beat, dance-pop, tropicalia, and blue-eyed soul that flirts with greatness enough to warrant subsequent spins. Peñate’s enthusiasm for not only his source material, but…