Thanks to Tchotchke for inspiring the name this week! I haven’t done any mixes in a while, but tonight I have an hour and 14 minutes of deep house and disco vibes for you crazy kids. Get sweaty.
The mix and tracklist are after the jump.
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I wrote about the Fresh Beat Band/Music of Death last week and I did not mention the scandal. Yes, there is a scandal. During season one, the drummer, Marina, was played by Shayna Rose. Then, suddenly, in Season 2, she was replaced by Tara Perry. Some fans are super-angry about it.
Why did Shayna leave? Did she go Bananas? Did KiKi pull a Tanya Harding on her? Did she rebel against that horrid blue costume they forced her to wear? I like to think she came to her senses in the middle of a song one day and ran screaming out of the studio. The official line from the show is that she left to get married and pursue other projects. She has not appeared on gossip sites screaming about a conspiracy, so it’s unlikely that there is much of a scandal. Read more…
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After promising a release after Thanksgiving, R. Kelly has dropped episode 23 of Trapped in the Closet early. Continue reading
I was introduced to Mumford & Sons during the summer of 2010 while working as a defense contractor in Afghanistan. Stateside, Sigh No More
Every once in a while you hear some music news that makes you a little hopeful. Announced this week, much beloved hip-hop impresario, Nas, will be on tour this fall joined by his 90’s “If I Ruled the World” partner, Lauryn Hill. Continue reading
We’re gonna change things up a bit this week. Instead of an original mix, I’m giving you a bunch of tunes by GRiZ and I’m Not A Band, a couple of artists I’ve been diggin’ on lately. Continue reading
My last few mixes have been a bit wacky and chaotic, so this time I decided to stop dicking around give you kids a mix of straight-up house beats. A bunch of great tracks have come out lately and I think this is my smoothest mix yet. Probably my favorite recent release is by the German group I’m Not a Band. Their album “Band Band” is fucking glorious, so I threw a bunch of their stuff in. Enjoy. Continue reading
I love road trips so much, but is there anything worse than the friend who brings along a wack-ass mixtape for the ride? With Labor Day weekend coming up and my own personal road trip in the works, I sat down to put together a playlist of the 15 Greatest Road Trip Songs of All Time. Continue reading
It’s not officially a pop-culture sensation until it’s had a grad school-style disseration written about it. So welcome to the canon, “Gangnam Style” — because The Atlantic published an article yesterday making the case that the insane/hysterical K-Pop bath salts hallucination video “is rich with subtle references that, along with the song itself, suggest a subtext with a surprisingly subversive message about class and wealth in contemporary South Korean society.” The article is fucking fascinating. Let’s learn a few things about “Gangnam Style” and the pudgy pop crooner PSY who wrote the song, directed the video and came up with those sweet, sweet dance moves. Continue reading