Well it looks like the bastards forced ’em to take down the Black Keys video I showed you yesterday. But all is not lost — here’s the excellent band Miike Snow’s set of piano-driven pop at Coachella. Our own SusanBAwesome asked for this one. Enjoy!
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Yesterday I pointed you to a video of M83’s set at the Coachella Festival. Well it seems that the same uploader (Coldplay’s Youtube channel) has given us more great footage. Here’s the Black Keys set from Friday night.
On Friday night at the bar Public Assembly in Brooklyn, the band Trinity Jam played. This might not have made the Village Voice and Rolling Stone and Perez Hilton, but it did. That’s because Trinity Jam is made up of Patty Schemel, Melissa Auf Der Mar and Eric Erlandson. And when their former band mate got on the stage for a few songs, it really became an event; that former band mate is Courtney Love and suddenly, at a bar in Brooklyn on a Friday night in April, Hole was reunited.
The reason for this somewhat impromptu happening was the after party for a documentary called Hit So Hard; The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, which opened this week in New York (the Cinema Village showings on Friday night were sold out). Continue reading
We live in amazing times. Within a day of M83’s by-all-accounts-amazing set Friday night at Coachella, high quality videos of the entire set were up on Youtube. Most concert footage posted on the internet is utter crap, but in this case whoever shot these apparently had access to the soundboards because the audio sounds great. Oh, and the set is split into four video, so I embedded them as a playlist and they’ll all play together.
What’s up, slunts? Are you a little drunk? Are you ready to shake dat ass? I hope so because I have a minimix to get your groove started!
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I’ve been finding a ton of great remixes and mashups lately, so I threw a bunch of them together for you kids. The result is a bit rough around the edges (thanks to a few obvious fuckups here and there) but there should be enough electro-y goodness in there to keep you entertained. Continue reading
Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification, died this morning at the age of eighty-eight.
Marshall, often called the “The Father of Loud,” was born in West London in 1923. As a small child he was diagnosed with tuberculosis of the bones and spent a large portion of his childhood in and out of London’s hospitals, his body encapsulated in plaster casts. Exempted from military service due to his sickly adolescence, Marshall became a civilian musician after developing a keen interest in drumming. Around this time, Marshall began applying his knowledge of engineering (then his day job) to developing his own personal voice amplifiers, so that his soft, crooning voice could be heard over his thunderous drumming. Continue reading
I’ve been freaking the fuck out lately over the Estonian producer Mord Fustang’s little four-song EP called “Welcome to the Future” so I threw a bunch of his stuff into this week’s mix, which is heavy on the electro-house. Also check out the tracks by Duck Sauce, which is made up Armand Van Helden and (former Kanye West touring DJ) A-Trak. Probably my favorite song on this joint is “Paddling Out,” from Miike Snow. There are at least three or four dope as hell remixes of that song, which was already a scorcher. That shit gets me hype.
The mix and tracklist are after the jump, fuckos. Continue reading
Political figure song mashups are now all the rage. We laughed hysterically at this one featuring robotic underworld money hoarder, Mitt Romney’s take on Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady.” Now we’ve got another one starring PRESBO and LMFAO created by Baracksdubs and featured first on YouTube. But, of course, YouTube can hardly contain Obama saying the word “sexy.” Continue reading
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I can’t believe I’m saying this but the hottest rapper in the world right now might actually be an Albanian from Queens named Action Bronson. He’s shaped like a bowling ball, with a fat, goofy face and red hair. He frequently gets called “the white Rick Ross” (based purely on his appearance, not his sound). His voice happens to sound disturbingly similar to Ghostface’s and he also happens to be a trained chef who regularly rhymes about prosciutto and shit.
Bronson’s been putting in steady work over the past couple years but his new mixtape “Blue Chips,” which sprung from a marathon studio session with the producer Party Supplies, has been getting a ton of attention since it came out last week. Continue reading