When James Murphy, of LCD Soundsystem fame, puts his golden touch on something you know it’s gonna be pure magical ear candy and pop stardust on your brain. The Philadelphia quintet’s vocals are reminiscent of Ben Kweller with a healthy affection for feel-good classic rock anthems.
Free Energy – ‘Turnpike Ghost’
Lady Gaga’s video for Telephone premiered Thursday – It’s out there, and it’s all the buzz right now. No matter what your opinion, you have to agree it’s 9 1/2 minutes of visually appealing entertainment that brings you back to the days of Thriller where a music video was an enthralling mini-movie, complete with a hook that is catchy as all hell. [...]
Cleveland Duo, The Kickdrums (of Just A Game fame), have put together a mixtape to get you ready for the Coachella music festival in Indio, CA, this coming April. This year’s Coachella features a variety of acts such as Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, Thom Yorke, Grizzly Bear, La Roux, Major Lazer and many (MANY) [...]
Winston Salem natives, Brother Reade, have been making noise in Los Angeles for the past 5 years with their unique brand of post-contemporary rap renaissance music. Comprised of beat maker Bobby Evans and word smith extraordinaire Jimmy Jamz aka Jamz F Kennedy, the duo has released 3 highly underrated EPs along with a critically lauded, but overall [...]
Slash + Cypress Hill + Fergie for a remake of Paradise city.
I’m pretty sure this is from last year, so it may not be new to you, but it’s new to me.
No disrespect to the artists involved in this tom foolery, but it sounds a bit more like Paradise Shitty to [...]
“Inspired by the magical world of ‘Wonderland’ depicted in the Tim Burton helmed Disney blockbuster, Top American celebrity party rockers DJ SynCity & Superstar DJ ROS partnered together to create an unofficial ‘soundtrack’ for the highly anticipated film. Programmed to sound like a house party down the rabbit hole, the slyly named compilation entitled “Alice [...]
So, unless you’ve been living under a rock or haven’t paid your interwebs bill then you probably have either stumbled across or been forced to watch the new OK GO video for “This Too Shall Pass”. We posted it here last week, as did many other sites, and it is rapidly approaching 7 million youtube views. It looks like another viral [...]
Here’s a little dose of awesomeness to brighten your Wednesday. The PS22 Chorus is a group of 5th graders, conducted by Gregg Breinberg, who audition annually for the choir at Staten Island’s largest elementary school. They also lent backing vocals to Passion Pit’s ‘The Reeling’ (see below).
Phoenix’s manager, Simon [...]
It seems like MGMT is channeling some serious glam rock vibes for their new material. This seriously T-Rex inspired tune just showed up on their site for download, ‘Flash Delirium’. Space-age synthesizer? Check. Echo-effect chorus? Check. Pouty vocal delivery? Double check. Maybe the Thin White Duke will make a cameo [...]
To me, the process of creating art is just as important as the final piece. Maybe it’s from attending an art school where you’re subject to critique after critique haha. I love it when I find stuff like this that pulls in the process of creating art/music. I recently got into this [...]
