The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie
12/31/2010
New Years Treat
When I get the chance I will discuss the Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings show I went to last night, which does need discussion, since it was great. But for now I'm thinking I'll do the same thing I did with Christmas a throw on song on my iTunes that contain the words new year. So here it is, and happy 2011.
The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie
The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie
12/28/2010
Finally Famous 3
Big Sean is an up and coming rapper who recently released the third installment of his Finally Famous mixtapes, Finally Famous 3. He has been signed to G.O.O.D. Music as well as Def Jam Recordings and lyrically is a possible mainstream ray of light in a world where to many people consider Lil Wayne and Drake some of the best alive. A highlight of the mixtape has to be his freestyle over Gucci Mane's Lemonade, Supa Dupa Lemonade. Check out this line "I'm unusual as shit, I'm Super Bad your girl probably doodlin' my dick", that line just stuck out to me as particularly entertaining, but seriously, he's good. Apparently when Kanye was being interviewed at a local radiostation he occasionally free styled at, he decided to just swing by and see what happens. 'Ye was reluctant at first, but after hearing just 16 bars, signed him to G.O.O.D. Music. Big Sean has a new single with Chiddy Bang which is unbelievably fresh, musical grounds Xaphoon Jones had yet to cover in the Chiddy Bang companionship. The verse is wild, especially when halfway through a quick acousticish beat crashes in, leading into an insanely catchy sample from the musical library that is Xaphoon Jones. Check out Too Fake, as well as Big Sean's mixtape. The mixtape features Asher Roth (who I personally think has been proceeding through the game like a fine wine, getting better and more lyrically diverse and introspective with age [Lupe Fiasco's supergroup All City Chess Club is proof]), Drake, I'm rarely a fan of him, but hey it's a sign of mainstream ascendence, Mike Posner, Tyga and Curren$y, who is another unbelievably original and fresh rapper associated with WIz Khalifa, a personal favorite of mine.
Big Sean and Chiddy Bang - Too Fake
Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music label's freestyle from the BET Music Awards, featuring a clever verse from Big Sean as well as some other good freestyles from the other members of the label, besides Kanye here.
12/27/2010
Snow Day
In honor of Blizzard 2010, which turned out to be nothing more then a ton of media sensationalization and a huge boost in bread and water sales, heres a little piece of everyone's favorite snow day.
Schuyler Fisk with Mark Webber ten years ago in the winter classic, Snow Day
Schuyler Fisk performing this past April.
Pandora Radio
I always thought Pandora was just some stupid money hungry internet radio like anything else. I recently heard my parents listening to a John Prine radio station and when I decided to hijack it and create a Black Keys station, I began to see what it really is. Now I am becoming more and more obsessed and if you read the description of their Music Genome Project you can see what I mean, "Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything from melody, harmony and rhythm, to instrumentation, orchestration, arrangement, lyrics, and of course the rich world of singing and vocal harmony. It's not about what a band looks like, or what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records - it's about what each individual song sounds like.
Since we started back in 2000, we've carefully listened to the songs of tens of thousands of different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world."
So basically, check it out. I guarantee you will discover new music, and the people who created this project actually seem like their just want the best for anyone who loves music. You can check out my stations on the left, as of now I only have one, but I love it.
Narcissists Waltz, Die Rimantik
Narcissists Waltz, Die Rimantik
Black Holes, Stars, Monsters and Stuff
So I'm listening to my Elliot Smith station, the only station on my Pandora account I made like 2 hours ago, and this song came on, Big Black Hole & The Little Baby Star by Sean Hayes. The station has been great so far, I added Death Cab and Black Keys on the add variety button as well, to give it some flavor and I'm glad I did because I'm pretty sure that song came on because of that. So if you have Pandora, make that station. I can't find any download links for the Sean Hayes song, and only a live video. The video is pretty good though, so i'll leave you with that...
Big Black Hole & The Little Baby Star - Sean Hayes
Enjoy it, embrace it, even live it is an amazing little musical treat
The song in particular reminded me of an old favorite of mine, whom I haven't listened to in a while, The Boy Least Likely Too, and I'm glad it did.
Monsters - The Boy Least Likely To
12/25/2010
Christmas Post
So it's Christmas, and I decided since I probably won't be on the computer for most of the day, and might miss out on a post, I'd leave a quick one here. Here's the concept, I decided to search the word Christmas on my iTunes and post every song that comes up on this post, so heres my Christmas gift to you ... internet ... the results of my Christmas iTunes search....
Christmas Vacation - The Descendents
Enjoy, Happy Holidays.
12/24/2010
Tribute to Jay-Z
Jay-z, a legend, an all-time great and one of the best living rappers today. There is no arguing, it's fact. His idiosyncratic flow and velvet smooth way around words is the golden age of hip-hop meets business savvy with a true 90's gangsta rapper thrown in, while always remaining contemporary. I was in the car today, on the way home from 7-11, and as we were cruising through the neighborhood, Can I Get One by Original Flavor came on. It spurred a sudden desire in me to spend the night listening to old school Jay-Z, not Reasonable Doubt though -- which I do consider to be one of the top 5 greatest rap albums of all time -- but older. I also decided to write this post as a tribute, so here it is, a Christmas Eve tribute to one of the greatest rappers to ever step on the scene, Shawn Carter.
Six years before Reasonable Doubt, Jay-Z and his mentor -- as well as one of the rappers Jay-Z would become in a long standing feud with -- Jaz-O, who claims to be the creator of the name Jay-Z, released Originators.
Three years after, Jay-Z was prominently featured in Original Flavor's most successful song, Can I Get Open, off Beyond Flavor , released shortly before the group disbanded.
One year later, in 1994, Jay-Z released his first single, Can't Get Wit That. Here is the rare music video he released along with the song.
And here is one more fore you, a tribute to Jay-Z's recent decision to sign Jay Electronica to Roc-a-Fella last month. Hopefully Jay Electronica lives up to the potential which has shone through all his past releases. So here is the latest from him, featuring Jay-Z and the Dream, Shiny Suit Theory. Definitely not Jay Electronica's best -- click here for 10x the aural reward for your musical pleasure -- but worth a listen for sure.
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