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Cerebral Ballzy’s a great, rough-around-the-edges New York think guitared rock band that fits in nicely at the Ottobar. Listening to them makes me want to run in a circle with Thomas Hintze (although who knows if he’d want to do the same… :sigh:). They’re playing with a Team Robspierre, a band that I know at least Ziegs really digs. You can listen to a sample song of Cerebral Baltzy here.
Lil Wayne and T-pain are coming to BMORE….
March 20th at the 1st Mariner Arena…lil wayne, t-pain, keri hilson, and Gym Class Heroes will be in the building….. Tickets are on sell at Ticketmaster…..
Be there or miss one of the hottest lil wayne concerts thus far… lol get your tix NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
An excellent NY outfit that will be in town tomorrow, Feb. 17th, at Saratoga’s own Talking Head.
Amazing, amazing project! via bOINGbOING,
The “Beatles Complete on Ukulele” is an ambitious and awesome blog. They’ve posted three MP3s of Beatles songs so far. Here’s Fiona Silver doing “Run for Your Life.”
Run For Your Life is the final song on The Beatle’s creative breakthrough album, 1965’s Rubber Soul.They put it last for very good reasons.
While not the worst Beatle song it might be the worst one written and sung by John.
Consider the unfortunate first line.
“I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man.”
Happily, the culture has come a long way baby since 1965.
From Ukulelia:
The Beatles Complete On Ukulele is a web based project by Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt where they willA) Record & perform on ukulele all 185 original compositions by The Beatles with 185 guest singers/artists.
B) Write essays to coincide with each release.
C) Make available for download one new recording and essay every Tuesday for 185 weeks, beginning January 20, 2009 (Inauguration Day) and climaxing July 24, 2012 (The eve of the London Olympics).”
Buffet’s recording is actually song three of 185. The first two are that old ukulele chestnut While My Guitar Gently Weeps, performed by Dandelion Wine, and Oh Darling, sung by Kathena Bryant of The Hippynuts.
Well not exactly a new face, but new faces……Hip-Hop has gone from Rakim, Run DMC, Biz Markie to Jay-Z, Kanye aka ‘Ye, Young jeezy, and yall know the rest…..
But now Hip-Hop is getting new talent and new talent that has not gotten enough credit for their talent… These new catz have given the mixtape game some time now they want in on the industry that has crushed lives and almost made lives…These new dudes: Cory Gunz, Mickey Factz, Blu, Wale, Kid Cudi just to name a few have been noticed for their features, but now they want their own name and fame….
I will mainly introduce you to these guys and then you can go look them up yourself…
Cory Gunz…..featured on many JayZ albums while on Def Jam but you can also catch him on the “A Milli” beat doing his thing…
Mickey Factz….was actually in law school when he decided to be a full time rapper.. He has his own label and has many mixtapes out called “The Leak” check him out if you want some raps about reality and not all tht clothes, cash, and many mansions…
Wale….”Still Got my Nike Boots” yea you should have heard of him… Up N comin artist from the DMV….Check him out for somenice DC flavored rhymes…..
The other artists mentioned and some others that were not are featured on XXL Magazine’s October ‘08 Cover….
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Finding someone else’s old records in your house can provide a window into a world of music that, no matter how far off or bizzare it may seem, ususally ends up simply being stuff you just haven’t heard yet. It’s not a particularly new phenomenon, and probably one I play up in my head even more because vinyl as medium has taken on a slightly mystic dimension, that somehow any old record is going to have some long lost gem of music squirreled away in its grooves, a product most likely of me watching other people dig successfully for a long time, while I’ve only bought around100+ records in my entire life. So that when I find something like Blind Faith’s self-titled LP, look at the titleless cover art (above) and think it’s some bizarre hick freakout record, I discover perhaps a day later it’s a completely well known, major British 1969 release from Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Steve Winwood that came at a particular peak in all thier careers. And it was one of my dad’s favorite records from back in the hazy drug days. Cool, but not exactly digging in the crates mysticalia. Song link after the jump.
10. Sun Kil Moon-April (11 points, 2 votes)
9. Lykke Li-Youth Novels (13 points, 2 votes)
Complaint Department - Lykke L…
8. Hercules and Love-Affair Hercules and Love Affair (14 points, 2 votes)
Blind (Full Album Version) - H…
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