Got 12 hours to kill? Just stumbled on crate digologist and turntableuriste Peanut Butter Wolf's 12 hour set from 12/12/12. >Snort.< Serious Effing Collection. Parts 2 and 3 should be easy to find. EDIT: Wow -- just noticed the video information actually has a damn playlist. Hats off.
I swear to god, you can open up Pitchfork any day of the year and if you read it as if it's an Onion style parody of a music site ... it is god. damn. hilarious. This is not a tired slam on hipsters -- people there spend lots of time and energy on writing about music and seem to give a shit which is more than laudable, despite how much I might agree or disagree in taste. But I just clicked to see what they thought about Beck's new album, and I see this: UPDATE: Duck Sauce ...and I honestly broke down in a fit giggles.
In that case, CyC, you may want to come back down to Echo Park for a laughcation sometime. And I'm nearly positive their song was used in commercials.
How many hipsters does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer # 1 (for the general public): "Its an obscure number, I doubt you'd have heard of it." Answer #2 (to one-up other hipsters): " We don't do that--Edison's earlier work is so much better."
Rave music. A cross between the Beastie Boys and the Moody Blues. Or maybe its Yanni and the Rippingtons...
Duplicated from another thread. Paco de Lucia has died. If you're at all familiar with classical or flamenco guitar, you knew him as a stellar, exciting musician. If you're not at all familiar with classical or flamenco guitar, you probably still knew him, through his live album with guitarists John McLaughlin and Al DiMeola, amongst the most popular instrumental music albums ever made. And if you're not either, you should go and listen to his music.
Meet the new boss... actually, not quite the same as the old boss... Bez, from Happy Mondays, is running for Parliament "...He told the paper: "I've been saying we need a revolution, and there's no good shouting about it when you're not actually doing anything. ...The 2005 Celebrity Big Brother winner accused the political establishment of operating a policy of "divide and rule" and vowed to create a "new world order...If you're voting for me, you're voting as a protest about what's happening in the world at the moment." He pledged to end the current banking system, redistribute wealth, and promote a more sustainable environment. And the keen beekeeper said he also hopes to "end illness" and "get everybody back to an alkaline state" ... " I'm not sure what any of that actually means. Which makes at least two of us. Also: The photo editor at The Guardian deserves a raise . . .
I just want to say that Nujabes never gets old. This is Bonobo. He's a DJ but he does stuff with live bands, too. Check out the label he's on (Ninja Tune), loads of good yet out there stuff.
Sitting around, thinking up super cool things, executing them perfectly, making money off it: Daft Punk's Seventies-tastic print ads hawking their funkadelic new merch. Nice work if you can get it . . .
For me it would be Largo from Handel's opera "Xerxes". Just to confuse and baffle those in attendance.
It's been more than 30 years since the release of this song and it still stands the test of time. The talent of The Crusaders alone was enough to carry this tune but what Randy Crawford brought by way of vocals makes this song a modern jazz standard. How's that for random?
Is that Veronica from The Archies? She used to play a pretty decent keyboard, IIRC, but left over "artistic differences" when they wouldn't go in the gothy-shoegazer direction that she preferred. Good to see she got into journalism.