My Dad's Got a Stick up his Ass For No Reason

Jimmy Fallon and John Rich have a festive song about Christmas. It's a special time, after all.

You can buy this song on iTunes! So cut the crap and get some Jack and put it in my soda! And make it strong enough to put a reindeer in a coma.

And if you're going to get drunk on Christmas, then for Baby Jesus' sake, BE NICE TO EVERYONE!

My First Kiss

This is the first single from Colorado electronic duo 3OH!3's third studio album, titled Streets of Gold. The song features pop singer Ke$ha.


Foreman discussed working with Ke$ha in an interview with UK's Channel 4 TV station: "What basically happened was, about two years ago, we were working on My First Kiss. I wrote the first tag line and we thought it would be cool if it was a guy and a girl response. The producer was working with Ke$ha at the time and brought it in. She was a little bit overly aggressive and a little bit crazy. For me, she's cool and she came straight from dodgeball practice and I just thought she was a kooky girl living in LA. But then her career jumped off and it's crazy listening to her music. Basically, the production and songs are her style. She asked us to work on Blah Blah Blah and it's been a good relationship. Whenever she's around, we hang out and it's cool to see her work."



3OH!3 are coming to Vegas very soon. Can't decide if we should go. Anyone want to vouch for how awesome the live show is? Do it in the comment yo!

Today Was a Good Day

Ice Cube has a new album out called I Am The West. It's dope, but nothing compares to the song/video below. That's some old school shit right there. It don't get much better than that. The funny thing is that the reason I am posting this video today had nothing to do with Cube's new album. It was because Jesus Christ sent the funniest tweet today:

http://twitter.com/#!/jesus_m_christ

Aaaaaaammmmmeeeeeennnnnn Homie!


Ice Cube - Today Was a Good Day
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Miracles

Norwegian Recycling has been producing mash-ups since 2007. The dude is super talented and has released a few compilation albums. He's also getting into the remix game, so he's gonna be popping up everywhere.

Mash-ups are one thing, but the video mash-up twist is something I am just amazed by. Enjoy the video after reading the introduction by Norwegian Recycling below:

My newest mashup "Miracles" is a pop-mashup which uses Bruno Mars' new single "Just The Way You Are" as the instrumental. I have used vocal-samples from 15 other pop-songs to construct new lyrics that evolves around the theme "Miracles". Many of my listeners compare my mixing style to Dj Earworms, with muliple sample sources and lyrical and melodic recontextualisation. No surprise since Dj Earworm was my greatest inspiration and influence when I started mashing 4 years ago. I always make youtube-videoes to go with my songs, because I want my music to be an visual experience as well (and it is much easier to promote). The mashup has already been well recieved by my facebookfans and youtube-subscribers, and the mashup-community.

Let The Games Begin

Active Set

“Optimism is a slippery slope,” says Matthew Stolarz, singer/bassist of the Active Set, “You write something positive and people are so quick to dismiss you as unrealistic, or they think you’re a Christian band or some other nonsense. But it’s not all I write. There’s a lot of screwed up relationship songs too. But I wanted to make sure I got this communication out, as it’s an important one to me.”




Playing live in LA now!

Here's to all the pretty girls you're gonna meet

According to the A.V. Club, the song for that Cee-Lo Green video we posted last week is now the Number One breakup song of all time! They recently gathered 28 Gleeful breakup songs. I had to share this Rilo Kiley video because it's so... Odd.

Best Of You

Well...we all know the Foo Fighters by now. The funny thing is that somehow I had managed to miss ever seeing the video until today. Funny huh?

Mark Pellington directed the video. He is known for also directing the video for Pearl Jam's "Jeremy." Some similarities between those two videos, I think.

alrighty then...

F**K YOU

You may already have seen the viral version of this video (watch it here) already, but Cee-Lo Green has made an official video. It's adorable...check it out.

Check out a post about the song over at inALLcaps.com Music Blog...

Becoming A Jackal

From the very first seconds of Becoming a Jackal, he’s got you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, “Have you got just a minute? / Are you easily led? / Let me show the backroom / Where I saw the dead / Dancing like children on a midsummer morn / And they asked me to join” – and then the music obliges by with a similar spectral sweep. ‘I Saw the Dead’ is not just the album intro of 2010 to date but also a magnificent intro to the vivid narratives, gripping poetry and melodic depth of Conor J. O’Brien – or as he likes to call himself and his cohorts, Villagers.

Young in face but intense around the eyes, O’Brien will probably never run out of insights and incidents, so you can be sure that Villagers will be around for the long term. Which suits him just fine. “I don’t want this ever to be the finished product, but to be constantly changing, moving and growing. I can hear so much more.”

 

You should also catch the Villagers' NPR Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR headquarters. Watch here: http://n.pr/cwk2ij

To America

Honeytrap

Having knuckled down throughout the harsh winter of 2009 in the depths of a Tottenham Hale warehouse next to London's main frozen kebab meat distributor, the band emerged in 2010 with 12 unique songs packed with humour, melancholy, sex, and surrealism. As if reacting to the plastic nature of the fake meat fortressing their studio, Petrushka showcases an ambition that stretches far beyond standard British indie parochialism.

This is the official video to Honeytrap's new single "To America" taken from album Petrushka that will be released September 2010.

Video by Kathryn Rosa Miller

To listen to another song from the band...take a jump.

Listen Sister, Don’t Date a Hipster

The ladies of Ménage à Twang

Ménage à Twang is a Brooklyn-based, all-girl, comic country trio that blends lovely three part harmonies with razor sharp wit, acoustic guitars with an anti-depressant pill bottle shaker, and camp irony with a genuine love for folk music. In the spirit of trios gone before—notably the Dolly, Emmy Lou, and Linda collaboration, the Dixie Chicks, and, of course, Destiny’s Child— the Ménage’s debut album, available at www.cdbaby.com/menageatwang, delivers songs that address the unique challenges that fabulous ladies face when navigating big city life. Whether they are lamenting a soul-sucking day job, cursing their tiny shared studio apartment, celebrating a successful one night stand, or calling friends out on their secret conservative side, Ménage’s songs will move you. Or make you want to move out of the metropolitan area.

Ménage à Twang is made up of Emily Moore, a published poet and high school teacher, Jessica Del Vecchio, a feminist scholar and former music biz dayjobber, and Rachel Levy, a television producer, photographer and bad-ass baker.

Thanks to our faithful reader arugala who brought this to our attention!

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/menageatwang#ixzz0vlZfBhJJ

Another World

We wrote a review about the Chemical Brothers recently and mentioned an ambitious video project for every track off the album. Here's one that I think is particularly awesome.

My opinion? If you haven't purchased the entire audio/visual package for Further...maybe you really should.

I Could Be With Anyone

The video comes off the album Brother's Blood, released in 2009.

It's creepy and weird. People and their weird co-dependency issues and psychoses are very friggin creepy and weird.

But Kevin looks great in it.

Mr. Blue

Catherine Feeny has a beautiful, dreamy voice that will carry you off your feet like a helium filled balloon.

Mr. Blue
I told you that I love you
Please believe me

Indecision

Polo Club is the culmination of two years of touring the world as a cohesive unit. “We wanted to focus on working within the band itself and making a record that showcases what we do live.” says James Curd. “When we sat down and thought of how we wanted the new record to sound we all agreed it would be fun to use Lotion as our starting point. We kept telling ourselves, ‘More Guitars!’” The end result is a collection of songs that perfectly captures the insane genius and singular sound of the Greenskeepers.
Greenskeepers James Curd old skateboard footage set to the song "Indecision" off of their new album "Polo Club"

Dance Floor

I'm very excited to show you the official video for The Apples in stereo's song "Dance Floor," which features Elijah Wood and will make extra sense if you've seen the short film The Apples did with Elijah.

I haven't seen the short films, but I still enjoyed the video, as well as the song. In fact, I've been previewing the new album, Travelers In Space and Time, and I am really enjoying it. I suggest you pick it up when it gets released on April 20. That's right. You got something to listen to while you partake in 420 day! Puff Puff Pass.

This Too Shall Pass

Grammy Award winners Ok Go is made up of Kulash (vocals and guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar and backing vocalist), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion), and Andy Ross (keyboards, guitar and backing vocals).

The video below for “This Too Shall Pass” features a two-story Rube Goldberg machine that the band spent four months building with SynnLabs, a team of creative engineers from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Rube Goldberg Machine is an overly complicated machine to do one small task.

Rebellion (Lies)

Arcade Fire is an indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and fronted by the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.

In an interview with the New Musical Express December 8, 2007, the interviewer asked who are the nameless authorities in the lyric who fill us full of lies. Lead vocalist Win Butler replied: "I guess who 'they' are depends on when and where we're playing. I kind of feel like the Pied Piper when I sing that song. Playing the song and trying to get all these kids to follow me down the street and into a river!"

I'm not a big fan of Arcade Fire. Just about everyone else is. I am a sucker for Lip Dub choreographed thing-a-ma-bobs. Well done University of Guelph!

Silvia

Here you go. Miike Snow. Good song. Nice clean shots in the video. I don't know anything else about it. But here's a picture. It's just them. I thought it would be a nice picture for the blog.





SUP?

Starstrukk

A re-mixed radio version was recorded by 3OH!3 for the expanded edition of Want featuring Katy Perry. The I Kissed a Girl singer and 3OH!3 have shared the stage many times and the re-mix gave them the opportunity to collaborate together. Perry joked to MTV News about her contribution to the song: "I came in on the song after they had finished, and they said, 'Katy, just come in and do, like, 16 bars,' and I was like, 'Yeah, whatever. It's nothing,' And I just went in and blew in the studio like that."

We've written about 3OH!3 and Katy Perry. What do you think about them? Leave a comment!

3oh!3 feat. Katy Perry - Starstrukk
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Her Words Destroyed My Planet

Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997.

Have you ever been dumped by someone you loved and stopped to think how things could have been different if you hadn't? That's the story told here.

Check out the video for the single of Motion City Soundtracks upcoming album "My Dinosaur Life" coming out 1/19/2010. Be sure to catch them on the lineup for 2010's Warped Tour!

Early Mornin' Tony

Slug (Sean Daley)
Slug is the MC of Minneapolis based hip hop duo Atmosphere. He is a founding member of the Rhymesayers Entertainment label. He is considered a conscious rapper, often focusing on his love life and other issues in his Minnesota lifestyle. The producer half of Atmosphere, Ant (Anthony Davis), produced Felt's second album Felt, Vol. 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet in its entirety.

MURS (Nick Carter)
MURS is one of the lyricists of the Oakland hip hop collective Living Legends. He is known for straying away from the generic gang-influenced rap that is so often affiliated with West Coast hip-hop. Living Legends producer, The Grouch, produced Felt's first album Felt: A Tribute to Christina Ricci in its entirety.

You might notice the sample? Contains a sample of "Leader Liberator" by Randy Matthews.

Seven in the morning police at my door
But I spent last night on someone else's floor
Out the back window didn't know where I was
I was still kinda buzzed with a head full of drugs

Space Shot

The A-Z Series is a current series of single format releases by alternative rock band Ash. The series will consist of 26 singles, released through digital download and vinyl every fortnight beginning on 10/12/2009 and ending in 2010.

Directed by Daniel Garcia, this Star Wars-inspired video features dancing space people, asteroids, inter-galactic racing, explosions and, of course, the poppy gem of a song "Space Shot."