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