I want to talk to you about darkness.

If only Camu Tao (right) were alive, this dynamic producing duo would be a killer combo. this track is the newest release from Def Jux 4.

Central Services - We Do The Work You Do The Pleasure

Toro Y Moi - Take This

"This is fun music" -Jessica Wile

Toro Y Moi - Take This

The Drums, want to go running/surfing!

I wanna go surfing is a pretty damn good indie pop track. Check out their video as well as the free EP at www.rcrdlbl.com.

Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - Boys & Girls

I suck at keeping this at an constant pace, but here's a brand new track to keep your ass shacking throughout the summer.

THINK ABOUT IT

Find more get yourself smilin' summer music, one good look at the album cover (above) gets me in the summer mood.
Think About Life - Family

Been too long, time for summer and time to sink your teeth into Passion Pit.

First found out about these guys on Kanye's blog, which goes to show that he is seriously broadening his horizons past his mullet. Their EP, Chunk of Change, is a little more raw than their danceable LP, Manners; to each his own I guess. Either way download and listen to the sweet electro sounds of the summer.
Manners (LP)
Chunk of Change (EP)

Handsome Furs, more like sexy bitches.

Floating through myspace bands today, I came across an old love of mine, Handsome Furs. These beauties are amazing so check 'em out on their myspace page; which has their new album, Face Control, to stream in it's entirety or you can download both their albums below. Cheers.
Face Control
Plague Park

DOOM to Doves... what kind of music selection is this?

The Doves new album reminds me of an In-Flight Safety meets Supergrass meets 90s indie rock. Take a listen and enjoy some vocals from another member of the group; I'm not entirely sure which member, but I think the song might be my favorite on the album. Album link is below.
Doves - Kingdom of Rust

DOOM has been re-BORN LIKE THIS

I don't know what the title of this post is supposed to mean, but i never really know what I'm doing when I'm typing on here. DOOM's alter-ego King Geedora was the that inspired the creation of Craig Haas, not to mention so many other alter-ego's on the scene, so it's only fitting that he be on this blog at least once. His new album BORN LIKE THIS is classic DOOM, spitting mind blowing lyrics with grimy beats to back. So if you've been diggin' DOOM in the past or this is your first journey behind the metal mask take a deep listen. BTW, check out the brutal cover below, I couldn't open the post with this cause I feel like I could make this on photoshop as long as I took a couple pictures in an Egypt exhibit and got someone at art school to make this sand sculpture. The only hope this cover has is if the hieroglyphics say something profound or hilarious.
DOOM - Born Like This

Animal Collective - My Girls; AND WHAT A VIDEO

Just thought I'd put this up here since it's MTV Canada's video/song of the day yesterday. Who would have ever though these guys would be mainstream? I'm not complaining, just watch and listen, the watch and listen an hour into zoomers then you'll understand.

Kanye West is now filed under weirdo.

All I wanted to do with this post was show that 808's was Kanye's musical effort at avant grande. Cause that didn't fly so well, I guess he decided to sport a Frullet (Afro-Mullet) in order to show how dedicated he was to the never will be mainstream or "cool" culture.

*** Correction, his American Idol performance showed no mullet, but still these pictures show his fancy gloves that he's still sporting.

tUnE-YaRdS is an ICQ lovin' hiphop Woody Guthrie

Who knew that capitalizing every second letter like back in the ICQ/IRC days could still make you cool. Well at least it gives you indie cred' I guess. So does face paint and colorful feathers as well. Who gives and eff what Merrill G's wearing, his music style is everything that Architecture in Helsinki has to offer in a single beatnik hipster.
tUnE-YaRdS - Sunlight

Throwback to Vietnam

Quoting fellow blogger electriklife, "Brilliantly odd instrumental hip hop album here from Onra, compiled and constructed around vintage Vietnamese pop records picked up in flea markets on a trip to the far east. 32 short tracks make up "Chinoiseries", each of them clocking in at the 1 or 2 minute mark and delivering a tight selection of beats that somehow bring to mind J Dilla, Rza, Madlib, Moondog, MF Doom and the Sublime Frequencies label rolled into one beautifully incoherent package."
ONRA - Chinoiseries

And for something completely different, Histiophryne Psychedelica!

A HUGE emphasis on the Psychedelica part. This "frogfish" is one of a kind, other frogfish swim, this guy's too lazy for that shit; he only hops. Check out this video, it's insane. He was seen once in 2006 and not again until January 2008, when the videos were taken. He supposedly is making his way to shallower waters to spawn, but who the hell knows what else is down there. Psychedelica is the rare also for having forward viewing eyes like humans. So my question is, are there "inteligent" hopping fish down there?
More info here.
More videos here.

Pheonix Is Back

Ya'll should know this already by reading PitchforkMedia.com, but one of the best French bands out there sounds like they're getting back to their earlier dancey roots with their new single 1901 from the upcoming album Wolfgang Amadeus Pheonix.

Prefuse 73, you're a dream boat.

Prefuse has done it again. Click the ol' link below to take a listen to his new album. And btw, loving the shout our to the Gaslamp Killer, he's going to be a dominator in the beat community.
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian

AHHH.... Well Isn't This Awkward...

Charles Hamilton's reminding me of what the ChiCity should have been producing with raps like Lupe Fiasco, and smooth soulful beats like Common's old Premier and Jay Dee produced shit. Plus anyone whosamples Fleetwood Mac and makes it sound smooth is solid in my books. Check out Charles Hamilton's new mixtape in the link below.
Charles Hamilton - Well Isn't This Awkward...

Junior Boyssssssssl

Alright ladies and gents, the new Junior Boy's album is going to be hitting the stands soon, so here's the best precurser to Begone Dull Care. Sounds like the same ol' boys, some of their other tracks are a little more grimier and... dull.
Junior Boys - Hazel

Careerbuilder.com, best superbowl commeRcial?

Kanye just posted this on his blog. And I'd have to say this is the best superbowl commercial.

Kasper Bjørke - Back & Spine feat. Fm Belfast

Blah blah blah. I'm bored so here's an older track that my friend Bing shouted out to me. Haven't even watched the video but this song is tres bein and so is the FM Belfast cover of Killing in The Name Of.

Last but not least is the most budget but succesful video for a sick beat I've seen in a while. Check out the video for Tobacco's Hairy Candy from their F**ked Up Friends album.

NASA Music Rocks The World From A Space Station

Couldn't hold off another blog since today is the start of something interesting. Check out the star studded cast on the debut NA.SA album; Ghostface, RZA, Methodman, Ol' Dirty, MIA, Santogold, David Byrne, Chuck D, Gift of Gab, Z-trip, KRS-One, Fat Lip, E-40, Kanye West, Scarface, DJ Qbert, Spank Rock, Cool Kids, Del the Funkee, George Clinton, Charli2na, Tom Waits, Kool Keith, John Fruscinate (Red Hot Chili's guitar player), Sue Jorge (Life Aquatic Soundtrack)... and i probably missed someone but fuck it's an awesome album. This production duo is bound to blast the earth; or some other planet, Mars or Pluto probably.

NASA - Spirit of Apollo

Here folks the "real" first edition

Sorry about all the confusion while starting this thing. I just thought it would be easier for all you guys to keep up with the music by RSS form than anything else. So here we go for the first time on the blog. If this first Peter Bjorn & John single, Nothing to Worry About, is a slight preview of their new album, then it's going to be another standout success.

Peter Bjorn & John - Nothing to Worry About