Wow, this is awesome. Ryan Adams does Alice In Chains grunge classic "Down in a Hole." What a treat. It's like my favorite music of 1998 meets my favorite music of 2008.
I guess my inner music fan has mellowed out, gotten cowboy boots, and stopped cutting himself.
- It's a movie about being young and crazy and in love and
heartbroken all at once.
- Amazing soundtrack.
- New York City
- Not settling when it comes to your most important relationships. This is important.
- Great comic timing and hilarious repartee.
- Indie music.
- Innocence.
- Awkwardness. There aren't enough movies that deal with the awkwardness of life. We are all awkward sometimes.
- Where's fluffy?
- Epicness.
Part Radiohead, part Mogwai... According to their wikipedia entry / Stylus Magazine:
WFANFC's sound has been described as "a flawless lucid-dream trip through a thousand fantastical influences"
This description is a good one. These guys are freakin awesome. They hail from Manchester. They are named after the "Nuclear Free Zone" sign from their hometown.
MrVix and Patrick introduced them to me. I bought the whole album shortly thereafter. You should too.
Great electro-pop song heard on Entourage this week:
From a YouTube comment by djgeoffe: Came out in 2000. Was an
underground French gem that got released on Astralwerks stateside.
Probably sold about 50,000 copies at the time. With its recent exposure
it's probably selling again like hotcakes at iTunes. Proper electronic
music with a pop slant. Awesome.
Probably the first time in the history of the universe a YouTube
comment has been USEFUL.
The HBO show Entourage has turned out to be a great source of really
solid, fantastic music... kind of like the OC soundtrack back in the
day. (Not embarrassed to admit I was a big fan of the OC and the OC mix
cd's.)
Counting Crows is awesome. Duritz manages to really bounce between the depths of angsty heartbrokenness and the twangy elation of their folk rock soul alt-country medleys. Again, Shoreline Ampitheater sucks big time. Every time I end up on the lawn I swear I will never come back, but this time Steph managed to snag $6.00 Google tickets. Also free Google parking. Also a free dinner at Charlie's. It's definitely great to be dating a Googler! :-) It's hard to believe we have been listening to Counting Crows for over 15 years.
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Steinski was one of the original turntablist DJ's-- a great influence on my favorite turntablist DJ Shadow. This is a track off of Steinski's first and only official retrospective, "What Does It All Mean?" -- what can I say, I'm a sucker for jazz-influenced laid back hip hop. Incidentally Steinski's first mixes weren't on turntables at all. He collaborated with Double Dee by splicing together tape reels in the 80's. Now that is hardcore. That's like Ansel Adams bringing large format photography to the pinnacle of that art form, slaving away in an unknown basement doing something no one has ever done before. Music and photography share an interesting lineage in that respect. It's the pioneering nerds who slave away over their art who create these new forms that shake the world.
Estelle's tearing it up. Her new album is awesome, and her style is reminiscent of the great soul/R&B singers... this track reminds me a lot of Erykah Badu and Jill Scott at their best. Breezy, chilled out, like pop a nice bottle of white wine and enjoy the afternoon. This is good times music.
So chilled out. This beat is absolutely sick, and Estelle's voice just recalls a classier era.