I’ve been jamming of late to a new band that a buddy turned me on to. The sound is just epic, with an older, soulful vibe to it. To put it best, it’s the type of tunes that makes you feel happy and somewhat inspired to listen to.
If you like it, head on over to Amazon and download the full CD Pickin’ Up The Pieces
or the five-song EP Songs for a Break Up, Vol.1.
It would be a little more understandable for someone who grew up without a public education system and the interwebs to be as ignorant as the ICP is.
Sometimes music videos can, in fact, be too good. A few weeks ago, the Insane Clown Posse, a ridiculous duo from inner city Detroit trailer parks who dress up like clowns while screaming their horrorcore raps [ed. note: I may have to close down this site after realizing I just typed those words], released a touching, pondering video that grasps at one’s heart as you try to fathom just how bad our education system is.
The duo strayed from their normal talks about violence to pen a fitting song about just how little they know about the world. They even have a line warning scientists and their empirical explanations to stay away because the ICP thinks scientists lie (the ICP also are apparently against climate change scientists). They actually name a variety of natural phenomena a no things that could even remotely be classified as “miracles.” It’s almost as ironic as Alanis Morrisette writing a song called “Isn’t it ironic” about a series of coincidences.
The song has taken on minor viral status with features throughout the interwebs, on Attack of the Show and now on Saturday Night Live. After the jump, I’ve linked the video for those who have been uninitiated. Also linked are the hilarious Saturday Night Live sketch and a series of my favorite animated GIFs from the interwebs.
Warning, the video includes some bad language (mostly F-bombs) and the page load time will be pretty hearty as the animated gifs are in excess of 10 MB. Enjoy! Read more…
I’ve popped The Editors to the top of my iPod playlists again this past week after burying them for a while. Their sound is, not surprisingly, UK indie rock. The below songs, and the album as a whole (The Back Room, from which Munich and All Sparks come), are awesome. Give a listen.
Munich
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Just stumbled upon these guys this Monday. Been listening to it quite a bit and I like. First up is “Beaches and Friends”, a collaboration with Database (there are a ton of remixes of this out there, I picked the Hey Champ one to link). After the jump are the Sniper Twins produced videos for “Up All Night” and “Broken Heart”.
Beaches and Friends (Hey Champ Remix)
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Jay-Z and Alicia Keyes had a huge hit with their Empire State of Mind song and accompanying video. In proper form, it’s been reappropriated and adjusted by numerous interwebians as new videos, often uploaded to YouTube. Below you’ll find one that I think is both well done and quite clever. Congrats to GrassHopper.com for New Dork – Entrepreneur State of Mind.
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Umm… just wow. Give a watch. You’ll thank yourself after you hit replay about 5 times.
The Sniper Twins are a New York-based sketch comedy / music video due originally from Austin. Their first videos are after the jump and were absolutely awesome. Although they initially popped onto the larger scene with “Computer Friends”, I thought of them today thanks to getting a Chop’t Salad and being reminded of “Salad Wrap.” Anyway, I looked them up and they’ve launched this new video called “Chocolate Shop.”
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Jack Peñate has been on my playlist a lot of late. Especially late at work. It’s great background music and definitely doesn’t take too much of my focus. I’ve linked some of his stuff before. Below is Tonight’s Today.
My buddy turned me on to Alexi Murdoch way back when. It took a while to really appreciate how awesome he is. You’ve heard his music on TV a lot (most prominently, Orange Sky as the theme from that police show that got canned on NBC earlier in the year).
This is All My Days off his earlier short album (Four Songs). The new one (Time Without Consenquences) that he released this year is phenomenal as well. He doesn’t have any music videos, but does have a few Tubed non-official videos. I went with a live performance of All My Days.
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In the world of things I’m listening to now, below is the very cool music video for Jack Peñate‘s Pull My Heart Away.
It was shot in Jordan on Super 8 and works well with the song. Very cool.
