Macklemore X Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us Feat. Ray Dalton by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Tori Amos – Carry (Official Video) by kary82 This is the first video released from her upcoming (Sept. 20) release, Night of the Hunters.
Portugal’s psych-pop group The Gift will release a new work, Explode, September 27th. To introduce themselves to the US prior to the album’s release, here is a new video for “Race Is Long” filmed in New York with acclaimed director TONE. In addition, the band is releasing an MP3 for Race is Long and Made …
Rubblebucket has released a new remix of Down in the Yards off their recent disc, Omega La La. You may download it here.
Grace Jones is preparing to release Hurricane, a new album of original material and her first US release in 22 years, September 6. In the meantime, here’s an mp3 off the dub bonus disc of the album: Grace Jones – Well Well Well Dub by GraceJones
MP3 is available here.
Really, reallly good – I never really “got” Cookie Monster until I saw this…
http://youtu.be/Y2hkp12fwb0 The early years of Lollapalooza were a stentorian, sensual, bacchanalian, coming out party for Pacific Northwest music and zeitgeist. Isolated by geography and a lack of relevance to the LA-New York pop culture axis, Portland and Seattle developed extreme expressions of solidarity with the burgeoning alternative movement: Grunge music, outrageously eccentric sexual personae, slackerdom …
Fifteen years before the Specials, here’s a horn section bouncing up and down: http://youtu.be/3qbanCEieZY And here’s the Ventures’ classy take on the same tune. Here’s Brassed Off playing the Lone Ranger’s national anthem: http://youtu.be/gz_9FrhCBnI
http://youtu.be/6PN78PS_QsM
(Thanks to Tom Fredrickson, proprietor of the unparalleled music blog, Lost Wax Method, for sending a link to this golden oldie.) According to their Wikipedia entry, “The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London. The group had one chart-topping hit, the million selling “Have I the Right?”, in 1964… The …
Go here. (Thanks to Andrew Hamlin for the link.)
Prehistoric K-pop: http://youtu.be/YnbtmH95Ncw
Sal Nunziato, of the Burning Wood blog, is offering a Weekend Mix which is a fascinating group of covers: Washington Post March- Tin Men Good Vibrations- Todd Rundgren What Does It Take- Garland Jeffreys I’m Not In Love- Richie Havens Say Goodbye To Hollywood- Ronnie Spector Spooky- Dusty Springfield The Inner Light- Junior Parker For …
http://youtu.be/hflF6YCsqbs http://youtu.be/4sUPeTJpC9s
http://youtu.be/-_PHcFKkA5E
Seems appropriate/interchangeable with today, though “Reaganomics” rolls off the tongue easier than “Getting squeezed by the rich and their Bible-thumping, gay-bashing, union-busting, flag-waving stooges.” – Steve Stav