Man-oh-Manischewitz. I cranked this track out in a few hours almost a month ago, and entirely forgot about it until it just came up on my own iTunes shuffle. Derp. Forgive that hiss; would that there were a clean DeRulo a capella out there... Jason DeRulo Feat. Imogen Heap vs. Phoenix "Nineteen Oh What" (Chambaland Mash)
Gross-out sketch goodness from the brand new Space Time TV this week; conceived and directed by the incomparable Veronica Osorio . Starring Benjamin Apple, Dan Chamberlain, Frank Hejl, & Rob Stern.
This past week, I watched the first episode of Full House I've seen since the mid 90's- the one where Danny invites that Rusty kid to a Tanner family barbecue, and he writes a fake love letter to DJ supposedly from the paper boy she has a crush on. The love letter passes from set of wrong hands to set of wrong hands, and soon everybody in the Tanner household in convinced that another member of the house has a crush on them. Individual characters' suspicions are revealed through an inner monologue device, underscoring the episode's psycho-sexual nightmare [...]
This one time, I was walking down 9th Ave. singing along to "Under Pressure" on my iPod a little more audibly than I should have been doing in public. Making eye contact with a homeless man, he glared at me, severely. "Poor homeless guy", I thought. "My chirping this Bowie/Queen track must've been a crummy thing to see, him being homeless and all." It wasn't until a block or so later that I realized how deserved that glare was- I'd made eye contact with him just as I sang "PEOPLEONNASTREET. BA BA DEE DAH DAY. PEOPLEONNASTREET. [...]
In 2008, Warner Music Group collected roughly $2 Million dollars in royalties for "Happy Birthday to You", a song of dubious origin first made record of over a century ago. The song will not enter the public domain until 2030. In light of Warner Music Group's recent decision to no longer offer free streams of their music catalog online (this means Spotify, LastFM, Pandora), am.fm.pm has become a proud partner of Happy Birthday Warner , a site that'll be featuring user-submitted covers of "Happy Birthday to You". HBW intends to serve [...]
I doubt many were expecting a contender for album of the year to drop eleven days into it's passage, but Owen Pallett's Heartland (available for streaming via Domino Records @ Soundcloud ) is just that, and more- a lush, triumphant emergence from the chrysalis courtesy of the baroque pop movement's most prescient instrumentalist. (The above free listen comes highly encouraged; "Lewis Takes Action" and "Tryst With Mephistopheles" are album standouts.) While I take delight in Pallett's decision to perform under his own name, abandoning his copyright-infringing Final Fantasy moniker to stronger stand as truthful and [...]
Great googamooga! Have 'yall seen the trailer for Freaknik: The Musical ? The closest thing that us advocates of That Crook'd Sipp will ever get to a second chance at that series, Freaknik is an hour-long special paying tribute to the late, great Atlanta music festival with a syrup as fuck voice cast including T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Big Boi, Snoop, Cee-Lo, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Lil Jon, DJ Drama, Rick Ross- and Andy Samberg and Bill Hader for good measure. "Back in the '90s, Freaknik was Atlanta's version of the ultimate block party," [...]
We hear shades of The Flaming Lips' deep-space ennui present in "Whiskey", the latest from Brooklyn quintet Lowry , who begin their eight week residency at Williamsburg's Spike Hill this evening. At a time when the label "indie" has blurred to include major label heavy hitters like Coldplay (much like the 90s "alternative" came to include Sheryl Crow), it's incredibly refreshing to hear a group hewing so perilously close to the genre's trappings while remaining so vitally un-commercial sounding- the sentiment "you've got to grow up sometime" isn't a particularly marketable one, especially off Bedford [...]
2010 Oscar Intro Montage Predictions George Clooney looks out the window of an airplane and sees the house from Up . Paraplegic Sam Worthington wakes up in the body of a District 9 arthropod. Carey Mulligan is whisked away from her stifled 1960s home life and into the sexy, exciting world of Minnesotan Jews. Some Hurt Locker / Inglorious Basterds thing. You know, war and all. Sandra Bullock teaches Precious to be really good at football.
With nu-skool nostalgia hat tippers The Knocks and Samuel in tow, Chinatown's own Heavy Roc Music cooly planted their flag on the New York music scene in 2009 as a label with one ear toward mom and dad's dance records; the other on the L train. Even their press photos have headbands! Stepping out confidently this year under the HRM label is Detroit's Alex Winston, whose extraordinarily playful LP debut this February belies her previous Grammy-nominated songwriting career (for Black Eyed Peas of all people, LOL). The below "Animal Baby" skips giddily between back-scratching [...]
As the am.fm.pm betting pool for whose album will rule summer 2010 nears it's final tallies, it's increasingly difficult to reach a consensus. Who will it be? With new releases from The National, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, The New Pornographers- EDIT: Realizing that we have not, in fact, heard any of the much speculated albums in question, this year's pool is canceled. All collected monies will instead go towards next month's Bagel Friday, or Haiti. All the best, -ED -Gorillaz, and a possible THREE Outkast projects due before the end of Q2, [...]
The thing about that Owl City motherfucker is that he's just like Paranormal Activity . Whereas most naysayers bemoan some flawed authenticity, I'm 100% on board: I completely buy that Adam Young twinkles away on his SPD in a Minnesotan bedroom, yearning for a thousand hugs from a thousand lightning bugs between juice time and extended 4Him listening breaks, the same way I completely buy that some nothin' muffin student and her day trader boyfriend living in a nouveau riche San Diegan tract house decorated with guitars they probably don't even know how to play would be [...]
am.fm.pm will be back in full force this Monday, February 1st.
That fucking Ke$ha song, AMIRITE? The spelling made my skin crawl too at first, and I was all ready to make some Diddy reference Ma$e joke, but now that Mr. Bad Boy has committed to doing the Chris Gethard Show it's all good. Nonetheless, it's been some time since I so loved a track's production while so despising it's lyrics- so I went and did something about it. Next week on am.fm.pm, I stop pretending to be a DJ, and start covering new tracks proper. Happy New Year, tronkies. Lauryn [...]
Merry Christmas, am.fm.pm. Below you'll find our year end mixtape, an overview of classics & newness we've enjoyed this past year, all mixed and mashed for your consumption ease. Give a stream in the player below the album art, or D/L by clicking here . (Complete tracklist is in the comments.)
To begin, forgive the nothing out here. I'm backed up 200+ press releases at the moment, and needless to say, January will bring a long overdue return to form 'round am.fm.pm way. This morning, a taste of the Cache Vol. 4 mixtape, coming later today. Stevie Wonder's ever versatile "Uptight" pella meets Jay Sean & Lil' Wayne's "Down" for a little unrequited year-end love. EXCLUSIVE, KID. Stevie Wonder vs. Jay Sean Feat. Lil' Wayne "Downtight" (Chambaland Mashup)
Two holiday treats this Wintery Wednesday: Dan Chamberlain & Brandon Scott Jones "The Christmas Shoes" (Newsong Cover) & Dan Chamberlain & Brandon Scott Jones Feat. Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas (The Christmas Shoes Remix)"
There were a magical few years in my house growing up where the argument between us kids and my parents over what to listen to during dinner held prominence over all other discourse. As we saw it, my brothers and I were technically doing my parents a favor, who clearly didn't understand how lame their taste in dining accompaniment was. There was Candlebox to listen to, after all. There was Spin Doctors. In time, we conceded this battle with the folks- like you do- but it's a contention that rose up again years later. I was working as [...]
"Lie to me in four good power chords"? Are you fucking kidding me? That actually WORKS as a lyric? Okay Kittens Ablaze , nice try. Give me back my high school chorus trip breakup poetry and teach me the secret of your polyrhythms and let me be in your band and we'll call it even. I can't believe you tried to pull that shit on me on a Monday. Kittens Ablaze "Gloom Doom Buttercups" Peep the Kittens @ Boston's Middle East 12/17, and [...]
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No Church In The Wild
Nas - Daughters
The Rains of Castamere by The National
CHROMATICS "THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME"
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
iamamiwhoami: kin - Teaser
Album Review: alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Here
Azealia Banks – ’1991′ & ‘Van Vouge’
