I pooped like 5 times today. I'm pretty sure that means I'm dying. So it's been nice knowing you. It also makes me say "Whoa". Much like the bass on this A-Trak, um, trak. It's his first "single" from his "LP" which is the continuous Nike Run thing that's like 43 minutes. It's great. Really solid. Better than Aesop Rock's or LCD Soundsystem's, which is saying something because both of those are pretty effin' good. So check it out. A-Trak [...]
I'm not gonna ramble. Just wanted to posted these two vastly different but incredible variations on Robyn's "Be Mine!" Robyn - "Be Mine [Ballad Version]" Robyn - "Be Mine [Ocelot Mthrfckrs Remix]" Enjoy!
Hello everyone. I hope you all have seen the Dark Knight by now, preferably in IMAX if possible. I loved the audible gasps, cheering and clapping in the theater. It brought me back to my childhood when people still used to clap during the credits of movies. I sure did. For me the greatness of the Dark Knight comes from its ability to keep a viewer emotionally engaged for a full two and a half hours. I was tense, nervous and really felt lonely sometimes just like good ole' Batman. I have no idea how Nolan's going to follow this [...]
Music and pictures that I'm pretty psyched about, revolving around the theme of Covers, one of my personal faves. I've been stewing on these tracks for a week or so now and think they're worth posting, since they've stayed on the top of my itunes recently played for a bit. A great combination of really great ideas and really horrible ideas. The first comes from the boy in the corner, everyone's favorite captain, Dizzee Rascal. I loves me some Dizz, and this track is no different. A [...]
So instead of studying for my Monday midterm, I'm posting on the good ole blog. It turns out I'm really bad at writing about music in a timely manner, and I've therefore decided to have Ben Gordon run MP3 Intensity this summer. I did write six pretentiously hipster reviews for seeding round, and for what's it's worth, I'm pretty damn proud of my ability to sound like I know more about music than I actually do. Anyway, here are a bunch of songs with no words. These more or less fall under the genre of post-rock. Honorable mention [...]
I'm blogging and listening to Metro Station (Shake-Shake-Shake-Shake-Shake -It!) while riding on a bus at 60 mph. Man truly has achieved his pinnacle.
The title of this post really has nothing to do with what I'm about to write about, but I think it's appropriate for my first written sermon on The Sally Ride Experience. So, this summer, the entire world was finally allowed to illegally download the most highly awaited rap album of the past 2 years, Tha Carter 3. I'm not going to lie, I was extremely excited. I have all 139 songs Weezy released last year on mixtapes and liked about 130 of them. And I swear by The Carter 2 – it's what made [...]
This post is about the duo of xxxchange and Pase Rock, both of whom have worked with Spank Rock in production etc. and are contributors to the musical collaborations of Fully Fitted. xxxchange has created some great remixes in the past months like this one of a new Daedelus track that really ups the tempo and brings forward the beat. Additionally, xxxchange lists peeing as one of his influences. Very commendable in my opinion. Daedelus - Make it So (xxxchange remix) Pase Rock raps in the vein of Spank Rock and in [...]
I bet all those hipsters who read this blog stopped reading when they saw my title. Good riddance, Mike Lynch. Nah, who am I kidding, I'm the whitest kid I know. I rode a decades old ladies bicycle to a bar trivia night last night. I volunteer for Barack Obama. Lather, rinse, repeat. So, what I actually wanted to write about is this new trend I seem to be noticing - good music in commercials. I have absolutely no evidence to back this up, but I feel like it might have started with the early iPod commercials. Apple [...]
Look. We'd all be lying if we said we weren't dorks in middle school or high school. All of us had stupid hair cuts, thick glasses, terrible style, and awful taste in music. In 8th grade I was really into Limp Bizkit, ferchrissakes. But that's not to say that old-school dorkitude can't someday transform into a higher appreciation for dope-itude. For me, most recently, this has come to light through the unearthing of some bad-ass hip hop albums featuring prominent strings. I grew up spending every Saturday of my high school life driving [...]
Jesus you guys are prolific. And despite Scotty Bakes' attempts to teach me, I still don't know much about "embedding" these "mp3" files that you guys "listen to." (Look at that - I'm a text-only Chris Farley ). So I'll just report that music still exists in Philadelphia. I lost one of those black things that cover iPod earbuds, so now my commute is extremely uncomfortable, as far as my left ear is concerned. But I'm pretty sure there are still, you know, pleasing sounds and tones to be found in the city. I'll go look for [...]
Summer is upon us and here in Boston we're stuck in that unending cycle of humidity and afternoon thunderstorms. As Friday rolls around everyone flees the city and head north to New Hampshire or Maine. I am very typical in this respect, along with my sports loyalties and as such my posts are not as frequent as I would like. Flying Lotus is perfect for summer driving. Sounding like a twisted mixture of personal favorites Burial and Madvillain with a little Four Tet sprinkled in for seasoning, Flying Lotus creates [...]
Yeah so I like Mgmt, but that's not a huge surprise. There are a lot of things to like about Mgmt. They are a couple of guys from Wesleyan, a small New England liberal arts college, who make fun anthemic electro-synth jams that everyone from the blogosphere hipster to middle aged guys can bob their head to. A number of contributors to this blog and I saw Mgmt and Yeasayer in Boston this past winter and in all honesty I was not overly impressed with the show. Yeasayer was by far the more experienced showmen and they characterized the young [...]
All of us here at TSRE wish you an enjoyable and hopefully alien-free 4th of July American holiday. Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental Here are some tracks to get you through the day whatever you're doing. Cool Kids - 88 Lupe Fiasco - Gold Watch
The Hilotrons hail from Ottawa and create frantic songs with complicated rhythms that just make you feel happy. With already two full length albums under their belt, the Hilotrons' third full length Happymatic (on Kelp Records) belies its title. You just feel happy and energetic while listening to it - think riding your bike on a nice sunny day and then playing catch with your object of choice. Hilotrons - Emergency Street Next up we switch gears a bit with Jonquil use [...]
Recently some movie came out with a little robot-box with a head made out of binoculars or something. Looks pretty cute. Regardless, there's this song in the trailer that goes "Aaaaaat Lasssssssstttttttt...My loooove has...come along". Said song gets stuck in my head for days on end. Difficult to sing the same 7 words to a song over and over and over without wanting to hear the whole thing. So a little hunting and pecking has brought Etta James to my ears with the full version. Booyah. A little retro Ella Fitzgerald/Shirley Bassey style [...]
Well somebody has to write about Girl Talk's Feed The Animals, and if you clowns aren't gonna do it, I will. Craig summed up my initial feelings pretty perfectly with the short, sweet, "This album is very mediocre." After a few more listens in the car with nothing else to think about, some more thoughts: Girl talk dropped Night Ripper at the absolute perfect moment. Most people, blogheads and basement DJs excluded, hadn't been exposed to mash-ups too much, particularly not high-density mashes like those exploding in Girl Talk's tracks. With a single album, [...]
The Stu Reid Experiment
Beck – I Just Started Hating Some People Today
Princesse - Tell Me | MP3
iamamiwhoami: kin - Teaser
