Just like honey
2 end of summer, dubbed-out, re-edits absolutely worth your time (via Mark):
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“Heavy Love” - The Revenge
- “Heavy Love Affair” - Marvin Gaye
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“Love You Inside Out” - The Pinches Re-Edit
- “Love You Inside Out” - The Bee Gees
“Sweet Disposition” The Temper Trap
A year ago, John sent this and there was much rejoicing. There’s something very…cruising up PCH about that opening guitar. I’m pretty sure I was the only person in the theater who clapped (quietly! to myself!) when it popped up in (500) Days of Summer.
The upside(s) to an otherwise poorly-executed Wednesday.
Saturday delivery.
Stop it with the 30-second, seizure-inducing teases! We want the album, we want the album.
This week. Woo.
Browsing back through The Mixtape (where I stumbled on to the Lykke Li vs. Kings of Leon “Knocked Up” mash up [good!]), I found this dubstep remix: “Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)” - Ellie Goulding (last track in the list).
Which led me to the original version of “Starry Eyed” which is fabulous.
(Ellie Goulding / Jakwob)
In the interest of connecting dots: “Sleepyhead (Starsmith Remix feat. Ellie Goulding)”
ISO50 Music Exclusive: FREE MP3 EP
furyandsound (my entry):
At some point, I’ll stop saying it, but the ISO50 crew got it right. Again.
This time it’s with a collection of cover/mixed tracks from a handful of the musician’s Jakub’s seen this summer.
Great artwork, great tunes. Go forth and enjoy.
Me and Armini EP - Emiliana Torrini
I really love that EP cover (bet it would look great as one of those not-plastic CD sleeves that never fit in CD shelves).
More Emiliana @ the hype machine (I really like “Big Jumps”). (:
Bug-fixing, hunting down a digital version of a drum’n’bass track, and researching turntables.
Thursday!
“Bitter Heart” - Zee Avi (record @ Amazon, get it!)
(More @ the hype machine)
Lovely and adorable.
Word, Trent.
Trent Reznor makes me scowly: he and his music are not, as the kids say, in my wheelhouse. That said, I’m happy such a well-established artist has the gall to come out and say it:
Forget thinking you are going to make any real money from record sales. Make your record cheaply (but great) and GIVE IT AWAY. As an artist you want as many people as possible to hear your work. Word of mouth is the only true marketing that matters.
…have the public get what they want FROM YOU instead of a torrent site and garner good will in the process
Have your MySpace page, but get a site outside MySpace - it’s dying and reads as cheap / generic. Remove all Flash from your website. Remove all stupid intros and load-times. MAKE IT SIMPLE TO NAVIGATE AND EASY TO FIND AND HEAR MUSIC (but don’t autoplay). Constantly update your site with content - pictures, blogs, whatever. Give people a reason to return to your site all the time. Put up a bulletin board and start a community. Engage your fans (with caution!) Make cheap videos. Film yourself talking. Play shows. Make interesting things. Get a Twitter account. Be interesting. Be real.
(powazek → tedr*tumblr → Trent Reznor)
In the venn diagram of my friendships there’s substantial overlap between Super Geek and Musician. It’s been interesting, for me, to watch them get this nearly a decade ago and to watch how slowly, but constantly, it’s worked its way out from the small, relatively nerdy core to, y’know, The Kids.
I used to lived and worked in London (where I met London herself). One Casual Friday afternoon, the office Hooray Henry, whom on this occasion donned a pink polo, turned to the room and asked:
Does anyone have any Phil Collins on an iPod?
He was serious. I can’t say I’m a fan of Phil Collins. I can’t say I’m a fan of R&B boy band Naturally 7. But one doesn’t have to be a fan of either to appreciate the musicality of this a cappella rendition of ‘In The Air Tonight’, live in the Paris Subway. Even the commuters are getting into it.
— via my latest love Ryberg Curated Video, from Melbourne.
Yes. What whileyouweresleeping said.
A while back— days, months, years? I don’t know and it doesn’t matter— I watched this and realized that In the Air Tonight is no longer Phil Collins’ song. It’s impossible for me to hear any other version of that song, including the excellent Cadbury Gorilla one, without thinking of this.
Look at this. I mean, the talent and the balls to perform this tight, on a train— that means in public you pussies and that guy with his back to all of this, couldn’t look more like a douche. Yes, I’m small for noticing.
No, you’re not: he looks ridiculous; the way he looks behind him and then tries to be sly once he realizes he’s on camera.
He reminds me of the folks walking straight past Joshua Bell performing in the Metro. I don’t understand how you pass up either. Fools.
For a couple of months, I’ve been hearing about Regina Spektor (A.O. Scott even mentioned her appearance on the (500) Days of Summer soundtrack¹), but not actually hearing her music.
And in my head, I kept trying to work out the resurgence of an ’80s pop singer ’60s girl group goddess (corrected by Mark).
Today, I saw this:
And I realized, I’ve been seeing “Regina Spektor” but thinking “Ronnie Spector”.
Not the same. (: (But both awesome!)
¹ I spent not a little time waiting for something Eddie Money-ish to pop up in that movie and it never did and I was a weensy bit disappointed.
