Official Trailer of “Fight For Your Right-Revisited”, from the Beastie Boys’ long anticipated eighth album, HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO.
Listen to the album’s opening track:
http://rapradar.com/2011/04/06/new-music-beastie-boys-make-some-noise/
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The Keyboard Version:
Thrash Version:
I thought the keyboard cover of this was pretty sweet and a nice contrast to the song itself. This is one of the first Slayer songs I ever heard and I’ll never forget the day i heard it. I was in the backseat of a car in Charleston SC it was late at night and it came on the radio and i had that “who the fuck are these guys moments” It was awesome. Those moments happen too infrequantly it seems. To this day it is still one of my fav slayer songs
The Weekend is coming (thank god) so here are three wonderful songs to help you ease (or bash in the last songs case) into the weekend! I love all three of these. I’ll share two new and one old with you all.
Check out the National’s newest video starring none other then John Slattery known better as Roger Sterling on AMC’s Mad Men. Yep the guy who can show up late to meetings because his name is on the building! This is one of my favorite songs from the album so i’m glad they made a great video for it too:
The National
I thought that was cool but this next one has me giddy. I loved J Mascis’s “Martin & Me” acoustic live album. In fact since hearing it I’ve always wanted him to deliver set of orginals as an acoustic album because though he is known as the face melter his lyrics can be quite endering. That aspect of his music often gets lost in the fuzz and ear assault. Check out the first track from his all acoustic album out next week. It is a great folk song:
Below is the text i got from my brother and quite honestly I could not say it better myself. It is a great way to rock into you weekend. Let me see your horns bitches!
“Amon Amarth’s new song War of The Gods just launched a metal assault on my ears ODIN would be proud of”
Enjoy
It is odd that 2010 has come and gone so quickly, but it is that time of the year again to take a look back at the music we have consumed and reflect on how much we enjoyed each album. It was an odd year one that found me giveing almost 40 new albums a listen, but this year unlike others it seemed I found much less of what i was hearing to my liking then I have in the past.
Some did stand out though so I’ll countdown my Favorite Eight of the year starting with……
8. Teen Dream- Beach House
This is one I thought was good when I first listened to it early in the year, but I did not anticipate it being an album I went back to much. I was wrong I really started liking this album more and more particularly as the colder months set it. It just has a nice feel from start to finish. They do great at capturing that moment and feeling in their songs.
7. High on Fire- Sankes for the Divine
I imagine when James Hetfield heard this he wanted to cry and Lars Ulrich probably wanted to sue Matt Pike. You see Metallica just can’t write riffs like this anymore, but Matt Pike isn’t just turning out albums of re hashed Metallica riffs he is killing it like only he can. The album as a whole is very solid, but this one muscles its way to number 7 on the strength of the titile track “Snakes for the Divine” and “How Dark we Pray” both are killer songs with riffs so big it demands you turn it up and bang your head.
6. The Black Keys- Brothers
Ah easy blues rock that is just damn good. The Black Keys do what they do and they do it very good. The sprawling 15 tracks start strong and stay strong throughout the entire album. Its nice that the singles “Next Girl” and “Tighten Up” are easy on the ears but there is much more going on. Tracks like “Sinister Kid”, “10 Cent Pistol”, “Mud Hole” and others serve as a reminder that these two guys are at the top of their game together.
5. Titus Andronicus- The Monitor
I did not like this album much at all when i first heard it. I’m not really a fan of Flogging Molly or Dropkick Murphy’s and this to me just sounded like a band from Jersey putting their spin on it. Sure it’s cool when during the opening song the evoke Springsteen with their scream “Tramps like us baby we were born to Die”, but I needed something a little more. Thanks to persistence of Mr. Murdock I kept listening and I’m glad I did. I mean what is there not to like about an album that uses the Civil War as an analogy of the current life in the suburbs of Jersey? The songs are drinking songs. Some are rowdy at the bar drinking songs others seem more about the bottom of the bottle. Either way the band handles both well and this is a damn good album.
4. Kylesa- Spiral Shadow
Another year another different Georgia metal band in the top five. Yawn. I’ve seen Kylesa live a few times and have a couple older albums and as much as I liked them nothing blew me away like this album. It is more hard rock then metal. Sounding like a combo of 80’s soundgarden and L7. The songs are just damn good. The middle trio of “Don’t Look back”, “Distance Closing in” and “To Forget” immedialtly grab you and the riffs though simple get stuck in your head all day. I’m impressed and this album gets many plays and will continue for years to come I’m sure.
3. Wolf Parade- Expo 86
I love this album. I’ve only listened to it for a couple weeks but I have no problem placing it at third ahead of the others. Where their first two albums may have been a little more experimental this album has an immediacy that lends itself well to the listeners. Track after track Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner deliver the goods. It has a very easy indie pop sounds that you just don’t hear enough of these days. If I had to choose a favorite track I think i would say “Little Golden Age” gets stuck in my head the most.
2. The Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Truthfully 1b is a better ranking then two because this album flip flops with my number one album quite a bit in my mind, but i decided I was more comfortable with this album at 2. Arcade Fire decided to follow up their first two great albums with a third that has the anthemic songs like Sprawl II and Half Light II, the rockers like Ready to Start and Month of May, as well as the catchy songs like We Used to Wait and The Suburbs. The lyrics are what all have come to expect from Win Butler and the music compliments everything they do very well.
1. The National- High Violet
It’s all about the lyrics. Dark, brooding and made for someone in their 30’s. The album stands tall from beginning to the end and drips with melancholy, but it never gets so dark that it collapses on itself. Sure there are albums with catchier songs and albums with more fun songs, but this one just hits home the hardest. It was odd i kept waiting for an album to come out i would like more then this one and it never happened. The album easily solidified their place in my mind as one of my current favorite bands.
A little Holiday cheer from Team Coco!
Last week the group “She & Him” performed a blazing rendition of “Put a spell on you” on the Conan show that also featured Sarah Silverman and Dr. Michio Kaku a leading String Theory scientist.
Evidently back stage Conan got together with the group and started spreading the holiday cheer a little early. Check out their rendition of “Have yourself a merry little Christmas”, and remember less then two weeks to go till the big man comes to town!
click and drag your mouse over the video to see the event from any angle you want. What’s cool about this is that you pretty much have a different video each time you watch it.
Pro Tip: There’s a stripper dancing on a pole in this video…see if you can find her
Get yourself motivated for the work week by following this guy’s advice. That’s right, smile, don’t be so serious all the time, and last but not least….have yourself a Dance Party.
This is from the set of Predator 2. Danny Glover is in it too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007/ap_on_en_mu/us_music_glee_beats_beatles
NEW YORK – The “Glee” cast has surpassed the Beatles for the most appearances on the Billboard Hot 100 chart by a non-solo act.
The cast of the Fox television musical series about a high school glee club has six debuts on the chart this week. That gives it a total of 75 songs on the chart to the Beatles’ 71.
The show’s soundtrack got a boost after this week’s episode featuring the music of Britney Spears.
Elvis Presley still leads overall with 108 songs to chart on the Hot 100. He’s followed by James Brown with 91, then “Glee.”
The Beatles are sixth, behind Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Elton John, Lil Wayne, Stevie Wonder and Jay-Z round out the Top 10.
Nielsen SoundScan says the “Glee” cast has sold 2.8 million albums and 11.5 million downloads.
Did I just read that article correctly? WTF? I always thought the pussification of America was bad but never in a million years did I think it would come to this. At least The King is still on top with 108. The day Elvis is knocked off the throne is the day I truly stop believing in America.
