Top Songs and Albums of 2008 - Victor 9K

Best Songs of 2008
25. Half Mast - Empire of the Sun
24. You'll Find a Way - Santogold
23. Untrust Us - Crystal Castles
22. Dinosaur on the Ark - The Very Best
21. Electric Feel - MGMT
20. Strangers in the Wind - Cut Copy
19. Olympic Airways - Foals
18. Home - Weird Tapes
17. Handlebars - Flobots
16. Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter
15. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
14. Crying - TV on the Radio
13. Parisian Goldfish - Flying Lotus
12. Man on the Moon - Kid Cudi
11. Polyhedron (Black Holes Mix) - Little Jinder
10. Little Lit - Lykke Li
9. Don't Look That Way At It - White Denim
8. You Appearing - M83
7. Back of the Van - Ladyhawke
6. Athene - Hercules and Love Affair
5. Nike Boots Remix - Wale (Ft. Lil Wayne)
4. Collaping at your Doorstep - Air France
3. Kevatrumpu - Paavojarhu
2. Sleepy Head - Passion Pit
1. Vanished - Crystal Castles

Link to RAR File of Best 25 Songs of 2008

Best Albums of 2008
10. Antidote - Foals
9. The Very Best Mixtape - The Very Best
8. Feed the Animals - Girl Talk
7. Youth Novels - Lykke Li
6. In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
5. Mixtape About Nothing - Wale
4. Chunk of Change EP - Passion Pit
3. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
1. Dear Science, - TV on the Radio

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #13

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.
When it comes to He Casts we know how to do it. There's never a song wasted. There's never a second of dullness. It's an opportunity we never pass up.

And this is no different. Sixteen tracks. Just under an hour door to door. Get in and get out. It allows you the most He Manishness with nothing standing in your way.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download the full length MP3).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (The Entire mix as a ZIP File).

Here's the track listing

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #13

1) Wavves – Wavves
2) Red Eyed Legends – Monsters
3) The Whip – Trash
4) Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze Me
5) Kid Cudi – Ask About Me
6) J.Period feat Q-Tip – Q-Tip for President
7) Crookers – Mad Kidz
8) Can – Vitamin C
9) Von Sudenfed – The Rhinohead
10) The Virgins – Rich Girls
11) The Henry Clay People – Social Sc*Entology
12) Ninjasonik – Internet Bitch
13) Crystal Stilts – Crystal Stilts
14) Weird Tapes – Home
15) Air France – June Evenings
16) Weird Tapes – My Babe Walk

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Done Did It

So yeah, I mean this has to be the best (supportive) song about a president ever, right?

And here. 

New MGMT Video

MGMT - The Youth
(directed by Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric)

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #12

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.
Ah, dear Hemunnity the latest He Man Woman Haters podcast is upon you. This 22 track collection features over an hour of the greatest tracks chosen by the He Men for your listening enjoyment. Take pleasure and go in He Manity.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download the full length MP3).

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Here's the track listing

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #12

1. Friendly Fires – Jump In the Pool
2. ELO – Yours truly
3. Peedi Crakk – More Towels
4. Ten Kens – Bear Fight
5. Jay Reatard – Gamma Ray (Beck cover)
6. Vivian Girls – Going Insane
7. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tounge
8. Human Highway – The Sound
9. Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – Me + Yr Daughter
10. Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines
11. Kid Cudi – Cudi Get
12. The Grates – Trampoline
13. The Count & Sinden – Hardcore Girls [feat. Rye Rye]
14. Ninjasonik – Silver Tiles (Matt and Kim remix)
15. Lykke Li – Dance, Dance, Dance
16. The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Kamphopo
17. Empire of the Sun – Half Mast
18. Little Jinder – Polyhedron (Black Holes Mix)
19. The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Get It Up
20. Jim White – Static On The Radio
21. David Bowie – Sound and Vision
22. Cold War Kids – Golden Gate Jumpers


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YEEEEEEEEAAH!

Professor Wayne

This piece from the Oxford American is beautiful. And to borrow a line from the article, Lil' Wayne "is cute." Thus, following writer David Ramsey on his first year teaching in New Orleans shall lead no one astray. 

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #11

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

It's time to release your fears and anxieties because it's time for another He Man Woman Haters Podcast. This 20 track collection features the favorite tracks from six different He Men. Each second of this one hour and twenty minute mix gets better and better. Enjoy and go in He Manity.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download the full length MP3).

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Here's the track listing

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #10

1. Jaguar Love - Highways Of Gold
2. Everybody Out - Everybody Out
3. The Gaslight Anthem - Casanova, Baby!
4. Tom Waits – Top Of The Hill
5. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - The Debtor
6. The Moondoggies - Long Time Coming
7. Flying Lotus – Parisian Goldfish
8. Ratatat - Falcon Jab (copy remix)
9. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
10. Robots In Disguise – The Sex has Made Me Stupid
11. LCD Soundsystem - Big Ideas (Radio Edit)
12. Santogold – Guns of Brooklyn
13. White Denim – Sitting
14. Galt MacDermot - Coffee Cold
15. Koushik - Be With
16. Swearing At Motorists - Lost Your Wig
17. East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12
18. Lykke Li- Breaking It Up (Punks Jump Up Remix)
19. Teenage Bad Girl – Cocotte
20. XX Teens – Darlin’

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Architecture In Helsinki - Like it or Not

via Wooster Collective

The Walkmen's new album "leaks"

Alright I'm not sure if this counts as a proper leak because it's being sold, but I thought it was worth bringing it to everyone's attention anyway.

Everyone's favorite "indie" band is getting ready to release their new album called "You And Me" on August 19th. If you're feeling charitable though you can enjoy it before everyone (or at least someone).

For just $5 you can buy it off Amie Street. The release is part of Amie Street’s “Download to Make a Difference” initiative, and the money goes to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honor of Luca Vasallo, an 8-month-old who’s struggling with leukemia.

Sounds like a win-win situation for everyone. You get to hear the album that you'll hear a million times in every movie for the next year, and some 8-year-old won't have cancer coursing through their blood.

Dingers!

Amie Street - The Walkmen's Music Store (where you can buy the album digitially for $5)
The Walkmen's MySpace Page
Buy the actual album from Amazon

Video Round Up

Because it's time for a video round up.

Beck - Gamma Ray



Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D - My Drive Thru


Fleet Foxes - Winter Hymnal


CSS - Rat is Dead (Rage)

Hot Chip Wears Rolexes

Hi Kids! So I wanted to throw a live and direct Hot Chip cover of that Wiley banga, "Wearing My Rolex" up here. Consider it a BBQ-Bonus.

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #10

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

It's summer time. The time of year when a young He Man's mind turns to sun, surf, and grilled meat. In honor of this, the most wonderful time of the year, we'll have a special theme for this podcast. This is the HeBQue mix. Filled with tracks to enjoy the great summer evenings and finest summer days.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download the full length MP3).

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He Man Woman Haters Podcast #10

1. Sigur Rós – Gobbledigook
2. Paavoharju – Kevätrumpu
3. Jim James & Calexico – Goin' To Acapulco
4. Wiley – Wearing My Rolex (Radio Edit)
5. Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
6. The Jamaicans – Ba Ba Boom
7. Marlena Shaw – California Soul (Diplo Remix)
8. Schwazye – Buzzin (Feat. Wale) (DJ Skeet Skeet and Cory Nitta Remix)
9. Nas – Fried Chicken (Feat. Busta Rhymes)
10. Buckshot & 9th Wonder – Man Listen
11. Graphics – Argentine Demo
12. Murder By Guitar – In Love With The Future
13. The Intellectuals – Miss Johnny
14. Swear Words – Stuntin Yall
15. The Roots – 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)
16. Viktor Vaughn – Lickupon
17. Jay Reatard – Another Person
18. DJ Spinbad – Baby I Like It Raw
19. The BPA – Toe Jam
20. Telekinesis! – All Of A Sudden
21. Pony Tail – Beg Waves

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Thunderheist - Jerk It

I've been going back and forth for the last few days trying to decide whether I should sit on this and save it for an up coming podcast and blow the living fuck out of everyone's mind. After some deep He-searching I decided that it wasn't right (and that it wouldn't fit with the upcoming theme).

Plus the video is pretty great and is one of three finalists for the video (clearly the best).

So with no futher ado, I give you Thunderheist's track "Jerk It". Prepare for a mind 'esplosion.

thunderheist - jerk it

Thunderheist MySpace Page

Indian Thriller

This is what was giving Twoir the fits yesterday. Turns out that it is his machine, not the tubes.

New Crush

Start with one part Feist, add a dash of Junior Boys, and a touch of Ingmar Bergman - stir until delicious. To kick it up for special occasions, plate it with a side of classic New York hip-hop.

Girl Talk Creates a mashup

Have you left no sense of decency?

Grrrr....
Between when I embedded the code and when I previewed the post, YouTube yanked the video. It was that crazy Indian Thriller remake.
Just wanted to say a little something in response.
Fuck. YouTube. Their quality is shit, it's extremely difficult to filter through the garbage that's up there without directly searching for one thing, and for the past few weeks now, about 92% of videos are removed posthaste. I smell a rat. A rat that is in fact a code. A code that kills videos once they are embedded in more than 15 locations. It is teh suck.
Fuck. YouTube.

Diamond Dave, Rough Cut

God this is funny.

MIA's Last Show?

If there's truth to this proclamation, I'll be demolished. 

First I hear about this, and now the love my life might not ever play another gig?

Research anyone?

Awful news here.

Free At Last!

It looks like there truly is justice in this world.

I, for one, eagerly await Trapped In The Closet chapters 23-700. I also eagerly await taking advantage of the precedent that this has set for the justice world. He truly is a hero to all of us.

Thao video

This seems really stupid at the beginning, but the song is tight and wait until the animated lightening starts shoot out of everything.

Big Ideas: Don't Get Any

Following up from what Victor9000 posted earlier, this is an entry (the winning entry?) from a contest to remix the song "Nude" by Radiohead. It's made entirely from antiquated electronic equipment.

This sort of reminds me of that time that I made love to 24 virgins at the same time. No seriously, all 24 at the same time. It was a magical experience. It's not that this video plays some role in that memory it's just that most everything reminds me of that.

Big Ideas (don't get any).

"This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.

"This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest."

Radiohead - All I Need Video

This is a few weeks late, but I wanted to post it because it's the first time in a few years that I've enjoyed a politically-motivated rock video. Most political statements by musicians are a bit too close to P. Did's suggestion that you "VOTE OR DIE!!!!" for me to take them seriously, and while this video isn't recreating the wheel, it's quietly powerful and leaves room to reflect on the imagery.

The BPA (Brighton Port Authority)

Don't know a ton about this group, but apparently it's some new venture from Fatboy Slim and Simon Thornton. This is their second single called "Toe Jam" which is a pretty fun little track and features David Byrne. Their music video is even more fun (NSFW while being completely SFW at the same time)

The MySpace page that it came from

Music Video: The BPA - "Toe Jam" (feat. David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal)

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #9

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

It has been too long so we're laying down podcast number 9 onto your ear hole. All of the He Men turned out for this one, so we've got 32 tracks for you (that's almost two hours of He Manity).

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download the full length MP3).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (The Entire mix as a ZIP File).

Here's the track listing

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #9

1. Ladytron -Black Cat
2. Artemis Jackson -Asps and Adders
3. Wolfmother- Woman [MSTRKRFT remix]
4. Jarvis Cocker - I Will Kill Again
5. M83 - You Appearing
6. The Muslims – Extinction
7. Common Market - Watership Down
8. 45 King Vs. 4th Pyramid - P-Y-R-A-M-I-D
9. CSS - Rat is Dead
10. Foals - Two Steps, Twice
11. Santogold - You'll Find a Way
12. Radio Dead Ones - it takes you away
13. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
14. Les Savy Fav - Patty Lee
15. Against Me -Walking Is Still Honest
16. Beulah - Matter vs. Space
17. Lupe Fiasco - A Bathing Harry
18. Alphabeat - Fantastic 6
19. My Morning Jacket - I Just Wanted to Be Your Friend
20. Fibes, Oh Fibes - Get Up
21. Da Committee - Bruce Wayne
22. David Sugar - We Weren't Put Together
23. Vivian Girls – No
24. The Mojomatics - Kiss Me When I'm Cold
25. Reigning Sound - Stormy Weather
26. Invisible Conga People - Weird Pains
27. No Age - Things I Did When I Was Dead
28. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
29. Portishead - Deep Water
30. DeVotchKa - Blessing In Disguise
31. Wolf Parade - An Animal In Your Care
32. Cut Copy - Far Away

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The Kleptones - Hectic City Podcast 7

The Kleptones have always done me right. Another great mix for the summer.

MP3 link here.

Real Talk

For those that haven't heard this song before . . .
For those of you who have and need to listen again . . .
For those who need their lives changed and those that need it changed again . . .

Real talk.

iEnjoyGoingToConcerts

In case y'all don't know, iTunes now has this great plugin, iConcertCal. It cycles through your library and diplays all the upcoming shows of your favorite artists. You'll never miss that Rod Stewart show again!

i(Concert)Cal

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Fugazi's "Waiting Room" - Blue Ribbon Glee Club

If any of you have Comcast, "American Hardcore" is free On Demand. It's pretty great, equal parts seductive and repellent. Sadly, no Fugazi (they're "post-hardcore" according to my cool older wikibrother).

Ladytron

Ladytron needs to thank the shit out of their publicist because they're doing an amazing job. The album doesn't drop until June 3rd, but the free MP3 they're giving out is everywhere. I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the track is great, but seriously Ladytron, start thanking your publicist.

Ladytron website
Ladytron download - "Black Cat"

Realnazz

Some instant classic Hip-Hop just dropped over on hebassador DJ Ayres' website. New little EP featuring Wale and Pase Rock. Hott like lava rocks. 

45 King EP

Bonus

I don't know how this Pussy Galore track missed the Rockast boat, but no matter. Get it now!

Dick Johnson.mp3

Heman Woman Haters Podcast #8

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

Could there be anything that summarized what it is to be a He Man more than a great rock and roll track? The energy. The sex. The power. It is the musical embodiment of what we were born to do. Podcast #8 attempts to harness all this. We're cutting through the dance. Cutting through the sneaker gazing. Cutting through it all and simply rocking gentlemen. Rock on.

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Here's the track listing

Podcast #8 - Rock Your Heart Out

1. Band of Horse – Is There A Ghost
2. The Futureheads – Hounds of Love
3. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – The Anointed One
4. Kaiser Chiefs – Everything is Average Nowadays
5. Sonics – The Witch
6. Archie Bell & The Drells – Tighten Up
7. Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl
8. Butthole Surfers – Birds
9. The Wombats – Kill the Director
10. Times New Viking – Drop Out
11. The Black Keys – Strange Times
12. The Muslims – Nightlife
13. Tokyo Police Club – Juno
14. Ground Components – Head In the Sand
15. Mountain – Long Red
16. Dennis Coffey – Whole Lotta Love
17. Liars – Cycle Time
18. Heavy Trash – I Want Oblivion
19. Kings of Leon – Genius
20. Devo – Slap Your Mammy
21. Monotonix – Body Language
22. Billy Lee Riley – Red Hot
23. Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
24. Joy Division – Digital
25. White Denim – Let’s Talk About It
26. Dinosuar Jr. – Out There
27. Ratatat – Seventeen Years
28. Pearl Jam – State of Love And Trust
29. Smashing Pumpkins - Quiet

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Community Served

So in 1989, Robert Plant got a DUI. His punishment was to...(1) Rock out live (2) In a crowded shopping mall (3) During the holidays (4) With the cops who pulled him over as his band. 

Get that Led out!

The Raconteurs

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (2008)

I don't think this needs an introduction so here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia page about the song "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty

"Baker Street" is a song by Gerry Rafferty written in 1978. It was his first release following the legal battles surrounding the separation of the band Stealers Wheel. Rafferty was supposedly banned from the recording studio after the 1975 break up for a period of three years while the lawyers ironed out the disputes with the band's recording contract remaining obligations. The song was featured on his second solo album City to City and released as the first of three singles, marketed primarily to Adult Contemporary radio. The saxophone hook on the original was played by Raphael Ravenscroft (contrary to popular belief, it was not played by UK quiz show host Bob Holness) and the guitar solo was played by Hugh Burns. The guitar solo in the song incorporates a motif inspired by a pair of seagulls accidentally trapped in the studio during recording.

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

UPDATE: The HeMunnity got hit with out first DMCA take down notice. We've finally hit the big time.

More Drugs

Oh snap. DJ Ayres just dropped the sequel to his Heproved banger, Drugs. Moderation seriously discouraged. (Right click on link to save mp3)

Drugs.

Spiral Chord

I caught this video today by the band Spiral Chord for their song "Distance to Substance" and I really love it. They're a hardcore punk band from Japan and they seem pretty crazy if this video is any evidence of their life. It was shot by Keiichi Nitta a former assistant to Terry Richardson but in my opinion the student has become the master.

Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward

New album from Be Your Own Pet called "Get Awkward". Haven't given it a listen, but I fucking loved their self-titled album so I can only hope it's half as good.

Be Your Own Pet - "Get Awkward" (alternate link)

1. Super Soaked
2. Black Hole
3. Heart Throb
4. Becky
5. The Kelly Affair
6. Twisted Nerve
7. Blow Your Mind
8. Bummer Time
9. Bitches Leave
10. You're A Waste
11. Food Fight!
12. Zombie Graveyard Party!
13. What's Your Damage?
14. Creepy Crawl
15. The Best Within

LA Times Reopens (and promptly shuts) Tupac Case

Read this.

eatlime.com - new file upload site

Great interface, and a 1-gig limit per upload. Check it out.

History of Hip-Hop

No, this isn't about Cold4theStreets! The Rub's been rocking a SERIOUS historical compendium of realness from over the last several decades. It's excellent and brings to mind me being a hard ass fourteen year old in the 'burbs. Enjoy:

History of Hip-Hop

KEXP video round up

Oh Seattle. I know that New York is a wonderful place, full of eloquent and well-cultured people (apparently, according to the podcast count), but my native Northwest is a close second. Here, from the only radio station I trust, KEXP does a music video round up to prepare for the over-hyped SXSW (I am mostly jealous that I am not going...).


Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I & II)


Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have To Leave It


Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah (live @ Studio Virtanen 9/5/07)


DeVotchKa - Mad And Faithful Telling EPK


Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Let’s Make Out


Holy Fuck - Milkshake


These New Puritans - Elvis (older version)


Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation

The Biggie Hendrix Experience

Notorious B.I.G. (RIP!) + Jimi Hendrix (RIP!) = This zip file of MP3s (alternate link here) from DJ Doc Rok

Is it life changing? No. Does it make you remember why you fell in love with both of these guys when you were in high school? Yes. And look at that album art work!

1. Intro
2. Party & Bullshit/Foxy Lady
3. Nasty Boy/Purple Haze
4. Things Done Changed/If 6 Was 9
5. Notorious Thugs Remix/All Alo
6. Hypnotize/Wild Thing
7. Dead Wrong/Fire
8. Who Shot Ya/Cocaine
9. Young G's/Voodoo Child
10. Juicy/Are You Experienced

New Gnarls Barkley (leaked)

Looks like the new album leaked today. It's a scant 39 minutes, but if you're interested, check it out here (p.s. do it quick because I have a feeling SendSpace is going to notice it soon and take it down):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4hrt3n

1. “Charity Case”
2. “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
3. “Going On”
4. “Run”
5. “Would-Be Killer”
6. “Open Book”
7. “Whatever”
8. “Surprise”
9. “No Time Soon”
10. “She Knows”
11. “Blind Mary”
12. “Neighbors”
13. “A Little Better”

He Man Woman Haters Podcast - New York vs. The World

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

For too long the battle has raged behind the closed doors of the He Men. Those from New York charge that they bring more to the He Table because of their proximity to arts and culture in the city that never sleeps. Those from else where contend that they have the bigger contribution to the He Feast because they're not pretentious, snobby assholes from New York. And thus the battle raged.

It's time to settle this once and for all.

There are two episodes to the latest podcast. One podcast is all music from the New York faction (Jedreski, J Bell, Hathaway, Whatevs, Ethman, and HMZ). One podcast is all music from the rest of the U.S. (Victor 9000, Mr. Poop, Korn, Adil, and Manny)

You'll notice in the sidebar there is a polling widget. This will be up for until midnight on March 30th and will determine once and for all from the He-mmunity which deserves the rightful title.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download New York's Mix and download America's Mix).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (Both Mixes as a ZIP File).

Here's the track listing

TEAM AMERICA
1. Crystal Castles – Vanished
2. Faker - This Heart Attack (Miami Horror Remix)
3. HEALTH - The Problem Is (Thrust Lab Remix)
4. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes XXXChange
5. Van She – Sex City
6. Invisible Conga People – Cable Dazed
7. Chromatics – Mask
8. Glass Candy – Computer Love
9. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
10. DJ Technics – My Life Extra
11. Beach House - Heart Of Chambers
12. Dengue Fever – Tiger Phone Card
13. The Marked Men – A Little Time
14. Toys That Kill – Safe & Warm
15. Descendents – Bikage
16. Jack Peñate – Have I Been a Fool
17. Hedwig & The Angry Inch – Tear Me Down
18. The Heartaches – King Kong’s Party
19. Turbulence – Notorious
20. The Joggers – Back To The Future
21. MF Doom Meets Clutchy Hopkins – Track 02
22. Quantrells – Can’t Let You Break My Heart

TEAM BIG APPLE
1. Born Ruffians – Foxes Mate For Life
2. Kid Cudi – Day N Night (Crookers First Remix)
3. Friendly Fires – On Board
4. Times New Viking – Drop-out
5. Sweet Baby – There’s This Girl
6. Enon – Disposable Parts
7. The Glorious Ninth – Sparkly
8. Billy Bragg – A New England
9. Thao Nguyen & the Get Down Stay Down – Geography
10. Sunny Day Sets Fire - (Cool Kids Remix) - Stranger
11. Stephen Malkmus – We Can’t Help You
12. The Futureheads – Broke Up The Time
13. Infidels - Love Like Semtex (Metronomy Remix)
14. Digitalism - Zdarlight (Discodrome edition)
15. Adam Tensta – My Cool
16. Black Ghosts vs Lindstrom - i feel space vs something new
17. The Heavy - In the Morning
18. Boys Noize - Superfresh (Original Mix)
19. The Boggs - Remember the Orphans
20. Dert feat. José González & Nas – One Love / Stay In the Shade
21. Smif-N-Wessun – Stand Strong
22. To My Boy – Talk


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Umm, what the fuck?

Torturous Music Choices

The new issue of Mother Jones has a short little piece about music used by the U.S. military and prisons for a variety of torturous situations.

Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, "prolong capture shock," disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams.

Here's the playlist: overall fairly jingoistic, but mostly fairly listenable. I can't believe Rage Against the Machine made the list. I feel like terrorists would agree with most of the song. Oh and the website has a little app that plays all the songs if you're curious about how it'd sound to torture yourself. Any songs you think should have made the list, but didn't? Leave it in the comments.

1. Decide - Fuck Your God
2. Dope - Die M.F. Die
3. Dope - Take Your Best Shot
4. Eminem - White America
5. Eminem - Kim
6. Barney - Barney Theme Song
7. Drowning Pool - Let The Bodies Hit the Floor
8. Metallica - Enter Sandman
9. Meow Mix Theme
10. Seasme Street Theme
11. David Grey - Babylon
12. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
13. ACDC - Shoot to Thrill
14. ACDC - Hells Bells
15. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
16. Tupac - All Eyes on Me
17. Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
18. Neil Diamond - America
19. Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
20. Don McLean - American Pie
21. Saliva - Click Click Boom
22. Matchbox 20 - Cold
23. Hed P.E. - Swan Dive
24. Prince - Raspberry Baret
    

Mother Jones - The Torture Playlist

Pete Rock - NY's Finest

Here's the latest album from Pete Rock which is due out Tuesday morning, called "NY's Finest". It's your classic Pete Rock album filled with a pretty diverse group of guests.

Pete Rock - NY's Finest

1. Pete Intro
2. We Roll (Featuring Jim Jones & Max B)
3. Till I Retire
4. 914 (Featuring The LOX)
5. Questions (Featuring Royal Flush)
6. Best Believe (Featuring Redman & LD)
7. Ready Fe War (Featuring Chip Fu & Rene (Zhane))
8. Don't Be Mad (Produced by DJ Green Lantern)
9. Bring Y'all Back (Featuring Little Brother & Joe Scudda)
10. The Best Secret (Featuring Lords of the Underground)
11. That's What I Am Talking About (Featuring Rell)
12. The PJ's (Featuring Raekwon & Masta Killa)
13. Made Man (Featuring Tarrey Torae)
14. Let's Go (Featuring DJ Doo Wop)
15. Comprehend (Featuring Papoose)

Radiohead remix download

Download Amplive's Rainydayz Remixes, an 8-track collection featuring remixes of Radiohead's historic seventh album, In Rainbows. The songs are available in a zip file below and feature verses courtesy of Too $hort, MC Zumbi of Zion I, Chali2na of Jurassic 5, and Del the Funky Homosapien.

Two Great Videos

I've wanted to post these for quite some time. They are two of my most favorite videos in the total history of life ever.

Asthma Boy - Later Days

This is a nice little quiet album by a band called Asthma Boy out of Bellingham, Washington for your enjoyment. It's a free download off their site which is always a nice touch for a band to do these days. The album was a recommendation off the KEXP Music That Matters podcast last week , which is a nice touch for a band to get these days. And the music is pretty good which is a nice touch for your ears. I guess you could say that this album is music to your ears. You could also say that this album is music, and your ears will listen to it. You could also say something mean and hurtful and probably racist, but lets just leave it at "music to your ears" asshole.

Asthma Boy - "Later Days" (direct link to album download)
Asthma Boy Website
KEXP's Podcasting Page

One More Tool For The Interweb-Lived Life

This application allows you to grab free music from streaming audio sources, like iMeem, Pandora and Last.fm.

FreeMusicZilla

And to get you going, here's a bangin' RAC remix of Pull Shapes.

In case you're not inclined to follow links:

The Heavy

Holy crap, this is really, really great music! It's like Curtis Mayfield backed up with members of the Rebirth Brass Band and The Black Keys with production by RZA. And get a load of the album artwork! I can't find a single thing wrong with this. Plus, want to know how I found it? Their video just won best animation at London's Radar Festival.

I have dibs on this for any future He Mixes.

The Heavy - Great Vengeance & Furious Fire

A New Way To Search for Music

Sadly I wasn't able to find anything for our He Brother JBell's earlier request, but I wanted to alert the fellow He Men of the greatest thing for finding music: Share Miner.

Share Miner

It's super simple: all it does is plug in a search into google looking for links on websites that begin with "http://www.megaupload.com/?d" or whatever your favorite hosting site is, along with whatever band you're looking for.

It's imperfect and a little hit or miss but it might be a good alternative if you're locked out of what.cd or something.

New Fiest Video

Are you like me? Do you stay up many nights wondering to yourself, "you know what? I wonder what it would be like if the Fourth of July fireworks show wasn't synchronized to the Star Spangled Banner but instead to Fiest's 'I Feel It All' and she's just running around orchestrating the whole thing?"

Well my He Friend, your sleepless nights are over.

DJ Equipment of the Future

NYT article about the latest, greatest, shrinking turntables.

Top Ten Best Ever

From McSweeney's comes this very He Manly list.

Top Ten
Best Ever.

BY PETER FERLAND
1. "Standard" by Generally Beloved
2. "Obvious" by Everyone's List
3. "Understandable" by Debatable but Worthy
4. "Totally Obscure" by Feel Suddenly Inferior
5. "Universally Forgotten" by Curiously Vehement Reverence
6. Whole body of work by Your Ignorance Limits You
7. "Otherwise Underwhelming" by What Was Playing That Time Specific to Me When Everything Came Together Just as It Should Have
8. "Footnote" by Guess Which Were My Drugs
9. "Other-Culture Techno Trance Experience" by See How Well-Rounded I Am
10. "Children's Version of See Above" by We've Got Kids Now

A Brief History of Visual Music

via William Bowers.

Era of no music, yah, totally, not even birds and whales; music invented by primordial mucky ancestor of Lee "Scratch" Perry; shift from percussion to primitive wind instruments, maybe, by primoridal mucky ancestor of George "Caress" Gershwin; music somehow gets linked to visuals related to the performance of said music, and also to unrelated visuals/spoken & enacted audio--possibly religion's fault; composers make incidental music for Shakespeare plays and the like, plus opera is born around same time; militaries and schools and fascist leaders have "bands"; music accompanies vaudeville acts; live, and then recorded, music accompanies early "silent" cinema; music is composed for "talkies"; the "musical" evolves from its stage confines into a screen genre; vinyl allows "pure listenership," though many pissed-at-CD-&-mp3 folx will later claim that the big album covers served as visual accompaniment; television and advertising create unescapable music-filled juggernaut of talented players and vocalists hawking detergent & tobacco; Elvis, Beatles, the Who, et al, hijack fictional cinematic medium, around same time rockumentary is fashioned; The Graduate soundtrack births Scorsese & Wes Anderson, etc.; Waylon Jennings narrates "The Dukes of Hazzard"; music video brundlefucks the difference between music's promotional use in commercials/film; something about Pink Floyd's laser shows; film soundtrack CDs become either freestanding fetish pieces (rated "PG," as in Peter Gabriel/Philip Glass) or promotional mixtapes featuring songs very cynically "inspired by" the movie('s demographic potential); soundtrack albums come out for movies that don't exist; the iPod morphs one's life into the ultimate soundtracked movie, the exclusive contributors to which can be found via last.fm, etc.; Musicals make a comeback at the megaplex and on the album sales charts thanks to something Disney concocted about an undangerous Narnia high school; various indie artists release a "tribute" soundtrack to the film Two-Lane Blacktop even though it already featured period music; with the music industry in turmoil, and music writers bound by union contract to begin sentences about it with "with the industry in turmoil," Jay-Z straight-up inverts the paradigm like a faux-retired about-to-retire label-head should, by releasing American Gangster, a spontaneous, rushed-to-market, and best of all, uncynical "inspired-by" album re: a film, giving birth to the current marketplace trendbite for the relationship between cinema and music: "organic synergy."

No-Fi Soul Rebellion 'Sweet Teeth pt. 1' on Audiovisible.tv

1979 represents

Delta 5 "Mind Your Own Business" off Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftcentered Disco Classics 1974-1986.

Damn you, Truth!

Menomena - Rotten Hell

Why there isn't a whole genre and award for best choreographed food fight music video is beyond me.

If "Rotten Hell" is the 2007 winner, I think the 2006 champ would have to be:

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #6

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

We've put together our sixth He Man Woman Haters' podcast. This a another big one. With contributions from Ethman, Neff, Victor9000, Whatevs, Hathaway, and He Man Zero. It's 20 solid tracks. It's clocking in at just over an hour and 1/4. It's ready to change your life.

The whole thing can be downloaded directly via this link (download podcast episode #6).

Download the individual tracks as a ZIP file via this link (He Man Podcast #6 ZIP File).

Here's the track listing

1. Calvin Harris – Clours
2. Wale – Good Girl (Cousin Cole Remix v 1.4)
3. Sharkey & C-Rayz Walz – Pain to the Picture
4. Radiohead – Up The Ladder
5. Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling
6. Sia – Playground
7. Bell & Sebastian – Expectations (Remastered)
8. Bon Iver – Flume
9. Yeasayer – Sunrise
10. Whalebones – Blood Bank
11. Wale feat. Lil’ Wayne – Nike Boots Remix
12. Oxford Collapse – The Boys Go Home
13. Radiohead – Unravel (Pocket Mix)
14. Sam & Dave – Hold On I’m Coming (DJ Nature Remix)
15. Bitche Bitche Ya Ya Ya – Fuck Friend (CSS Remix)
16. John Cooper Clarke – The It Man
17. Underworld – To Heal
18. The Books – That Shit Ain’t Right
19. Tulsa – Shaker
20. Crystal Castles vs. HEALTH – Crimewave


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The Moldy Peaches

Continuing the throw back trend that I seem to be on, I went ahead and used my iTunes gift cards last night to get the Moldy Peaches album from 2001. I fucking loved the song "NYC is like a Graveyard" (editor's note: the album was released on 9/11) and after I saw that they were included on the Juno soundtrack I knew that it was officially time to get the album. Here is the non-DRM'd version of it for your enjoyment.

P.S. Hey HMZ, they're from Port Townsend, WA

The Moldy Peaches - "The Moldy Peaches"

Skillz 2007 Wrap Up

It used to be that Jan 1st of every year became the stage for [Mad] Skillz's annual rap up - a look back at everything that happened musically and culturally the year before. Get it? Instead of a "wrap up" (like how people spell it) he's a rapper so he "raps it up" instead.

Well maybe I'm just turning into my father but this is so fucking pedestrian and enormously boring that I can't believe there was a time in my life that I thought these rap ups were clever. And this year he actually spent the time to make a music video for it for some reason. So now I get to look at his fat face and his Korny mustache (yes that's "Korn" as in the mustache on the 90-year-old singer from Korn) and "laugh" at his parody of Amy Winehouse being a drunk sociopath. Thank you so much Skillz for blessing us with this.

Hemanterview: HeMan to Walkman

So, on Saturday I was in DC, killing time before the he-man convention that was HMZ's nuptials in frosty Pittsburgh. I was in a DuPont bar, about to head into the loo when the bathroom doors opened and one Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of the Walkmen, walkmanned out. Seizing upon the opportunity to provide content for this blog, I thought I'd conduct an exclusive interview of my old schoolmate, which I herenow reproduce:

HL, looking quizzical, adjusting the zipper on his pants: Cold4thestreets? [ed's note: not my real name].

C4ts, feigining disinterest, refusing to be the first to recognize the other: Ham? Oh. Hey, man. What's up? How's it going?

HL: Good. Do you live here?

C4tS: No, no. I'm in the Bay Area now.

HL: Oh, I'm in the Bay Area all the time.

C4ts: Yeah, I think you guys played a show a couple of weeks ago. I was going to go, but I, like, you know, didn't.

HL, nonplussed: Yeah, I'm in New York.

C4ts: Yeah, cool...So, hey you guys are blowing up now. I mean, look at you [c4ts slaps HL somewhat more condescendingly than intended]--Spiderman 3 soundtrack, hunh? [ed's note: C4ts' tone might imply that HL is a sellout.]

HL, not pleased, turning to greet hipster girl in red wool coat: Yeah...Hey, what's up, Kitty? Where've you been?

Random guy to C4ts: Hey, man, are you going to use the bathroom or what?

C4ts: Yeah, sorry. I just bumped into this guy I know from high school. [Turning to HL] So, Ham it was good seeing you.

HL, whispering something to whispy blonde in red wool coat, distractedly: Yeah, see you, man.

Exit C4ts, begins to urinate.