Record Makers

Record Makers Promo

Now this is a music video a He Man can get behind.

(NSFW because it's basically one long shot of a woman's ass, that's why saying "get behind" is so appropriate)

Exiled in the Land of the Free

An ex-Columbia Records A&R guy just released this shelved 1995 benefit album for Leonard Peltier, a Native American man convicted of killing two FBI agents. The case and story are interesting, but the tracklist (Unreleased material from Rage Against the Machine and the Beasties) is just as intriguing–like a hot little mid 90's time capsule.

Rob Roy - "Fur In My Cap"

Not the greatest music video of all time, but it's a pretty catchy track.

Charting the Beatles

The Beatles are okay (I guess). But if you'd rather look than listen, this Charting the Beatles project is for you. Michael Deal's site has some nice examples of the work.

He Man Woman Haters Podcast #17

He Men: Never on schedule, always on time.

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He Man Woman Haters Podcast #17

1. Givers - Saw You First
2. The Heavy - How You Like Me Now
3. Beach House - Lover Of Mine
4. Metazon feat Kev Brown - THE MAN (The Incubator Remix)
5. Shafiq Husayn - Lil' Girl Ft. Fatima
6. Gorillaz Feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack - Stylo
7. The Party Squad - Murderer (Original Mix)
8. Surfer Blood - Swim
9. Phantogram - Mouthful Of Diamonds
10. Oberhofer - Away FRM U
11. Mogi Grumbles - Disco Belafonte EP
12. Eels - Mansions Of Los Feliz
13. Theophilus London - Humdrum Town
14. Friendly Fires - Jump In The Pool (Thin White Duke Remix)
15. The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (RAC Mix)
16. Keepaway - Yellow Wings
17. Caribou - Odessa
18. Emancipator - Shook Remix
19. Fucked Up - Magic Word
20. Those Darlins - Mama's Heart
21. Turbo Fruits - Trouble
22. The Selfish Replicators - Strands
23. Florence + the Machine - Dog Days are Over
24. Letting Up Despite Great Faults - In Steps


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sample fight!

Jay-Z and Justice - On To The Next Dance (Terry Urban and DJ Eloy video edit) from Eloy Garcia on Vimeo.

I'm not sure I see the problem. More here.

Alien Rap

From the guys that brought you the Predator, Robocop, and Terminator 2 raps are back with Alien recap. Ooooooh damn!

My City vs. Your City

This is a fun web project: My City vs Your City

It compares the city you live in to another city and how your respective music tastes overlap with each other. This is New York vs. San Francisco, the two competing He Man headquarters. Overall they're pretty close to one another but I want to know why you losers in San Francisco are still listening to Death Cab For Cutie???? I mean come on SF! (of course our Lady Gaga index is crazy highly ranked so, touche).

Mumdance Dadrock Mix

Holy frijoles! A Mumdance mix with a Screeching Weasel leadoff track! Oh yes.

OiNK Guy Found Not Guilty

Well, that's nice. The site will not be returning.

HOW CUTE!!!!!111!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only way these could be cool is if you tripped the person carrying the box and they all went butter-side-down on the pavement.

HMZ - Best of 2009 mixtape, albums, tomfoolery

Here is my best of mixtape for 2009, downloadable here (track order embedded in the files).

My top albums of the year, in no particular order:

The Avett Brothers - I & Love & You
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Girls - Album
Elvis Perkins - In Dearland
Japandroids - Post Nothing
Micachu - Jewellry
Dan Deacon - Bromst
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Miike Snow - Miike Snow

Bring on 2010. Another year where haters gonna hate, I'm sure.

Señor Smashaway's '09 Listzomania (which does not include the song, "Listzomania")

Below is my best of '09. There's a link to 97% of the playlist pictured above HERE.

13 creams of the 2009 album crop (in order of greatness–most to semi-most)

Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms

Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport

Passion Pit: Manners

Dan Deacon: Bromst

Atlas Sound: Logos

Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion

Lovvers: Ocd Go Go Go Girls

Okmoniks: Party Fever!

Major Lazer: Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do

Matt and Kim: Grand

Blak Roc: S/T

Wavves: Wavves

YYYs: It's Blitz

Quite Honorable Mentions

Smith Westerns: Smith Westerns

The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa

Foreign Born: Person to Person

Ty Segal: Ty Segal

Harlem Shakes: Technicolor Health

Röyksopp: Junior

Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (I guess)

5 Mixtapes that were the straight dope

The Hood Internet: The Mixtape Volume 4

Diplo's Major Lazer Essential Mix

DJ Bonez McCoy: Trill Ass Car Mix

Lil' Wayne: No Ceilings

Kevin Casey Music: Live from New York

Best mashup: (Yeah!)

The Hood Internet: Kanye West vs Cage & Aviary Touch The Television

Best Songs of '09

Please see the image above. It takes too long to write 'em all.

Good year, music!

Whatevs' Best Of 2009

Here are all my (Whatevs) favorite songs from the final year of the aughts. At first I didn't think this was a particularly watershed year for music but after trolling through my iTunes I've settled on 39 songs that really stood out to me, and I think I've changed my initial assessment.

The order is a little crazy but I chose it to specifically call attention to each track, so there's a pretty big tonality disparity between each track. It's not a mixtape. It's a bunch of songs that are pretty different from one another. There's some rock, some R&B, some rock, some hip-hop, some rock, some alt-country, and ten other kinds of rock.

Hope you enjoy.

Whatevs' Best Of 2009

1. "Hold The Line – Major Lazer [Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do]
2. "Tremendous Dynamite – Eels [Hombre Lobo]
3. "Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear [Veckatimest]
4. "I And Love And You– The Avett Brothers [I & Love & You]
5. "Make - Up" – Amanda Blank [I Love You]
6. "Future Primitive" – Papercuts [You Can Have What You Want]
7. "Hang You from the Heavens" – The Dead Weather [Horehound]
8. "LBG (Little Booty Girl)" – Thunderheist [Thunderheist]
9. "Do You Love Me (Like You Say You Do)" – Lee Fields & The Expressions [My World]
10. "M.A.D." – Hadouken! [M.A.D.]
11. "It Gets Your Body Movin'" – Suckers [Suckers EP]
12. "Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare" – Matt & Kim [Grand]
13. "Ladies" – Lee Fields & The Expressions [My World]
14. "Kick Drum Heart" – The Avett Brothers [I & Love & You]
15. "Jerk It" – Thunderheist [Thunderheist]
16. "Wilco (The Song)" – Wilco [Wilco (The Album)]
17. "Young Hearts Spark Fire" – Japandroids [Post-Nothing]
18. "Fresh Blood" – Eels [Hombre Lobo]
19. "Get It Right" – Breakestra [Dusk Till Dawn]
20. "Sleepyhead" – Passion Pit [M 3]
21. "Cocotte" – Teenage Bad Girl [Cocotte]
22. "Feels Like Summer" – Johnny Foreigner [Grace And The Bigger Picture]
23. "Burial" – Miike Snow [Miike Snow]
24. "Stay Off The F*%$#n’ Flowers (feat. Raekwon)" – Blakroc [Blakroc]
25. "Oh No" – Andrew Bird [Noble Beast]
26. "Gazzillion Ear" – DOOM [Born Like This]
27. "Lisztomania" – Phoenix [Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix]
28. "Laura" – Girls [Girls]
29. "Moth's Wings" – Passion Pit [M 3]
30. "Boys Are Fine" – Smith Westerns [Smith Westerns]
31. "Chillin Out Maxin" – Get Busy Committee [Uzi Does It]
32. "California Queen" – Wolfmother [Cosmic Egg]
33. "Blood" – The Middle East [The Recordings Of The Middle East]
34. "Pine On" – Obits [I Blame You]
35. "Daylight" – Matt & Kim [Grand]
36. "Orange Shirt" – Discovery [LP]
37. "Treat Me Like Your Mother" – The Dead Weather [Horehound]
38. "Animal" – Miike Snow [Miike Snow]
39. "Bye Bye Bye" – Plants And Animals [Parc Avenue]

Victor's Best of 2009

Top Ten Albums of 2009
1. The xx - The xx
2. CFCF – Panesian Nights
3. Kid CuDi – Man on the Moon
4. Passion Pit - Manners
5. Raekwon – Only Built for Cuban Linx II
6. The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
7. Grizzly Bear – Vecktamiest
8. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
9. Matt & Kim – Grand
10. The Hood Internet – Mixtape Vol. Four

Most Overrated Artists of 2009
1. Girls
2. Animal Collective

Top Thirty-Nine Songs of 2009, Plus an Overture
Download Mix of Top Tracks Here
OVERTURE - The xx – Intro
1. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
2. Animal Collective – My Girls
3. Pictureplane – Goth Star
4. The xx – VCR
5. Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision
6. Kid CuDi – Pursuit of Happiness
7. Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
8. Drake vs. Miike Snow – Cult Logic Forever (The Hood Internet Mash-up)
9. CFCF – You Hear Colours
10. Electric Wire Hustle – They Don't Want
11. Shakira – Loba
12. Beach House – Norway
13. Memory Tapes – Green Knight
14. Matt & Kim – Daylight
15. HEALTH – Die Slow
16. Guido – Way You Make Me Feel
17. Passion Pit – Moth's Wings
18. The Very Best – Yalira
19. Lee Fields and the Expressions - Ladies
20. Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky
21. BLK JKS – Lakeside
22. Andrew Jackson Jihad – We Didn't Come Here to Rock
23. Air France – GBG Belongs To Us
24. Small Black – Despicable Dogs
25. Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
26. Kid CuDi – Up Up & Away
27. Raekwon – House of Flying Daggers
28. We Were Promised Jetpacks – Ship With Holes Will Sink
29. Passion Pit – Little Secrets
30. Mos Def – Supermagic
31. Handsome Furs – All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
32. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Wind Phoenix (Proper Name)
33. K’Naan - Wavin’ Flag
34. CFCF – Goodbye
35. Beastie Boys vs. Matt & Kim – Good Ol' Fashioned Rump Shaker (The Hood Internet Mash-up)
36. Gui Boratto – No Turning Back
37. Kid CuDi – Soundtrack 2 My Life
38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
39. Outro – The Hood Internet

Top Lyrics of the Year
1. “I don't mean to seem like I / Care about material things, / Like a social status, / I just want / Four walls and adobe slats / For my girls” -My Girls, Animal Collective
2. “We used to dream / Now we worry about dying / I don't wanna worry about dying / I just wanna worry about those sunshine girls” -Young Hearts Spark Fire, Japandroids

Reverse Engineering "Smack My Bitch Up"

They should do this with every song ever. Did you have any idea "Bulls On Parade" was sampled in this song?

Deathface

This is making my Friday night of design nerdery feel like a Friday night of epic warehouse ravery.

New video from N.A.S.A.

N.A.S.A. (feat. Tom Waits and Kool Keith) - “Spacious Thoughts”
(Directed by Fluorescent Hill)

Passion Pit – Little Secrets

The latest video from Passion Pit is very . . . what's the word I'm looking for . . . Trony.

Passion Pit's "Little Secrets" (sorry embedding was turned off because apparently they didn't realize it's 2009).

Ninjasonik Video

Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor--friend of the people, dear compatriot of the Hemen--teamed up with Ninjasonik to produce this video for the group's remix of Matt & Kim's Daylight. Very cute (in a str8  hipster/gangsta way). 

Nick also directed Yea Yeah. He a genius.