As Duck Sauce, A-Trak and Armand Van Helden have released the song Barbra Streisand, a song deserving of the dancefloor filler of the year top spot, and now a New York party-themed video with cameos from Pharrell Williams, Chromeo, Questlove, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra, Santigold, Diplo, Kanye and loads more has made it even cooler.
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The age of musical dilemmas
With a new Sufjan Stevens album called The Age of Adz on the way this month, his U.S record label Asthmatic Kitty issued a plea asking fans not to buy the new record through Amazon as the online shopping giant will purportedly be selling the album for a very low price.
In a lengthy email discussing the positive and negative aspects of discount pricing, the label takes a stance by saying they feel “the work that our artists produce is worth more than a cost of a latte.” They have a point – music should be worth more than that. Music is sadly losing its value. You can blame illegal downloads or a slow moving industry or supermarket chains who buy up chart CDs at a discount and sell them at a loss (shutting down independent record shops in the process) or you can attribute it to the ever-changing media-devouring landscape. Some people will blame bloggers like myself.
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The top 10 backwards videos of all time & other links
- Justin Bieber as Kurt Cobain – your photoshopped picture of the week. http://bit.ly/justincobain
- The top 10 backwards videos of all time. http://bit.ly/backwardsvids
- What Gaga should wear next. http://bit.ly/9zn714
- Relive your childhood – The 20 best cartoon intros. http://bit.ly/cartoonintros
- A list of inventors killed by their own inventions. http://bit.ly/inventrip
Band of Blogs: Free music week, Trent Reznor’s sountrack sampler, Warpaint & Strands
Free Music Week
Dublin-based music blog Quarter Inch curated a week’s worth of blog posts where a light is shone on artists who give away music for free. There are interviews, mixtapes, guest posts and of course, downloads from acts like CoolRunnings, Coma Cinema, Hunter-Gatherer, Popical Island, and Hipster Youth.
http://quarterinchcollective.com/
The Social Network soundtrack
While we all wait to like or dislike the upcoming film The Social Network based on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and directed by David Fincher, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have released a free five track sampler from the soundtrack.
http://www.nullco.com/TSN/
Warpaint
A female foursome from Los Angeles who are about to release their debut album The Fool, Warpaint make what’s been described as ambient rock. That is rock that is a little more soothing than the norm yet still occasionally manages to sound like they are channelling Nirvana. Wu Tang’s RZA is a big fan apparently as are The XX.
http://www.myspace.com/worldwartour
Strands
Known as a producer of many great Irish albums in recent times and a musician in the band Halfset, Stephen Shannon has struck out on his own with a new band called Strands. An album is out in late October and the track you have to hear first is the playful instrumental Temper.
http://tinyurl.com/strandsmusic
Sites of the Week: Hatecation, Witch House Generator, The Nowness
Hatecation
Photos taken on what looks like the worst vacations ever. From questionable swimwear to crying babies to embarrassing photo ops to rollercoaster memories, this site has it all.
http://hatecation.tumblr.com
Witch House generator
You need a snappy band name for your new “witch-house project”. This site can help. Proving that all you need is a vaguely foreboding name with a triangle in it instead of an ‘A’, my new band project will now be known as SKELETON GΔ†ES. Nice.
http://chillwitchnamemagic.com
The Nowness
Billing itself as a quality online multimedia magazine with the tagline “daily exclusives for you to love”, The Nowness features considered features on art, travel, lifestyle, culture, music and fashion from high-profile contributors like Bret Easton Ellis.
http://www.nowness.com
Electric Picnic kids cover Foo Fighters
Spotted at an Oxfam open mic at Electric Picnic, this brother (Dylan) and sister (Lauren) can’t be much more than ten years old but their performance of Foo Fighters Everlong is pretty grown up and a bit special.
Amazing action movie scene
From India, comes this 90 second clip which contains more ridiculous action than the entire cast of The Expendables could even dream of pulling off.
Video: El Guincho – Bombay
Barcelona musician El Guincho’s new video contains all of this: naked sparkler dancing, a guy jumping into a pool with a gun, a girl cracking eggs off her head, usage of a vacuum cleaner where it shouldn’t be allowed, the murder of a plush toy and lots of nudity. Definitely not safe for watching in work.
