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Dead Weather

Via Stereogum, Jack White continues to be the coolest guy in music. If the Ractonteurs and White Stripes weren’t enough for him, he has put together a sort of super group called The Dead Weather with The Kills’ Alison Mosshart as its frontwoman, Jack White contributing drums and vocals, Raconteur little Jack Lawrence playing bass, and Queens Of The Stone Age’s Dean Fertita’s on guitar. This also coincides with Jack opening the Nashville office of Third Man Records. The building is setup with the label’s offices plus a vinyl record store, photo studio, dark room and performance stage. And if that wasn’t cool enough, at the grand opening of the office, he gave away the 7″ single for the Dead Weather that were hand painted by a member of the group and included a photobooth strip of the band members.

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Röyksopp and More!

Neil Clarkson

I like to think of myself as a try-er.  I’m usually on board to try some new food I haven’t had before and  I like to think I give a lot of music a chance.  I don’t want to sound like one of those douchers that say “I listen to everything,” but I get bored of ol’ rock ‘n’ roll sometimes.  Hopefully I don’t disappoint Stinks/Neil again, here are a few of the jams I have been listening to lately.  I don’t know who Röyksopp is, but this video of real life Space Invaders got me into them(via NotCot).  PrettyMuchAmazing got me into Kid Cudi via the Crooker’s remix of Day ‘n Nite.  And if you aren’t sick of Weezy’s A Milli, check out Kid Cudi’s freestyle.  Its by the same producer of A Milli  (basically the same style/beat), and the original beat is from Rich Boy’s “Drop.”  I don’t know how I missed it earlier, but Chicago rapper Rhymefest put a mixtape as a tribute to Michael Jackson and a promo for his new cd “El Che.”  I don’t listen to many mixtapes, but I am usually a sucker for raps with old soul or R&B samples.  The new Rihanna stuff isnt’ that bad.  Hope that Chris will stop making her “hatin’ on the club.”  Finally, me, Baby/Austin, and Aunt Rosie all agree that the new Kelly Clarkson is the mad notes.  Yeah, I just said that. (more…)

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Baby, You Can Have Whatever You Like

After being called out for liking T.I. songs (which I had coming),  here some things to listen to that Neil and Kevin can enjoy:
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-  a while back I got into a singer/songwriter phase after watching Heartworn Highways and Be Here To Love Me.  Then the other day I came across a singer named after two of my favorites from those movies: Townes Van Zant and Steve Earle.   Justin Townes Earle has the last name Earle because he is the son of Steve, and looks just as messed up as both Steve and TVZ were.  The single off his new album, Yuma, is good along with the few other songs I heard from him.

– as mentioned before, Dan Auerbach, one half of The Black Keys, has a solo disc worth listening to.  You can listen to the whole thing over at his myspace page.

– a charity compilation disc, Dark Was The Night, looks like it could be really cool.  Its bigger name artists doing covers.  But because its for charity, no blogs like to post anything up to listen to (rightly so, probably).  Artists include Spoon, Sharon Jones and the Daptones, My Morning Jacket, Feist with Ben Gibbard, and so on. The myspace showcases a single song a day or you can listen snippets of each song at Amazon.

– another charity disc, War Child: Heroes, is another album of covers that is tough to preview because its for charity.  Songs include Franz Ferdinand doing Blondie’s Call Me, Estelle covering Stevie Wonders Superstition and Lily Allen covering that MIA sample with her godfather Mick Jones of the Clash.

– Starbucks has a compliation disc called Sweathearts 09 with covers (can you tell I like covers) of I Put a Spell On You by She & Him, Black and Gold by Katy Perry and Buddy Holly’s Words of Love done by Jessica Lea Mayfield.

– Legend Booker T. of Booker T. And The M.G.’s is coming out with a solo album, Potato Hole.  His backing band is fucking Neil Young and The Drive By Truckers.  The sound of that Hammond B3 organ is unmistakably awesome.  You can preview a song at Pitchfork.

– Finally, head over to Doctor Mooney to check out a disc from Ike and Tina.  It took me a day to realize that the line from the Hunter, “Got you in the sites of my love gun,” is said in How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin.

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Can I Smell Yo Dick

I already covered what catholic grade schools are listening to.  According to Austin, this is what catholic all-guys high schools are listening to.

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New Hot Shit For Ya’ll To Vibe With

dickdance.jpgUsing the excuse of being a dj for grade school dances, I like to occasionally listen to KissFM.  It’s a convenient excuse when your manhood’s in question for having C’est La Vie (or say levie when spelled/texted by a drunk Kelly) by B*Witched on your ipod.  Having just dj-ed a grade school father-daughter dance party last weekend, I thought it would be fun/appropriate to have a post about what the kids are listening to.

Taylor Swift is by far the crowd favorite.  Every other request was for a different song by her.  You know when you are getting older when you and everyone around you has almost no clue who the fuck the best selling artist of previous year was.  “Isn’t she one of those American Idol girls?” “Shes gotta be one of those Disney Channel singers.” Nope.

Other popular requests at a Catholic grade school dance include songs that aren’t appropriate at Catholic grade schools.  For a long time, songs like Big Butts and Shake ya Ass have not been able to be played at the schools for their obvious and raunchy lyrics while songs like Get Low and Crank That fly underneath the radar due to either being rapped too quickly for teachers to understand, using slang like “skeet skeet” or “superman that ho” (or “laffy taffy”) that no white person over 20 knows without internet research, or just that its the radio edit.  Some of the new songs obviously can’t be played even when you have the radio edit:  Ludacris has a song with the chorus saying “If I take one more drink, I’m gon’ end up fucking you.”  All American Rejects have a song with the chorus that goes “I hope it gives you hell” and says damn a lot. 3Oh!3 have a songs that are hilarious and raunchy yet aren’t popular enough to have radio edits for lyrics like “tell your boyfriend if he’s got beef, that I’m a vegetarian and I ain’t fucking scared of him.”

Here are my favorites that were played at the recent dance:  Lady Gaga‘s Just Dance has been around for awhile and is now getting some other songs on her disc some radio play.  Good songs if you don’t mind bad lyrics.  Flo-Rida has a new song with some signer called Kesha (doing her best Katy Perry impression) that most kids don’t know is basically a cover.  I can’t decide if I like T.I. or not, but radio has played his songs so many times that I now find myself enjoying Whatever You Like and Live Your Life.  This stupid song by V.I.C. has been stuck in my head for whatever reason.  Lil Wayne can get annoying, can’t deny that he can be pretty clever with songs like Ms. Officer, A Milli, or La La.

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