I like when the plot of a Law & Order show is stretched to incorporate their new endeavor, like when Jerry Orbach was the uncle of a new cop with the special victims unit in L&O: SVU or, in a recent L&O:SVU, when Liv has to go to Los Angeles and work with Skeet Skeet to promote L&O: LA. It goes to show the amount of care/effort into the new franchises to get people on the show. Objection. Relevancy!?
Well the reason that I bring it up was that I jamming out to the amazing song in the first couple seconds of that first episode and discovered Make the Girl Dance. Two french djs that sound influenced or just from the same electro “scene” as Justice and Ed Banger Records. Check out the video for Baby, Baby, Baby, or this video that got me hooked on them, Kill Me:
Brandon Flower’s solo album comes out today. If you want to give it a listen, it has been streaming over at MOG for the last week. It is a subscription site, but you can get a 3-day trial without any credit cards or anything. Since I have a tendency to flip-flop on my opinion of Killer’s albums, I am going to wait till I hear this one a bunch more times till I decide if I like it.
Another group worth a listen is the Mynabirds. They do a great kind of gospel/country/rock music. Can’t remember where I heard them first, but you can stream their entire album over at Myspace if you click on the “Albums” tab in the music player. I don’t know when Myspace started having the option for the entire album, but it is a fantastic idea.
Finally, personal favorite Those Darlins got a new album coming out and have just released a 7″ with two songs they have been touring with for a while: Night Jogger and FunStix Party.
On a second watching, “Be-Weave” was not that funny. Here are a bunch of attempts to make up for that.
Via PRI’s The World, check out this retro-soul band from Australia called The Bamboos. Most of their songs are pretty good, but on their current album one of their songs is sung by a guest singer who calls himself King Merc. The story behind him is amazing (if it’s true): He was mistaken for a soldier of fortune and was imprisoned on a Pacific island stockade for 20 years where he passed the time signing in the prison church and listening to the only record available, Al Green’s “I’m Still In Love With You.”
More music that is on heavy rotation lately is Big Boi’s Mixtape For Dummies. It’s basically a bunch of previously released Outkast stuff mixed together to promote his new solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot, the Son of Chico Dusty.
