21 posts tagged “music”

thanks to Garth for sharing this with me, since this song is my new addiction. Everything about this song reminds me of everyone I grew up dancing with, from the dance style, to the lyrics, to the bleepy breakbeats. Plus, she's having so much fun just goofing the hell off in her bedroom and dancing her ass off.

"Oh my GOD, Ginevra, are you ever going to post anything that isn't a video?"

Answer: not today! Because this video is so, so sweet. I love the groove in the song. Anthony Hamilton's voice is raspy in all the right ways. And he tries to cheer up his woman with a sock puppet, which I have done to my darling husband AND every one of my friends.

Back in the pre-ipod days, my favorite pal Sean and I worked for a record shop/label. We sat on two matching Costco stools with big ol' Sony headphones, sampling music and writing up reviews. When a particularly bangin' tune came across our desks, we'd trade each other headphones and make the appropriate faces depending on how good it really was.

Now Sean and I both have proper jobs (he's got credits on Justin Timberlake's album, for one) but the internets has made it easy to swap those headphones. Here's three choons he pointed me to today - drum-n-bass in the Hospital Records fashion.

(no videos, really, just sound.)

I've been listening to the same songs on repeat most of the time I've been here. It's kind of a sad, wistful playlist - my specialty!

However, if you listen to no other song in your life, listen to Lush Life, with Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. Oh, and the R. Kelly/Broken Social Scene mashup that Steve sent. Have a listen.

I love y'all. See you on the flip.

Killin' it! A dubstep remix of a Klaxons cover of an old Perfecto tune. Absolutely destroyed a dancefloor of us old dnb kids.

Klaxons - It's Not Over (Skream Remix)

Klaxons

There's a no-yappin', all lovely warm bass-y ambient dub podcast from Bill Laswell that I've been listening to for ages. The latest (Transmission 31) is a beautiful way to ease into a Monday.

Drop what you're doing, and go watch the new Kanye video if you have a sense of humor and like good beats. It's like Flight of the Conchords meets Hype Williams.

I followed the rumor, and it's on her site - a new album this year, and to be produced in part by Timbaland. Expectations = impossibly high.