Vampire Weekend does an acoustic rendition of “Cousins.” Sort of reminds me this video of The Dodos playing “Fools,” except the Dodos video is canned over the recording and VW does this one live. Definitely check them both out, though.
GANGLIANS
played a sick Daytrotter session last week that you should check out, linked above. This rendition of “Hair” is particularly cool.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Building Nothing out of Something (2000) by Modest Mouse. Some gritty, half-polished stuff from Modest Mouse, somewhere between “Shit Luck” and “Float On.” Definitely worth some listens on shitty, soggy Philadelphia snow days.
Building Nothing out of Something: amazon
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new broken social scene: "world sick"
go to the broken social scene website, brokensocialscene.ca, enter your email address, download, and revel in the first glorious sounds of Forgiveness Rock Record, to be released May 4. it’s been way too long, BSS.
Throwback Thursday: Liquid Swords by Genius. The album is full of unbelievably sharp hip-hop lyricism from one of Wu-Tang’s unsung heroes—all accompanied by equally sick RZA production. Check out the title track below, featuring a classically bizarre Wu-Tang intro and lines like “I’m low-key like seashells.” What more could you want?
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"HOW PURPLE CAN YOU GO (LUDACRIS x JOKER & GINZ)"
by the hood internet (download or stream by clicking the above link)
Music video for Neon Indian’s ”Terminally Chill”—and seriously, were you expecting anything else for a song called “Terminally Chill”?
Throwback Thursday: “Halftime” by Nas, off 1994’s landmark Illmatic: “Cuz I’ma ace when I face the bass.”
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Japandroids play “Wet Hair” on Jimmy Fallon earlier in the week. Pretty awesome, though the studio audience behind them looks like a bunch of robots…
UPDATE (2/8/10): sad, the video stopped working—if you want to watch (you should) just search for japandroids + jimmy fallon and it should probably show up all over the interweb)
