Today’s bloggin best…
- Feeling 2005? New music by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cribs and Bloc Party. NME
- Nas & Damian Marley album trailer. 2DopeBoyz
- Bjork collaborated with E-40, sorta. Fader
- Sarah Palin and Fox News declare war against LL Cool J. Village Voice
- Dark Side of the Moon as played on a classic Nintendo. Retrothing
- Buy a vowel. Lollapalooza announcing line-up Wheel of Fortune style. Lollapalooza
- Terry Richards shoots a clothed (thank goodness!) Ben Stiller. Format Mag
Today’s bloggin best…
- TRON trailers get remixed. Boing Boing
- Police could arrest Erykah Badu for nude video shoot. That certainly doesn’t prove a point. Hip Hop Wired
- Biggie Smalls times The xx equals The Notorious xx. Prefix
- Some people may have heard new Burial music late one night, maybe. LA Times
- LCD Soundsystem album gets a name and a face. Consequence of Sound
- Did Flat Eric just eat LSD with Pharrell? Asian Man Dan
- Crystal Castles release a 90-second song for Record Store Day. Pitchfork
Today’s bloggin best…
- A new Jay-Z / Dr. Dre song might be dropping this week. 2dopeboyz
- Johnny Marr could play in two bands at Reading Festival. NME
- Madlibs drops bombs with Guilty Simpson and Strong Arm Steady.
- Gorillaz got an online video game. Pitchfork
- If wrestlers were rappers. Complex
- Erykah Badu gets naked and assassinated in new video. SFGate
- Deadmau5 goes Hollywood, guests on Gossip Girl, hangs with Tommy Lee. MTV
“What is music?” is a question that seems to be on the mind (or meme) of a lot of people lately. Last year’s best selling book This Is You Brain On Music took a scientific shot at explaining the phenomenon of rhythm, tone and timbre while indie documentary The Heart Is A Drum Machine takes a far more anecdotal approach to the question. In fact, anecdotal is what defines this film (released on DVD last week), which culls together 70-plus minutes of interview footage with an eclectic assortment of music practitioners and enthusiasts that range from Red Hot Chili Pepper guitarist John Frusciante and actress-turned-rocker Julliette Lewis to comedy team Tim and Eric and scientist Ann Druyan.
Today’s bloggin best…
- Rick Rubin is a Gogol Bordello fan. Billboard
- DJ Intervention is here to help. Funny Or Die
- Indie rocker are the new baby boomers. Slate
- Kanye’s gonna make hip-hop music again. Hypetrak
- New Dead Weather video, “Die By The Drop.” Pitchfork
- Asher Roth has a new mixtape. URB
- Gorillaz are on the cover of Complex. Complex
You can bet Jack White doesn’t like music blogs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the proudly retro guitarist-vocalist of The White Stripes doesn’t dig on YouTube either. So it would probably please him to no end that when he and partner Meg White played a series of off-the-cuff public shows in Canada (a bowling alley is Saskatoon, a YMCA in Toronto, a city bus in Winnipeg) during the band’s 2007 tour, this sort of obvious blog fodder flew under the radar of all but the most obsessive web citizens. Read the full story
Today’s bloggin best…
- When did Beyoncé’s sister get to be so cool? The Smoking Section
- Here comes the new MGMT leaks. The Trip Wire
- Pavements drummer only dates Pavement fans. Pitchfork
- Weezer are bugs on Yo! Gabba Gabba. Stereogum
- LCD Soundsystem scores YSL runway show. BPM
- Of course Terry Richardson’s skate deck has hipster boobies. Format Mag