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
Today’s best bloggin…
- A-Trak and Travis Barker live from the Roxy video. Hypertrak
- Interview with sexy stripper from Star Warz. LA Weekly
- All new Erykah Badu MP3, produced by Madlib. Okayplayer
- Death to the “hipster.” Searching for a new word order. Gawker
- Beck covered INXS…uh, no he didn’t. TwentyFourBit
- R.I.P. Alex Chilton. NYT
- Plastikman unveils iPhone app for live show audience participation. URBA-A-Trak & Travis
Today’s bloggin best…
- Jessica Simpson and Billy Corgan wrote a reality show theme song. The Tripwire
- You know the Beastie Boy approve of this Battlestar Galactica bootleg. LA Weekly
- The Optimo night is ending in Glasgow. Anyone have some frequent flier miles? Optimo
- Conan O’Brien is hitting the road. Billboard
- The Strokes are gonna play Lollapalooza. Stereogum
- Michael Bolton got a platinum record for Kanye’s College Dropout? Sound of the City
- What happened to Parental Advisory stickers on CDs? Westword
Today’s bloggin best…
- Gorillaz like Katy Perry, but hate Russell Brand. Prefix
- Plastikman, Model 500 and Inner City all to headline Movement Festival. URB
- Someone let Insane Clown Posse onto Nightline…oh, to make fun of them. Videogum
- 13th Witness directed the new Deftones video. Hypebeast
- Kavinsky has a new track to rave to. Fools Gold
- Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins and Moby all appear in Canadian vampire flick. The Playlist
Kevin Saunderson might be probably a familiar name by now. He’s what James Brown was to soul, what Robert Johnson was to the blues, what Wayne Newton is to casinos and cruise lines. No idea? Well you’re probably one of those uneducated rave twerpies who has no appreciation for your musical roots, shame on you! (I had no idea who he was either.) Saunderson’s been making techno since 1983, and pretty much created it, in addition to about a million different subgenres, not to mention industrial and the amorphous, ever-expanding genre of electronic indie music. Now, the master himself returns to the spotlight on Red Bull Music Academy Radio to show you what else he’s been up to. He’s come a long way since his humble beginnings in Detroit, though on his latest, he isn’t above mixing weird present with random past (including that ‘chikka-chikka’ song from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) with some pretty steadfast and modern beats, as well as creating some more groundbreaking noise–there’s a reason that he’s sold over 6 million albums and had 6 top 40 UK hits. For those of you who want to know more about where modern electronica came from, here’s your chance to get educated.
During an intense period of my life, surrounded by punk rock rebellion, miles of dust and decay, deafening volumes, and emotional upheaval, somebody dropped the needle on Moby’s Play. Nothing that summer, or any summer since, has had such an impact on my psyche. Not to be overly sentimental, but have you ever heard a record and immediately felt like it spoke directly to your exact situation at that exact moment in time? Well for me, Moby does that. He takes the craziest sounds from the strangest places and he orchestrates them into this beautiful symphony of sorrow, sadness, salvation and the sublime.
On June 30th he will release Wait For Me. I’m unsure of what the entire album will sound like, and I hesitate to ever compare Moby’s individual projects to…well anything else out there. He free falls through genre’s using his instinct and talent like a parachute. He has said of this project that he, “decided to just make records that were more personal, maybe more experimental, and a little more challenging, maybe not as easy to like, but things that I found to be artistically and creatively more satisfying.”
We have a little taste of it for you here, you tell me? Moby? Moby Not?
Moby -Pale Horses
Moby – Shot in the Back of the Head
Words by Barbie Brady
