Hump-Day Song of the Week: Life on the Ropes by Prague Ska Conspiracy

It’s like 60 degrees on the first of February in D.C., which definitely calls for some ska.

Hump-Day Song of the Week: Concrete Schoolyard by Jurassic 5

Despite having heard this song over ten thousand times, and it having been released well over a decade ago, this is somehow the first time I’ve ever seen the video. Huh.

Holy shit this is the exact opposite of Rebecca Black

Hump-Day Song of the Week: Pepper by Butthole Surfers

Here, watch and listen to an awesome dubstep remix of Dayman

Even if you’re like me and hate dubstep, this is pretty fucking sweet.

Hump-Day Song of the Week: When I Get Old by The Descendents

Hump-Day Song of the Week: Deathbound by Mastodon

Enjoy this sonic assault on somehow all your senses

Yesterday, I drove the 450-or-so miles from Ghost’s place in Boston back to mine in D.C. (Driving: How do you people do that everyday?). A result of my totally scientific study of said drive has proven, beyond any doubt, that the worst drivers on the east coast hail from Maryland.

Traffic was pretty ridiculous at times, and the whitest™ moment of my life was being be frustrated by the traffic—because it meant I wouldn’t make it to Trader Joe’s on time.

Anyways, after about nine hours of podcasts (thank you, Ira Flatow, for making most of this bearable), I needed something a little more to get through the last hour or so. And that’s when I decided that techno metal (or whatever this genre is called*) is my new favorite kind of music.

* “Hybrid metal trance?” Okay.

Hope everybody’s enjoying their Kwanzaa.

We keep the “mass” in Christmass, so get to mass, jerks

While we’re out fighting the War on Christmas, here’s the best Christmas song in existence. Enjoy.

Hump-Day Song of the Week: Transmission by Joy Division

Um, this video is almost as awesome as the song. And that’s a high fucking bar.

Get down like the Great Sun of The Nation

“Ain’t no party like a Pyongyang party, because a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY.”

Did you know that Kim Jong-il’s first title was Party Center (당중앙)?

Related: Kim Jong-il Droppin the Bass

Hump-Day Song of the Week: The Shrine / An Argument by Fleet Foxes

Hump-Day Song of the Week: The King That Never Was by Alternative Reality

It took almost all year, but here it is: the most magical music video of the year.

Just Like Honey

Since I was away from the Internet at large yesterday, please accept this incredible dual piano cover of Just Like Honey by Jesus and the Mary Chain as redemption for not awesomefying your hump day with a song of the week.

Hump-Day Song of the Week: Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe by Okkervil River