This year we opted to not just try and predict which jams would be summer jams as they were released at to just wait and see what came to be. Now that July has come, it\’s time to decide. It\’s been a pretty great summer for summer jams, all told. In fact, here are two. One is better, but the other would easily win were it not for the first. The official winner is \”Staring Contest\” by Mates of State. A Summer Jam has to be happy, catchy as hell, floating and lush, and about that kind of...
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Watch: This amazing and creepy Teletubbies/Joy Division mashup
Inspired by this tweet (nightmares), here\’s an incredible and eerie video mashup of the Teletubbies in black and white accompanied by Joy Division\’s \”Atmosphere\” by Christopher G. Brown. Here\’s more on its creation. Maybe the Teletubbies already kind of freak you out, but either way, you\’ll never be able to unsee this. Pleasant dreams. After the bump, another one.
Continue reading...Favorites in Your Face from 2014
I’ll bite. I’ll share with you what 2014 licks I was humming in my head, what I was tapping my foot to, and what I was singing loudly at my dashboard. Adding to previous posts, here are my favorite albums of 2014. Disgraceland – The Orwells Don’t know where I found this, most likely songza, but this found its way into my Spotify. Music genres never die, even if they fade from the pop charts, and so garage rock lives in these young lads. This album is rocking, energized, even when the lyrics get mellow or twisted....
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Pop started us off yesterday, listing his favorite albums of 2014, and hoping we’d hop into his post. I would do that, but I’m both lazy and selfish, so I’ll throw in three albums in this post. Before I start with the music, I need to mention that I listen almost exclusively to NPR. I hear bumper music on Here and Now and think to myself, well that sounds wicked fresh. So don’t buy anything on my recommendation unless you think 8 year old My Morning Jacket riffs are the height of innovation and cool. Also, this is in...
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I‘m starting this post, and hopefully the rest of the V+V team will come in and add theirs. Come back and see if they do. Poplicola: Here are my three favorite albums of 2014. I could argue that they’re also the best records of 2014, but you know, that’s all subjective and shit. You’re free to argue; you’d just be wrong. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2 It was damned hard to believe that Killer Mike and El-P could release a better record than 2012’s R.A.P. Music. But they did, just a few months later,...
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On this day in 1940, the incredible songwriter, performer and activist Phil Ochs was born. He wrote some of the greatest, funniest and most touching protest songs ever conceived before ending his own life in 1976. The era in which I grew up lacked a YouTube or a Spotify, so finding his recordings was hard work, but now we can all watch videos of his performances and his entire library is on Spotify. Yay technology.
Continue reading...Watch: Foo Fighters and Zac Brown Band cover War Pigs on the Late Show
Not sure how I missed this last week, but this is phenomenal.
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