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Happy Birthday Freddie Mercury
Very few vocalists have been given as high praise as lead vocalist for the rock band Queen. Known as one of rock’s greatest entertainers, Freddie Mercury would have turned 65 today and the band is making this event a very special occasion. Today, Google’s doodle is dedicated to him. For this event, the band has uploaded the entire video ofLive at Wembley Stadium. You can watch the video below.
Stream Laura Marling’s ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’
English singer-songwriter Laura Marling returns with her third album A Creature I Don’t Know, the follow up to 2010’s critically-acclaimed I Speak Because I Can. “The album is like a slap and a stroke,” Ms. Marling described to The New York Times, where you can now stream the album. “It’s done the thing it wanted to.”
A Creature I Don’t Know is set to be released on September 13th via Ribbon Music/Domino. Tracklisting available after the break.
A Creature I Don’t Know Tracklist:
01. The Muse
02. I Was Just a Card
03. Don’t Ask Me Why
04. Salinas
05. The Beast
06. Night After Night
07. My Friends
08. Rest in the Bed
09. Sophia
10. All My Rage
MiaoMix Monday #1 [Electro]
Lost In The Sound presents you with the first MiaoMix, a mix of songs put together by your’s truly. This will be a new feature on the site that I’ll update once every one or two weeks depending on the response for this one. This mix will attempt to stray from Lost In The Sound’s normal vibes. This week’s playlist is mostly electronic dance music, with mostly some house music and dubstep. Listen to the mix below. (A zip file of the playlist may be available if demand is great enough.)
Tracklist:
Pretty Lights – “Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin”
Basic Physics – “Illmerican Dancer (Wolfgang Gartner // Avicii // Sofi)”
Paul Basic – “Daydream”
Avicii – “Penguin (Original Mix)”
Coldplay – “Every Teardrop is A Waterfall (Swedish House Mafia Remix)”
Daft Punk – “Aerodynamic (Specimen A & James D’ley Re-fix)”
Justice – “Civilization (LAZRtag Bootleg Mix)”
Zeds Dead – “Coffee Break”
Jack Black + ICP and the Deftones + Witch House. If Anyone Opposes This Union…
So… this is a thing that happened…
For no discernible reason, Jack White has teamed up with the Insane Clown Posse and JEFF the Brotherhood to pay homage to the German affinity for all things anal[Editor’s note: Mozart’s “Leck Mich am Arsch”]. Since it’s been heavily reported and corroborated (and filmed), I’m relieved to note that this just wasn’t another fever dream resulting from an afternoon spent imbibing absinthe and pop rocks while filling out Mad Libs with the aid of a stack of Spin back issues.
While I can see ICP’s desire to work with actual artists, I’m more puzzled by White’s involvement. Perhaps the recent disbanding of the White Stripes has left him with an excess of free time, and lord knows there are only so many “interesting” mustaches you can grow. And I suppose JEFF the Brotherhood jumped at the chance to work with White but were (perhaps) not privy to all the details. (JTB walks into studio, sees ICP: “What the hell are you doing here? ICP: “Who the hell are you?”)
But, nonetheless, it has happened and there’s video proof. Enjoy?
And then there’s this:
Deftones‘ frontman Chino Moreno decides to throw his goatee into the ring and cranks out a witch house EP under the name †††. There’s nothing quite like an interloper insinuating himself into the genre du jour. This move will undoubtedly result in the unfortunately not-rare-enough double backfire as diehard Deftones fans reject this faster than a Canadian health care recipient’s body rejects a black market kidney. And the cool kids of death™ will have nothing to do with this nu-metal tourist.
See also: this statement from †‡† (a.k.a. Ritualz), who is upset that Moreno is stealing Unicode. The comment thread has clearly been given over to Deftones fans, whom I would gently like to remind that the band name is properly pronounced “Deft Ones.”
Listen: Bon Iver’s Solo Piano Version of “Beth/Rest”
“Beth/Rest” may just be this year’s most polarizing song. The closer to Bon Iver‘s sophomore album, the 80’s style soft-rock lullaby both stunned and wowed listeners. In his review, our own Darcy Morgan loved the unorthodox style and commented on how only Justin Vernon could pull off such a risky song. Vernon himself has repeatedly defended the “cheesiness” of the song in interviews.
Now, a few months after the song’s initial release, Vernon has given us even more to talk about. In his session for NPR World Cafe, the singer-songwriter performed a highly stripped-down version of the song on a piano bench. That’s right — no saxophones, no solos, no cheesiness. Just a performance of “Beth/Rest” in its most basic form, including some deep, nearly spoken vocals in the intro.
You can listen to the song here, as well as performances of “Holocene” and 2009’s “Blood Baby”. You can also stream/download the MP3 below.
MP3: Bon Iver – “Beth/Rest (Solo Piano Version)”
Recommended: Nattymari
The obvious influence is DJ Screw and his promethazine-addled pitch shifting, which lowered the beat to the pulse rate of coma patients and turned swaggering MCs into cocksure demonic forces sent from hell to inform you of their extraordinary rhythmic skills/success with the opposite sex/early years as a drug dealer.
Nattymari takes this and adds his own touches. Slowing things way down is a start, but it’s not as simple as that. You can hear the tape loop befouling of Chrome and Throbbing Gristle ricocheting around the soundscape, slipping off the spindle now and then with a burst of Chipmunk speed or getting hung up in the gears and grinding to a halt.
For example, take “K1LL K1LL”.
BlakRoc 2 Details
Two years ago, blues-rock band The Black Keys released Blakroc, the rock rap album with rappers such as Mos Def, Raekwon and Ludacris. News of Blakroc 2 has just emerged and features include Talib Kweli, Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, the Cool Kids, Jay Electronica, U-God, Jim Jones, OC, and Sean Price. Read more to watch the trailer for the album.
James Blake Announces ‘Enough Thunder’
Since unleashing his epic collaboration with Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon on the world,James Blake has stirred quite a bit of discussion about something new called Enough Thunder, which was included in the Youtube description for “Fall Creek Boys Choir”. Now we know that it is the name of Blake’s forthcoming EP, which will be released on October 10 via Atlas Records, the same independent label that released his critically-acclaimed self-titled debut this past February.
The six-track EP will include “Fall Creek Boys Choir”, a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You”, and four new songs.
If you haven’t heard it already, you can listen to “Fall Creek Boys Choir” after the break. You can also grab it on iTunes here.
Check Out: The Feeling of Love – “No Fun (The Stooges)”
French no-wavists The Feeling of Love serve up this clattering, droning cover of an old Stooges favorite. Depending on the ear of the beholder, it’s either a brilliant re-imagining of the Stooges ugly as sin proto-punk or a smart-arsed piss take. It’s a bit of a sonic wreck, despite the use of supposedly “flawless” electronics, but I’m sure Iggy wouldn’t have it any other way. Perfect mood music for those “tail end of summer “days when all you want to do is cover yourself in peanut butter, roll around lazily on some broken glass and then, I don’t know, age somewhat gracefully into a pint-sized rock icon with the physique of Mr. Universe runner-up and the face of a 75-year-old Russian peasant woman.
MP3: The Feeling of Love – “No Fun (The Stooges Cover)”
Find this and much more (for free!) on Beko Box 2 over at Beko DSL.
Download The-Dream’s ‘1977’ (New Album)
The-Dream‘s new album,The Love, IV (Diary of a Mad Man), has been delayed, but that didn’t stop the R&B singer from releasing a new album today. 1977, which was first announced at the beginning of this month, has been posted for free download on The-Dream’s website and is credited under his birth name Terius Nash. The lyrics for each song have also been posted.
Says Nash via Twitter: “chances “DefJam” puts a Cease and Desist on 1977 unfortunately Very High. but i think yall will have it before lawyers make me take it down.” But for the time being, you can download the entire thing for free direct here. The full tracklisting is available after the break.
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