LA based band Fool’s Gold has made the instant summer jam with that guitar line in “Suprise Hotel” which will be released at the end of September. Made up of members from Foreign Born, We Are Scientists, Glasser and The Fall, they play an interesting mix of African rhythms and 80’s pop and from the looks of this video, you should go see them live.
MP3 >> Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel
Jens Lekman is a Swedish singer whose chest cavity is home to one of the world’s most beautiful voices. But more than that, he’s also an amazing musician with a masterful command of pop history. His encyclopedaic knowledge is clearly evident in the vast array of nostalgic influences audible in the his music, but if you needed any more evidence, he’s released a fantastic new mix tape for free download on his website. The Summer Never Ends: Part 3 includes tunes from country music legend Nicolette Larson, an Italo-disco children’s choir called Baby’s Gang, late ’60s one-hit-wonder rock group American Breed, and sneak peeks at new songs from Lekman himself. Best of all, we finally get to find out who was on the other end of the line in Alicia Keys’ 2003 hit, “You Don’t Know My Name”– The Honeydrips‘ Mikael Carlsson, sounding decidedly unsexy.
Check out Jens’ video for “Sipping on the Sweet Nectar” from his 2007 album, Night Falls Over Kortedala:
Here’s the deal: Tiny Masters of Today is the type of band you might want to write-off as a novelty act at first glance. That would be a mistake. Yes, they’re barely out of their tweens and they look like a Sonic Youth tribute group (Sonic Youth²), but this brother and sister digital DIY duo deserve to be taken seriously– in a rock duel, they’d blow away the majority of their thirty-something musical contemporaries, with talent and spunk to spare.
Ringing endorsements from the blogosphere, David Bowie and NME led to musical collaborations with Jack White, Kimya Dawson and Where The Whild Things Are songwriter Karen O, who co-directed the awesome zombie-themed video for “Hologram World.” The band is about to unleash their ridiculously fun sophomore album onto America, proving that reports of an entire generation’s cultural demise at the white-gloved hands of Radio Disney have been greatly exaggerated. Contradicting the focus-grouped somnolescent sounds of corporatized kid-pop, Tiny Masters of Today heralds scholarly musical exploration as much as the exuberant, grimy silliness of youth. Check out their new video, “Skeletons.”
Hermas Zopoula is this rad dude from the West African nation of Burkina Faso who makes really beautiful music, comes from a family of 36 children, volunteers in an oprhanage, runs an internet cafe and loves mopeds. His debut album, Espoir is coming out on Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty Records this month, and it’s amazing. A double-disc set comprised of Hermas’ quadrilingual folk songs alternately recorded in a rented government recording studio and in the intimacy of his own backyard, Hermas’ music carries none of the exotic connotations of “world music” in spite of its distant locale. Hermas sings straight to the listener like an old friend. Check out this video of Hermas performing on the street behind his house in Ouagadougou:
Spike Jonze’s feature film rendition of Maurice Sendaks classic story Where The Wild Things Are has hit movie theaters worldwide.
The film represents years of work from hundreds of different artists, writers, photographers, musicians, actors, and creators of all degrees.
This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that converged to make this massive project a reality.
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