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Caption-This Party Shuffle? Lets Try This Out!

I have never done anything like this on PMA before, but it might be fun, if people are willing to participate. You should all know how this works.

And a little party shuffle to get those creative juices flowing. Here are the first seven.

Juelz Santana & Lil Wayne - Let Us Pray

Wale - Conclusion

My Morning Jacket - Sec Walkin (Live)

Björk - Wanderlust (B-Ju Remix)

Death Cab For Cutie - The Sound of Settling

Missy Elliot - Ching-A-Ling

LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

My iTunes is littered with crap. I know. Craaaazy.

Tags: Bjork, Caption-This Party Shuffle, Death Cab For Cutie, Juelz Santana, LCD Soundsystem, Lil Wanye, Live, Missy Elliot, My Morning Jacket, Wale

Inbox Goodness: Free Fire and Reason EP, Dirty Projectors Doing Bjork

The Fire and Reason return with their BRAND NEW EP “Shut Up, Dance!”

5 Blistering NEW Tracks, plus THE TOXIC AVENGER REMIX of their song NME. Produced by Jimmy MOD, from the band Elefant during winter of ‘08. The new single “SUGAR KOMA” is sure to get everyone dancing and singing along “Ooh your candy’s right for my appetite tonight”, a lusty track about eyeing that special someone at the club and whispering in their ear “it’s dangerous what we can do yeah…”

The Fire and Reason (TFaR) are offering their NEW EP for FREE on their official website,
http://www.thefireandreason.com all you have to do is click on the banner to be sent to a link where to download it! (Or you can go directly there http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TF5R2MN9)

The Fire and Reason - Sugar Koma: Download

The Fire and Reason will be celebrating the release of their new EP with alot of HIGH Profile shows in NYC:

THURS. 4/3 at R-BAR 218 Bowery (btw Prince and Spring St.) with Action Action
SAT. 4/12 at FONTANA’S 105 Eldridge St (btw Broome and Grand) for the NACOTEQUE PARTY (featured in URB’S HOT 100 issue)
SAT. 4/26 at THE SULLIVAN ROOM 218 Sullivan St(btw Bleecker and W3rd) With SWITCH (M.I.A. & SANTOGOLD Producer)
FRI. May 16th at CRASH MANSION 199 Bowery at SPRING St.

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Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors and Vancouver’s No Kids will criss cross the continent several times over the next month as they team up for a brief tour together. The two coed bands each have a few dates on their own as well. In other news, Dirty Projectors turned in a fantastic cover of “Hyperballad” for Stereogum’s Björk tribute which you can download for free here. The band was recently added to both the ATP Vs. Pitchfork fest in the UK and the Pitchfork Music Festival which takes place in Chicago this July.

Dirty Projectors - Hyperballad (Bjork cover): Download

DIRTY PROJECTORS & NO KIDS

03-31 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
04-01 Toronto, Ontario - Sneaky Dee’s
04-03 Chicago, IL - Subterranean
04-05 Princeton, NJ - Terrace F. Club
04-07 Washington, DC - Black Cat
04-09 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
04-11 San Francisco, CA - Independent
04-12 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
04-16 Portland, OR - Holocene
04-17 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey

DIRTY PROJECTORS ONLY:

04-04 Cincinnati, OH - Museum of Fine Arts (Music NOW Fest)
04-08 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom w/ Man Man
04-15 Portland, OR - Backspace
07-20 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival

NO KIDS ONLY:

04-04 Cleveland, OH - The Grog Shop (w/ Blitzen Trapper & Fleet Foxes)
04-08 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda’s
04-13 San Luis Obispo, CA - Steynberg Gallery

Tags: Bjork, Dirty Projectors, Entertainment, News, No Kids, Switch, The Fire and Reason, Toxic Avenger

Mashups You Shouldn’t Live Without!

Well hello there my lovelies. I feel kind of blurgh getting out of bed today (though it’s well into the afternoon). Gotta love those lazy days. I need to down some Cinnamon Dolce Latte from down the street before I try to dent this massive paper I have due in oh, 3 hours.
Before I hit my responsibilities, I need some relax time. Out of habit, mostly, I automatically opened up iTunes. I was in the mood for some mashups. Here’s a collection of a few that will make your lives a lot more enjoyable.

Mixer master Icky lays it smooth with Ms. Alicia Keys, Biggie Smalls, Marvin Gaye, and to top it off our favorite beehive yielding whack-off, Amy Winehouse.

Listen to Alicia Keys vs Biggie Smalls vs Marvin Gaye vs Amy Winehouse - No Tears Dry On Their Own (YSI)

The next mashup is one of the best of the year, if not of this century. Parisian DJ Moule proves he deserves the status given to Mark Ronson, and Justice with his star-studded gem.

Listen to CSS vs Velvet Underground vs LCD Soundsystem vs Chemical Brothers - Can’t Stand Dance (YSI)

Is everyone ready for Alive 2007? It’s out in early December. In honor if Daft Punk’s nonstop sonic high, LA’s own DJ Shyboy mashes the duo up with pop’s biggest star, at the moment, Justin Timberlake. Woo hoo.

Listen to Daft Punk vs Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around The World (YSI)

To be honest, I haven’t seen or heard a better all-female mashup like the captivating track taken from Wax Audio’s Mashopolis collection.

Listen to Tori Amos vs Bjork vs PJ Harvey vs Massive Attack - Dissolved By The Water All These Years (YSI)

This next one gives me goosebumps! Such a perfect ambient cut ready for the creeping winter. Arty Fufkin gorgeously offers this tribute to France’s Air, with chilling vocals from the ever-surprising Lily Allen.

Listen to Air vs Lily Allen - All I Need’s A Smile (YSI)

To wrap things up, lets mix the indie rock sounds of PrettyMuchAmazing!’s band of the moment, Bloc Party with the scintillating Fergie. Bloc Party’s most vital track, “Banquet” is a mixer’s dream, it sounds heavenly with just about anything smeared over it, under it, beside it… you get it, right? It is most interesting to hear Fergie’s whiny ‘Fergalicious’ spread over Bloc Party’s undeniably catchy, edgy dance-riffs and slick drums. Courtesy of DJ Schmolli.

Listen to Bloc Party vs Fergie - Blocalicious (YSI)

Tags: Air, Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Biggie Smalls, Bjork, Bloc Party, Chemical Brothers, CSS, Daft Punk, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, Marvin Gaye, Mashups, Massive Attack, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Velvet Underground

Under The Covers

Photo Credit: adorkable

What an exquisite feeling it is to be wrapped around safely in your bed sheets. Alone or with a significant other, its always bound to be a great experience. Truly brilliant song covers parallel their sonic linen brothers in the way they seem to soothe you. There’s certain magic in a cover, its card to place. Is it listening to your favorite tunes through someone else’s eyes? Or is it the artist covering the song that intrigues us? I feel covers always brings me closer to both artist, moreso the one singing. Its almost like we now have something in common, we both like the song being covered. Covers may help you relate to an artist more than their own music.

Our favorite Sheffield indie-rockers, Arctic Monkeys show the soft side we took pleasure in listening to on songs like “Mardy Bum” and “505″ on the Barbra Lewis cover and Leave Before The Lights Come On B-Side “Baby, I’m Yours”. Its quite a charming side from the lads. I’ve always wondered whether they were romantics or not. This song is THE perfect serenade song of all-time. Hear that guys?

MP3 | Arctic Monkeys - Baby, I’m Yours (Barbra Lewis Cover)

Doing some deep digging over at the GvB archives proved to be rewarding. This cover of Björk’s beloved “Hyperballad”, beautifully sung by Karen O, fully slipped out of my mind. I’m extremely happy I found this gem again. Karen O is simple the most fantastic indie queen of all time, her covering another musical queen is just pure, filthy fun (Yes, pure filth).

MP3 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hyperballad (Björk Cover) [Acoustic]

I think everyone will agree that Secret Heart is a lovely song, and I’m sure you’re all with me when I say Feist is an incredible soloist. Put those and together and you get…

MP3 | Feist - Secret Heart (Sexsmith Cover)

The Arcade Fire is really the best band to come along since the Talking Heads stopped making sense. So, naturaly, Arcade Fire’s take on the Talking Heads’ classic tune “Naive Melody” is divine!

MP3 | Arcade Fire - Naïve Melody (Talking Heads Cover)

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bjork, Feist, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Radiohead Covers Björk, Announces First Single

It was announced yesterday on NME.com that Radiohead will release the physical version of their new album, In Rainbows, through XL Recordings on December 31st. With this announcement also came the news that on January 14, Radiohead will release “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” as the first single off the new album. No word yet on whether a video is in the works, but yesterday, Radiohead ran another test webcast on their new website, www2.radiohead.tv, where after some strange footage of a guy in a costume DJing and Thom Yorke dancing around, the band assembled to cover Björk’s “Unravel.” A full video webcast from the new website is expected sometime today around 9 PM GMT, or around 4 PM EST. For now, I’ve posted links to “Jigsaw Falling Into Place,” Radiohead’s cover of Björk’s “Unravel,” as well as the full video from yesterday’s test webcast. (CA)

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/00-radiohead-jigsaw.mp3]
Radiohead - Unravel (Björk Cover) [audio=http://buzzhypemedia.com/mp3/Radiohead_-_Unravel.mp3]

Video from yesterday’s webcast (courtesy of AtEastWeb.com) :
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3etGst-XSIo]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7h_E58fPmo]

Tags: Bjork, Entertainment, Fashion, Music Video, Radiohead, Videos