Amanda Blank is giving away the first track off her debut album, I Love You out on July 14th on Downtown. This hot track is called “Might Like You Better.” Check it out over at our buds at RCRD LBL or stream it at the end of the post. But before you do, check out the song that first introduced me to Amanda Blank all of the way back in 2007. It’s been a longtime comin’, it’s great to see that her album is actually happening.
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This may be the first time a couple of bffs, who demanded a lot of online-attention, didn’t annoy the hell out of me. These two bffs actually make me incredibly chipper. It’s this frentic, get-crazy music that Rye Rye and M.I.A. were made to do! Straight crack from Blaqstarr on the production too. What a fantastic and fresh surprise.
Oh and this sidenote is a little annoying, but I can’t resist: doesn’t this song remind you of Slumdog Millionaire?
$100 iTunes giftcard goes to the person who comes up with the perfect Slumdog scene for “Bang” to score.* I guess you have to listen to it first. Continue reading →
Phew! She had me scared for a minute there.
The internet buzzed with laughter and excitement today when reports of M.I.A.’s baby name claimed the boy was named Ickitt. She took to her Myspace just a few hours ago, saying this:
“My baby is not called Ickitt, Pickit or Lickit thank you very much to all the Hollywood press. He’s a baby, he don’t need press!
I didn’t release the baby name because I didn’t think it was news!!!!
But I will be back with something newsworthy soon, till then go pick on Apple, Satchel and Moon Unit.
“Lots of love stickit!!”
She’s funny! Good thing her baby name isn’t (via MTV News).
I guess those remixes Diplo made for Britney’s “Circus” weren’t as officially as they were rumored to be. I guess it works out for the best — Villains’ remix of “Circus” is much more Saturday-Night-radio friendly and would fill up any dancefloor in a second. I’m definitely putting this one into my next party mix. While I’m at it, maybe I should add Villains remix of N.A.S.A.’s “Whatchudoin?” Listen to both after the jump Continue reading →
We’ve never really tried the good ol’ live blog before here at PMA, and I figured that tonight would be a great time to give it a shot. So get your computers ready for what should be an awesome experience…I hope you all watch along with PMA at your fingertips.
We’ll use this post as a talk-back: what are your Oscar predictions? Give me your picks for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Score and Song. Click on for my predictions. Continue reading →
Of course you do. Here he is…you can see the “swagger” already:
Cute mini-M.I.A. was born on Wednesday, 2/11. Read on for M.I.A.’s Myspace post that broke the news. Thanks to The Music Slut for the pic.
Did the post title make you freak out a little? Are you mad at me now that I’m telling you there really is no new M.I.A. song, but that “New M.I.A. Song” is the title of this cool Death To The Throne remix, that they sent over last night?
For reals. They crunched up the vocals from M.I.A. favorites: “Bucky Done Gun,” “Jimmy,” and “Pull Up The People” and morphed it into one big remix. Entitling it “New M.I.A. Song” is just a hype experiment they’re executing and PMA is more than happy to oblige with those.
In all honesty, this remix is pretty great. I haven’t been aware of Death To The Throne’s existence for long — I think it was their remix of Lykke Li’s “Little Bit” that turned me on to their tunage. This is a goodie for sure. Cop it: Continue reading →
As Perez would say, Completely Gratuitous
Another week, another series of concerts across the globe.
In NYC: If you’re an Andrew Bird kind of guy (or girl), check him out at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Monday night, or, if you’d prefer, the Carnegie Hall on Wednesday!
Wednesday night, I highly recommend you snag some tickets, somehow, to catch the Cold War Kids at the intimate Mercury Lounge. If not, however, buy your tickets way in advance for their April Terminal 5 show- I’ll be at that one for sure.
N.A.S.A. IN N.Y.C.! Thursday night! At (le) Poisson Rouge! Be there. And then stay there until Saturday, catching They Might Be Giants on Saturday for a kids show at 3:00, and an 18+ show at 8:00!
Two more great concerts in the city- Continue reading →
Maya Arulpragasam (better known as M.I.A.) is having an already stellar 2009. Good for her. Let’s look at the things she has to look forward to in February.
For one thing, she’s pregnant and her baby is due February 8th! As if that weren’t exciting enough, on that night (GRAMMY night), Ms. Arulpragasam is nominated for two GRAMMYs: one for Record of the Year for “Paper Planes,” and another for Best Rap Song for “Swagga Like Us” — under the technicality that the song samples “Paper Planes” and she wrote “Paper Planes,” and in the GRAMMY panel’s eyes, that’s the exact same thing.
That’s pretty huge stuff. For some women, having a child is the highest honor. For some musicians, winning a GRAMMY (or two) is the highest honor. She’s doing pretty damn good as a female musician if you look at it that way. Now what if this lauded female musician mother/GRAMMY-winner wins an Oscar? That would be pretty fucking crazy, no?
That could very well be M.I.A. come February 22nd because — you guessed it — she’s nominated for an OSCAR for her fantastic work in “O Saya,” one of a few M.I.A. songs featured on the annoyingly overrated Slumdog Millionaire. If she were to win, she’d share the Oscar with A.R. Rahman, who nominated for another Oscar for Best Original Score for “Slumdog.”
Is M.I.A. friggen awesome, or what? Continue reading →
Dark Was The Night is a 2-disc, 31-track piece of work where some of our favorite acts (Feist, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, The Decemberists, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Cat Power and Sufjan Stevens to name a few) hope to raise money and awareness for HIV/AIDS. Even if you don’t usually buy albums (I think that should be your New Years resolution), make an effort to purchase this one. It’s full of amazing, beautiful music and it helps a worthy cause.
On February 17th, Dark Was The Night will be available in double CD, triple vinyl, and download — all proceeds / royalties are going to the Red Hot Organization, an AIDS and HIV charitable organization that raises money and awareness for projects and research. Naturally, I’m interested in making sure as many people as possible go out and buy this, and posting any files from this compilation may hinder that goal. But you can preview some of the songs on the Dark Was The Night Myspace page. They will be streaming one new song a day (started last Thursday), so check back regularly to listen to the music.
The tracklisting is below: Continue reading →
