Kiss and Don't Tell.

Uffie Appresh.
I know this isn't fresh, but more people need to know. I can see how a lot of people wouldn't get her, trying to compare it to real hip hop/or saying she is a gimmick. But maybe the interview will help you out 'cuz you're slow. I connected to her music right off because it's such a clear perspective. Yes, she's a cute girl, but she also makes up some really vibrant images with her words. It's the power of just doing things your own way with no real official training.

Vids_

Interview: (lots of shoes and an annoying commentator! Deboo album?)



Live in tokyo: (Fast forward to 1:51. Skip the weird dark techno.)



Some Pics_








Songs_

Uffie - Ready to Fuck.

Justice - the Party (feat Uffie. Smack My Bitch Luv Tek Remix)

Call me prejudice cuz I never touch the black ones...

I don't really like kanye west. He comes off as played and fake to me......not to mention a crazy douche bag.
Sorry if you don't agree.
But I can't deny that this track is nice, and damn if I don't love me some Young Jeezy!

Just something to get you into the weekend.

Kanye West - Can't Tell me Nothing RMX (With Young Jeezy)

Vodka and Sludge.

Curtis Vodka is a DJ from Alaska who is usually too cheesy for my tastes. According to Wikipedia he is also a count! Fancy that? He's done a fabulous mix of a Ladytron track.
It's very atmospheric and organ heavy, a bit opposed to the original, yet it still retains an attractive dance quality.

Vodka has a tour coming soon if you're interested.

Ladytron - destroy everything you touch (Curtis Vodka Satanic Drum Version).



Up next is Black Skies from Chapel Hill N.C. It's a bit odd to me that this is the the kind of thing coming out of the Hill these days, even though I know stoner metal has always been popular with the hip folks. I remember trying to champion metal when I lived there in 2003 with very little success. But I digress, The Point is that they are good at what they do, namely being very heavy and sludgey, yet staying focused on the songs and the energy. They keep you rocking out, which some stoner/doom/sludge bands forget about in that search for the perfect sabbath riff.

I saw them Sunday night with Big Business/Caltrop and I must say their new drummer has improved their sound 10 fold. Great stage presence. It doesn't hurt to have a cute girl playing bass either.

Cheers to you.

They will be touring next month so go check them out.

Black Skies - Black Skies.




AND! A Big Business track:
I'll Give You Something to Cry About.
This is off their new album and quite a good listen. Catch them on tour if you can. It's basically stoner metal but with a more experimental guitar player.

A quickie.

5 tracks for a monday night. Sit back and hold tight the weeks just starting!!!

Anthony Rother - Back home.

Shy Child - Astronaut.

Black Lips - Everybody is Doing it.

Mr Oizo - Nazis (Justice Remix).

Zdar - Don't you want.


This song is a year or so old, but why is it that Depeche Mode is more punk rock than just about any hardcore band these days? Sumbody essplain plz!

Math and stripping.

Another great DJ/remix duo under the moniker Mathematikal. It sounds very similar to what Justice is doing, namely updating michael jackson tracks......but wait... it's an actually Jacko track! Billie jean has never sounded quite so powerful. The bass will rend you from your bum to your sternum. Get into it.

They have some more slamming tunes over at the space:
Mathematikal.





Good news for Zune fans:

Apparently somebody has written a little APP to strip the DRM off any songs you download from the Zune marketplace. This opens up the wifi sharing restriction as well. If you have a Zune I do suggest you look into this.

I'm wondering when companies, intent on owning music, will wake up and realize that the money they sink into developing restrictions on music sharing will always be wasted, as some clever person will always crack/hack/smash it. MS should spend more time making their software functional and giving Zune fans a clock instead of trying to restrict the features that trump the ipod.

More info on the war against MS and DRM.

Windows Media DRM Cracked, Again

99 red something....

I really love this video. Something about the girls looks really genuine. Frankmusik basically destroys this song and makes it his own. It's a bit better than the original I'm afraid. Enjoy and have a good Thrusday night! :D

Texture like sun..

This song is amazing. The kick drum is probably the hottest thing I've heard in kick drums in a long, long time. Of course, it's a chop up of a Stranglers track and that's hot right there, but Frankmusik takes it to the next level.

Is it Morrissey at a rave? Is that a curtain string? Idk but I like it.


Frank Musik - When You're Around.



New 50 Cent:

Don't need to say anything about this track... I'm not even a J. T. fan but this is WANT!

Who the fuck is mutemath?

So... I saw transformers. Great movie for what it is. (Though, they should have spent more time developing the Autobots as characters and spent less time on the second rate human actors.) I then heard the soundtrack and I couldn't believe how fucking bad mutemath mangled the theme song. Seriously, Mutemath... whoever you be, you are on notice my son. You made one of the most kick ass songs in the universe whimpster and lame. DNW!

Add them on myspace and make fun of them please!

And now... here is LION to show you how it's done:

Cut to the point.

More Swedish dark wave for you, this time in the form of Cut City. Hailing from Gothenburg They seem to be the next big "Interpol" band, and on pure songs they have it. They keep it dark enough, but dance enough to keep you engaged and interested with a well mixed/produced bass vocal combo. I always think it's quite an achievement when a band can be very serious while making you want to dance. Kudos to these fellas.

This track: Numb Boys really stuck with me and made it into my latest mix.

Check out their album Exit Decades. (Like Ashes, Like Millions, and Such Verve are highly recommended!)

Ture northwestern black metal.

Leech is the newest strain of black metal interpretation, or at least Americas ever struggling integration of the genre through out all of our metal subcultures. It's black metal without the NS taint, the worship of odin or satan, and the love of all things green. Crusty hippie evil, if you will.

With bands like
Book of Black Earth
Wolves in the Throne Room
and Fall of the Bastards
It seems that cult metal has found a progressive center on the west coast and stripped out all preconceptions of euro-viking posturing. Something most nations with a love for black metal (Columbia, Greece, and even china) have failed to do.

Or as leech puts it:
"We take no influence from snowy mountain peaks or satanic imagery, but instead from environmental devastation, anti-modernism, and the bleak, monotonous drudgery that is everyday living in a dying world driven by ignorance, corruption, and greed."

That's pretty fucking metal to me.

Streaming myspace tracks