New Jams!

09.03.2010

DAM FUNK has a tip for visiting the HOOD so you can PASS through INTACT

cause you never know when you gonna need to go back

♫ Dam-Funk – Hood Pass Intact (feat, MC Eiht)

Dam Funk’s largely instrumental (and large in size) double album, Toeachizown, garnered a ton of praise last year but the little I heard didn’t quire grab me and I never really tackled it. Well, now…

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09.03.2010

GROUPLOVE is to awesome like crayons are to COLOURS

so i am a man up in the air and i float around this town

♫ Grouplove – Colours

Did you hear the one about the 5 people from LA, NYC, and London who all met and formed a band on the island of Crete and then stayed in touch before deciding to record an…

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09.02.2010

BARBARA say UNICORNICA is a place on the MOON, so don’t TRIP

you been travelling all alone down that road and all i have is a photo

♫ Barbara – Unicornica (demo)

What the only thing better than stumbling across some nice new jams? Finding out that the people behind that sweetness are also behind one of your favorite music blogs! First there was the out-of-left-field…

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09.01.2010

BATHS are not just for ANIMALS

rawr! raah!

♫ Baths – Aminals

Baths is the moniker of 21 year old Los Angeleno Will Wiesenfeld whose debut album, Cerulean, is out now and garnering much acclaim. Some of the other tracks I’ve heard haven’t blown me away but “Animals” here instantly jumped out at me. Both delicate and pounding at the same…

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08.31.2010

K.FLAY has at least 2 jams that are far from WEAK

watched you fall apart so you’d think i learned my lesson

♫ K. Flay – 2 Weak

Yes, that’s a sample of Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” with some chick spitting rhymes and flow all over it. Well, that chick is the cute as a button K.Flay who has taken her Stanford-educated and basketball-toned ass…

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08.28.2010

DAVID GUETTA and KID CUDI have made some great MEMORIES for me

it’s getting late but i don’t mind

♫ David Guetta – Memories [Ft. Kid Cudi]

I am guessing that if you have been in any dance club in the past six months you have heard this song blasting at least twice. Well, somehow it had eludued me until my recent jaunt…

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08.27.2010

STEEL TRAIN have an epic album for YOU AND I would like to advise not to let it stay UNDERCOVER too long

moving all alone, i won’t attach now, growing like a wave, to anywhere far

♫ Steel Train – You and I Undercover

Two facts: The song above is one of my favorite songs of the year and the LP it comes from (at right) is one of my favorite albums of the year. So there’s that… Anyone…

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08.27.2010

JOE AND WILL ASK? well MAN, i’d bust out THE CANNONS for them!

woooooaahhh ooohhh ooahhh oooooh

♫ Joe and Will Ask – Man The Cannons

If I’m going to get my crazy club music on then this is how I want it done! Instrumental save for some well placed “woaaahh”s, “Man The Cannons” is prime dance party material: thumping, pulsing, scratching and grinding it’s way through…

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08.27.2010

AWOLNATION may BURN your ears if IT is cranked the opposite of DOWN

if you’re feeling like feel throw your fists through the ceiling, some people call it crazy i call it healing

♫ AWOLNATION – Burn It Down

WOOOO! Talk about a cheek blasting roller coaster! Awolnation absolutely blast this one out of the gate and barely take a breath! Grinding guitars, machine-gun percussion, and pumped…

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