Archive for June, 2009:
The Boys Are Leaving Town (again)!
Winnie-tv #5 – Japandroids from Winnie Cooper on Vimeo.
Winnie is very proud of our hometown boys.
Check out our latest episode of Winnie-tv featuring Japandroids. They play the title track of Post Nothing for us from the tiny rehearsal space they rent and talk about a recent near death experience and Calgary.
Their second attempt touring North America is underway. The Japandroids are coming to a city near you! Take a look at the groups space for their July through August tour dates and see first hand how hard two dudes can rock.
Japandroids – The Boys Are Leaving Town
Raise It Up
The original version of this Florence And The Machines track is really good as is…
But this remix by London’s Leo Zero gives it a completely different treatment with a super catchy drum pattern and isolated piano. It’s one of those reworks where it doesn’t really grab you in the first 30 seconds, but it sort of slowly progresses and you get invited into it as more elements are added.
I realize that we’re pretty much the ADHD generation, so play this when you’ve got time to actually really listen to it.
Florence And The Machines – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (Leo Zero Remix)
Easy
It’s an easy rock kind of day, innit?
Now slip on your topsiders and tie that sweater around your neck…
Pioneer
This is how I remember Michael Jackson.
The next time MJ popped up on my radar was with his music video “Black or White.” The 4 min Epilogue was broadcast on prime-time TV and the media made a big stink about MJ smashing the car windows.
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The last time I remember paying attention was when “Scream” came out. At the time, it was the most expensive video ever made.
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Strangely, what all these things have in common for me is the imagery. MJ’s videos, dancing and clothing always stood out to me more than his music.
“Michael Jackson made culture accept a person of colour way before Tiger Woods, way before Oprah Winfrey, way before Barack Obama. Michael did with music what they did in sports, in politics, and in television. No controversy will erase the historic impact.” – Al Sharpton
June 25th 2009
I don’t normally get all emo but I was surprisingly pretty messed up yesterday.
I think I was more saddened than shocked at the news. Who really pictured MJ living to be 60? He was someone that attempted to never grow up and literally gave everything he had to his fans.
I wrote a post on Michael back in March and things sounded pretty terrible for him. He was auctioning off the entire contents of his Neverland estate (at his lowest point of popularity), sicked by the place and what it had come to be while supposedly fighting off a form of flesh eating disease caused by his ongoing surgeries.
I think this is more than just a loss of a man, but also for the artistic spirit that he embodied. This is a loss for anyone that has ever strove for perfection and hurt yourself in the process, giving a part of you away with it. Michael was someone with adoring fans who he loved more than anything.
The only consolation I find is that I don’t think he was a happy man and this is perhaps how it was meant to be.
I didn’t know if listening to his music would be the right thing yesterday but I couldn’t find anything else that suited being played and hearing his spirit alive in the way it is in his music is a beautiful thing. This is what he would of wanted and is how he would of wanted to be remembered.
Ive spent more years than id like to admit djing and playing music for people and can probably say Michael was the single artist whose music I’ve played the most. I have seen the joy his music brings to people firsthand and am sure the same things happens in cities around the world. I believe that this contribution is immeasurable and I think that is what made me so sad. He died trying to attempt the brave feat of putting on one last show for his fans.
The Jackson Five – I Want You Back
Michael Jackson – The Way You Make Me Feel
Shiny
Best rap song right now.
I’ve had this on MEGA HIGH rotation for a couple weeks and I just can’t get enough of it. Like the only way I can hear it more is if it shows up in my dreams. And that won’t happen because you can’t dream if you don’t have a soul, and I apparently sold mine for a bucket of Johnny Cakes.
Have a listen and check out some of the gems that Weezy delivers.
Lil’ Wayne ft Gucci Mane – We Be Steady Mobbin’
“Big house, long hallways
Got ten bathrooms
I could shit all day.”
OMFG. Rad.
