Top Pop

Se as músicas dos posts anteriores ficaram devendo no quesito frescor, essas daqui são mais de agora. Bem, o hip-hop (comercial) de hoje tá meio chato, é verdade… Tudo tem a cara do Lil’ Wayne (isso quando ele não featuring a música de fato). Até o Snoop Dogg tá usando esses sintetizadores (às vezes bem) irritantes. Mas tudo bem, é verão e a gente só quer saber de rebolar. Tanto que deixei de lado o meu preconceito contra Shokita Shakira (só mesmo sendo produzida por ele para finalmente sair algo bom dali) e Black Eyed Peas (chego a ter calafrios só de ler essas três palavras) em nome da diversão. E o Timbaland tá de volta!

1. Shakira – “Give it up to me (feat. Lil’ Wayne)”

2. Black Eyed Peas – “Meet me halfway”

3. Rihanna – “Hard (feat. Young Jeezy)”

4. 50 Cent – “Baby by me (feat. Ne-Yo)”

5. Snoop Dogg – “Gangsta luv (feat. The Dream)”

Extras bota-pra-fervê-quebra-piso-de-buatchy

Timbaland – “Morning after dark (feat. Nelly Furtado)”

Timbaland – “Carry out (feat. Justin Timberlake)”

Para finalizar, não consigo achar por nada o remix do Offer Nissim (ele ainda existe?) de Russian Roulette, da Rihanna, que escutei dias atrás nas buatchy. Enquanto isso, ficamos com a original mesmo, que demorou, mas me pegou.

Rihanna – Russian Roulette

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RAZNI IZVODJACI 1995 Gruvanje LIVE vol. 1

Ma izvanredna kaseta iz doba gospodina MILOŠEVIĆA. Tada je ova muzika bila jako dobra i naravno sa stihovima koji pljuju postojećeg predsednika, ali to nije smetalo gospodinu Miloševiću i naravno nikad nije zabranjivao ovakve skupove. Čak šta više i ohrabrivao ih svojim ponašanjem.

No danas pola ovih grupa ne liči ni na šta. Poneke grupe i ne rade redovno ali KST uvek radi i u formi je.

Onda nazovimo ovaj post postom posvećenom najboljem klubu u Beogradu, Srbiji i nekadašnjoj JUGOSLAVIJI

KST-u.

GRUVANJE Vol. 1

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Win a piece of pop history + '3 Words' release details

To celebrate the release of Cheryl’s second single, we are giving away a signed, personalised double-platinum award frame for 3 Words.

To be in with a chance of winning we want you to record your own version of ‘3 Words’ and upload it to YouTube. But because this is no ordinary prize, we want you to go all out for this one and like Cheryl, we want you to perform it as a duet.

But the catch is we want it to be sung with the most unlikely duet partner possible. It could be your Gran, your teacher, your local Tesco checkout guy, anyone at all! You’ll need to post a link either in the comments below or send it to @welovepop on Twitter.

‘3 Words’ featuring will.i.am is OUT NOW, and on iTunes, there’s a Club Mix EP available!

The Club Mix EP features Steve Angello’s Extended Re-Prod, Doman & Gooding’s I Love You Remix and the Geeneus-Rinse FM Main Mix. iTunes also has an exclusive EP of ALL the club radio edits – this includes the incredible Steve Angello Radio Re-Prod.

You can also pick the CD up from www.hmv.com and of course HMV, and the CD features the Radio Edit of ‘3 Words’ as well as all new B-side ‘Boys’!

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Canadian Albums of 2009 #11-#20

Here is #11-#20 of my picks of Canadian albums of 2009.

1. A Mountain Is A Mouth – Bruce Peninsula


Can’t stop listening to this album by this big Toronto band. Best tracks are Inside/Out, Steamroller, Satisfied and Crabapples.

2. Islands Disappear – Said The Whale


A very tight in production and more of a bigger sounding album than previous album. Best tracks are Out on the Shield, B.C. Orienteering, Camilo (The Magician), Islands Disappear, Black Day in December and Goodnight Moon

3. If I Don’t Come Home You’ll Know I’m Gone – The Wooden Sky


Great second album. Best tracks are Oh My God ((It Still Means a Lot to Me), My Old Ghosts, Call if you need me, When We Were Young and The Late King Henry.

4. Wooden Arms – Patrick Watson


Patrick does it again with his third album. Lots of unique instrumentation and luscious lyrics. Best tracks are Fireweed, Tracy’s Water, Beijing and Where The Wild Things Are.

5. Lost Channels – Great Lake Swimmers


Something about this album is so relaxing and soothing. Best track are Your Rocky Spine, Everything Is Moving So Fast, Pulling On A Line, Concrete Heart and Still.

6. Post Nothing – Japandroids


A fun rocking crazy album. Best tracks are The Boys Are Leaving Town, Young Hearts Spark Fire, Wet Hair, Rockers East Vancouver and Heart Sweats

7. Nice, Nice Very Nice – Dan Mangan


His second album is giving some recognition and its a superb album. Best tracks are Road Regrets, Robots, The Indie Queens Are Waiting and Fair Verona.

8. High On Jackson Hill – Immaculate Machine


Their third album is a change from Fables and much mature sounding album. Best tracks are Sound The Alarms, Neighbours Won’t Mind, Only Love You For Your Car and Blurry Days

9. Clues – Clues


This album by ex-members of Arcade Fire and The Unicorns just blew me away. Best tracks are Haarp, You Have My Eyes Now, Cave Mouth and Ledmonton.

10. Concepts – Little Girls


This debut from this Toronto band is crazy experimental album. Best tracks are Youth Tunes, Tambourine, Concepts and Imaginary Friends

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currently enjoying

Currently enjoying: Bakuman and Bleach. Weekly comics. Utada Hikaru. Japanese pop music. SammyHappyBelly Samantha Hepburn somehow finds the time to post multiple daily doodles on her blog. Waffles. It’s not french toast, but it gets the job done. Twitter. My brain hungers for internet information. Lifehacker I can’t get enough of this site, because I’m a nerd at heart. Blogging. Ikea. Kinokuniya bookstores. Good for art supplies. Rain. Not enough rain in southern California. Enjoying it while it lasts. The Holiday season. A great reason to put cool lights and decorations everywhere. The BBC. Wood floors. Walking. Amazon.com Good for buying cheap books. Fearne Cotton. I didn’t know who she was until today. Boba. Why not?

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Put It In A Love Song- Alicia Key ft. Beyonce

Looking back on 2009, this year has been a year for big collaborations. This song is no exception bringing together two of the greatest and most successful female artists of the decade. This track is off of Key’s album “The Elements of Freedom” which released yesterday.

Hope you enjoy the track and check out Alicia Key’s full album available on iTunes now.

Put It In A Love Song

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Canadian Albums of 2009 #31-#40

Here is part four of my best of Canadian albums of 2009.
This is the only one that has one french record in the list.

1. Silver Starling – Silver Starling


Saw them at Bands Undone and they were amazing. Best tracks are Something Over Nothing, Ghosts and This Is Not A Dream

2. Outside Love – Pink Mountaintops


Love the description of the album which says: ““Outside Love” is ten songs of love and hate that read like a Danielle Steele romance novel but that would probably make for bad television.” Best tracks are Axis: Thrones Of Love, Execution, Vampire and Closer To Heaven.

3. Origin:Orphan – The Hidden Cameras


Very over the top indie orchestral alternative rock album. Best track are Ratify The New and Walk On.

4. One Hundred Words For Water – Flotilla


Best tracks are Song For Yannick, Prelude and Epilogue and Cloud.

5. Outside In – Julie Fader


After playing with musicians like Chad VanGaalen and Great Lake Swimmers. She finally releases her debut album full of great indie pop folk music. Best tracks are Walking & Talking, Lullabye, Skin and Bones & Mixed Messages.

6. Echoes – Jenn Grant


That musician is such a great singer. Best tracks are Blue Mountains, Parachutes, Fireflies and Only Love Can Break Your Heart.

7. As Seen Through Windows – Bell Orchestre


This album is listening to Arcade Fires with no vocals. Best tracks are Stripes, Icicles/Bicycles, The Gaze and Dark Lights

8. Labyrinthes – Malajube


Best tracks are Porte Disparu, Luna, 333 and Collemboles

9. The Only Really Thing – Spiral Beach


Their second is showing that they are maturing with their sound. Best tracks are Scour & Devour, Domino, Raising The Snake and Cemetery

10. Coming Home – Giant Hand


This Ottawa singer is coming on his own with his music. Best tracks are The Beast, No Orchestra, Catabombs and Sun & The Moon

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Kyoto Drive-This Is All We Ever Wanted

Artist: Kyoto Drive
Title: This Is All We Ever Wanted
Website: http://www.myspace.com/kyotodrive
Style: Pop-Punk/ Rock/ Emo
US Label: Pacific Ridge Records
UK Label: Engineer Records
Rating: 8.7 out of 10
By C.W. Ross

Band Lineup: Adam Binder (vocals, bass), Mike Levell (guitar, vocals), Chris Piper (drums) and Mark Piper (guitar, vocals).

Formed in 2008 out of the ashes of two Birmingham, UK hardcore rock bands (Forever Ends Today and Cassettes Lost Meaning) Kyoto Drive first hit the music scene with their 4-song EP, Spotlights & Stars, that they gave away for free to get the band’s name out there amongst the masses. Now the band is back with their full-length debut, This Is All We Ever Wanted on Pacific Ridge Records in the US and Engineer Records in the UK.

The band’s sound is a pretty straight forward pop-punk that at points slides towards a more melodic pop-rock style similar sounding to bands like, Relient K, Jimmy Eat World, Saves The Day, and New Found Glory.

The band’s songs are very catchy, driven by lively guitar parts, be they melodic or in your face hard edged, along with steady drum beats. The lead vocals are filled with passion and you’ll also find some nicely done backing vocals that range from melodic to group shouts in style.

Lyrically the songs found on, This Is All We Ever Wanted, deal with the life of a band and the different struggles involved with it. Love and relationships is another subject dealt with in the band’s songs.

Highlight tracks include, “I’d Give It All”, “Are You Taking Me Apart Just To See How My Insides Work?”, “It’s Not About Revenge”, “Don’t Make It Personal”, and “Hold Your Head High.”

This Is All We Ever Wanted ends with the very powerful emotion-filled 8-minutes plus track, “Waiting.” For the most part the song is an acoustic guitar ballad but it ends with a shot of different noises and sounds.

The album’s official release date is January 26, 2010 with a tour planned for January and February in support of the release. The tour will include band friend’s Maycomb. Checkout the band’s website for more information and tour dates.

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That time of year

And I’m not talking about Christmas.

For the masses of University/College/etc. students, it’s exam time! I know some are done, some haven’t started, and some are avoiding work by posting things on their blogs. Either way, one can only take so much Zarah Leander before needing a little break. (I was writing an essay on the portrayal of women in the Third Reich films, aka, Die grosse Liebe). The perfect antidote to an overdose of academia?

or if you’re into the less bizarre, hyperfashionable gumball rock
The Plastiscines are my antidote for life. And they’re French! (Je suis francophile, même si je suis une étudiante d’allemande)

Happy studying.

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Playlist 10122009 Santa Franko & La fille du père Fouettard

Tonight: The christmas special

1. Laurent Garnier – Pay Tv (Emperor Machine Extended)
2. Oscillation – Liquid Memoriam
3. Peaches – I feel cream (Tee & Technique Blogula Rmx)
4. the phenomenal handclap band – 15 to 20 (A. Mansfield Disco Remix)
5. Speedking – Millionth Monkey
6. Joakim – Fly like an Apple
7. Yo la tengo – Rock’n'roll Santa
8. casiotone for the painfully alone – cold white christmas
9. Erlend Oye – Last christmas
10. Marvin Gaye – Purple Snowflakes
11. Corporal Blossom – White christmas
12. Boney M – petit papa Noel
13. Can – Silent night
14. Elvis Presley – White christmas
15. O Children – We were Rockstars
16. The Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
17. FM Belfast – Frequency (Retro Stefson RMX)
18. Shit Browne – Detroit Manchester Dijon
19. Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, America
20. Jarvis Cocker – You are my eyes (Pilooski Remix)
21. Buraka som sistema – Restless
22. Uncle O – Jupiter Menace
23. We are wolves – Vague (Matthias Mental Remix)
24. The Fitzcarraldo Variations – Mediterraneans

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Pearl Harbor - Something About The Chaparrals

Piper and Sky are two sisters from Los Angeles, California. They, along with bassist Cody, play dreamy psych pop in a similar vein to their good friends and fellow Los Angelenos Best Coast. Their melodies wash over me like rays of warm sunshine…i just wish this had come out in mid July.

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I Wanna Be In Your Cult - Pat McGlynn

Following a recent resurgence in Japan ex Bay City Roller Pat McGlynn has had all his early solo albums re-released on SONY/BMG in early 2009. We worked together along with his wife and vocalist Janine Bond in late 2008 on four new songs at the Offbeat studio for Pat McGlynn’s STORM earlier this year.

I wrote a track for him in March entitled I Wanna Be In Your Cult.  The track is currently getting lots of airplay in Japan and we are hoping for a hit record. All the tracks are featured on the Offbeat homepage mp3 player. Pat is great to work with and is a true music lover. He’s a gifted guitarist and songwriter

I met Pat back in 1984 when I was working on my solo album under the name ZED with vocalist Kirsty Anderson… I co-wrote two tracks with him and Les McKeown on the BAY CITY ROLLERS hit album Breakout. The title track was originally recorded at Jon Turner’s Palladium studio and also featured Anne Turner on backing vocals. and another on the album called You’ll Find Out was recorded at Wilf Smarties Planet Studios. Wiolf was the guy who discovered Wet Wet Wet and he produced their first hit single “Wishing I Was Lucky’. Apart from being a studio boffin Wilf was instrumental in my training as a recording engineer, giving me a break to work at Planet from 1983 until 1985.

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The Jubilaires Form

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Band: The Jubilaires
Year: 1956
Home: Chatham Ontario
Genre: Country
Formed: 1956

Members (L-R)
Lionel Richie – Drums
Oscar Demers – Rhythm guitar
Roland Lozon – Fiddle
Oscar Benoit – Lead guitar.

Circa: 1956 – 1961

  The Jubilaires have a long history that lasted through many decades.

 The original line-up was an instrumental group that put on their own dances in order to perform live.
They rented an old hall, which was originally for hay storage on the second floor of a horse stable in Pain Court, next to the Dover Hotel. Posters were made, a bouncer was hired and a refreshment booth was set up.

  For the very first dance, the boys cleaned the hall on Wednesday, decorated it on Thursday, played it on Friday night, and cleaned it up on Saturday. They took the profit of $18 and split it 6 ways. These go getters put on a dance every Friday from June 30th to November 30, 1956. The band had played 74 shows before 1960.
 
Sam Lozon did join the band as the singer and guitarist circa 1957, but retired from the band in the middle of 1960, as his love for music took him to another group.

 During performances, the band would usually spot two female singers. Doreen Lecuyer and Louella Demers (Oscar’s sister)

In 1960, The Myers Brothers joined the band resulting in a name change to “Myers Brothers and the Jubilaires (The)”.  After that long run, they became known as the Jubilaires II, followed by a brief and final line-up called “Front Page News”.

By: S Beaulieu and R. Lozon

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Vampire Weekend - Cousins

Can’t wait for the new Vampire Weekend album, Contra, but in the meantime, here is one of their new tracks. Nothing out of the ordinary, pretty much what you’d expect from these guys. Also check out an interview they recently did for Vanity Fair, if you want..

Vampire Weekend – Cousins // 261vbr

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Dancing and Memorie5

Norwegian native, pop-indie artist, Annie, began DJing in Bergen, Norway in 1999, when she released the Madonna-sampled, underground smash single, “The Greatest Hit”, which gradually became popular in Norwegian and British nightclubs. Her career took off from that point and she went on to release “Anniemal” in 2004 with the production help/influence of fellow Norwegian band, Röyksopp, and England’s own Richard X. For the most part, however, Annie hasn’t impressed me much past a couple of her original tracks and outstanding remixes, yet, the songs of hers I like, I love!

• Annie – Anthonio

• Annie – Heartbeat

• Annie – The Greatest Hit (Extended Disco Mix)

A Handful Of Remixes

• Annie – Anthonio (Fred Falke Remix)

This Song Has Changed My Life and Appreciation Of Music (Ridiculous I know…But Truly)

• Annie – Anthonio (Designer Drugs Remix)

These 2 Are Alright…

• Annie – Heartbeats (MSTRKRFT Remix)

• Annie – Heartbeats (Röyksopp’s  Mindre Tilgjengelige Remix)

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Lessons from Do They Know It's Christmas Time

1. At Christmas time, there truly is no “need to be afraid.” It’s best to reserve your fears for New Year’s Day, when a glitch of unknown origin in computers around the world will set the world back to the Bronze Age.

2. This Christmas time, Band Aid may want to seriously rethink its decision to “let in light and banish shade” for people living under the harsh and unforgiving Ethiopian sun.

3. When they’re in their “world of plenty” and “having fun”, “it’s hard” for Band Aid to “say a prayer for the other ones”. Praying = hard!

4. If the only water flowing tastes like the “bitter sting of tears”, it’s because your local authorities have chosen the world’s least efficient method of augmenting your water supply.

5. Although the only Christmas bells in Ethiopia are the “clanging chimes of doom”, it doesn’t mean they can’t belt out a mean, suicide-inducing “Jingle Bell Rock”.

6. It’s hard to argue with Bono when he commands you to “thank God” it’s the Ethiopians who are dying of hunger “instead of you” unless you are Ethopian or otherwise dying of hunger.

7. “There won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time.” But thanks to cataclysmic global weather events, all of Africa will be under 100 feet of snow in 2030!

8. Because “nothing ever grows” and “no rain or rivers flow” in Africa, Disney ought to more accurately portray Tarzan and the Lion King as shuffling about in a howling desert of pain and death.

9. This Christmas time, if you truly feel the need to “raise your glass” to poor people dying “underneath that burning sun”, be sure to accompany your gesture with loud, maniacal laughter. (edf)

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