The Ibero America Market captured my eye, specifically the murals and whatnot. On Lemon Street in Anaheim, back when I used to have to drive to Anaheim at night. ;-)
The Doll Hut is Anaheim’s CBGB. It’s been around forever. It’s grimy and fun (only stopped in once, but plan to go back).
Forever the hot mess! Madonna calls Gaga reductive, passive aggressively sips tea. (by BuzzFeed)
Can we cue the locusts and cut to the end where the earth cracks open and the land is barren, cold and without cable? Please?!
Mobb Deep — Waterboarding
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Mobb Deep - Waterboarding
Alchemist production is real nice here. I’ma have to listen to that Black Cocaine soon if they doing it like this…
Theophilus London
THEOPHILUS LONDON –Maybe Theophilus London is the knife that’s sharp enough to finally kill neo-soul and dirty enough to infect hip-hop with some irony. You probably know Theophilus for “This Charming Mixtape” (which featured his audacious re-imagining of “I Will Always Love You” and the soaring 6 a.m. party-starter “TNT”) and the ambitious 2010 mixtape “I Want You”, but the singer/MC’s early DIY mixtape “Jam!” should not be overlooked. On his latest EP release “Lovers Holiday”, he agnostically stitches together his diverse influences (reaching as far back as pre-Paisley Prince and power-ballad-era Billy Idol) to create highly unpredictable but consistently sick hip-hop electronica that owes no apologies to the authenticity police. Standout tracks include “Girls Girls $” and “Flying Overseas”. If you like it, buy it.
Stripmall Architecture
STRIPMALL ARCHITECTURE combine Rebecca Coseboom’s minor-key vocals with heavy bass and objets trouvés to evoke the sort of melancholy beautiful music that a haunted old nightclub might make out of its own broken windows, bits of scrap metal, wind, wood, guitar wire and an old metal drum when it thought no one was listening. Their 2011 release Albino Peacock features their most mainstream instrumentation to date, but is as sonically daring as last year’s more cacophonous Feathersongs For Factory Girls, Part 1. If the Cocteau Twins and Siouxsie Sioux had unrelated twins…and the unrelated twins got married…and the female twin had a gossamer voice and wrote songs with… Oh never mind the silly comparisons. Just listen to streaming versions of Lemoncholic or Radium Girls (courtesy of the band), or pay a little more to own it.
Elizaveta
ELIZAVETA - Don’t let the willowy stature, youthful face and blonde hair fool you: Elizaveta is a real deal multiple threat – singer, songwriter, musician, genre bender. A trained singer and classical pianist who occasionally sings in Russian, Italian and English, Elizaveta shifts effortlessly between artful whimsy on her inspired-by EP “Breakfast With Chopin”, the straight ahead pop vocals of “Snow In Venice”, where she channels Norah Jones 2.0, or her genius cover of Roxy Music’s “Love Is The Drug”. Elizaveta is currently in the studio, with her first album due this spring on Universal Records.
Emeli Sande “Kill The Boy (Acoustic)” HD. Angel Studio Session (by emelisande). Creamy goodness.
Rita Marley - One Draw (by ziggylia): “Hey Rastaman, hear what I say, give me some ah yo’ sense….”
LISTEN10172011 - Not sure why Ashford & Simpson decided to call this song “Bourgie Bourgie”. Word on the street is that they could never figure out the lyrics for this song; they had no way of knowing that it’s because the song was PERFECTION without lyrics. Love….
