ANYWAY, i stumbled upon this great cover by the bird and the bee today and i think it’s really interesting so i thought i’d share. i’m not a big rihanna fan, but i love love love the bird and the bee and their take on this song is really good. 

i saw them in concert about a year ago and they’re pretty great live. Inara was carrying a bubble machine as she performed (she was kinda drunk btw) and she poured a bottle of beer in the machine and created beer bubbles. it was hilarious/entertaining/delicious. free drinks!

learn more about them here

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The beginning of Treasure Finger’s new mix of Miike Snow’s “Animal” reminds me of the awesome karaoke songs that my uncle would sing with his Chinese drunk buddies. Bleep-heavy and synth tastic. Picture a Chinese woman in a sarong walking down the beach. Hot. Anyway, I still love the song.

Oh my god I am going to seriously piss my pants when this album comes out on Feb 17th (check out the tracklisting). I love what I’m hearing already and also having Spank Rock on a song makes me giggly inside. Keep in mind this track is just a preview so its not going to be the best quality in the world. Also, make sure to check it out NASA if you’re in New York at le poisson rouge, Jan 29th.

So Minty Fresh Beats decided to pull a Danger Mouse and mixed together Radiohead with Jay-Z to make Jaydiohead. Some of the tracks are a little awkward together but its a listenable album for the most part. Nothing too great to go nuts about but definitely give it a listen just to see what these 2 artists would sound mixed together.

Tracklisting:

1. Wrong Prayer
2. 99 Anthems
3. No Karma
4.  Lucifer’s Jigsaw
5. Optimistic Moment
6. Dirt Off Your Android
7. Dreaming Up
8. Change Order
9. Fall In Step
10. Ignorant Swan

DOWNLOAD:
JAPANESE CARTOON – ARMY
JAPANESE CARTOON – HEIRPLANES

Beatcakes along with apparently everyone and their moms in the blogosphere found this nice surprise in their inbox today:

When you’re one of the greatest emcees of the modern generation readying your bow from hip-hop with three albums, what do you do meanwhile? In Lupe Fiasco’s case, you simply watch a film, get invigorated, start a band, begin making not so bad post-indie punk music in a faux British accent, think of a peculiar band name (cue “Japanese Cartoon”), create a MySpace page, & upload the music. Then act like it isn’t you but rather Percival Fats. Cool.

Play those keyboards. Play them hard. Anyway, The Twelves and Cicada played a Bacardi party recently and were asked to remix each other’s songs. The other is The Twelves’ “Be My Crush” that I’m not too into but I am absolutely obsessed with this The Twelves remix right now. Its got your smooth The Twelves sound to it that I’m starting to love.

Love me some Kurtis Blow. Happy early holidays!

I know this song is a bit old but Erol Alkans’ remix has been killing hypem for the past couple of days for god knows what reason. If you’ve heard both versions, you’ll know that the “remix” sounds practically the same as the original, which by the way is already a pretty awesome song. Moral of the story: don’t call something a remix if you’re just replaying the original.

I love how this picture looks like Flosstradamus and Caroline just finished frolicking in a bamboo forest and then decided to get really contemplative about it. If you love your synth pop, you should def download this song; its catchy as hell.