First song is the new Franz Ferdinand track, “Ulysses”. I’m not a big Franz Ferdinand fan but I do like this song and a couple of other tracks of theirs. This song was produced by one of the guys from Hot Chip, Dan Carey. The new album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is set to be released early next year. The band is [...] Read More…
First song is “Man Up”, the title track off the brand new album by The Blue Van. The Denmark based band’s music is heavily influenced by classic and modern rock and blues. They’ve been around since I think 2005 but this particular song has been getting a pretty decent amount of airplay on KCRW – 89.9 [...] Read More…
First song is an old Neptunes remix of the classic Rolling Stones track, “Sympathy for the Devil” which can be heard in the trailer for Righteous Kill, the new Pacino/De Niro movie. I don’t think the Neptunes did anything more than adding a little percussion to the song but it’s just enough to give the song an updated, more contemporary feel… [...] Read More…
First song is by the new underground hip hop supergroup, The Mighty Underdogs, comprised of rappers Gift of Gab and Lateef the Truth Speaker, and producer Headnodic. This song is the first track of their debut album, Droppin’ Science Fiction. But the album is just good, it’s not great. Lateef used to be one of my favorite [...] Read More…
First track is a mash up of Mobb Deep’s “Shook One’s Pt II” vocals blended together Bob Marley’s “I Shot The Sheriff” by Jon Moskowitz & Swindle. They also layered a beat on top of the Bob Marley classic which gives the mash-up more of a hip hop feel. These guys actually made a whole album of Bob [...] Read More…
First song is “Hard Days Night” by a new hip hop crew called The Knuxwhose debut album, Remind Me In Three Days, comes out at the end of this month. The Knux are 2 brothers, Al Millio and Krispy, and they produce the music themselves and play all of the instrumentation. I first heard their most popular [...] Read More…
First song this week is a great track from back in 2002. It’s “Cry Baby” by Spiller. The Italian producer/dj has been around since the 90’s but his music is usually more pop/electronic than hip hop/electronic like this track sounds. Spiller – Cry Baby Second song is by David Holmes and it’s off of the Ocean’s 12 soundtrack that, along [...] Read More…
First song is the new, upcoming James Bond movie theme by Jack White and Alicia Keys. It’s called “Another Way To Die”. When I first heard the two were teaming up for the new Bond theme, I thought it was a very interesting pairing and I kind of liked the idea. I was anxious to be impressed. Jack [...] Read More…
First and Second songs are new tracks from the Kings of Leon upcoming album,Only By Night. “Use Somebody” and “Manhattan” really make me think this album is going to be a huge hit. Kings of Leon have already started exploding in terms of popularity. They’re selling out shows nation-wide, including the occasional arena show. And the new, [...] Read More…