Audio Absinthe

Two of the songs Thom Yorke alluded to several weeks ago on Radiohead’s deadairspace blog have been leaked.  The video for his Miracle Legion cover, “All For The Best” is also available now.  Check it all out below…

“Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses” (Click here for MP3)

“The Hollow Earth” (Click here for MP3)

Video below…
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The new album from Rodrigo y Gabriela, 11:11 is schedule to be released on September 8th.  Their experience from playing together for so many years is an impressive sight to see.  Their live shows have a powerful energy that their 2006 self’titled release managed to capture.  If 11:11 is even half as good as Rodrigo y Gabriela, it would be another one of my favorite albums.  From the sound of these new songs, it’s looking like it could possibly be better.  Rodrigo y Gabriela are bridging genres and generations with their unique style of progressive music.
According to their myspace, “Hanuman” was inspired by Carlos Santana and “Buster Voodoo” was inspired by Jimi Hendrix.

MP3: Rodrigo y Gabriela – “Hanuman”
Listen on MySpace: Rodrigo y Gabriela – “Buster Voodoo”
11:11 (September 2009)

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When I first came across a couple of tracks from The xx, I wondered why I hadn’t ever heard of the group.  The music sounds so mature it’s as if the band’s been playing together for years.  I soon learned that the group members are all just around 19 years old but it’s clear that they have a great sense of popular indie-style music and well beyond.  The debut album, xx, was just released on the 16th and it’s definitely something you should check out.  I really like this one, a lot.

MP3: The xx – “Intro”
MP3: The xx – “Crystalized”
MP3: The xx – “Islands”
xx (August 2009)

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Whenever someone asks me who my favorite band of all time is, I have to say The Beatles.  Between the individual albums and each and every song, the amount of material that I love is unmatched.  When I say that Radiohead are The Beatles of my generation, the strength of the catalogue is what I’m referring to.  There is so much more to love than most bands.  Radiohead just released another song, “These Are My Twisted Words” and I like it more each time I listen.  Two of my friends have separately told me that the intro reminds them of “Set Controls for the Heart of the Sun” by Pink Floyd, which is a great call I think.

MP3: Radiohead – “These Are My Twisted Words”
MP3: Radiohead – “Harry Patch”

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Drummer is a new super drummer group  made up of drummers from Ohio bands.  Formed by Patrick Carney, the drummer from The Black Keys, Drummer features Carney on bass, Teeth of the Hydra’s drummer Jamie Stillman on guitar, Beaten Awake’s drummer Jon Finley on vocals/guitar, Houseguest/Six Parts Seven’s drummer Stephen Clement on vocals/keys, and Ghostman/Sandman’s drummer Greg Boyd on, well, drums.

MP3: Drummer – “Feel Good Together”
MP3: Drummer – “Diamonds”
Mp3: Drummer – “Mature Fantasy”

Everyone loves covers, remixes, and mash ups.  Here are some of my recent favorites and some I just haven’t posted until now…

• MP3: Radiohead VS Dave Brubeck – Five Step
• MP3: Kings of Leon – Use Somebody (RAC Remix)
• MP3: Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls (Trentmoller Remix)
• MP3: Phoenix – 1901 (Build Remix)
• MP3: Daft Punk VS Does It Offend You, Yeah – We Are Technologic (LightsoverLA mash up)
• MP3: Major Lazer – Hold The Line (LehtMoJoe Remix)
• MP3: Slum Village – Fall In Love (Remix)
• MP3 Link: Cara Robinson – California Soul (acoustic -Marlena Shaw cover)
• MP3: Camp Lo – Coolie High (Remix) – (got this from djnodj.com, Michael Jackson sample was never cleared so it may be the first you’re hearing this)

Daniel Merriweather – Change (Gigamesh Remix)

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I am a huge fan of SoundCloud.com.  I’ve used the file sharing website to embed songs in a bunch of different posts.  I really love the design and the content.  I even wrote a post entirely about SoundCloud.  If you like internet radio, try searching SoundCloud.com and listening to some artists you may or may not have heard of.  Check out the playlist of remixes below that I found through SoundCloud.com.  These were posted and put together by Mr. Squirrel.

I’ve probably posted too many cover songs, remixes, and mash ups already…

Pharcyde VS Led Zeppelin – Dyer Passin Me By (Fidelski) 
Pharcyde – Passin Me By (Hot Chip remix)

Here are a two different artists’ remixes of Radiohead’s “Nude” and ” two remixes of “Reckoner”.  Which do you like the most? 
Radiohead – Nude (SayCet remix) 
Radiohead – Nude (Three Leaves and a Head remix)

Radiohead – Reckoner (You You’re Awesome remix) 
Radiohead – Reckoner (Three Leaves and a Head remix)

Notorious BIG VS Peter Bjorn & John – Party & Bullshit with Nothing To Worry About (Dave Wrangler) 
 
Common VS Flying Lotus – Universal Mind Control with Parisian Goldfish (The Hood Internet) 

MGMT VS Kanye West – Testify with Electric Feel (Justice remix) (The Kickdrums) 

Beastie Boys VS M.O.P. – Intergalatic Planetary Ante Up (DJ BK)

The last song on The Black Keys’ Attack & Release is a mash up of all the songs on the album-
The Black Keys – Fight for Air (Mr. Dibbs)

Elliot Smith – Blackbird (The Beatles) 
Elliot Smith – My Sweet Lord (George Harrison)
Gareth Pearson - Time To Pretend (MGMT) 
James Eric – Time To Pretend (MGMT) 
Bryn Christopher – Sour Times (Portishead) 
William Barnes – Bombs Over Baghdad (Outkast) 

This one is great…
Ben Folds – Bitches Ain’t Shit (Dr Dre / Snoop Dogg) 
Nina Gordon – Straight Out Of Compton (NWA) 
The Gourds- Gin & Juice (Dr Dre / Snoop Dogg) 
Dynamite Hack – Boyz in the Hood (Eazy E / NWA)

Posted by Scott S

“We are in Mexico city, our first show tonight…the last time we were here ‘my iron lung’ ep had just been released… it was 1994 …. We then head on down to Brasil, Argentina and Chile … I’ve waited years for this! ….. Un abrazo Edx” – Posted by Ed O’Brien on the Radiohead website.

Hello. My Name is Scott and I am a Radiohead Addict. (In Unison): Hi Scott!!
It’s taken me many years to come to terms with it, but finally I can admit to my addiction. Its nothing new for me to travel to see Radiohead. Usually I try to keep it as local as I can, but it doesn’t always work out that way. I’ve traveled to Tennessee to see them (Bonnaroo 2006), I have seen them in San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Boston, LA and now Mexico City. The following is a first hand account of total immersion and obsession.

After the US portion of the In Rainbows tour wrapped (I got to see the final show in the pit of the Santa Barbara Bowl) I felt somewhat let down. Not because of the shows or the performances, Radiohead is easily the best live act on the contemporary music scene today, but because my 3 show, week and a half long Radiohead binge was over. Given how long these guys can take in between tours I was also afraid of the ensuing withdrawal symptoms I would be experiencing. Nevertheless, Radiohead headed to Japan and I headed back to work wanting more. A few weeks later, they announced a Latin American Tour. Seven days in four countries. Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. My head started spinning with delusions of grandeur. Thoughts like “I can make it to Buenos Aires…..How expensive can it be?” and “Chile’s not that far, I know someone in Santiago” started filling my head. Of course, it only took about three minutes on Travelocity to burn my dreams in the flames of monetary absence. I looked into Mexico City….Bingo. It was so affordable, how could I not go?? I talked to my roommates and got the “No fucking way man, thats crazy”, I spoke with coworkers who said things like “Is Radiohead worth getting kidnapped and killed??”, but then I talked to my significant other, who amazingly enough seems to accept my obsession like its totally normal. I asked her if she’d be interested and she said yes. If we could make it happen money wise she’d be in. Sure enough it all worked out.
I will spare all the little details at this point and skip right to the good stuff. Firstly, I met multiple members of the Band. We ended up staying at the same hotel (NO I DID NOT KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF RADIOHEAD’S MEXICO RESERVATIONS AHEAD OF TIME, IM NOT THAT CRAZY) Once again I will spare the details but they were all very nice and cordial. I also got to meet mega Producer/Engineer Nigel Godrich, one of my absolute hero’s, and chat with him a bit. But on to the city and the show.

Mexico City gets a bad rap. Plainly stated the City is beautiful and the people are incredible. We could not have asked for a friendlier more cultured filled city to see a Radiohead show in. The history here goes back thousands of years. It is filled with Aztec ruins and Spanish castles leftover from the conquistadors. The food is incredible, and the neighborhood our hotel was in resembled the East Village. We spent three days exploring the 25,000,000 person city and it was not even close to enough time.
The show was at a venue called Foro Sol. Its a baseball stadium with seating for 50,000, and room for an additional 20,000 on the field for concerts. We had pit which meant there were about 69,000 people behind us for the entire show. Radiohead hadn’t played Mexico in 15 years and the crowd was beyond stoked. There’s something about 70,000 people singing along to Fake Plastic Trees in totally broken english that is hilarious and incredible at the same time.

The set was great. As usual there was no disappointment here. The band kicked things off with an energetic rendition of Fifteen Step before launching into Airbag. Highlights of the setlist included Optimistic, The National Anthem, Pyramid Song, Just, No Surprises, the entire In Rainbows album, and the best live rendition of Lucky i’ve ever seen in my multitude of Radiohead shows. We left the show, returned to the hotel, and fell asleep totally satisfied. Oh by the way, did I mention Kraftwerk opened? The next day, we took a wood flat boat and floated through Mexico City’s floating gardens, drinking beer, eating quesadillas, and listening to Mariachi’s, before leaving for the airport. This was a perfect end to the In Rainbows tour for me. Though this experience would have been enough to hold me over for a year or two, amazingly it looks like my fear of not seeing Radiohead again for a few years has been calmed thanks to Ed O’Brien.

I will definitely be attending one of those shows on their “small tour”, even if I have to make it to Europe, IT WILL HAPPEN!!! In the end, I couldn’t be more happy I took this trip and got this opportunity . I highly recommend Mexico City for anybody seeking real travel. Not relaxing vacation style travel, more see the world style travel. I also highly HIGHLY recommend a live Radiohead gig for any music lover. But be careful, you might soon find yourself blogging about your addiction on a friends website.

Everything In Its Right Place (Live) – Radiohead

I’m going out of town for a few days.  I wanted to post a little something to hold you all over.  Everyone seemed to really enjoy the last ‘covers, remixes, and mash ups’ post so here’s another.  Drink up.

Radiohead just performed “15 Steps” with the USC Marching Band at the 2009 Grammys.  Incredible.  This link will probably get pulled down soon so I hope you’re here in time to enjoy this…  New link, game on (updated).  Thanks Musa

I know I’ve already posted a bunch of different covers, remixes, and mash ups but… doesn’t everybody love them?  I think when people hear a song they recognize combined with something they haven’t heard before- something new and unfamiliar- it makes the experience more memorable and sometimes even more enjoyable.   Here are some more covers, remixes, and mash ups for you to enjoy…

Remixes
Radiohead - Reckoner (James Merriweather Remix)
Franz Ferdinand -Ulysses (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Remix)
Jamiroquai - Canned Heat (Calvin Harris Remix)
Beck - Where It’s At (Lloyd Price Express Remix)
Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (Beatnik and K-Salaam remix)
Zero 7 - Somersault (Dangermouse / MF Doom remix) Click here to play in Hype Machine 
 

Covers
Dan Black - Hypnotize (Notorious BIG)
Adele - Black & Gold (Sam Sparro)
Katy Perry - Black and Gold
Klaxons - No Diggity (Blackstreet /Dr. Dre)
Glasvegas - Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime (The Korgis) Click here to play in Hype Machine 

Mash Ups
Soulwax - No Diggity (Blackstreet / Grandmaster Flash / Latyrx)
The Arbiters - Sure Side of Fame (David Bowie / Lou Reed / Notorious BIG / Tupac)
Notorious BIG / Michael Jackson - Billy Jean  Click here to play in Hype Machine