The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa

Esau Mwamwaya seems like a good guy. Radioclit seems like a bad name. Together, they are a nice group, some would even called them The Very Best. 

Esau's vocals with the production of Radioclit swirls hip-hop, funk pop, and Malawi traditional music. The group has worked with M.I.A. and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, and now they are doing a show with the latter. If you want to boogie, catch the Very Best with Vampire Weekend, Beach House, and four bottles of wine and thousands of Trader Joe's bags at the Hollywood Bowl on September 26. 

I think "The Very Best" is a great name. When googling them, you may come across The Very Best of Dolly Parton or Chumba Wamba (now that's a loaded album!) or the very best Bret Michaels' STDs.

Cute video here.

Music to warm the heart:

 The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa (feat. Ezra Koenig) by alavanca </span>

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Beach House: Zebra. Black + white + horses = zebras. Mathematics!

Nice Beach House...

Beach House is good background music while working, unless you are working on making music, then things just get confusing.
I imagine Beach House is perfect for chillaxin' with 1-5 babes by the pool. If that 6th babe comes along, you better get yourself some party music though!

'Propriate Playlists: Chillaxin, 2010 Songs

Catch Beach House with Vampire Weekend and The Very Best at the coolest venue in LA, the Hollywood Bowl on September 26.

We got backstage!! (by we, I am referring to whoever the heck filmed this video... or me and you on the internets!)


Trivia: How many times have the Beach House been to Portugal?
Beach House - Zebra Live at CCVF by ashtapes
Answer: 3!

Not the nicest Beach House...

I would do Aischa to feel better everlong, tell me why!

Kick back! Sometimes when life gives you meatloaf, you will do anything for lemonade... speaking through the generations comes a gem that sometimes you can't help but just sit back, grimmace and play super loud on your drum set. Facial expressions not optional!



I mean love comes in many shapes and forms, and sometimes you need a thought box to really get your point across (in case you don't have a motorcycle to crash through buildings), one day you'll be real.

The remix in English by Outlandish: Outlandish - Aischa by DingDongThatsTheSong

Now this post isn't about love, but the love of music... old and new. Ergo, whilst there is so much gold to catch each other up on, I thought we could share a few favs to get aquainted. And because there is always a WTF moment in any relationship, the British have never lost any sense of irony to our guilty secret love affair with boy bands:


But I digress, I need your help. REALLLY. I would say one of my all time favorite songs is Everlong, and I almost feel ashamed to mention in the same sentence I don't know what the legendary Grohl means when he says "Promise not to stop when I say when." I mean I literally understand the words, figuratively speaking, but your help is without a doubt appreciated.


And in response to hot chip, yes, I want it that way. Or over-easy (see what I did there?).
Tell me why.

Muse Announces Tour, Hints at Austin City Limits

Who tours without going to Texas?! I mean, it's a pretty big state. However Texas does not allow sodomy, but I don't either (in the state of me), so I cannot hate on them TOO much (but seriously, let the buttsex in Texas).

Well, Muse, who rocked Coachella on Saturday night (please watch the video below, it is fantastic!), are skipping that big state around Austin City Limits time (October 8-10 this year). That leads Consequence of Sound's Austin City Limits Guesstival Wire to perk up... According to HERE, Blues Traveler, Green Day, Muse, and Ponderosa might show up in Austin.

With word that Passion Pit and Metric will be supporting Muse on the tour, hopefully both those bands will come along too, because Texas needs some love too... but, ya know, keep the love coming from the front.



Bonus for watching the whole thing: Around 4 minutes into the video, once the song is over, some guy says "My arms hurt!" It's a nice bonus, but not as cool as FIREWORKS!!! Muse, you rock.

Special thanks to Consequence of Sound (an awesome source for all things music).

Muse - Starlight by Koki

Little Secrets / Passion Pit by eli_beaudoin

Metric - Help I'm Alive - Remix by Leon Purviance

Complete tour dates after the jump!

2nd Year Law Student Declares Himself for the NBA Draft

Leaving law school early is something many people do (they often call it "dropping out" but don't be picky here). However Ryan McAteer is doing it for much better reasons - he's "entering" the NBA Draft. With experience holding doors for Kansas players, he's surely to get drafted... by the Clippers. Good luck to Ryan, and I love his announcement:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

First and foremost, I’d like to thank everyone for coming here today. To my fellow law students, professors, and Vicki Palmer (who copied or forwarded my undergraduate transcripts over one hundred times), I appreciate all you have done for me over these past two seasons at KU Law. This year has been particularly rough, especially considering my early exit from the Moot Court Competition and career-low statistics in both Secured Transactions and Business Associations II. That being said, I’d like to announce my eligibility for the 2010 NBA Draft this June.

After talking extensively with my family, NBA Scouts, and Dean Agrawal, I feel the time is right for me to take my game to the next level. We went through a lot of the same process last summer, but then again, at that time I had a paid internship and a credit score above 600. Given the current economic climate, looming unemployment rates in large legal markets and another potentially devastating subprime real estate ripple approaching, this is the right decision for me financially as well. The daily per diem and impending shoe contract have simply become too alluring in light of rising out-of-state tuition and an increased Consumer Price Index relative to average national legal wages. With little or no hope for an externship and a 0% success rate with OCI, the NBA Draft is my next best alternative.

Granted, neither BAR/BRI nor Emanuel produce a commercial outline for the game of basketball, but KU Law has prepared me well for The Association. I don’t think I will go very high, in fact I probably won’t be drafted at all, yet I did recently attend the Sports & Entertainment Law Symposium and the skills I picked up that day will surely be welcomed by any NBA franchise. Additionally, I regularly sat but a few feet away from Cole Aldrich in the Burge and often held the door for Sherron Collins while exiting the bookstore. I’ve also personally witnessed the football and basketball teams engage in hand-to-hand combat at both Wescoe and The Ranch. The wealth of knowledge I’ve gained at KU Law will surely come in handy once my transcripts are lost in a fire or disappear strangely in the night, but until then there is a higher likelihood of me playing in the NBA than finding gainful legal employment.

Sincerely,

Ryan McAteer

Former J.D. Candidate 2011

University of Kansas School of Law

CC: David Stern, Stu Jackson

Good luck to Ryan, I hope they play this song for him on draft day.
Jock Jams - Space Jam by angellinaross
To those posted songs called "Space Jam" on SoundCloud that give the listener the feeling of floating in space, that's cool, but you really can't compete with JOCK JAMS!

Minus the Bear's new album OMNI Previewed

Minus the Bear releases its new album OMNI on May 4, but you can listen to it right now in full below (thanks KCRW!):

OMNI will be available on-demand April 19 through May 18, 2010.

Also check out the band's website for a free download of the first single "My Time".

Track listing

1. My Time

2. Summer Angel

3. Secret Country

4. Hold Me Down

5. Excuses

6. The Thief

7. Into the Mirror

8. Animal Backwards

9. Dayglow Vista Rd.

10. Fooled by the Night

The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli who has worked with My Morning Jacket and The White Stripes and has won some Grammys, but who hasn't? 

Also you can check out their tour information here. The tour ends with a trip to Sasquatch up in Minus the Bear's hometown of Seattle, which sound be a grand ol' time.

Minus the Bear's frontman Jake Snider says, “It’s an impactful sounding record.” We like impact! Go take a listen and/or look at cool promotion photos!

Acrobatics!

Xbox 360!

They play music!

For all the photos, check out: http://minusthebear.com/2010/04/photos-omni-la-promo-trip/#more-1527

Not a new Minus the Bear song:
Minus the Bear - Into the Mirror by taking

Jay-Z forgets Jesus, brings Beyonce on stage instead!

Despite rumors that Kanye West, Dr. Dre, Alicia Keys, and Jesus were going to show up to Jay-Z's Coachella set on Friday, only Beyonce came. That is pretty awesome, but I was really wondering how Dr. Dre and Jesus were going to get along.

Here is them singing everyone's 10th favorite Alphaville song, ya know, with some rap in there too:


Also, Jay-Z is going to be B to the etty, W to the hite's musical guest when they join forces to take the world by storm on Mother's Day eve, May 8th. It will mark the first time that both the musical guest and host are over 90 years old. Just kidding! Betty White is only 88.

Scott Stapp of Creed releases Florida Marlins "Fight" Song

Scott Stapp of Creed has released a Florida Marlins fight song, and it is the best worst fight song in a while!
Lyrics include: "a diving catch, a stolen base, a perfect game, a triple play". Other fun baseball things! Peanuts! Hot dogs! Spilling beer on a child to catch a foul ball!


Not sure how to catch a fly ball with your arms wide open, but I know that when Creed reunited in 2009, the world became a better place.


Watch the Marlins soar here:





How does this compare to Prince's Vikings Fight Song (released right before they lost in the playoffs this year. Thanks a lot PRINCE!):



Or how about T-Pain's Miami Dolphins Fight Song?
Miami has the Dolphins
The Greatest Football Team
We take the ball from goal to goal
Like no one's ever seen
We're in the air, we're on the ground
We're always in control
And when you say Miami
You're talking Super Bowl

'Cause we're the...
Miami Dolphins, Miami Dolphins,
Miami Dolphins Number One...


Better Prince Songs:
Prince - Little Red Corvette by musicfromthebook3

Prince - Kiss by iching1111

Cool Album Ideas: I'm from Barcelona's 27 Songs

Pretty song art!

I'm From Barcelona is a nifty (and humongous) band that makes fun indie poppy music that you can groove around your kitchen to while doing the dishes, because the dishes sure aren't going to do themselves!

The band's 2006 album "Let Me Introduce My Friends" was awesome. 2008's "Who Killed Harry Houdini?" (good question!) was also pretty awesome. However their new "27 Songs" album is one of the coolest ideas I have heard since The Magic Bullet.

Here's how the band describes the idea: "Inspired by Kiss’ simultaneous release of four solo albums in 1978, “27 Songs from Barcelona” features one solo song for every member in I’m from Barcelona." This video also explains it pretty well:

If you go HERE, you can see a page for each artist containing a nice description and mp3 of all the songs, some equipped with remixes (track 1), videos (track 2), and/or awesome album (or really "song") art.



Some highlights from the song descriptions:
Track 2 : "Performed by: Anna Fröderberg (vocals, “sock-shoe drum” and trumpet ), Rikard Ljung (vocals, omnichord, drums, guitar, random flute and maybe tambourine) and Johan Mårtensson (vocals)" I like when they aren't sure who is playing the tambourine.
Track 9: "Performed by: Henrik Olofsson: vocals, guitar, crappy old mandolin and harmonium." The crappy old mandolin is one of my favorite instruments!


Check out some of my favorite songs after the jump: