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fucked up – do they know its christmas

in the spirit of the season, a holiday-inspired charity track that you should purchase if you enjoy it. this should really be called “fucked up featuring everyone ever – do they know its christmas”, and by everyone ever, i mean tegan and sara, GZA, kyp malone (of tv on the radio), andrew w.k., ezra koenig (of vampire weekend), yo la tengo, bob mould, kevin drew and even david cross. and they are singing the famous band-aid track from so many moons ago, and all for good causes: justice for missing and murdered indigenous women, DTES power of women group, and sisters in spirit. even though the original track is pretty americacentric (or i guess more specifically christian-centric), it doesnt mean its not a memorable track that got a pretty nice facelift. …read more and hear the song…

peter bjorn and john – it dont move me (miike snow remix)

since i kicked it down a notch last friday, ill kick it up two notches this friday. today features one of my favorite tracks from the most recent peter bjorn and john album “living thing”, entitled “it dont move me”. i just never could get into “nothing to worry about” with all the kids screaming in the beginning, but this song does really hits the spot. and how do you take a great song and make it even better? mix in one of my favorite new acts of the year, miike snow, to remix the song. …read more and hear the song…

discovery – carby

songs that sound like summer week continues on this thursday and today ill be posting another track by discovery. im trying not to repeat artists until absolutely necessary, but i felt like i didnt give due diligence to discovery because i only posted them to be timely and to acknowledge the passing of someone whose passing we are kind of getting tired of hearing about. plus that song just happened to sort of fall into my lap a day or two before i posted it, so it all happened by chance more than anything else. and i promise not to repeat artists for at least another 2 weeks. …read more and hear the song…

vampire weekend vs miike snow

well after 4 days of temperatures well below normal for mid summer and complete overcast skies, the weather has finally broken and just in time for the long holiday weekend. im prewriting again, and not even making any effort to hide the fact, because i know that i get to be in the sun for the next three days on a lake, which is pretty sweet. in honor of that, i wanted to bring a song today thats completely fun and interesting to listen to. regardless of peoples various opinions of vampire weekend (seems like most people either think they are the coolest things ever or the most overrated things ever), i think everyone both young and old will enjoy this remix with its too-fast-to-comprehend background layers. after much searching, i finally found this remix as the one i heard on hipster runoff blog radio a month or two ago. …read more and hear the song…

michael jackson tribute part 1 with discovery

ok so the biggest pop star of all times passed away, and all i said about it was a sentence. but thats because i was in the middle of a theme week — the first ever theme week — and i couldnt justify throwing that off board for something i could talk about later, especially since that would be a time when not everyone in the whole world would be talking about it all the time nonstop. but then after we organized a 15 person pizza party at work today complete with watching michael jackson videos in the conference room, i decided that i wanted to put up a couple tracks in memory (two to be exact), but with a twist, and was lucky to hear two tracks today that i thought fit in quite nicely with whats been going on around this site lately. …read more and hear the song…

the softer side of crystal castles

in the car on a drive this morning, i heard hipster runoffs episode of blog radio on xmu. they were laying down the sickest beats ever, to the likes of the twelves remix of metrics “help im alive” and a pretty nuts remix of vampire weekends “the kids dont stand a chance” which far surpassed my expectations, then a similar sounding remix of cut copy’s “lights and music”. …read more and hear the song…