Today turned out pretty folkie.

Song

Horse Feathers ~ “Curs in Weeds”

mp3 download (via largehearted boy)

Horse Feathers’ main man is Justin Ringle. The group is based out of Portland, Oregon and are releasing their album Horse With No Name on Sept. 9th on KillRockStars.

Video

Langhorne Slim ~ “Restless”

views: 507

mp3 download (via mokb)

Bonus: “Rebel Side of Heaven” (via kemado records)

Langhorne Slim is bringin’ the folk.

Shows

Why? @ Echoplex
Alice Cooper @ Wiltern
Estelle @ House of Blues (Anaheim)
Emily Wells, Lenka, Les, Hellokopter, Paul Dateh @ Hotel Cafe
Tom Brosseau, Carcrashlander, Alexis Gideon @ Smell

OCS

CSS ~ “Move”

mp3 download (via popsense)

Here is the link to some remixes of “Move” as well (link)

Foals ~ “Olympic Airwaves”

Never thought this would happen ~ Rage Against the Machine. Acapella… Check it.

Time to start bumpin’ early RAtM again.

New Metallica ~ “The Day That Never Comes”

Thoughts?

BOTD:

Beyonce

*It’s hard finding an embeddable Beyonce clip.

Mark Ronson

Sasha

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Song

Fan Death ~ “The Constellations”

myspace plays: 625

mp3 download (via gvsb)

Not much info about the group Fan Death anywhere, but its cool stuff. Also here’s a bonus couple of songs:

“Veronica’s Veil”(mp3 via gvsb)

“When the Money’s Right”(mp3 via gvsb)

Video

Chad VanGaalen ~ “Molten Light”

views: 13,182

Chad VanGaalen is a Canadian musician signed to Sub Pop. Besides the music, CVG also did the animation on this video. His latest album, Soft Airplanes, is due out September 9th.

Shows

Bob Dylan @ Greek Theatre
Club NME: Xu Xu Fang, The Human Value, The Black Pine @ Spaceland
Jazz at the Bowl: Bossa Nova at 50 @ Hollywood Bowl
Lee “Scratch” Perry, Andrew WK @ Amoeba Music ~Free!~
Lee Scratch Perry @ El Rey
Loudon Wainwright III @ Largo
Carney, Tommy King, Glacier Hiking @ Troubadour
Redcar, Layne, Misty Odell, Rachael Cantu, Kelli Rudick @ Hotel Cafe
Amnion, Avi Buffalo @ Tangier
Paul Weller @ Wiltern
Three 6 Mafia @ House of Blues (Sunset)

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Here’s the Old School hip hop for the week:

Digable Planets ~ “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”

I’m in like that, cuz I swing like that.

1993. A hip hop group with names like Butterfly, Doodlebug, Ladybug Mecca, and Silkworm.

Lyrics:

We like the breeze flow straight out of our lids
Them they got moved by these hard rock Brooklyn kids
Us flow a rush when the DJ’s boomin classics
You dig the crew on the fattest hip hop records
He touch the kinks and sinks into the sounds
She frequents the fatter joints called undergrounds
Our funk zooms like you hit the Mary Jane
They flock to booms man boogie had to change
Who freaks the clips with mad amount percussion
Where kinky hair goes to unthought-of dimensions
Why’s it so fly cause hip hop kept some drama
When Butterfly rocked his light blue-suede Pumas
What by the cut we push it off the corner
How was the buzz entire hip hop era?
Was fresh and fat since they started sayin audi
Cause funks made fat from right beneath my hoodie
The puba of the styles like miles and shit
Like sixties funky worms with waves and perms
Just sendin chunky rhythms right down ya block
We be to rap what key be to lock
But
I’m cool like dat [x7]
I’m cool…I’m cool…
[Ladybug]
We be the chocolates taps on my raps
innovates at the sweeta cat naps
He at the funk club with the vibrate
Them they be crazy down with the ?five plate?
It can kick a plan then a crowd burst
Me I be diggin it with s bump verse
Us we be freakin til dawn blinks an eye
He gives the strangest smile so I say hi (wassup)
Who understood yeah understood the plan
Him heard a beat and put it to his hands
What I just flip let borders get loose
How to consume or they’ll be just like juice
If its the shit we’ll lift it off the plastic
The babes’ll go spastic
Hip hop gains a classic
Pimp playin shock it dont matter I’m fatter
Ax Butta how I zone (man Cleopatra Jones)
And
I’m chill like dat [x7]
I’m chill…I’m chill…
[All]
Blink..blink..blink..blink..blink..blink..blink….
Think..think..think..think..think..think..think…
[Doodlebug]
We get ya free cause the clips be fat boss
Them they’re the jams and commence to goin off
She sweats the beat and ask me cause she puffed it
Me I got crew kids seven and a crescent
Us cause a buzz when the nickel bags are dealt
Him thats my man with the asteroid belt
They catch a fizz from the Mr. Doodle-big
He rocks a tee from the Crooklyn non-pigs
The rebirth of slick like my gangsta stroll
The lyrics just like loot come in stacks and rolls
You used to find a bug in a box with fade
Now he boogies up your stage plaits twist or braids
And
I’m peace like dat [x7]
I’m Peace
[Butterfly]
Check it out man I groove like dat
I’m smmoce like dat
I jive like dat
I roll like dat
[Ladybug]
Yeah I’m thick like dat
I stack like dat
I’m down like dat
I’m black like dat
[Doodlebug]
Well yo I funk like dat
I’m fat like dat
I’m in like dat
Cause I swing like dat
[Butterfly]
We jazz like dat
We freak like dat
We zoom like dat
We out…we out

Samples:

24 Carat Black ~ “Foodstamps”

The Honey Drippers ~ “Impeach The President”

The Last Poets ~ “On The Subway”

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Song

EPMD ~ “Run It”

myspace plays: 22,688

Time for some new hip hop brought to you by some old school MCs. EPMD (Erik Sermon and Parrish Smith) is back with a new album We Mean Business due out September 9th. What’s also cool is that some of London’s hottest DJs ~ Sinden, Herve, and Duke Dumont ~ have done remixes for “Run It” thanks to Scion av. There is also a version with KRS-One (via metal lungies).

Here are the Bonus Remixes (via discodust):

mp3 EPMD ~ “Run It”(Sinden Remix)

mp3 EPMD ~ “Run It”(Herve’s got his hands up Remix)

mp3 EPMD ~ “Run It”(Duke Dumont Remix)

Video

Opio ~ “The Prize”

views: 2,080

Opio’s new album Vulture’s Wisdom Vol. 1 was released in July. Opio is also known as an MC and producer for Souls of Mischief as well as Hieroglyphics.

Shows

Motorhead @ House of Blues (Anaheim)
The Wombats, Afternoons, Pop Noir @ Echoplex
Sons and Daughters, Birdmonster @ Troubadour
Brian Wilson @ Amoeba Music ~Free!~
Paul Weller @ Wiltern
Centro-matic, Sleepercar @ Spaceland

OCS

Kane West ~ “Good Morning” video:

The Streets ~ “Everything is Borrowed” (from new album due out Sept. 15th)

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