Dam-Funk.
Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack.
She lied to him!
Hood Internet - The XX Gonna Give it to Ya (DMX vs. The xx)
DMX makes me laugh — this track is great.
The Kleptones - Hella Touch
Good mix… EK is still the best of the mashup DJs.
The composer talks about working with Aronofsky, scoring Moon, and a little about his ideas for Aronofsky’s next picture, Black Swan:
“Well it’s all really embryonic at the moment, one of the main ideas we’ve got is building the entire score out of elements from Swan Lake. I mean it would have to be vastly screwed with, but that’s a starting point. Sometimes we’ve had ideas in the past and you put them into practice and they just suck, so we’ll see.”
I’m so happy that there are artists still pushing boundaries with creative ideas like this.
Music service Lala was bought by Apple recently. There are a number of possibilities here:
The good:
The bad:
The reasons I love Lala are exactly all the reasons I can’t stand iTunes. I’m sick of having to sync my phone for 20-30 minutes every time I want to change one thing. I’ll plug it in with the intention of grabbing the latest few podcast episodes or to add/remove one album, but it can’t just do one thing. First it prompts me to update my phone software, then has to transfer all the app updates and photos, and back up the phone. 30 minutes later I have my two new podcasts I wanted for the commute. What should be a simple process gets complicated to the point of obnoxiousness by a bloated desktop app (don’t even get me started on how poor iTunes’ performance is with large libraries).
I think the major point is: why would I want to manage a bunch of local MP3 files myself? Most legit MP3 stores only let you download the tracks once, then backup becomes your responsibility. Lala’s “web albums” are just what I need. I don’t care about owning the tracks, I just want to hear them when I want to hear them.
Rant over.
A Lala app could negate the need to sync music anymore, but with the acquisition by Apple, my confidence is shaken that it’ll ever become a full streamable version of my music library.
Ghostland Observatory @ House of Blues
Ghostland Observatory @ House of Blues
Ghostland Observatory @ House of Blues
Ghostland Observatory @ House of Blues
Ghostland Observatory @ House of Blues
Ghostland Observatory @ House of Blues
Ghostland rocked Orlando.
We got there, somehow, just before 7pm, when doors were supposed to open. How we rounded up all five of us right after work and trucked it to Orlando in time, we’ll never know.
DJ Lord (of Public Enemy) opened with a massive set, must’ve been an hour and a half long. It started a little slow, but kicked in by the end thanks to the crowd getting into it proper.
Ghostland played a set that was almost identical to the one at ACL, minus the UT band cameo, and with an extra few cover songs at the end. The light show these guys do is IN SANE. It has to be seen to be believed. Complements the music so well. We had a great spot front and center to see Aaron gyrate around the stage. I still can’t believe the whole thing was free. Amazing.
Colette caught some stealth footage with the Flip cam, too.
We’re going to try to see Ghostland tonight in Orlando at the House of Blues. They’re playing as part of the “SoCo underCOVER” tour, where bands theoretically play all covers (we’ve read otherwise).
The show is free if you’ve signed up ahead of time. Just showing this special text message I’ve received at the door should get me in. We’ll see how that works.
As long as we don’t end up driving to O-town for nothing, I’ll be happy.
