Posts Tagged ‘Lil’ Wayne’

Videos for the Veekend // 5|14 – 5|16

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Got a mega-edition of this week’s video round-up, so let’s just jump right in:

The first video is the official cut for the Swedish percussion duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums track “Bleed Like There Was No Other Flood” (via It’s A Trap). The beautiful visual projections match perfectly with the mysterious, if not all out dark, tone of the chorally-dense song:

Switching gears a bit, this mash-up between Weezy F. Baby and The Office is unbelievable (courtesy of Get Off the Coast). Once you get past the initial shock of hearing the two paired together, you find that the two actually work pretty damn well together:

Although I’ve been a bit mum about them on the blog, I’ve been spinning the blissful lo-fi pop songs of Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils a lot lately. Here’s a stellar video put together by Wooden Lens for their track “Window View” (via Delicious Scopitone):

Behind Sincerely Yours, I would say that Labrador Records is my second favorite Swedish label. They somehow have a knack for finding and signing bands that pump out a great variety of pop songs. The latest music video from one of their artists is this treat by the Mary Onettes entitled “The Night Before the Funeral”:

Nice to see the behemoths over at Pitchfork give some love to PT-Music favorites Memoryhouse. Here is their official music video for their beautiful bedroom pop song “Lately (Deuxieme)” as premiered on p4k’s .tv spin-off:

David Greenwald posted this amazing video on his Rawkblog of Dan Bejar (of Destroyer, New Pornos, Swan Lake fame) acoustically performing “The Freedom”. Take a listen:

In case you’ve been living in a cave, here is the official video for The National’s “Bloodbuzz Ohio” (via IGIF). Great stuff as usual…

To wrap-up this mega listing of videos, here is a brand spanking new track by Philly uncategorizable band Man Man as posted by Matt over at You Ain’t No Picasso. Soooo excited for this record to be released!

Erykah Badu ft. Lil Wayne // “Jump Up In the Air (And Stay There)”

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

A teaser video for a new Erykah Badu track entitled “Jump Up in the Air (And Stay There)” was posted this weekend on her website only to be removed by the time I checked it out today. As usual though, youtube pulled through and I was able to catch the song (see below). It’s not what was promised by Badu on her twitter page, but this track, left off her upcoming New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh album, makes you wonder how good the stuff that made the cut is.

Although the line “jump up in the air and stay there” is straight-up taken from the Parliment-Funkadelic song “Hydraulic Pump” (I guess ripping George Clinton stuff seems to be an ongoing trend), Badu makes it her own by somehow slowing the pace while keeping the cadence of the original in tact. Effortlessly rolling over a smooth stringed bass line, Badu’s sultriness is tangible — eking out every last drop of “sexy” in a minimal amount of words. Wayne provides another one of his killer laid-back verses à la “Barry Bonds”, even making similar pronunciation mistakes (“when you’re this high everyone else is bellow / oops I meant below”). Although impending trials and jail terms is on his mind, Weezy keeps it lighthearted and fun, making ridiculous sounding lines like “I go nuts like a Danish / then vanish” tight as hell.

You can check out the track below, but I can’t guarantee how long it will be up for:

Part-Time Music // Top 100 Artists via Last.fm

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

One thing that I like to do every now and then is check in on my last.fm profile and look at some of the statistics they’ve accumulated about my music listening habits. One stat I find particularly interesting is seeing how many artists I’ve listened to over 100 times — something that, on average, amounts to about 6 hours of continuous music. Well this time when I checked in it just so happened that an even 100 artists had at least 100 plays, so I thought I would share the results with you guys. The following is the cream of the crop Top 10 with the entire list plus analysis after the jump (included as well are the number of plays):

1. Ryan Adams // 609
2. Bright Eyes // 576
3. Lil’ Wayne // 542
4. The Mountain Goats // 503
5. Sunset Rubdown // 443
6. Wilco // 438
7. Radiohead // 408
8. Stars // 406
9. of Montreal // 368
10. Kanye West // 350

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