I have previously mentioned how I have grown a thick skin to all the way too many remixes of MGMT’s Kids. Yet this cover simply blew me away. The Kooks, a British indie pop band, have rejuvinated my liking to Kids with their amazing cover. The Kooks have been known to do many covers of popular songs like Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy and Coldplay’s Violet Hill.
BONUS: Now lets reverse the process and see who has done a cover of The Kooks? Well its no one else than their British Sister (not literally) Lilly Alan covering The Kooks famous single Naive.
Sea Wolf is a band led by Alex Brown Church, an indie rock musician based in Los Angeles, California.
On September 22, 2009, Sea Wolf’s sophomore album, White Water, White Bloom was released by Dangerbird Records.
Metric is about to release an acoustic EP that will only be available through Amazon for the first month. Titled “Plug In Plug Out” it will be released October 27th. Metric – Gold Guns Girls (Acoustic)
Entourage has always been one of my favorite shows, not to mention, I always discover new music every episode that goes by. This one, however, has been slightly difficult to track down which songs were used in their season finale. In the final scenes of the episode, as E is about to get on the plane leaving Sloan behind, the song Lisztomania by Phoenix is playing in the background. The song right after that as the airplane is about to take off is actually a song by Jay Z remixed for the Street Is Watching called “In My Life Time”.
There are 2 more songs I am trying to figure out that hopefully I will be able to post it here. Stay Tuned!
RANDOM GOODNESS! Different genres, different time frames,from calming Jazz that is perfect for this rainy day here in Orlando, Florida to right out of the oven remixes from Doorly that will get you ready to party this weekend. It has been a very busy Friday so I was not able to write a short description about each song, but I will be updating this post soon.
Jazz
Kate Monson bring her beautiful smokey jazz vocals from Austin, Texas right into her new album “Taped to the Sky”. If you enjoy this song as much as I do you should also check out her song “Lucky” Kat Edmonson – Just One Of Those Things
Alternative Rock
Courtenay Green is an LA artist who has been performing regularly in Southern California for the past year. Her first EP, Mixed Message, was released in late 2008 and she will be releasing her new song, DEVIL IN THE DETAILS, on July 16th. DEVIL is a slight departure from the songs on her first EP, and demonstrate some of the new musical ground she will be covering on her next studio production (to be released this fall). Courtenay Green – Devil In the Details
Short Description about Jens Martin Lekman:
This guy is hilarious!
Long Description about Jens Martin Lekman:
Jens Martin Lekman, an indie pop musical who hails from Sweden but now resides in Melbourne Australia, delivers heavily sampled guitar-based pop with lyrics that are a compelling mix of wit, romance, and melancholy.
Lekman’s first distribution of music, from 2000 to 2003, was mostly private but started to get some airplay. One of his songs, “Rocky Dennis’ Farewell Son to the Blind Girl”, caused a case of mistaken identity when new fans and even radio stations thought that he was Rocky Dennis. In 2004, he released the album Rocky Dennis in Heaven which put the identity matter to rest.
A lot of his songs rely on comedic storytelling like “Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo” and “You Are The Light”. The lyrics are at times random and ridiculous but he makes it up in charm and poetic wit.