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Mashup Monday!
It’s been a while since I’ve found the inspiration to put together a Mashup Monday post, and I’m not sure whether I’m getting over mashups, or maybe there just haven’t been enough quality mashups to keep my attention. Either way, that’s all bullshit nonsense today, because I found some mashups that are more than worth your time. What does that make them? Shit, I don’t know. Just listen.
1. Say Hello vs. Because (Jay-Z x The Beatles) – The Melker Project
This is a rare Beatles acapella, and the two songs just sound so natural together. I love it.
2. The Mixtape Volume 6 – The Hood Internet
There’s no doubt about it: The Hood Internet are some of the best mashup artists of our time. It’s their ability to mash up indie hipster music with hip-hop or more mainstream stuff. It might be the only time hipster fuckers and mainstream fuckers get along. Download all songs here.
3. Bittersweet Donald (Mac Miller x The Verve) – The White Panda
I don’t know. This one isn’t as good as the Jay-Z x The Verve mashup, but it aint bad.
Bittersweet Donald (Mac Miller // The Verve) by whitepandamusic
4. Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye x Kimbra x Drake x Rihanna x Adele x Bruno Mars) – Norwegian Recycling
This is pretty legit. Norwegian Recycling always goes the extra mile by creating a video to go with the mashup. So much talent. Download MP3 here.
Friday at Five [Weekend Music]
Unless your from Greenland (sorry Greenland audience), the rapidly approaching summer means a couple thangs: tank tops, sunglasses, bikinis, cold dranks and of course, live music. One of my favorite things to do on a hot ass summer day is to hit up an outdoor concert. Coachella has already come and go, but we still got plenty of big boys to come, including Bonnaroo, Pitchfork, Summerfest, Lollapalooza, Electric Forest, etc.
Will ya’ll be attending any shows this summer? What are you most looking forward to?
Oh yeah, happy #Friday.
1. JUMANJI – Azealia Banks
2. Do I See Color (Big Gigantic Remix) – Adventure Club Dubstep
3. Perfect World (RAC Mix) – Gossip
4. Too Close – Alex Clare
5. Let’s Go! (Original Mix) – Krftkds
[Straight Talk Sunday] Who I Am
I find myself starting these Straight Talk Sunday posts off with this often, and I’ve again got to say that I apologize for not making this “column” a very regular feature. I’m not sure if it’s because I haven’t felt like I’ve had enough time, or maybe it’s more that I haven’t been sitting down and thinking about an introspective piece for a little while. I’m going to go ahead and guess that it’s a mix of both. I got to thinking something today, though, and I think it’s worth sharing with all of you. It started with an e.e. cummings quote that I read today:
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
I think that as I’ve been flipping through the chapters of life, moving quickly from one to the next, I’ve forgotten to keep fighting at times. I’ve moved around a lot, met a ton of new people, and sometimes feel a bit like a chameleon, adjusting myself and my character to adapt to the atmosphere around me. Though I like to be able to say that I can fit into many different situations, I don’t ever want to pretend to be something or someone who I am not.
Though I typically am open to do so, today I don’t want to let my thoughts completely run free on the paper, partly because I’m not one hundred percent sure how to express them or what they really are. So instead, I thought I’d write a bit about who I am.
I am a sister.
I am a go-getter.
I am a writer.
I am a talker.
I am working every day on becoming a better listener.
I am a smiler.
I am a lover.
I am happy running.
I am happy sitting.
I am a home-body.
I am happy in your company.
I am happy by myself.
This is who I am. I don’t want to let you down. I wish I didn’t feel like I could.
Friday at Five [MCA Weekend]
YOU GOTTA FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY
This column is typically reserved for a selection of raucous, electro party jams for everybody to get down to as the week ends. Dejectedly, this isn’t a typical Friday.
As most of you know by now, Adam Yauch–a founding member of the momentous hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys–passed away today after a three year long bout with cancer.
More commonly known by his moniker MCA, or sometimes Nathaniel Hornblower, Yauch was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, when a tumor was found in his salivary gland. Though he slipped away from us quietly, I have a feeling that he’ll be heard for a very long time to come.
This Friday at Five is dedicated to the late great Adam Yauch, who was a visionary emcee, bassist and videographer. Peep the iconic visuals for “Intergalactic” below, which Yauch directed himself, as well as a selection of some of my favorite Beastie Boys cuts.
What will you remember most about MCA? What are you favorite Beastie Boys jams to bump?
Rest in peace Adam. Thank you for everything you’ve done for music. Your voice lives on.
Beastie Boys – Shake Your Rump
Tape Tuesday: Hot Ass Summer Day
The weather is a lot warmer now. I like that. Just the other day I almost went to the beach, which really is a promising sign. But gosh darn it, I digress. This mix isn’t about summer the season. It’s about the people you spend time with during the summertime. It’s about friends. It’s about family. It’s even about those random strangers that you meet at the beach (not the rapey kind!). This is the mix that can soundtrack your entire summer vacation and hopefully stay relevant throughout.
Let me also say that HOT ASS SUMMER DAY is dedicated to Lydia, whose birthday is today. I love Lydia. I don’t know how many times I have to say it (I think that’s the first time). She’s taught me so much in such a short amount of time and has given me such an awesome opportunity to write for Sunset in the Rearview and do things that I never thought would be possible a year ago. I literally love every second of it, so swag on that.
Please take this time now to wish Lydia happy birthday softly in your mind or on Twitter.
While I was feeling such a mess, I thought you’d leave me behind,
While I was feeling so upset, I thought the sun never shine,
Then I found forever. Hey! Hey! Love!
We’ve been best friends forever darling,
That’s what’s up!
- Maverick Sabre – Let Me Go (Welcome to HASD)
- Dieter Schaaf – Biochemistry
- Oberhofer – Away Frm U
- Vacationer – Everyone Knows
- Of Monsters and Men – Mountain Sound
- Manicanparty – Rebels in the Light
- Swim Deep – King City
- Mouth’s Cradle – The Fever
- Dana Buoy – Call to Be
- The Preachers – Take a Card
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – That’s What’s Up
- Teen Mom – You and me
- The Parlotones – Honey
- The Cast of Cheers – Animals
- Last Dinosaurs – Weekend
- Chance The Rapper – Prom Night
- Sunni Colón – Shrines
DOWNLOAD ‘HOT ASS SUMMER DAY’ HERE
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Friday at Five [Weekend Music]
I’m simply going to leave you with the following video. I hear it’s going to be adapted into a full blown eHarmony commercial. Happy Friday ya’ll.
1. Let It Go (Faustix & Imanos Remix) – Dragonette
2. Original Don (Flosstradamus Remix) – Major Lazer
3. Love Is Real (Fred Falke Remix) – Theophilus London
4. Do Harder Be Faster (TheFatRat‘s Skinny Dip Mashup) – Daft Punk
5. Daydreamer Feat. Example (Dillon Francis Remix) – Flux Pavilion
Tape Tuesday: This is Country
My life has recently changed. I have taken a liking to country, and it truly has changed my life. I’m not exactly sure how it happened–maybe from kids playing it at school, maybe from my sister playing it at home, but one day I just couldn’t stop listening to it and it’s been in heavy rotation ever since.
A lot of people hate country–trust me, I understand that. I couldn’t listen to it until about a week and a half ago, and I couldn’t understand what anyone saw in it. Now I’ve completely flip flopped. When people tell me they can’t listen to country now, it makes no sense to me.
Anyway, these are my favorite country songs right now, the songs that got me into country in the first place.
By all means, PLEASE help me grow my country collection. Let me know in the comments what else I should be listening to!
Josh Kelley – Georgia Clay
Benjy Davis Project – Mississippi
Jason Aldean – Dirt Road Anthem
Punch Brothers – This Girl
Jason Aldean – Church Pew or Barstool
Joe Nichols – Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off
Kenny Chesney – You and Tequila (feat. Grace Potter)
Zac Brown Band – Chicken Fried
Zac Brown Band – Different Kind of Fine
Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel
Download “This is Country”
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Dream Big
Friday at Five [Weekend Music]
You know the drill. We’ve rounding up the latest and greatest of jams with danceability for ya’ll to get down and dirty to this weekend. What’s errbody up to this Friday the 13th. Break a leg.
1. Call Me Jay-Z (Carly Rae Jepsen + Jay-Z) – Scott Melker
2. Under The Bridge (Brummer Remix) – Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Whip Appeal (SBTRKT edit) – Frank Ocean
4. Primadonna (Benny Benassi Remix) – Marina and the Diamonds
5. All You (feat. Waka Flocka & Kaskade) (CRNKN Remix) – The Cataracs
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Mashup Monday!
1. 99 Stairways (Jay-Z + Gramatik + Led Zeppelin) – Clayton McCracken
This one is pretty addictive. You’ve been warned.
2. The Money Button (Phantogram x Fergie x Queen x Jay-Z x Biggie) – Sputnik Jams
If you can get through all of the Fergie ish, you may like this one. Too much Fergie for me, I think. But hey…life’s a bitch and then you die.
3. Love I Used To Know (Rihanna x Calvin Harris x Bruno Mars x Mumford and Sons x Gotye) – DJ Massakerr
Mumford and Sons don’t make it onto that many mashups that I see. Admittedly, it scares me to see that both Mumford and Sons and Gotye were mashed up. It’s pretty much a recipe for disaster, but you know what? DJ Massakerr did a pretty damn good job with it!
Friday at Five [Weekend Music]
What up ya’ll? Sorry I’ve been on a blogging hiatus lately. I moved to Chicago last weekend so my time has been spread a little thin. But, it’s all in the name of progress, right?
Anyway, happy Good Friday and Easter weekend. I’m sure gang loads of you guys will be spending time with amigos and fam alike. What is everybody up to? Whatever the answer may be, have fun and be safe. And like always, bump these jams below during your weekend adventures.
1. The Night Out (TheFatRat Remix) – Martin Solveig
2. Let It Go (The Knocks Remix) – Dragonette
3. It’s Only Knuck (Crime Mob x The Shins) – The Hood Internet
4. FUCK UP THE FUN (Prod. By DIPLO & DJ MASTER-D) – Azealia Banks
5. Talkbox Intended – Gramatik
Tape Tuesday: The Night Out
I wanted to make a mix that could document a long, dangerous, overly emotional, fun, sad night, so I made The Night Out. This is the mix that could soundtrack those nights you spend with your obnoxious group of friends (that you love even though they are obnoxious) as you jump from place to place around the bomb ass city creating havoc wherever you go. This is the mix for those nights that start off crazy and fun and awesome and then end with short sentences and awkward goodbyes. Listen below.
Use the sleeves on my sweater, let’s have an adventure, head in the clouds but my gravity’s centered, touch my neck and I’ll touch yours, you in those little hot waisted shorts
- Sailor & I – Tough Love
- Mesita – Ken Caryl
- Art of Sleeping – Empty Hands
- Martin Solveig – The Night Out (Madeon Remix)
- Mikey Mike – Girlfriend (Chainsaw Love, Pt. 1)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg – Anna (Moonlight Matters Remix)
- I Heart Sharks – Summer
- Samuel – Brooklyn
- Wild at Heart – Darling
- KO KO – Float
- Get Well Soon – Not Enough
- KO KO – So Strange
- Kilo Kish – You’re Right
- The Neighbourhood – Sweater Weather
- Shadows on Stars – Sweat Pant Bandits
- The Belligerents – Infatuation
- matt pond PA – Wild Girl
DOWNLOAD ‘THE NIGHT OUT’ HERE
Mashup Monday!
I’m late, I need to wake up in a few hours, and I don’t have much to say. This isn’t typically my style, but today I’ll let the mashups speak for themselves.
1. “Love You Enough” (Mansions on the Moon x INOJ x J. Cole x Coldplay x Phantogram x Kal Ho Naa Ho) – DJ Fergie Ferg
This might be one of the more beautiful mashups I’ve heard in a while.
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2. Nick, Tim & The Dominos (Avicii, Nicky Romero x Jessie J) – Not Some Kid
Party track!
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3. Call Me Jay-Z (Carly Rae Jepsen x Jay-Z) – Scott Melker x Friendly Greg Popped and Screwed Remix
Call me maybe…
4. Dead Siberian Romance (Lady Gaga x Swedish House Mafia x Fall Out Boy x Childish Gambino x Lights x The xx) – No Pets Allowed
I hadn’t had a dose of the Gaganator in a while…so why not?
