De La Soul - Fallin'
Spoon - Inside Out
Ghostface Killah - Love Don't Live Here No More
Les Sins - Why (feat. Nate Salman)
Brian Reitzell and Roger Mann - On the Subway
Kele - Coasting
Grimes - Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)
Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
The Zombies - Nothing's Changed (backing track)
Action Bronson - Easy Rider
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Lykke Li - I Never Learn
One way to mitigate nasty weather is to go ahead and lay out the ideal audio accoutrements for your first poolside/rooftop jaunt (in this case, my trip next month to Punta Cana). First up - The Loop Professor (Ben Allen) mixing Tropicalismo pioneer Gilberto Gil's "Maracatu Atomico" over Q-Tip's J-Dilla produced "Breathe and Stop" instrumental. The perfect lime for your morning's first Presidente.
Loop Professor - The Stop vs. Gil (from Get Your Hand Outta My Pocket! Vol. 3, 2006, track via Names You Can Trust) 20-year-old Aussie Jonathan Boulet has gone out and done the music world a frickin' service with his new compact disc, appropriately titled Jonathan Boulet. No chopless, dubious ruffians here, this is a professionally trained voice man that also wrote, recorded, produced and played almost every instrument. Boulet!
Although "Island" is the first single from Whitest Boy Alive's second EP (available in the US next month), it's actually been part of their live shows for the last five years or so. In this studio version Erlend Oye shares enigmatic clues about hidden Norwegian treasure.
Air's outstanding 1998 debut Moon Safari will be reissued in an expanded, limited edition "pimp pack" via Astralwerks on 4/15. The three-disc set includes the original LP, remixes, rarities and radio sessions, and a DVD with videos and a documentary from their first tour.
Although this video featuring the Tommy Seebach band didn't make the cut, it does prove that people with mustaches make better music and have more fun doing it (they're actually playing a disco version of "Apache" but some industrious YouTuber dropped in the Moog Cookbook remix instead).
There's a popular saying in certain parts of the Southeast, "All great films begin with a shot of Scarlett Johansson's can." While Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation provides the perfect sountrack to describe isolation in a big city, viewers learn that hearty helpings of karaoke, Santori whiskey and ScarJo can be the perfect cure.
Baldwin Brothers fun fact: On September 30, 2003, the same week that Lost in Translation was released, Alec Baldwin made a $1,000 contribution to Vermont Senator James M. Jeffords, who was Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Coincidence?
