Blu & Exile

Thanks to Passion of the Weiss [one of the funniest music blogs I regularly check in on] and his inclusion of Blu & Exile on his list of best LA-area albums of 2007, I now have some really good hip hop to listen to instead of the new Lupe album, which of course is great but I don't wanna get sick of it before the year is over.

Weiss likens Blu his hometown's Jurassic 5 [although maybe it's not so much a sonic comparison, Idunno] but I'm going with Mos Def. Or even Talib Kweli. But Weiss is a little more knowledgeable in the hip hop game, so.. whatever.

Listening to this album the first time really reminded me of Black on Both Sides, which probably stands as my favorite hip hop album ever, since I grew up listening to Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins and got into the hip hop game a little late. But that's not to discount Mos Def at all. He's one of the best.

The beats of Below the Heavens seem pretty Jay Dilla -influenced. Opener "My World Is..", with the female vocal samples sounds like it coulda been Blu's guest spot on a Kanye-produced track. And each time I listen to it I half-expect Mos or Talib to chime in with a few verses. Other beats sound like Primo. "Juicen' Dranks", with Detroit's Ta'raach is the most J5 -sounding tune, if not only for T's Chali 2na -like guest verses and the Jayou-esque flute.

All in all it's very good, and very.. indie. Yeah, good description, right? Just go download, listen, and purchase if you like it enough.

Blu & Exile - "My World Is..", from Below the Heavens
Blu & Exile - "Blu Colla Workers", from Below the Heavens
Blu & Exile feat Ta'raach - "Juicen' Dranks", from Below the Heavens
Mos Def - "Ms Fat Booty", from Black on Both Sides
Mos Def - "Speed Laws", from Black on Both Sides
Jurassic 5 -"Jayou", from Jurassic 5

Purchase Blu & Exile Below the Heavens from Amazon.
Purchase Blu & Exile Below the Heavens from iTunes.
Purchase Mos Def Black on Both Sides from Amazon.

BluSpace.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Diez

Yesterday after my final exam I treated myself to one of the things I do best: anything but schoolwork. I didn't do anything too crazy, but I enjoyed it more than usual because I didn't have that nagging feeling that I usually do when I write this blog, which is that I should be studying. It was frickin awesome. And then I did like this lil gumper and chillaxed a little.

I uploaded these tunes a few days ago, anticipating some procrastinating digression from studying in the form of blogging, but it never happened. And then I took yesterday off. And I should be cleaning my house right now, because it's turning into Chez de McCormick this weekend as my roommie's family crashes it. But those songs are just sitting out there not being enjoyed, so go enjoy them already.

I'm considering this the 10th and perhaps final Favorite Songs of 2007 post. Some of these are songs I've enjoyed all year, but some are songs I just nabbed off Pitchfork's best of 2007 list last week and I liked immediately. It never ceases to amaze me-- and always bugs me-- that out of the 100 songs they post, there are always at least 30% which I've never ever ever heard of.

Most of the new favorites I pulled from there, however, were from bands like Nick Cave's Grinderman, avant tardesters the Liars, and the Tori Amos-esque Bat for Lashes. I never really felt like giving these bands a chance based on their previous material, hype surrounding them, or just because I don't like the way they look. Well, maybe I should have and maybe I still won't. In any event, before I take another swig of my IPA, I first raise it up and offer a toast for the sake of judging books by their covers [and almost always being right]. Without further..

Daniel Rossen [of Grizzly Bear, Department of Eagles] - "Too Little Too Late" [JoJo cover], from the Grizzly Bear blog
Kelly Clarkson - "Fading", bonus track from import version of My December
Grizzly Bear - "He Hit Me", from Friend
Menomena - "Shirt", unreleased
Liars - "Plaster Casts of Everything", from Liars
White Denim - "All Truckers Roll", from forthcoming Workout Holiday
Bat for Lashes - "Horse and I", from Fur and Gold
Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues", from Grinderman
Deerhunter - "Wash Off", from Flourescent Grey
Gogol Bordello - "Forces of Vistory", from Super Taranta

Check out the rest of my 2007 favorites here.

Gogol Bordello, by the way, is my new obsession. I dismissed them earlier this year as a novelty act, but WOW every song is like a gypsy dance party. I think that if Pale Young Gentlemen started drinking heavily and let themselves go a little, spent some time in a gypsy camp outside Budapesht, they may eventually turn into something like Gogol Bordello.

And holy balls, I just discovered that the lead singer is in fact Alex from Everything is Illuminated. How did I not know this?! I thought of Alex the first time I ever heard Gogol, but never thought they were one in the same. Wicked.

Haven't seen the movie? Go get it now. It's hilarious, touching and just simply all-around amazing.



The band actually appears in the movie in this clip.

Happy holidays to everyone. I truly hope you have a peaceful next few weeks with family and friends. I'll pop in and share stuff when I have the resources and time.

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Covers!, etc

Coke Machine Glow's recent podcast featured their Fantasy Covers Project, where they asked some of their favorite bands to go and cover some of this past year's best/favorite tunes. You can download the 45 min-long continuous podcast from their site, or else you can make me feel like some of my own hard work wasn't all for naught and go download a zip of all the songs, split and tagged by yours truly.

Downlizzle that shizzle, here.

My immediate favorites was The Blacks' cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black". Also worthy of note is The Hood Internet track, in which they take a different approach than usual and incorporate several tracks into one.. The Main Drag's "All My Friends" is good, too, if you weren't satisfied by neither John Cale's nor Franz Ferdinand's versions. Deer Tick's rendition of "Beautiful Girls" is refreshing for those who can't take any more of the original. Also, Menomena's leadman tries to do The National's "Fake Empire" justice, but it's pretty dam hard to top the original-- or even come close. But that's alright, Menomena boys-- I liked your album better than The National's anyway, so you're both still winners. And just to show how much, here's two cool videos.

The National "Fake Empire" live on Letterman


Menomena "Evil Bee"


If I had the ambition and resources, I'd re-direct this video using only clips from Bee Movie.

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They've got the wrong blog

Ha!

I know I sometimes use big words like spank, hipster, y'all, shizzle, heezy, teiam, hiphopopotamus, beaver, pitchfuck, scrabulous, and warfair, to mention a few examples of my apparent scholarly awesomeness. But, seriously-- postgrad college reading level? That's gonna steer away all the lowbrow audiences I'm trying to attract.

And because this is a music blog.. actually, I've been listening to nothing but Spank Rock and Vanessa Carlton the past few days, so I have nothing new to offer.

That's only partially true.. I'll have something later.

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WTF? Vanessa Carlton, that's WTF, B!

Yes. Seriously. This girl has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, but.. why should I feel guilty? Screw that, I'm embracing it. First it was "A Thousand Miles" which I heard a brasilian times on the radio but was always too embarrassed to ask about. Then when I was hit again with "White Houses", I recognized the voice and piano, and just had to know. That song remains to be the the best thing to come about a girl losing her virginity since this beautiful romantic masterpiece.


Anyway, Vanessa has a new album, Heroes & Thieves. I'm not going to tell you the whole album's amazing, because the sad truth of the matter is that it probably isn't. But she does once again deliver one quite awesome tune, the opener and first single "Nolita Fairytale". It's the whole point of this post, really. "This Time" ain't bad, either. Disappointing is the track which Stevie Nicks appears on. You decide for yourself. Parts of it remind me of "American Pie". Don McLean's, not the stupid movie.

Download [click song title], Buy [click album title]

"Nolita Fairytale", from Heroes & Thieves
"This Time", from Heroes & Thieves
"The One" feat Stevie Nicks, from Heroes & Thieves
"A Thousand Miles", from Be Not Nobody
"White Houses", from Harmonium

And look, she's hella cute, too.

In every single one of these pictures, she's looking right at me.

Except this one. I probably just said something stupid and she was trying to look mad.

In the one she's looking at my picture on the floor.

I think I'll make "WTF?" a recurring theme, where I tell you all of the wonderful things I listen to when no one else is around.

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Party Rap! Plastic Little and the rest of Philly

NBC of Plastic Little

I hate using the word rap-- I think of the first time I heard Bone Thugs or Doggystyle. But party hip hip just doesn't have the same zing to it.

Anyway, PackofRats, SQUID, No Body's Child and Jon Thousand, collectively as Plastic Little, have been bangin club speakers all year [perhaps not here in Madison, but some club speakers, somewhere]. And my speakers here at home have sustained some Plastic treatment as well. They are about as close as I can get in my ceaseless quest to quench my Spank Rock thirst. Like Spank, they're from Philly and they also work with my favorite foul-mouthed female emcee Amanda Blank.

That's her on the left, with Naeem Juwan, aka Mr. Spank Rock. As these hipster/ party/ rap kids tend to be the trendsetters so all I have to say is jah fucking help us all if those shorts make a comeback.

Anyword.. Below are a few various tracks from the posse.. spotlighting a couple Plastic Little joints, as well as their Philly brethren Pase Rock. You may remember Pase Rock from this Teiam Player smash hit, where they were teamed up with some Primus.

Word, y'all.

Download
Plastic Little - "I'm Not a Thug"
Plastic Little - "Jump Off"
Plastic Little feat Spank, Amanda, & Ghostface - "Crambodia"
Plastic Little feat Spank & Diplo - "Now I'm Holler", featuring a PJ Harvey sample
Pase Rock feat Diplo - "The Motherfucking Rave is Over"
Aaron Lacrate feat Amanda, Spank - "Blow"
Spank & Benny Blanco as Bangers & Cash - "Pu$$y", from Bangers & Cash
Spank Rock feat Amanda - "Bump", from Yoyoyoyoyo --skip straight to 4:00 to hear Amanda wax poetic in her best appearance to date
Santogold feat Spank - "Shove It"
Chromeo feat Pase Rock - "Bonafide Lovin'" [Eli remix]

And go here for a little Eli remix of Britney's "Gimme More" featuring miss Amanda Blank

Buy
Plastic Little - She's Mature
If you really need to buy any of the other stuff, look first at Turntable Lab.

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On a separate note, Santogold deserves her own post.. I am simply too lazy to go ahead and do it, so instead go to the SantoSpace and go read some other posts that other bloggers have written.
Trust me, if you're a fan of the idea of a strange hybridization of M.I.A. and Karen O, then you only owe it to yourself. Have I ever led you astray? Fine, see it here for yourself.


That's Spank Rock who comes out dancing like a crazy twelve year old white boy.


Coke and wet bitch, guns ninja holllllllllllla.

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Kaki King

Before Wednesday I knew nothing about the girl who calls herself Kaki King. But I had gotten hold of the August Rush soundtrack because I had heard good things about it. I wasn't totally impressed with the entire soundtrack-- or at least haven't yet been-- but the tracks which stood out immediately were Kaki King's.

They are two instrumentals, with some echo/delay and possibly looping effects, and they are really nice. I can see them fitting into that movie pretty well, as there is a little hint of Celtic flavor present. I went and found her 2006 release Until We Felt Red, and am digging it.

She employs some of the same vocal looping techniques that my absolute favorite Spanish-speaking artist Juana Molina does. Most likely because of that depth, some tracks I'm beginning to like it more each time I listen to them, as I do with Juana's music. Some of the tracks on Red are instrumental, some she sings on, uses a drum machine and synth on one ["Gay Sons", below], and some get kinda heavy with her getting to bang out on what sounds like multiple drumkits [she was, apparently, originally a student of the drums] as well as electric guitar and bass.

Kaki playing album opener "Yellowcake" live in studio:



And another which shows her bad-ass side and displays her pretty damn good skills, in 2004's "Playing With Pink Noise":



Download:
Kaki King - "Bari Improv", from August Rush OST
Kaki King - "Ritual Dance", from August Rush OST
Kaki King - "Yellowcake", from Until We Felt Red
Kaki King - "Gay Sons of Lesbian Lovers", from Until We Felt Red
Kaki King - "Playing With Pink Noise", from an NPR live in-studio performance, November 2004
Dave Grohl feat Kaki King - "Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners", from Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

Purchase from Amazon:
Kaki King - Until We Felt Red
Various Artists - August Rush OST
Purchase from iTunes:
Kaki King - Until We Felt Red
Various Artists - August Rush OST

In the totally-unrelated realm:

Happy Birthday, Ma!

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I'm from the city in the midwest, best city in the whole wide wide world

Oh. Emm. Gee.

It leaked.

I got it.

I'm freaking.

It's almost 1am and I have a paper to finish, but this is so damn good.... so far.

Earlier today I went and nabbed a few tracks that surfaced on the net. Get them from IndieMuse. I rocked them each about twelve times on my computer here at home, twelve times on my laptop on campus, and twelve times while walking to and fro.

Here's another from the album, "Go Go Gadget Flow", which may now be my new favorite. Download it.

You're makin 'em wanna do right, Lu.

And I'm tryin'a graduate from skool, Lu.

I've got my go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-go-gadget flow.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Nueve

I really want to go dancing right now.

Of Montreal - "The Past is a Grotesque Animal", from Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends", from Sound of Silver
Gui Boratto - "Beautiful Life", from Chromophobia
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "When Your Mind's Made Up", from Once OST
Andrew Bird - "Plasticities", from Armchair Apocrypha
The Cool Kids - "88", from The Bake Sale [forthcoming?]
White Rabbits - "The Plot", from Fort Nightly

There's a Teiam Player track out there somewhere using "The Plot". Go look for it if you missed it and care.

The rest of the favorites are here.

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Lupe Mixtape

Wow, so I'm waaaayy behind on this, but.. go check out the promo bootleg mixtape here, to hold you over until next Tuesday.

ZIP format.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Ocho

More. 2007 favorites.

Holy SNOWses, man. It was really coming down out there all day here in Madison.

Inadvertent theme: animals. Advertent theme: Beirut.

Caribou - "Niobe", from Andorra
Beirut - "Nantes", from The Flying Club Cup
Beirut - "Forks and Knives [La Fete]", from The Flying Club Cup
Beirut - "Elephant Gun", from Lon Gisland
Grizzly Bear - "He Hit Me", from Friend
Department of Eagles - "No One Does it Like You", from Gold Suits [forthcoming]
Poni Hoax - "Antibodies", from Antibodies
Bodies of Water - "I Heard It Sound", from Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink [forthcoming]
Kanye West feat Young Jeezy - "Can't Tell Me Nothin" [remix], from Graduation

Yeah I totally can't decide on my favorite Beirut song, so you get spoiled. If you haven't latched on yet, the album is totally rad and beautiful and amazing and addicting.

Go see more of my favorites.

Y'all are hereby warned that after Wednesday I will most likely return to my old rambling self. Same amount of music, a lot more words to sift through to get it.

Word.

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Oh, Neon Neon

Everyone who was in serious Spank Rock mode earlier this year and surfed blogs trying to get a much-needed fix in the wake of Yoyoyoyoyo has probably already heard the Spank Rock-, Amanda Blank- and Har Mar Superstar -featuring "Trick for Treat". The tune dropped on the NeonSpace and was leaked somewhere in high-quality format. Although that happened in the spring of this year, the album isn't being officially released until 2008, and it may [or totally may not be, as I'm often wrong] be the indie cousin to "Crazy".

Neon Neon is the Super Furry Animals lead animal Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip together. Boom Bip in the past has always made pretty chill beats, but earlier this year released Sacchrilege, which was more an electro EP [and was even featured in a Teiam Player tune, featuring Rhianna; you may have the chance to hear it someday]. Anyway, Gruff Rhys offered vocals on "Dos and Don'ts" [MP3 below], the best cut from Boom Bip's 2005's Blue-eyed in the Red Room, and then apparently the two showed a liking for each other, creating Neon Neon sometime between then and now.

So the album should drop in 2007 but since they knew they had us waiting for so long anyway, they released the the "Raquel" double A-sided single, which contains a Hot Chip remix of "Trick for Treat" as well as the original, and an alternate mix of the title track.

I don't care who Raquel is. I can't stop listening to this.
[edit: in case you didn't notice it, it really absolutely truly indeed is about Raquel Welch. Awesomer.]

Boom Bip feat Gruff Rhys - "Dos and Don'ts", from Blue-eyed in the Red Room
Neon Neon - "Raquel", from Raquel

iTunes the MP3s here.
Get the Neon wax or CD-S straight from the record label, Lex.
Pre-order the album from Insound.

Now let's get back to writing papers.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Siete

Good weekend? Good. Let's get back to the grind. To help your week, some more of my faves.

Why? - "The Hollows", from The Hollows
Cave Singers - "Seeds of the Night", from Invitation Songs
Yeasayer - "2080", from All Hour Cymbals
Venetian Snares - "Integraation", from My Downfall
Jonquil - "Lions", from Lions
Hot Chip - "My Piano", from My Piano
Junior Boys - "Like a Child" [Carl Craig remix], from Dead Horse
Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass", from None Shall Pass
Arcade Fire - "My Body is a Cage", from Neon Bible

Bonus Teiam Player: Arcade Fire + TV on the Radio =
Teiam Player - "My Body is a Wolf Like Me"

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New Teiam Player

Matt Pond PA + Blu Cantrell
=
Teiam Player - "People Hit 'em Up Style"

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Animal Collective: New Favorite Band?

I've always been an Animal Collective fan. Yes, I was born one, alright? No, actually I don't remember exactly when I became one, or how I found out about them, but I'm sure it had to do something with Pitchfork or a blog. And then an old roommate [you know who you are] bought me Feels on vinyl for my birthday [because I'm sometimes a jerk, she thought I didn't appreciate it very much but I really did].

Anyway, this year's Strawberry Jam has, as recently reported, become one of my favorites of the year. And so I went around looking for all the AC stuff I didn't already have. What I found was something I remember seeing but never listened to. It's a 2005 EP they did with Londonese 70s folk sonsgtress Vashti Bunyan, who recently became cool with indie kids as they re-discovered her album. The EP is called Prospect Hummer and is worth getting if you like the song below.

Animal Collective with Vashti Bunyan - "I Remember Learning How To Drive"
From previous FaveSongs2007 post: "Chores"
More AC from The Hype Machine.

Here's the official video for Strawberry Jam cut "Peacebone".




If the video isn't working, which for some reason it wasn't for me, click here.

Purchase Animal Collective shiz here.

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Also, head on over to Pop Headwound to check out some chill covers of some of your favorite pop songs by Wakey!Wakey!. Just don't go by the band name because yes, I too find it obnoxious. Some signs point to this being a band but all the signs from the covers offered at PHW point to A Guy, His Piano And His Voice. My favorite is definitely "Say It Ain't So".

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Favorite Band of the Week: Figurines

Denmark's Figurines and their 2007 album When the Deer Wore Blue have jetted themselves to the top of my listening order the past few days. And they've done it with poppy but not shallow tunes the likes of which I don't remember hearing on last year's blog-heralded Skeletons.

On Skeletons, I recall thinking these guys are trying to be the Danish Modest Mouse, as lead singer Christian Hjelm really did sound a little like the drunken masochist Isaac Brock. Only not drunken nor masochistic, as far as I've heard. But he is Danish, so he probably talks a little funny, by our standards.

Anyway, maybe I should go give that album another listen. That's if I can ever stop listening to this one. Seriously, in the last week it went from non-contender to currently sitting in the honorable mention section of my favorite albums of this year.*

So here are a few of the songs that did it for me:

"Childhood Verse"
"Let's Head Out"
"Drunkard's Dream"

Go buy When the Deer Wore Blue here.

*this much-alluded-to list which I may or may not contemplate, decide upon, type up and publish here soon. Until then, read the Muzzle of Bees picks. I may not agree with.. well, half of that list but MoB is without a doubt one of the best blogs around, even though you may not know it as well as Brooklyn Vegan or Gorilla vs Bear or Stereogum. Ryan spends so much bloody time on that thing, he's like Pitchfork in one body. Only nicer. It's unreal; he must not have a job. Just kidding, he does have a job. I'm sure he does. He probably does. Maybe he does. I hope he does. He's just really passionate about music. Anyway, loads of interviews, album and concert reviews, etc etc. And ya know what? He's a Madisonite, too. And he may be bonkers for ranking Boxer higher than The Flying Club Cup on his list [and Yeasayer and Menomena and Radiohead and LCD Soundsystem, for that matter], but I think I'm in the minority on that one [seriously, what's the big deal about the National anyway?].

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Hippomothamus: Rhyming in Rainbows

I was searching for news on the In Rainbows bonus disc when I stumbled across Hippomothamus. Immediately, I thought of Gemaine and Brit, aka Hiphopopotamus & Rhymenocerous.

But it's not! It's Hippomothamus, and I was surprised that there was nothing else out there about him, except his blog. So naturally I had to write something. What he did was made a mixtape sampling In Rainbows and some original beats over the top, and hip hop acapellas from the likes of the Beastie Boys, Blackalicious, Mos Def, Jurassic 5 and Kanye.

It's no masterpiece, but it's not too bad. So far my favorite is "It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop", which is Dead Prez over "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" [which is my favorite on In Rainbows as well, which probably explains that].

Since the sampling source is kinda limited, some of the tunes are rather simplistic, and some vocals just don't work well with the beats. Idunno.. The beat production is definitely the best part; I'd like to get my hands on some of his beats and try some other vocals. Anyway, overall it's pretty good; an ambitious project no doubt.


Go decide for yourself. It's worth the free download and the listen, if you're into Radiohead and hip hop. Download the entire album from Hippo's blog, or stream each tune.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Seis

Happy Snowy Day, Madisonites. I helped shovel the weekend's snow-turned-to-ice from my friend's driveway this afternoon, and by the time we were done my car was totally covered in a beautiful fluffy blanket. And now I want to go snowboarding.

Here's another list of tunes. Faves. From this year. Hence the title.

Kano - "The Layer Cake", from some bootleg mixtape
Menomena - "Evil Bee", from Friend or Foe
St Vincent - "Now Now", from Marry Me
Yeasayer - "Wait for the Summer", from All Hour Cymbals
Kelly Clarkson - "Never Again" [no, seriously; I mean it's no "Since U Been Gone", but let's not kid ourselves, what is?], from My December
Dntel feat Grizzly Bear - "To a Fault", from Dumb Luck
Pase Rock - "Lindsay Lohan's Revenge", from Lindsay Lohan's Revenge 12"
Brazos - "Miss Virginia", A City Just as Tall [I'm buying my copy from iTunes as I type]

Bonus! Teiam Player's keep-the-perversion-going remix of Pase Rock tune, featuring Primus's "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver". You do the math. Ok, I will.

Pase Rock + Primus = "LiLo's Big Brown Beaver"

Buy your new favorite artists here, here, here or here [Insound, Other Music, iTunes Store, or Amazon].

Be sure to check out all the other favorites.

Now go play in the snow.

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Cinco

I have a few busy days ahead of me and am in the middle of one right now, so it'll most likely be a week of few words for me, at least until I need to come here for solace and for my own sanity. Lucky for you, I'll keep on yesterday's habit of just producing a few short lists. Today, it's two old Teiam Player tracks and a few other Favorites of 2007 which, at the time of typing this were still undecided.

I'm also skimping on the linkage, because I just can't be bothered to do so. To buy anything below, head over to Insound or Other Music or Amazon, ore simply crack open your iTunes.

Okkervil River - "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe"
!!! - "Sweet Life"
Battles - "Atlas"
Digitalism - "Zdarlight"

Teiam Player:
The Islands "Rough Gem" + Outkast "B.O.B" = "R.G.O.B"
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone "Young Shields" + Cadence Weapon "Sharks" = "Young Shark Shields"

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Favorite Songs of 2007, Part Cuatro

An almost wordless post; only the necessary ones [ie, no fun].

Some more of my favorite songs of 2007 and the albums to purchase them from [with links to do just that].

Pela - "Cavalry", from Anytown Graffiti; 88%
Modest Mouse - "Spitting Venom", from We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank; 60%
Jose Gonzalez - "Down the Line", from In Our Nature; 62%
Animal Collective - "Chores", from Strawberry Jam; 90%
M.I.A feat Timbaland - "Come Around", from Kala; 64%
Decibully - "If I Don't Work", unreleased
Ghostface - "Chunky", from J-Love's Street Savior Part 5 [bootleg mixtape]; 23%
Reina Boone - "Beauty of It", from her self-released sampler EP; 24%
White Denim - "Mess Your Hair Up", from Let's Talk About It; 31%

All truckers roll.

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Other news: I kinda can't wait for The Cool.

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