Posted in music, tagged The War on Drugs on December 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The band is called The War on Drugs and their third album, Lost in the Dream, is coming out in March of 2014. I have the second record, Slave Ambient and enjoyed it.
Pitchfork calls their style Bossgaze. Pretty much daily I read about at least one new genre of music on Pitchfork.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Disclosure, Ed Sheeran, hearts, Hype Machine, Young Galaxy on December 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I have been posting songs up to Hype Machine now for awhile. I try to understand how it works, but after over a year I have no idea why some stuff gets the “hearts” and most does not.
I think generally electronic stuff out performs rock. Metal and punk? Forget about it… but then there are bizarre exceptions. Even the electronic stuff that takes off surprises me. On my latest post of remixes… the Ed Sheeran song “I See Fire” remix crushes, 13,000 hearts… its Ok. Not changing my world. People love it.
The next most popular would be Lorde at just under 2,000. Then to my ear, the best song of the set… Young Galaxy, despite 14 blogs whipping it, 709 hearts.
Some songs are very popular with blogs and get a lot of posts, but that doesn’t always translate into hearts.
I wonder if I can ask Hype Machine on the data of what type of people visit the site?
In all my worlds, there seems to be little crossover. Generally stuff that is popular on The Zone doesn’t chart very high on Hype Machine. And the stuff that crushes Hype Machine never gets requested when I DJ a dance party. I figure the internet is a big place and all the weirdoes who like a certain sound end up on Hype Machine…maybe inflating the importance? Maybe I live on an Island…
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I was thinking about Disclosure the other day. Their record Settle is considered one of the better dance records of 2013 by many critics….but the band has NEVER been requested to me when I DJ, ever. Granted…I generally DJ weddings, but still, you’d think the BEST dance record would get at least one request?
22,000 hearts on Hype Machine
over 5,000,000 plays on soundcloud
over 25,000,000 on Youtube
Critical praise
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Perfect Pussy on December 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I was trolling Pitchfork’s Top 100 songs of 2013…. number 37 is pretty great.
The band is called Perfect Pussy. Some lo-fi punk rock. Love the noise. The lyrics in this cut are hard to make out… but they post them, and when you follow along…it’s just whoa. Good song.
my best friend is back in town. there’s a bad taste in my mouth. her eyes fell low and heavy with shame and cum.
she must have been desperate; she acted so lonely. she is deserving of affection, i am glad that she found love.
what love lays bare in me is energy, so i give up that which keeps me going and i still end up lonely.
sick with loss and shame so i edit for mistakes to determine what i’d done that made her act this way.
she’ll forget her actions. someday i’ll forget her actions. ashes to ashes to ashes to ashes, we will all die someday.
i am full of light. i am filled with joy. i am full of peace. i had this dream that i forgave my enemies.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Arcade Fire, Lorde, Mid/Side Hustler, Unlike Pluto, Young Galaxy on December 16, 2013| 1 Comment »
It’s remix time and a I got a couple beauties for you.
Unlike Pluto remix Lorde’s “Glory & Gore.”
Something local… Victoria production team Mid/Side Hustler go for a deep house treatment on Arcade Fire’s “Reflektor.”
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Sorry one more… I think I posted this before but I have it on while reading the internet and I loves it.
Also… how about that Hobbit Movie? Pretty good… the Justin Bieber song that came on during the credits threw me for a loop, but when the bros behind me started booing (or maybe they were booing the cliffhanger ending?) I giggled.
Turns out it wasn’t Justin Bieber, it was Ed Sheeran.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Miley Cyrus, Tokyo Police Club on December 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Tokyo Police Club will bring us their third album in early 2014. The first radio single is promised for January. But to wet the whistle, the band gives us the humungous album cut “Argentina (part I, II, III).” a 9-ish minute TPC song? Strap in and feel the Gs!
So much to like about this song. There are a few lines that popped out at me.
“Girl I wish we had a conversation,
Face to face.
Because when you speak,
you speak in waves.”
“Oh what a girl I want you wearing my T-shirt,
XL
Yeah!
You wear it well.”
I am so excited for new TPC that I feel like Smiley Miley. Here we go Cover song FREAK THE FUCK OUT!
Go with yourself.
Posted in music on December 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
My man Nik posted his top Metal/weirdo records of the year and the only one that I had listened to was The Haxan Cloak.
Dark, meditative, like horror movie soundtrack type stuff.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Fitz and the Tantrums on December 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Jiving on the positive energy coming outta the speakers here at the radio factory. Fitz and The Tantrums‘ album More Than Just a Dream came out back in May. the single “Out of My League” was decent single in Canada (though we didn’t whip it to hard at The Zone).
The new single is called “The Walker.” Boitano was hoping it was a Walking Dead tribute song… sadly (or thankfully) its not. Good energy, upbeat, you can tell this song makes people get their boogy on.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Young The Giant on December 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
SPAACE BOOOK! Young The Giant hit us with a new single from their upcoming sophomore record Mind Over Matter (January 21st, 2014).
The new song’s music video is a spacey affair.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Outkast, Plastic Bertrand, Salvador G on December 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I really need to hit some lunch before hopping on the air today… but as I was about to shutdown the email, this beauty slid in.
They had me with 70s Punk in the subject heading.
Brooklyn based DJ duder Savador G has sourced 70s Belgian punks Plastic Bertrand‘s “Ca Plane Pour Moi” and pieced it together with the classic Outkast single, “Bombs Over Baghdad.”
This is a real high energy and fun song.
Go with yourself.
Posted in music, tagged Most Non Heinous, Tool on December 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
derp…. Day late. I am going to try to make Wednesday the cover song freakout day.
Most Non Heinous is rowdy bunch from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We know and love a few of their cuts on the radio here in Victoria. They recently(ish) laid down a cover of Tool’s 1996 hit “Stinkfist.”
Shout out to my man Seamus for the reminder on how great this song is.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 