TAG: Bruce Springsteen

Jan29

MIX: Vice x Bloc Party Mix

Vice has a mix from Top Billin, all Bloc Party tunes and the like:

‘We took on making a mix with that punk attitude, keeping the dynamics there so that it wouldn’ t be too smooth operator mix, but have that rock feel in it. The tracks in the mix are all related in Bloc Party, influences and tracks that they’ ve covered (like Prince) and of course kool tunes that are named block party. Hopefully you’ ll dig it.’

VICE x Bloc Party Mix by Top Billin (direct link)

Bloc Party: She’ s Hearing Voices (Erol Alkan’ s Calling Your Dub)
Eagle Boston: Wild Wild Ost
Pylon: Working Is No Problem
Delta 5: Mind Your Own Business
John Foxx: Underpass
Prince: I Would Die 4 You
…

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Jan27

Prom Night: Broke Down Party Bus Edition With Weezy

Thanks to the great folks at Universal Motown, I was one of the first people to check out Lil’ Wayne’s new single, ‘Prom Queen.’ If you haven’t heard, his next album is going to be a rock album. I know. You’re probably wondering the same thing I am, but rest assured, the album will go double platinum. Mark my word. But that’s neither here nor there. Apparently, it’s every rap artist’s ideal to want to cross over and no longer be seen as a rap artist but an ARTIST. You know, like Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel status. Jay hasn’t even been able to make it there.

The crazy part though is that Weezy is doing everything Kanye wishes he could do. He’s made a slow transition from being a hood rapper, …

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May19

Pharrell, Santogold and Julian Casablanca for Converse

Artists used to get together to help out a cause—USA for Africa, Band Aid, Artists Against Apartheid. Now it mostly seems like artists get together to sell shoes—like Kanye West, Nas, KRS-One and Rakim making a track for Air Force 1, or now Pharrell, Santogold and Julian Casablanca of the Strokes getting together for Converse—although according to Santigold, “get together” nowadays doesn’t mean much…

“We didn’t do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate,” she told Gigwise when revealing the track.

Maybe it’s the lack of interaction between artists that keeps them from ever even talking about important issues, let alone record songs in an attempt (however vain) to make the world a …

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Nov12

Bruce Springsteen – Magic (Review)

Bruce Springsteen

Magic

Released by Sony


Bruce Springsteen will always be the hopeless romantic gunning his guitar and howling about cars and girls. While that may seem like simple fare, the amount of legend Bruce injects into his tales makes two kids sneaking away to make out seem like eternally bonded lovers fighting an impossible struggle just to attain a single kiss. Later in his career (starting with the crushed hopes on Darkness on the Edge of Town), Bruce began to feel for his working class family and the struggles they had. Becoming politically conscious, ...

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Feb21

Random

Jim Carrey's iTunes Playlist after the jump:

1. Strawberry Letter 23 – The Brothers Johnson
“Classic lost song from the '70's. Makes you wanna be on roller skates, with a disco ball. Coincidence that the number 23's in the title? I think not.”
2. Breed – Nirvana
“One of my anthems. Put it on and imagine you're pummeling your foe's face into blood soup.”
3. My Immortal – Evanescence
“Gothic. Hauntingly beautiful voice. I like powerful women.”
4. One – Mary J. Blige & U2
“I love the light that shines through Mary. And U2's song can really lift you out of the muck”
5. Close to Me – The Cure
“This song makes me feel like I'm being held down and tickled.”…

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Jan05

Mr. Brightside Hates Wu-Tang

Surely, such hyperbolic lunacy is the devise of a desperate headline writer, right? URB knows a few people—forever to remain unnamed—who own less than six hip-hop albums and each one of these suckas likes Wu-Tang. And we bet that if you mull over the same nefarious figures of your lives, that Supreme Clientele, Liquid Swords, 36 Chambers, or the perennial rocker underdog favorite: Bobby Digital are treasured portions of their album collections. Ghostface tells SPIN otherwise…

According to an interview with SPIN, Ghostface says that he wanted to do a song with The Killers—more mash-up then Crash Collision—but that the band denied and focused their attention towards a collaboration with the Boss. If you can't imitate Bruce Springsteen, you might as well join him. Whether Brandon Flowers is to blame or if any …

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