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How was your year? Did you fall below the poverty line? Did you occupy something? Did you punch a Tea Partyer in the groin for ensuring the American Dream may forever languish behind your fading childhood memories? Maybe you lost your job because of real-life pressures or perhaps you stopped watching The X Factor and started recording your own shit. Whatever you did, here’s a few songs you might not have heard this year, because clearly you suck:
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Ranking the top artists of the past 365 days is a tricky proposition. What seemed like a simple enough question when we asked you to rate 100 top artists becomes a labyrinth of questions regarding the state of music in 2011. Is dance music really taking over the American landscape, or does hip-hop still rule the minds of music fans? Is it fair to nominate an act that didn’t release a proper record this year, when the internet has made the act of releasing albums virtually obsolete? Did some acts hustle hard for voters while others sat back and let the votes come in? …MORE
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DJ Shadow has released the third video off his recent album, The Less You Know The Better. The song features Little Dragon singer Yukimi Nagano, who has become something of the goto vocalist for electronic producers looking to add some human voice to their compositions. The video, directed by Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond, is less literal than Shadow’s previous “Border Crossing” clip, which took literal translation of the song’s pro-immigration subject matter. But the intro clip featuring a guy who can memorize a deck of cards is pretty neat-o.
Let’s look the history of the Hood Internet:
Rick Ross vs CSS / Tag Team vs LCD Soundsystem / Ghostface Killah vs Beirut /M.I.A. vs Vampire Weekend / The Cool Kids vs The Dodos / and more recently /Wallpaper vs Genesis / Tune-yards vs Rihanna / Little Dragon vs Kelly Rowand
It boggles the mind of what these two mad geniuses can create. I didn’t even know these two songs can mash up but they do and it’s amazing: it’s dance-crazy, it’s rock-crazy, it’s wickedly crazy. That is why I call them the “Kings of Mash-Ups;” and hey, I might even go as far and say that they are the Kings of DJs (I might… but I won’t).
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