Dirty Roots

I'm a lil late to the game when it comes to listening to the new Roots album How I got over. Whilst givin it a solid spin it was brought to my attention that the trio of hotties from Dirty Projectors sing harmonies on the track A peace of light which is a solid intro to the next track Radio Daze. A track where ?uestlove's jazzy drum beats shine. I was a little weary of the whole jump that they made to being the back up band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I thought it might affect their street cred. I never thought about how it would benefit them in having amazing collaborations. This album is chuck full of team-ups from Monsters of folk to Joanna Newsome, to John Legend. It just goes to show that even a group as amazing and timeless as The Roots can still do awesome new things.

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4th Bangin BBQ jams!!!

The 4th is here and my BBQ is gonna be pumpin out wieners Like Lindsay Lohan after two cosmos and an eight ball. here's a lil playlist I threw together to get those summertime vibes kickin. Happy 4th and party hardy. HOOTY HOOOO!!!!!

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Summer holiday

So I've been rockin this video on the large for the last week or so. Wild nothing is pumping out those sunshine vibes with awesome high end guitar licks that aren't too fancy and have the perfect feel for skateboarding, pounding beers and mackin face with hotties. Summer Holiday is over flowing with heartache (the good kind). This jam's most definitely gonna be on my 4th of July bangin BBQ mix.

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got me in stitches

A while back The morning benders teamed up with the echo chamber orchestra to record the song excuses to get that larger than life sound. The folks from yours truly edited some footage from it to make an all in all pretty great visual and audio experience. Apparently they shot more than just that song cause a few days back they released a video for the song "Stitches" though a slower more down tempo song, the effect of the large band is not lost and benifits the song especially during the howling portions of the track.

Yourstru.ly Presents: The Morning Benders "Stitches" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

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Dirty Projectors and Björk Team up

Last year Björk and Dirty Projectors Played a small benefit show in a New york bookstore in which they collaborated a set of songs that DP front man David Longstreth wrote based on a trip to Mount Wittenberg that DP vocalist/guitarist Amber Coffman had just gone on in which she had seen a family of whales. Finally after a year of crazy tour dates the two were able to team up to record Mount Wittenberg Orca seven songs filled with harmonizing and constant timing change-ups and last night it was released for download. All the proceeds are donated to the National Geographic Society to help protect our oceans, which at a time like this is more than necessary. Anyways here's a track called When the world comes to an end that should speak for itself.
Also here's a clip from that small intimate show that was played last year in New York

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Wavves leakage

The new Wavves album King of the beach has officially leaked (thanks momo) and I got my grubby little mitts all over that noise. As much trash as I was hoping to talk after hearing the early release of the track Post acid (no thank you) I got shot down, the album actually has quite a few high points. You definitely have to listen to it in it's entirety but yeah it's littered with style change ups through out. From the very drone-driven almost Animal Collective feel on the track
Mickey Mouse

to the overly poppy awesomeness of
Baby say goodbye


(good luck not whistling this tune all week) All around it's a pretty solid album

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Tennis the menace

Doo wop is back and here to stay for a while. This new track "Marathon" by Denver Colorado band Tennis is an excellent example of a positive stride towards reinventing such a rad and missed era of music. Not to mention the chick, Alaina Moore, is bangin...... but she's married to band-mate, Patrick Riley. So hands off ears open dewds.


and just for fun here's some footage of their first live show earlier this month with a song called Bimi Bay. Pretty rad stuff

TENNIS - Bimini Bay 6.5.10 from Scott Laidlaw on Vimeo.

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