Nobody's gonna save my life

except maybe Mark Ronson and the Business Intl.

Somebody to Love Me- Mark Ronson
Featuring Boy George and Miike Snow


Also:

Pastel Group

I like these chilled out Boston folks (oxymoron?). They have a free EP you could download if you were to desire such a thing.
http://tiny.cc/mi4zx
This picture has nothing to do with the band, but is called Pastel Group and I like it.

Pastel Group's "Opinions And Thoughts" by clicky clicky music blog

I still love Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin

Their first album "Broom" is still one of my favorite cd's of the last decade. And all though I have not heard their new album from start to finish yet, the first single makes me very, very optimistic.

This is Sink/Let it Sway from Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin, their new album is titled "Let it Sway."

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And they're coming to the Mohawk on November 22 for a very cheap $10... I love Austin.

Second to Last Choice

I know everyone has been anxiously waiting for the October collection of Last Choices.

Here's the end bit of the link. Same deal as last month.

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Havana Cultura

Continuing the Gilles Peterson thread, he discovered this Cuban jazz vocalist along with a host of other talent during a couple of trips to Havana last year. Danay Suarez has an EP coming soon.

Records NOT Recordings

Gilles Peterson's 6th installment of music that we're all going to like. It's out now, but here's the taster.

Brownswood Bubblers Six // Teaser by Brownswood

Massive Classics

Teenager in the 90s, I hated 'Around the World' when it hit radio. I just wasn't ready for electronic music,  in a time when bands like Nirvana and RATM had given angsty teens everything they needed. But then, of course, I was victim of that trojan horse called OK Computer (1997). Motherfuckers took alt-rock kids and convinced them that electronic sounds were ok. That's how I was primed for Mezzanine (1998). As a little pushover project of a person, there was no way I was not obsessing with that album. It completely fucked me up. When Mezzanine came out, it forced me to go back to Blue Lines (1991) and everything from then on (Portishead, Tricky, Bjork, etc). Even worse, Mezzanine was my gateway drug into harder electronic music. Daft Punk's Homework, Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole, The Prodigy's Fat of The Land, all have a special place in my heart thanks to Massive Attack (and all of them are 1997 releases, fucking awesome year).

End of stroll down memory lane.

Here's a cool video from Massive Attack's Atlas Air (off of Heligoland - a meh album):

Massive Attack-Atlas Air-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

Stuck in Singer Songwriter Hell

Ralph aka Bob Jovi and I attended Troika Music Festival in Durham NC this past Saturday and as the title suggests we were quagmired by singer song writers. Although we placated ourselves through ever increasing vitriolic judgment calls, the music eventually made a turn for the better. As the night progressed and the cheap vodka, food coloring, and sugar built up in our blood this duet of chick rock saved the day.

Cassis Orange is from Chapel Hill, played a very danceable live show complete with cute flaunting flautist.



Pink Flag, chick punk, killer drummer, best _____ ever

Depressing Song for a Depressing Time

After the ass-whooping we received at the polls this past Tuesday, I've been listening to a lot of depressing songs. How appropriate that Cocorosie just released the video for their song Gallows.

Because misery loves company, here it goes so you can cry with me:

COCOROSIE - GALLOWS (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Emma Freeman on Vimeo.

Glamccordion

An entirely inappropriate follow-up to peterparkour's post, as this fluffy little song clocks in at 2:30. So be it, I like it.