Free Live Girl Talk Download

I just came across this free download of Girl Talk's performance from Yale's Spring Fling.Get it HERE

Two Semi-Related Thingsies

Hey there. Happy Friday. Firstly PHISH has released their new single "Time Turns Elastic" on I-Tunes. The boys are in the studio recording some new material before they hit the road for their long awaited Summer Tour beginning May 31st. Check out their Tour Dates HERE. Damn I'm excited, too bad I probably won't be going. Anyway.....

PHISH "TIME TURNS ELASTIC" AVAILABLE AT iTUNES from Phish on Vimeo.

Secondly, the Dave Matthews Band will release their upcoming album "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" which is dedicated to the band's saxophonist, the late Leroi Moore, who passed away this past august on June 2nd. BUT. You can go and stream the whole album from Pandora for free right now. So, go HERE and enjoy while you can, then go buy it on Tuesday. See these two things were sort of related. On a side note, I do realize that both of these pictures are extremely lame.

Baseball Dance-Off

This is pretty hilarious.

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Update

As I said a few weeks ago, the new album/project from producer Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse (Danger Horse? Sparklemouse?) will be released in packaging including a blank disc with no music on it. So, if you do end up purchasing it, download the album HERE, take the blank disc, put it in your computer, and burn yourself some tunes. Or if you'd rather...just download it. Enjoy.

Ch-Check It Out... New Beastie Boys Album

Last night on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" the Beastie Boys announced that they will be releasing their new album titled "The Hot Sauce Committee" this September. Gotta love the Beasties, I personally can't wait wait!

Check out their performance of the Beastie classic "So What'cha Want" HERE.

Davis and Dylan. Did You Know....?

Happy Memorial Day everyone. A little tidbit of information that I hadn't ever realized. Did you know that music legends Miles Davis and Bob Dylan were born two days apart from one another? (well and over a decade apart as well but nonetheless). Yep, that's right. Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan) was born on May 24, 1941 and two days later (and 15 years earlier) Miles Davis was born on May 26, 1926. Pretty cool that two of the greatest and most highly regarded musicians of all time almost share a birthday. Oh well, maybe it's not as cool as I think it is. Anyway. I'll leave you with a few videos of the guys.

New Radiohead in the Works?

Yahoooo! I can't say that I'm not excited:

Radiohead have started working on the follow up to their 2007 album In Rainbows. Bassist Colin Greenwood told 6 Music the Oxford band have been busy in the studio over the last week with producer Nigel Godrich. "It was very noisy and chaotic and really fun," he said. "It’s at the stage where we’ve got the big Lego box out and we’ve tipped it out on the floor and we're just looking at all the bits and thinking what’s next?"

"I'm very impressed and grateful for Nigel our producer and his ability to make it all sound vaguely plausible," he added. Greenwood, who was speaking at the Great Escape music festival in Brighton, where he was helping to launch a new music journal called Loops, gave no indication as to when the Oxford five-piece will be releasing their next record or whether they will be briging it out in a similar format to their last LP.

"It's at the stage where we've got the big Lego box out and we've tipped it on the floor." Colin Greenwood on Radiohead's new album. Last time, Radiohead offered fans the chance to choose how much they were prepared to pay for In Rainbows.

"We were just saying to people how much do you think we're worth?" he added.

"It's like a long term relationship and it was great because it kicked off lots of debate about it." The band have just finished touring with electro pioneers Kraftwerk in South America which Greenwood described as a "brilliant experience".

"They are one of our musical heroes and it was a real privilege to share a stage with them," he enthused.

"What I like about Kraftwerk is I obviously love the beats but I love their melodies too. They seep into your brain and stay there."

The five-piece are due to headline the Reading and Leeds Festivals this summer for a headline show where they have some unfinished business.

"It was a bit frustrating when we were playing some of our own shows last year because it was light for the first half hour, 40 minutes of the show," Greenwood said.

"So we wanted to do it as it was meant to be seen – darker and louder."

- (Jo Youle from BBC 6 Music)

Dark Night Of The Soul (Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse)

Apparently the new album/project from Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse titled "Dark Night Of The Soul" will not not even include any music on it! There are some sort of legal problems with EMI and for fear of being sued, the packaging of the album will contain a limited edition, hand numbered 100+ page book and will come with a blank recordable CD-R.

Although, that doesn't mean you can't hear the album for free online! I'm sure you can also download it on some P2P site but for now you can also stream the album in its entirety from NPR.

Check it out HERE

Updated Philadelphia Concert Schedule

Here are some upcoming concerts for the end of May into June in the Philadelphia area. Might be worth checking some of these out.

05/10/09: Sunday
The Crystal Method
Theater of Living Arts (TLA)

05/12/09: Tuesday
Animal Collective
Grouper

Electric Factory
Pomegranates
Kung Fu Necktie

Leonard Cohen
The Academy of Music

05/13/09: Wednesday
Marco Benevento Trio
Johnny Brenda's

05/14/09: Thursday
Spinal Tap
Keswick Theatre

Pepper
Pennywise
Big B
The Supervillains
Authority Zero
Electric Factory

05/15/09: Friday
Atmosphere
Attracted To Gods
Brother Ali
The Trocadero

05/16/09: Saturday
The Shins
Delta Spirit
Electric Factory

Grimace Federation
Agent Moosehead
The Players Club
Theatre of Living Arts (TLA)

05/17/09: Sunday
The Prodigy
Electric Factory

05/19/09: Tuesday
The Prodigy
Electric Factory

05/20/09: Wednesday
Easy Star All-Stars
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
World Cafe Live


05/29/09: Friday
The Derek Trucks Band
Ruthie Foster
Keswick Theater

05/25/09: Monday
Holy Fuck
Crocodiles
Kung Fu Necktie

05/29/09: Friday
The National
Colin Stetson's Flying Tigers
Electric Factory

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
JJ Grey & MOFRO
The Trocadero

05/30/09: Saturday
Dark Star Orchestra
Tea Leaf Green
Electric Factory

The Avett Brothers
The Trocadero

05/31/09: Sunday
Buckethead
Theatre of Living Arts (TLA)

Secret Chiefs 3
Death Vessel
First Unitarian Church

06/02/09: Tuesday
Grizzly Bear
Here We Go Magic
The Trocadero

06/05/09: Friday
Nine Inch Nails
Jane's Addiction
Street Sweeper
Susquehanna Bank Center

David Byrne
Devotchka
Mann Center for the Performing Arts

06/06/09: Saturday
The Roots
TV on the Radio
Busdriver
King Britt
Public Enemy
Santigold
Kid Cudi
Asher Roth
The Black Keys
Antibalas
Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing

Rubblebucket Orchestra
World Cafe Live

The Decemberists
Tower Theater

06/07/09: Sunday
Phish
Susquehanna Bank Center

06/08/09: Monday
AA Bondy
Holly Miranda
Kung Fu Necktie

Jenny Lewis
Deer Tick
The Trocadero

06/11/09: Thursday
John Vanderslice
The Tallest Man On Earth
Johnny Brenda's

Juggling Suns
Sweeney's Saloon

06/12/09: Friday
Eric Clapton
Steve Winwood
Wachovia Spectrum

The Bridge
The Brakes
World Cafe Live

06/17/09: Wednesday
Better Than Ezra
The Trocadero

Andrew Bird
Calexico
Tower Theater

06/18/09: Thursday
Jimmy Buffett
Susquehanna Bank Center

06/19/09: Friday
Harlem Shakes
Kung Fu Necktie

06/20/09: Saturday
Conspirator
Big Gigantic
Theatre of Living Arts (TLA)

Jimmy Buffett
Susquehanna Bank Center

Celtic Woman
Mann Center for the Performing Arts

Average White Band
Tower of Power
George Clinton
War
West Oak Lane Jazz And Arts Festival

06/22/09: Monday
Celtic Woman
Mann Center for the Performing Arts

06/23/09: Tuesday
Ozric Tentacles
Igor's Egg
Johnny Brenda's

06/26/09: Friday
Boz Scaggs
Michael McDonald
Mann Center for the Performing Arts

Mason Porter
Tin Angel

Femi Kuti
World Cafe Live

06/27/09 :: Saturday
The Slip
World Cafe Live

06/30/09: Tuesday
311
Ziggy Marley
Festival Pier @ Penn's Landing

Group You Might Not Know...

It's been a little while but here is this week's artist/group you may not know of. Duck Down Records and Boot Camp Clik rap group O.G.C (Originoo Gunn Clappaz). The group features three members (each with about 3 nicknames): Starang Wondah (Gunn Clappa Numba One, Big Will, Hurricane Starang, and Da Beast From Da East); Louville Sluggah (Gunn Clappa Numba Two, Hennyville Guzzler, Henny); and Top Dog (Gunn Clappa Numba Three, Big Kahuna, and D-O). This group is pretty slept on but their 1996 release, Da Storm made it to the #10 position on the R&B/Hip-Hop Charts. They have that classic raw hip hop sound that you can just put on and vibe to. Although the group hasn't put out anything since The Boot Camp Clik’s 2005 compilation release, The Last Stand, their early work stands the testament of time and is some quality old school hip hop. Check em' out.

Hurricane Starang - O.G.C.

Calm Before Da Storm - O.G.C.

Wild Cowboys In Bucktown - O.G.C.

Beatboxing at Google?

A friend of mine sent me this video and I thought it was pretty amazing. It's 18 minuets long and I actually watched the entire thing. Check out at least some of it. Man, Google must be a fun place to work...

100 Greatest Jazz Albums

Amazon has put together a list of the 100 Greatest Jazz albums of all time. A few of my favorites made the list (Stanley Clarke's School Days, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, Dave Brubeck's Take Five, as well as some others) Check it out and definitely give some of these a listen. I like to think that Jazz makes you smarter =).

1. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3. Charlie Parker / Dizzie Gillespie - Bird & Diz
4. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
5. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis
6. Getz/Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
7. Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea
8. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
9. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
10. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
11. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
12. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin’
13. Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings
14. John Coltrane - Blue Train
15. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
16. Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here
17. Dexter Gordon - Go!
18. Count Basie - Count Basie at Newport
19. Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda
20. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
21. Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans
22. Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
23. John Zorn - Naked City
24. Louis Armstrong - Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
25. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall
26. Clifford Brown & Max Roach - Clifford Brown & Max Roach
27. Dizzy Gillespie - Afro
28. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
29. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
30. Abbey Lincoln - Staright Ahead
31. Charlie Parker - Charlie Parker With Strings
32. Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Somethin’ Else
33. Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin
34. Coleman Hawkins - Body & Soul
35. Art Blakey - A Night in Tunisia
36. Stephane Grappelli - Afternoon in Paris
37. Andrew Hill - Compulsion
38. Thelonius Monk - Monk’s Dream
39. The Bad Plus - Suspicious Activity?
40. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
41. Herbie Hancock - Takin’ Off
42. Benny Goodman - The Famous Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert 1938
43. Oscar Peterson - The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
44. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
45. Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Great Summit
46. George Gershwin - Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue
47. Grant Green - Idle Moments
48. Sun Ra - Secrets of the Sun
49. Patricia Barber - Mythologies
50. Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
51. Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder
52. Carmen McRae - The Great American Songbook
53. Blossom Dearie - Once Upon a Summertime
54. Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
55. Lionel Hampton & Stan Getz - Hamp & Getz
56. Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley - Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley
57. David Axelrod - Song Of Innocence
58. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
59. Albert Ayler - Slugs’ Saloon
60. Branford Marsalis - Trio Jeepy
61. Roland Kirk - We Free Kings
62. Shirley Horn - Travelin’ Light
63. Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard
64. Diana Krall - Live In Paris
65. Clifford Brown - Clifford Brown with Strings
66. Milt Jackson - Bags & Trane
67. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
68. Etta Jones - Don’t Go To Strangers
69. Herb Ellis - Ellis in Wonderland
70. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
71. Rosemary Clooney - Blue Rose
72. Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
73. Helen Merrill - Helen Merrill
74. Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
75. Stanley Clarke - School Days
76. Brad Mehldau - Elegiac Cycle
77. Joshua Redman - Wish
78. Jason Moran - Artist in Residence
79. Ahmad Jamal - Ahmad’s Blues
80. Moondog - Sax Pax for a Sax
81. Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (From The Underground)
82. Duke Pearson - The Right Touch
83. Astrud Gilberto - The Astrud Gilberto Album
84. Chick Corea - Return To Forever
85. Bill Frisell - Blues Dream
86. Sarah Vaughn / Lester Young - One Night Stand - The Town Hall Concert 1947
87. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
88. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Full Force
89. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
90. Jimmy Scott - Mood Indigo
91. Elis Regina - Elis & Tom
92. Pat Metheny Group - Offramp
93. Stan Getz - Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio
94. Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet - Husky
95. Cuong Vu - Come Play with Me
96. Anthony Braxton - Five Compositions (quartet)
97. Madeline Peyroux - Careless Love
98. Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
99. Max Roach - M’Boom
100. Robert Glasper - In My Element

(Thanks NoiseAddicts.com)

Update: New Cool Kids Mixtape

Gone Fishing the new Cool Kids Mixtape is out today! Go download it HERE or HERE

New Cool Kids Track

The rap duo The Cool Kids are currently working on a new mixtape with Don Cannon titled "Gone Fishin'". Apparently it's a sort of prequel to their upcoming album "When Fish Ride Bicycles" that is supposed to be out I believe by the end of the year (December maybe?). Meanwhile here are two newly released tracks off of "Gone Fishin'". Both are pretty nice. Get em' !

Champions - The Cool Kids

Download "Champions" HERE

Popcorn - The Cool Kids

Download Popcorn HERE

VIMBY - Cool Kids & Don Cannon

Bob Weir

Has anyone else ever realized that Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead has an uncanny resemblance to a mouse? Anyone?

Anyway, The Dead are on tour right now. Check em out.

05/04/09 Mon Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL
05/05/09 Tue Allstate Arena Rosemont, IL
05/07/09 Thu Pepsi Center Denver, CO
05/09/09 Sat The Forum Inglewood, CA
05/10/09 Sun Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View, CA
05/14/09 Thu Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View, CA
05/16/09 Sat The Gorge George, WA
07/04/09 Sat Rothbury Music Festival Rothbury, MI