tu(n)esday!

Come alive...

Centred on you...

Pretty baby...

Smoove operator...

I keep falling...

Disappear...

People...

Wonderland...

Go out & get some...

Fear of Dawn mixtape!

Bows & arrows...

my liquor

New Kanye West cover from ceo.





free mp3 here

tu(n)esday!

Long awaited single from CEO

LeMarquis repaints "Fences"

2 Billion Beats makes over "John & Mary"

LUXXURY freshens up The Clash

Diplo makes "Will Calls" to Grizzly Bear

Funk LeBlanc D.A.R.E.s to remix "A Fleur De Vous"

Cyclist makes "Tough Love" tougher

Wookie Wookstar kicks "Voices" into a higher gear

Bixel Boys takes it back (free mixtape with lots of 90s goodies)

teenage dream

OK, I think I found my newest guilty pleasure: Katy Perry's Teenage Dream. I never really felt her that much before but the new album is so fun and catchy. There are some irritating moments and much of it is way too overproduced (as was Christina Aguilera's overblown release this year... I wish that pop producers would just scale back a bit with their noise. Songs like "Single Ladies" have been hits for being refreshingly spare). Is Teenage Dream deeper though than what the critics think? Yes, "Peacock" is ridiculous--it will surely piss off straight-male music critics but it's really a harmless inversion of misogyny. Like Ke$ha, Perry is sometimes cloyingly over-knowing and embracing of her manufactured pop identity. Calling Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" clip sacrilegious over Twitter makes me suspect of Perry's limitations as an artist. Yet on this album, Perry shows she has more of an edge than previously expressed--an independent woman ("I'm not gonna stay / and watch you circle the drain") with a bit more attitude. It's an uneasy world and like Perry, in her late-20s, I can relate to seeking that lost "teenage feeling." The album is about not wanting to grow up but facing reality as well.

Also loving:

MGMT - "Congratulations"

CEO - "Illuminati"

come with me

This song has been going through my head all week.

"Come With Me" by ceo