Robyn was on SNL over the weekend and performed Call Your Girlfriend and Dancin on My Own from her 2010 Body Talk album. She killed it!
After checking that out see her do a cover of Alicia Keys’s (s’? ‘s? s’s?) Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart for an iheartradio performance.
And if that’s not enough, watch Who’s That Girl? over on YouTube. The feeling I get when I see the face she makes at :16-:17 confirms I have a crush on this girl. Swoon!
I have been listening to the Foster the People album, Torches, nearly every day. This is quality stuff. Between FTP and Cults I have been busy!
Yeah yeah and it’s okay.
I tie my hands up to a chair so I don’t fall that way.
Yeah yeah and I’m alright.
I took a sip of something poison but I’ll hold on tight.
I failed the 30 day Song Challenge, clearly, but I was on a roll for about two weeks. Maybe we’ll just call it the 15-day song challenge.
I saw this on Kottke today and I had to share.
Miles Davis’s So What with animated sheet music.
Day 14: A song that no one would expect you to love
I love this Katy Perry Song. I LOVE IT. My daughter and I do parody versions all the time, replacing the words with what we actually did that day.
Last Friday Night – Katy Perry
I managed to get a Spotify account. Follow me!
The award-winning music service that’s taken Europe by storm has now come to U.S. shores. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly, on your computer and your phone. Any track. Any time. Anywhere.
More on what Spotify is.
View the original by Lulu and the Lampshades, cup routine and all.
I’m inexplicably excited about this album dropping.
Cups of the Rose
Bitches in my old phone
I should call one and go home
I’ve been in this club too long
The woman that I would try
Is happy with a good guyBut I’ve been drinking so much
That I’ma call her anyway and say
“Fuck that nigga that you love so bad
I know you still think about the times we had”
I say “fuck that nigga that you think you found
And since you picked up I know he’s not around”
Heard this today. Good stuff.
1979, the year of Off the Wall and his first nose job, marks an obscure crisis. Around the start of that year, they offer him the gay lead in the film version of A Chorus Line, but he declines the role, explaining, “I’m excited about it, but if I do it, people will link me with the part. Because of my voice, some people already think I’m that way—homo—though I’m actually not at all.”
GQ article, September 2009.
Kind of Screwed is an awesome read about fair use in which Andy Baio, writer of waxy.org, got kicked in the teeth to the tune of $32k for pixelating Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue album cover photograph for his Kind of Bloop project.
…Kind of Bloop [is an] 8-bit tribute to Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, one of my favorite albums of all-time. I’ve always wondered what chiptune jazz covers would sound like. What would the jazz masters sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga?
To be honest, it’s sounds crazy but it’s an interesting listen for sure. Kind of Blue is one of my favorite albums. Hearing it in 8-bit form is strange, to say the very very least.
Linked below that story was 80′s Album Covers Recreated With Comic Book Heroes and I feel obliged to share. These were all done by Cliff Chiang.
The Breakfast Club
Purple Rain
Control
I’m heading to Kansas City this week to see Ray LaMontagne & the Pariah Dogs, opener Brandi Carlile, and special guest The Secret Sisters at the Starlight Theater.
My favorite dance move is at 1:47
The sky was blue and the night was all I wanted. Let me be your comet, I will fly.