Rusko takes the 2Pac/Dr. Dre classic and scuffs it up a touch.
2Pac – California Love (Rusko Remix)purchase
Rusko takes the 2Pac/Dr. Dre classic and scuffs it up a touch.
2Pac – California Love (Rusko Remix)bsci fave Eliza Doolittle holds nothing back when she throwsdown on this soulful cover of Cee-Lo Green’s “Fuck You”. shit is live, and damn it’s HOTTT! Eliza we’d never treat you wrong, call us!
Eliza Doolittle – Fuck You
J. Cole keeps the streak alive with this latest track surfaced from his anticipated Cole World LP. Alex da Kid works the boards for this gem that has hit written all over it..
J. Cole – I’m Coming Home (Produced by Alex da Kid)
Stones Throw let loose on yet another killer jam, this b-side is edIT of The Glitch Mob’s take on Machinedrum’s 2009 cut “Let It” feat. Melo-X. GET IT NOW on 12-inch!
Machinedrum – “Let It” Feat. Melo-X (edIT of The Glitch Mob Remix)and for those in the Halloween spirit… and who haven’t seen the following, check it..
timed up with Jagjaguwar’s (one of our fav labels) Monday release of Small Black’s debut New Chain LP, the label is throwing down on a free stream of the album for the next week. can you say soundcloud party? we can! New Chain is one of our most anticipated records of the year. and, yep, as is the m.o. for Jagjaguwar bands, Small Black definitely delivers, cause the LP pretty much slays. check it for yourself, push those play buttons!
HALLOWEEN.. AWWW YEAH!!! and this years mixtape kills it. so again we ask is the monster mash played out? yeah! do we give a fuck? no!
01. Curtiss King – Are You Afraid of the Dark
02. Smashing Pumpkins – Zero (Le Castle Vania Remix)
03. Colin Munroe – Bulletproof Monster (Feat. Nicki Minaj and La Roux)
04. Green Go – Brains for Breakfast
05. Grinderman – Hyper Tapeworm (UNKLE Remix)
06. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
07. The Diamonds – Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula
08. Roky Erickson – I Walked With A Zombie
09. O. Children – Dead Disco Dancer
10. Outkast – Dracula’s Wedding
11. NASA – Chase The Devil (Max Romeo Cover)
12. The Sonics – The Witch
13. Bobby “Boris” Pickett – Monster Mash
14. Death in Vegas – Aisha (Feat. Iggy Pop)
15. Swede:art – I’m A ROBOT (TOKiMONSTA Remix)
16. Natalia Kills – Zombie (Does It Offend You, Yeah Remix)
17. Screamin Jay Hawkins – I Hear Voices
18. The Cramps – Zombie Dance
19. The Misfits – Halloween
20. Autolux – Headless Sky
21. LAWS – Hold You Down (Feat. Big K.R.I.T. and Emelio Rojas)
22. Small Black – Weird Machines
23. The Specials – Ghost Town
download the full mixtape here
check last year’s mixtape here
sho nuff worth fighting for. off willie’s classic 1969 soul portrait LP. an oft-sampled jam.
Willie Hutch – A Love Thats Worth Having
ATTN: b3sci UK fam. ex-Groove Armada frontwoman Saint Savour is playing a SOLD OUT gig @ London’s Bush Hall TOMORROW NIGHT (SATURDAY). SOLD OUT FOLKS! No more tickets left. Awwwwwwwwwww ……..but wait! You know b3scis got you. Thanks to our UK CONNECTS, You can be there! (We know we would want be!) Just be the first to hit our email and two free passes will be waiting for you at the Bush Halls door. This promises to be a fantastic gig as Saint Saviour is nothing less than world class on stage. You want these tickets.
Peep Saint Saviour’s bomb new single Woman Scorned:
Saint Saviour performing with Groove Armada at Glastonbury this year. Yeah!
Saint Saviour on Soundcloud
Saint Saviour on Youtube
Saint Saviour on Myspace
its sunset in jamaica. we’re going all the way back. marley for marley. dub for dub. get wrecked.
Damian Marley – It Was Written (Chasing Shadows Dubstep Remix) Bob Marley – Is This Love (Logik Dubstep Remix)
b3science recently caught up with Ben and Ian from Chop Shop Records’ latest signing, Mackintosh Braun about their new LP Where We Are, the digital age, music licensing, fat free soy milk and more… check it out:
b3sci: a band of many influences, how has Mackintosh Braun evolved artistically on Where We Are from the days of your self-released debut The Sound?
Ian: we’ve been writing so much over the last couple of years that we’ve learned a lot about how we write songs together. i mean ‘the sound’ came out in 2008. but we had written all those songs in 2007, so we’ve had a lot of time to develop our sound and the way we write songs. this album gave us a chance to share a bit more of ourselves with the listener, and try things musically that we’ve always wanted to.
b3sci: If time and technology were no obstacle, and you guys could collaborate with anyone… ever, past, present or future, who would it be with and why?
Ian: Ratatat
Ben: ian’s got a real Ratatat thing going right now.. they’re great. ummmm, i’m gonna have to say, steely dan. that would pretty much make my dreams come true…
b3sci: how do you feel your synch in MTV’s 2010 season promo has influenced the future and fate of your band?
Ben: i think it’s cool whenever someone wants to showcase your music, and for us it was a compliment when i saw the MTV promo. we can’t really worry about the effect it might have on our future, for us it’s just about getting the music out there and hoping people attach to it.
b3sci: music licensing has come a long way in the last 10 years for emerging and established artists. what was once considered taboo and damaging to an artist’s cred is now of the most sought after opportunities. how would you guys like to see the fate of music licensing evolve?
Ben: music licensing has come a long way, it’s pretty incredible that so many great bands are getting opportunities that they never would have before the current “anti-jingle house” era that we’ve all grown into. i think to answer the question, popular culture and music go hand in hand, so to have it all so accessible now, everywhere you turn, is pretty great in my opinion, it’s helped us tremendously.
b3sci: how does it feel to be signed to Chop Shop Records, and have your vision supported by one of the most influential tastemakers (Alex Patsavas) in the entire entertainment industry?
Ian: it feels like if we planned it from the beginning, it wouldn’t have worked out better than this. it’s a great feeling…
Ben: yeah, it’s pretty great to have someone with her vision and ear for music support us like she does, everyone at Chop Shop is amazing. like ian said, it couldn’t have worked out better.
b3sci: first impressions speak millions, especially in today’s digital age of short attention spans. when somebody has the Mackintosh Braun “experience” for the first time, what is the first impression you’d like those listeners to walk away thinking?
Ian: “i’ve been waiting to hear that”
Ben: i want them to first feel the goosebumpy feeling in your arms when you hear that hot ass track, then i want them to think “damn, that’s some dopness.”
b3sci: what song on Where We Are do you feel most proud of, and why?
Ben: I was just telling ian that i’m really proud of the title track “Where We Are”. i just think we did a great job on that one, the drums sound great, i love the bridge, i’m just really proud of how that song came together.
Ian: I think for me it would be “Made For Us”. One of the reasons is that I love how you can hear both of our personalities come through in that song, and some of the things we tried and experimented with instrumentally, came out really well. there are a few notes in that one that really tug on my heart strings.
b3sci: what song, or artist, made you want to write and share music with people?
Ben: Led Zeppelin had a huge influence on me in my younger days, my mom got me into them when i was in 5th grade. i just always wanted to write music, and create sounds. i’ve never really thought about doing much else, it was the thing that i always had the strongest desire for. i still do.
Ian: I would have to say it was The Beatles, when i was listening to the song “help”, john lennon sings the line, “my independence seems to vanish in the haze”. the feeling that line gave me was so electric, that i knew i wanted to write music and try to create that for someone else.
b3sci: given the current landscape, who would be your top three acts to tour with?
Ian: Ratatat..
Ben: how bout Daft Punk, Royksopp or even Air would be amazing. There are many, many bands that we would love to tour with. lots of good music out there.
b3sci: What’s in your iPod? What album/artist is rocking your world right now?
Ian: loving’ “The Suburbs” by the Arcade Fire, and of course anything by Ratatat.
Ben: really love Wild Nothing “Chinatown” and i’m also diggin Real Estate “Out Of Tune” right now as well.
b3sci: what are 5 things that each of you guys absolutely couldn’t live without?
MB:
1) weed
2) our studio..
3) is that 5 things??
b3sci: what are 5 things that each of you guys could totally be cool living without?
MB:
1) fat free soy milk
2) third eye blind
3) people who ask about your shit, and then talk about their shit right away..
4) traffic in portland getting worse
5) the kazoo, even though jimmy made it sound awesome on “crosstown traffic”.
b3sci: What role do you think the internet will end up playing for music discovery in the future?
Ben: the largest role, it’s so important these days in discovering music.
Ian: yeah, we really may not have gotten here without it.
Mackintosh Braun info
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that nina simone piano flow, its like michelangelo painted a portrait of maya angelou. a murder’s row of ny mc’s flip one of kanye’s best beats.
Talib Kweli – Get By (Remix) (Feat. Mos Def, Jay-Z, Kanye West & Busta Rhymes)
djs skeet skeet and cory enemy remix the classic dr dre beat.
Blackstreet – No Diggity (DJ Skeet Skeet Remix)
…And the last band left standing shall receive the spoils, but these are metaphysical spoils, which shall not be quantified by ticket sales or legions of fans, but rather by the knowledge that your music inhabits a space within the sinuous web of rock and roll, and that every afternoon new bands are forming everywhere, inspired by a specific set of your songs…
Few bands over the past 25 years exhibit the level of influence wielded by Pavement or Sonic Youth, and we would have to go back a half-decade and across the sea to find bands like Joy Division, Gang of Four, and The Clash, who lay claim to a greater circle of followers.
That being said, the September 30th Pavement / Sonic Youth show at the Hollywood Bowl was a lineup for the ages, at one of the most beautiful venues in the world, a venue almost out of antiquity, so complementary with its natural surroundings that it couldn’t be man-made, or at least originally conceived by the father of the great Frank Lloyd Wright, who was called simply Lloyd Wright.
The up-and-coming Los Angeles band No Age opened the show. They are about to embark upon a European tour, which will be followed by an American tour, including a show at Cleveland’s Grog Shop, an old b3sci stomping ground. This is a band to watch. From what I’ve heard, they’re still in the process of amalgamating their influences, but their measures of experimentation show a band without a clearly defined ceiling, for whom the sky’s actually the limit, creators of music which belongs to “no age”.
Sonic Youth played for about fifty minutes, and they absolutely slayed it! Kim Gordon is 57 years old. She’s the hottest rockin’ grandma I’ve ever seen! The tightness of this band is unbelievable, the result of long periods of incessant, generally uninterrupted touring. They’re like Phish, where even if you’re predisposed against the style, witnessing their live performance is enough to baptize the neophytes. They stopped playing at approximately 9:35, waving and leaving without an encore, to the dismay of thousands of old and new converts.
My friend and I walked around the structure during intermission. Except for the steep incline up to the nosebleeds, there isn’t a bad seat in the whole bowl, thanks to the convex arrangement of seats. The consensus is that the new shell, added between the 2003 and 2004 season, has greatly improved the sound quality. Also worth noting, Heineken costs eight dollars at the Hollywood Bowl… we should’ve gone to a liquor store beforehand.
Pavement took the stage a little before ten o’clock. They opened with “Cut Your Hair”, which was the song they played on Leno back in ’94 (watch below). When we see the popular disregard in Malkmus’ falsetto, it’s easy to understand why they weren’t invited back for a second performance. Still, with its hooks and harmonies, “Cut Your Hair” could’ve been a single on the level of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”, if only it had a Spike Jonze directed memorable music video. Other highlights included “Gold Soundz” (which was voted top song of the 90’s by Pitchfork) , and the transition into Shady Lane. Other set highlights included “Summer Babe” and “Range Life”.
Malkmus had a wry smile as he trotted off the stage, and I figure they’d be back in 90 seconds for an encore, which of course would include “A T & T”, my favorite Pavement song. But the house lights went up immediately, along with some barely audible PA music, a not-so subtle way to tell the masses to exit the premises. Sadly, the band were hoping to play an encore, which would’ve included “A T & T”, but couldn’t due to time constraints.
It was a fantastic show, and I couldn’t have asked for anything more. But Pavement only played 17 songs, totaling an hour, as opposed to their NYC concert, where they played 27. Hopefully I’ll still see them play “A T & T” someday.
Contributed by: Christopher Gedos
