Excerpted here straight from the Thriller-length Runaway vid is the track for Blame Game. This smooth little number is expected to appear on Kanye’s upcoming My Dark Twisted Fantasy LP. Somewhere between the tinkling pianos, snare rolls, and Legend’s sweet tones, we got hooked on the track.
Kanye West – Blame Game (Feat. John Legend)rating: 8.2
The Great Dane mixman Kasper Bjorke retouches here Nothing But Our Love from Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr off their My Love Is Easy remixes EP. Kaspar keeps it pretty tight here putting on an uptempo poptronica beat for the Jr. Jr. jam. Denmark and Motown now you know you’re in trouble.
Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr – Nothing But Our Love (Kasper Bjorke Remix)
Greenhornes bassist Jack Lawrence is a busy dude. Between gigs as bassist for The Dead Weather and The Raconteurs and session player for Loretta Lynn he holds down the four string for his hometown Greenhornes. The Nasty Nati three-piece drop their new 4 Stars LP via Third Man tomorrow. Revolver-esque in melody, the tune for Saying Goodbye sounds great and is one of our fav rock tracks of the year. Get into it! P.S. Jack White please don’t kill us.
Saying Goodbye-The Greenhornes by Press Here
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This killer remix for Midnight in a Perfect World by Phizicist comes approved by the Shadow man himself! Don’t believe us? Check the comments on the soundcloud for the track here
DJ Shadow – Midnight In a Perfect World (Phizicist Remix)
Facing the Sun is excerpted here from Fritz Kalkbrenner’s killer new Here Today Gone Tomorrow LP, out now on Rough Trade. This soul-infused almost Balearic-sounding electro mix is five plus minutes of serious weight. Get into it below.
Fritz Kalkbrenner – Facing the Sun
The homie DJ SLEEPER goes in on the Khaled/Pain track. This mix is some seriously sick stuff. The creativity in the beat switches is some next level type shit. Get into it below. P.S. Check the visuals too, dope dope dope dope dope.
DJ Khaled – All I Do Is Win (DJ SLEEPER Remix) (Feat. T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg)
Rusko takes the 2Pac/Dr. Dre classic and scuffs it up a touch.
2Pac – California Love (Rusko Remix)
This cello-backed cover of “Dazed and Confused” comes to us via the From the Land of the Ice and Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin compilation out now on Jealous Butcher records. The compliation also features Laura Veirs, The Long Winters, and Chris Walla but this Portland Cello Project collab w also PDX based Laura Gibson really got our attention. Give it a listen below. The Cellos really light up the track and Gibson’s vocal compliments them quite well.
The Portland Cello Project – Dazed and Confused (Feat. Laura Gibson)
Ol’ One Eye aka frontperson for the world’s biggest band is linked up here by mix man Daniel Johnson to his biggest vocal influence, Jeff Buckley. Hat tip to Rollo & Grady on the track.
Thom Yorke x Jeff Buckley – You & I, Analyse (Daniel Johnson Mix)
Featured by Zane Lowe earlier this week as part of his Hottest Records in the World series, The Wall is new from UK band Yuck.
Yuck – The Wall
Mr. Theophilus is back in your chiropract with this “Life of a Lover” remix jam. As is your typical Theophilus London track, the song comes locked w a nice beat (buttery smooth here) and dope features (Jesse Boykins vox and Blu rhymes). Get live below.
Theophilus London – Life of a Lover (Remix) (Feat. Jesse Boykins III & Blu)rating: 8.4
Our bloke Mike Skinner returns with the track for “4 O’Clock”. It’s good news to us that The Streets dude is back on his b.i. and releasing music. We’re banking serious pounds sterling on “4 O’Clock” being only a first in lengthy series of quality material.
The Streets – 4 O’Clockrating: 8.1
OK? seriously, Cee-Lo, my man, OK? OK?! This song is way more than OK! It’s freaking awesome! If our excitement for Cee-Lo’s new Lady Killer LP to drop could grow anymore, It’s OK just knocked that shit straight off the meter. The Lady Killer is in stores Nov. 9.
Cee-Lo Green – It’s OKrating: 8.7
FEM link up w OneRepublic dude Ryan Tedder for this follow-up to the their breakthrough Like a G6 #1. For what the song lacks in lyrical imagery, it makes up for on Tedder’s sick chorus hook. There’s sort of a breed of these anthemic chorus/compressed beat rap verse tunes hammering at the charts right now. Think Nothing on You, Love the Way You Lie, Airplanes, etc. Is Rocketeer the best of breed? Prob not. But it is a really solid ’10 pop song and a servicable follow-up for a band that may struggle to stay relevant after Like a G6 has slid from the charts.
Far East Movement – Rocketeer (Feat. Ryan Tedder)rating: 8.1
Nashville’s MONA are one of our fav new bands. Not only do they bring the serious guitar heat and smooth melodies.. but we also hear they make a killer batch of “chocolate chip cookies”. Hot new band + Serious cookie skillz. That’s some serious fire right there. Toast with us to the nascient career of these guys cause that glass of 2 buck chuck we’re raising to you now will be that Dom Perignon shit by the close of 2011. Mark It.
MONA – Walk in the Park (Beach House Cover) Mona – Trouble on the Way
Verbal & Yoon drop some dope visuals for their cover of The Runaways classic jam “Cherry Bomb”. We were pretty stoked on the track when we reviewed it last month. And the vid pretty much takes it all the way there. So yeah we won’t front, we’ve been pretty psyched on this Dr. Martens Covers Series. We featured The Raveonettes killer Stones Roses cover a couple months ago and feel like this track for Cherry Bomb is right on level w it. Our connects at Dr. Martens HQ have pssst secreted to us that The Noisettes (who do awesome covers!) and N.A.S.A. (yeah! outer space!) are among the artist features! Hello Mom, Hello Dad, It’s b-b-b-b-b-b3sci!
rating: 8.0
