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Old People Reacting to Dubstep (video)
Happy Friday!
I’m going to see an experimental jazz band tonight at midnight at the Brooklyn Bowl. They’re called Moon Hooch and they got kicked out of the Bedford L station for “starting too many dance parties.”
This was my first Moon Hooch dance party. (I love how I saw people filming, assumed the video would be on youtube later that night, and it was. ❤ Brooklyn)
Anyway, as promised, here are old people reacting to Skrillex:
Top Three Favorite Mash-up Groups
Have non-political post for Friday.
I listen to a fair amount of indie and post-hardcore, but I do like a good remixed pop song at a club or party. The age of youtube has spawned so many remixes, it’s hard to find groups that are consistently good. Here’s 3 of them that I really enjoy and want to share.
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HappyCatDisco
I just discovered these guys (guy? gal?) while trying to find melodic Skrillex remixes that don’t completely ruin the dance vibe with washing machine noises. This was exactly what I was looking for.
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Looking at their Youtube and Soundcloud uploads, I see that they’re not quite as big as the other two groups I’m going to talk about, so I felt the need to list them first. Also highly recommend the Michael Jackson/Skrillex and the Kanye/Jay-Z/random dub on their Soundcloud.
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DJs from Mars
Nirvana + Timbaland? Really, it works surprisingly well.
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They have more of a rock spin than most mash-ups groups I’ve heard. They do more traditional House mash-ups too like David Guetta vs. Avicii – Where Them Levels At.
On a sidenote, I think New Yorkers should keep their eyes on Rock the Rock NYC, because I can’t name any other NYC festivals for specifically rock/electronica.
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The White Panda
I saw them live at Bamboozle this summer and they were the best thing there. Like this, complete with panda masks:
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Every major pop song they touch turns to gold. Listen to their top 10 streaming on their website. My favorite track is “Stereo Hands” (remember 720 HD). Their album “Pandamonium” has 40 tracks less than 2 minutes each, transitioned together, perfect for a party.
Breaking Bad Season 5 Official Teaser Trailer
Aw yeah.
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Season 5 premiere of Breaking Bad will be on Sunday, July 15 at 10 PM on AMC.
This is a good year for TV.
Louis CK Fights Scalper Ticket Price Inflation
(Louie Season 3 comes back June 28 on 10:30 PM on FX.)
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Since his $5 Paypal Beacon Live stint, Louis CK has been getting a reputation for being a bleeding liberal, making the funny affordable for the people, and working against monopolies. He deserves it. This is great work, setting up newer comedy consumption models that make capitalism work in the ways it’s supposed to work.
Louis CK is so popular that apparently whenever he has a cheap show, scalpers buy a shitload of his tickets and then jack up the price.
I just got an e-mail from him:
By selling the tickets exclusively on my site, I’ve cut the
ticket charges way down and absorbed them into the ticket price.
To buy a ticket, you join NOTHING. Just use your credit card and
buy the damn thing. opt in to the email list if you want, and
you’ll only get emails from me.Also, you’ll see that if you try to sell the ticket anywhere for
anything above the original price, we have the right to cancel
your ticket (and refund your money). this is something I intend
to enforce. There are some other rules you may find annoying but
they are meant to prevent someone who has no intention of seeing
the show from buying the ticket and just flipping it for twice
the price from a thousand miles away.Some of these rules may be a pain in your ass, but please be
patient. My goal here is that people coming to see my shows are
able to pay a fair price and that they be paying just for a
ticket. Not also paying an exhorbanant fee for the privalege of
buying a ticket.Tickets across the board, everywhere, are 45 dollars. That’s
what you’ll actually pay. In every case, that will be less than
anyone has actually paid to see me (after ticket charges) in
about two years and in most cases it’s about half of what you
paid last year.The benifit for me is that I won’t get angry emails from anyone
who paid a ton of money to see me due to circumstances out of my
control. That makes me VERY happy. The 45 dollars also includes
sales tax, which I’m paying for you.
I love this guy. So much. Maybe I’ll actually be able to afford a show one day soon.
White Girls Can Rap Too
Song for Friday from the dopest white girl MC I know.
K.FLay studied psychology and sociology at Stanford.
Favorite tracks of mine from her include:
Nerdcore arist MC Lars, whom she did an EP with, tried to court her, failed, and then wrote Rapgirl about her. “Every Biggie needs a Kim.”
Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” Teaser Trailer Released
The film stars Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Christoph Waltz, and is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2012.
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The Atlatnic‘s Ta-Nehisi Coates gives his thoughts:
It’s also really dangerous to get caught up in that narrative. The violence is seductive and can find you arguing along the same barren lines as those you allegedly oppose. It is not merely wrong to focus on the militarism of the Civil War because those who do so generally don’t want to talk about slavery. It is wrong because such a focus says that the only thing important about war are those who carry the guns.
Sorry, Ta-Nehesi, I couldn’t hear your political correctness over how awesome the music was.
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HBO’s “The Newsroom” Reportedly to Fire Half of their Writers
Aaron Sorkin, pushing the invisible “fire everybody on my writing staff (except my ex)” button.
So Aaron Sorkin is apparently just as big of a controlling dick as his character, Will McAvoy. Gotta take one to write one, I guess.
Via HuffPo:
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I think it’s important to remember that even mostly consistently good writers are not infallible. Even Sorkin’s The West Wing started to fall off a bit in later seasons, and I still think that there were parts of The Social Network that were slow.
I hope he puts his hubris in check. Because I’m really enjoying “The Newsroom” and don’t want every character to end up as a phallus-shaped avatar of Sorkin.