thefader:

DOWNLOAD RUDIMENTAL’S FADER MIX

• Babara Jean English, “Im Living a Lie”
• Outkast, “Prototype”
• Coat of Arms, “Living Together”
• Paper Crows, “Happier (Rudimental Remix)”
• Rudimental, “Feel The Love (Rudimental’s VIP Remix)”
• Justin Martin, “Don’t Go”
• Mosca, “Getting me Down”
• Disclosure, “Boiling f. Sinead Harnett”
• Rudimental f. MNEK and Syron, “Spoons”
• The Milk, “Broke up the Family (Hostage Vs RackNRuin Remix)”
• Brother to Brother, “In the Bottle”
• Wiley, “Eskimo”
• Benny Banks, “Bada Bing (Rudimental Remix)”
• Jay-Z and Kanye West, “Got to Have it”
• Rudimental f. MC Shantie, “Deep in the Valley”
• Kidnap Kid, “Vehl”
• Labrinth, “Express Yourself (Rudimental Remix)”
• Mount Kimbie, “Carbonated”
• Prince, “187″
• Jay-Z, “Friend or Foe”
• Portico Quartet, “Steepless (Grey Remix)”
• Rudimental f. Iman, “Runaway”
• Rotate, “Blue Forest Grotto (Original Mix)”
• Wretch 32 f. Ed Sheeran, “Hush Little Baby (Rudimental Remix)”
• Noisia, “Diplodocus”
• Fugees, “The Mask”
• Andrew Beyer f. Kerry Leva Calyx, “In and Out of Phase (TeeBee Remix)”
• The Ganja Kru, “Super Sharp Shooter”
• Rudimental f. John Newman, “Feel The Love”

blueskyhardrock:

Tegan And Sara have been big fans of Bruce Springsteen since they were little kids and finally were able to thank him [for the inspiration] by covering one of his most beautiful songs: Dancing In The Dark. 

Tegan And Sara finished recording their seventh album this month and we hope to have news about it soon, not to mention some music!

(Source: ablueskyblog)

cheatsheet:

Remembering Doc Watson, legendary picker and traditional American music’s best ambassador (photo of Watson’s statue in Boone, NC today, via reddit)

Related articles

• R.I.P. Doc Watson (pitchfork.com)
• Legendary Folk Singer Dead At 89 (huffingtonpost.com)

britticisms:

“Idea of Happiness” by Van She (SebastiAn remix)

I felt such immediate nostalgia for the late-aughts electro-pop that defined my general listening habits during college when I first heard this song. SebastiAn’s touch maintains the lovely vocals while creating a more fulfilling dance-floor experience. I love it. 

blueskyhardrock:

Watch Andrew Bird’s full performance live on KEXP

Songs played:

1. Give It Away
2. Danse Caribe
3. Orpheo Looks Back
4. Eyeoneye

(Source: ablueskyblog)

purpleservant:

Active Child- Hanging On

(Source: macgivera)

hazor:

John Lennon and George Harrison

mrducker:

Adam Yauch photographed by Ari Marcopoulos

In 2004 I wrote a feature for The Fader about Beastie Boys. It was supposed to be tied to their album To the 5 Boroughs, but it was really about me and my relationship to these three men who had such an impact on the person that I am. Look backing on it, like anything written almost ten years ago, there are things I wish I had done differently, but the ideas inside it were true then and are true now. The Beastie Boys opened up the world’s cultural possibilities to me and showed me how you can develop as a human being.

These are the last two paragraphs of the piece:

I’ve long maintained that hip-hop won’t get better—whatever “better” means—until someone figures out a better rhyme for “party” than “Bacardi.” For the last two decades, the Beastie Boys have been some of the most likely rappers to stumble upon that holy grail. To me they’ve always been like older, distant cousins: guys I didn’t get to see that often, but when I did, I could learn about cool records, bite a little of their style, and get a sense of how my life should be going in ten or 15 years. Maybe that’s why Check Your Head has been sounding so good lately as I settle down in LA, get a dog and figure out which of my immaturities I want to keep.

Two years ago I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a Sunday in New York when I saw Adam Yauch with his preschool-aged daughter. He was wearing an orange and yellow camouflage sweatshirt with baggy pants. He was about to turn 40, but his outfit didn’t look strange on him. He just looked like how more dads are going to start looking. Well, at least how I probably will.

I’ve been in Los Angeles since 2003, I’m on my second dog, at this point the immaturities I still have I doubt will ever go away. I’ve got two kids, I’m still relatively far from 40, my pants and sweatshits are more form-fitting than they’ve ever been (fashions change). 

I hope that I’m as good a dad as Adam Yauch seemed to be that day. And I hope that I  bring just a fraction of the inspiration, creativity and compassion to the world that he did.

UPDATE: The FADER published my full story from 2004: http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/04/beastie-boys-new-slang/

whereisthecoool:

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