Colin Munroe is bringing a U2 cover as his first single since his flashing lights kanye remix. His indie-poster-boy you-heard-it-at-urban-outfitters sounds assure that you’re going to hear a lot more from Colin this year. He’s produced hip hop beats for Canada’s best, and he’s always doing something fresh.
On his first single, this U2 cover, he’s mashing Sufjan Stevens banjo aesthetics with the emotion of old U2. It works pretty well, and gets me excited to see what sounds make up his album early next year. Perez is already repping him, and he’s a homegrown Toronto boy! Here’s the video, worth a look:
So Pitchfork barely reviews the Black Kids album, and it’s the story of the day at the office. It’s one of those times where you want to hate Pitchfork for being snobby and bratty, but it’s spot on.
Poor Black Kids, not much of a band and an unfortunate smear on my memory of this year’s Cut Copy show. I’m sorry you got so much hype.
So what to make of Scott Plagenhoef’s resolutely lazy, unfunny and fundamentally disrespectful review of Black Kids’ “Partie Traumatic” today? You’ll give paragraph after paragraph to an unknown demo, but take said band’s major-label debut as a smirky in-joke among your staff? Give them the 3.3 if it’s warranted. But have something to say regarding how or why it’s deserved beyond this narcissistic, juvenile-Dave Eggers bit of self-reflection.
Last year when I posted the original video for this song, I was excited for the album. I still listen to this album and it’s stood the test of time pretty well. They opened for Justice in Toronto this fall and despite what some of my friends say, completely outshone them.
This new Rozen & Schmeltz video just went up on the fader blog. It was done for Rozen’s Surface 2 Air brand. There’s more going on in this one, but i kind of liked the simplicity of the original.
And if you haven’t seen surface 2 air’s Justice line of clothes, look now, look now!
This weekend I tried Sirius Satellite radio for the first time. My skepticism is acutally waining. Among the all-Elvis and all-Springsteen stations (pretty great) you’ll find a few really good indie rock and dance stations that I enjoyed flipping through. Also, BBC1!
Anyways I heard this song debuted on the indie rock station Left of Center and it stuck with me….and now it has a nice video.
There seems to be a worldwide search for sounds of the summer, and with no obvious Umbrella part ii (ilu Rihanna, but please don’t), this is anyone’s year. I think it’s Santogold’s.
Speaking of Yo Majesty, after seeing the live show this month, I talked to one of them about my friend Mercedeez Benz. Benz spent a wild weekend in the studio in Montreal with the girls last year.
She was excited I brought him up. Apparently the track Hey There Girl is one of her favorites on the album, which drops in August.
