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Rhianna covering M.I.A’s Paper Planes
 

Check this video of Wale talking about the industry. If the music industry (this includes labels, radio, and othe big media) will not adapt, they will be dead, period.  Just stick to your formula and see what will happen. Wale is selling out shows without radio play. Ask yourself why?

My man Martin Dosh aka Dosh out of Minneapolis will be performing live Friday,May 16th at the Cactus Club at 10pm in Milwaukee.  He is probably one of the most talented musician I know.  I think he can play every instrument man has ever created or something like that.  He just dropped his new album “Wolves and Wishes” on the Anticon label. He even played with Andrew Bird on his last tour.  You definitely do not want to miss this performance.

Robert Smith and the gang are returning with a new album this fall.  They recently just dropped a new single and video for “The Only One”.  The first time I heard it, I digged it. But now,  It is really growing on me. I was always a Cure fan.  What do you think of the song?

No one is willing to argue that My Morning Jacket is the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?…Bueller?

Further proof

I am a big animation fan. I love all types including Japanese anime, claymation, computer animation, stop-motion, etc.  These two following videos are very creative and uses technology in a clever way.  So  enjoy, and  have a good weekend.

El Guincho, a.k.a Pablo Díaz-Reixa who is the best thing I’ve heard yet this year. Flat out fresh, this cat is young yet at 25, and shows more than promise on his latest, his first album titled Alegranza! which was released in December and has yet to find distribution in the States. Out of Barcelona Spain, this album is his Catalunian catamaran– a big boat of an album and a joy to explore its textured landscapes of melted carnival beats and bright beautiful cacaphonies that build into rusty dub joints that crackle, pop and make you trip out on inner excursions to imagine real places.

“I just wanted Alegranza to be a space age-exotica kind of record. Like Martin Denny, Esquivel, Attilo Mineo, Arthur Lyman, Jimmie Haskell and all that. The kind of record you play and it makes you feel like travelling to all these places but never stopping at one and then finding an empty space in the middle for you to get into it.” - Pablo Díaz-Reixa

Heady stuff, that sounds far freer than any descripto-blurb can describe– the sound mutates and bends so much into it’s blend, from Kenyan Benga to military drum rolling through psychedelic dream fields constantly threatening to be more familiar than it ever is. This makes for great listening, rewardingly different and classically fresh. Check out the video here for the proof, and scoop the download if that’s your poison. Peace…

El Guincho \”Palmitos Park\

And this video is from a recent live show with another band we’ve played on the station called Architecture In Helsinki, good stuff maynerd.

Why not another? I ain’t quite drunk yet.

If you missed the World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band (otherwise known as My Morning Jacket) on Saturday Night Live then check it out here. The new album Evil Urges is set for a June 10th release and they will be playing in Milwaukee on Oct. 3rd at the Riverside Theater. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 16. Behold the power.

sincerely,

www.DJROCKDEE.com

Well I guess Mike Gravel(remember him, the grumpy democratic candidate) did not want feel left out from all the Obama videos that have been released. So he step it up with a video with Obama girl. I thought politics couldn’t get any worse. I guess I was wrong.

Behind the Scenes 

Remember this one. I would have voted for him because of it.