It's Peanut Butter Federline (video)

LA to NYC time-elapsed video

Janet Reno trying to sing RESPECT (video), Remembering Challenger, Nettwerk sues RIAA

• Janet Reno trying to sing RESPECT (video)
  This is good for a laugh.
  
  
• Remembering Challenger
  I still remember exactly where I was sitting in first grade as our class watched this unfold.
  
  
• Canadian music giant sues RIAA

Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone (MP3) (violent femmes cover)

Sigur Ros - Hoppípolla (video)

Sufjan Stevens - She Is (MP3) (Tim Buckley cover)

NME: Top 100 British Albums

The Piracy Calculator, Chris Penn dead, more

• The Piracy Calculator
  How much would your infringement cost you?
  
  
• Sad news: Chris Penn found dead
  Chris Penn, Sean Penn' brother, who will forever be known as Nice Guy Eddie in Reservoir Dogs, was found dead in his home.
  
  
• Washington Post closes comments because of trolling
  
  
• Kanye on blasphemous Rolling Stone cover

The Go! Team - The Ice Storm (Live In Toronto) (MP3)

Lou Reed blasts Edie Sedgwick film, Death Cab For Cutie - Directions (video), Nas signs to Def Jam

• Lou Reed blasts Edie Sedgwick film
  Lou Reed on the Factory Girl screenplay: "It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen - by any illiterate retard - in a long time." Apparently, Sienna Miller is no Edie Sedgwick. Oh, did you know that her co-star is Hayden Christensen? Movie execs, chalk this up as a flop.
  
  
• Death Cab for Cutie - Directions (video)
  Here comes a series of videos for their LP 'Plans.' The first one in the queue is "Marching Bands Of Manhattan".
  
  
• Nas signs to Def Jam
  Quite an evolution from Takeover to Ether to Super Ugly to no beef

Devics - Come Up (MP3)

Velvet Underground - Velvet Redux: Live MCMXCIII (streaming video)

The Subways - Staring At The Sun (MP3)

Two Neat Mash-Ups/Mixes: U2 vs Daft Punk and Arctic Monkeys remix

Ben Gibbard pissed at Apple, Charlotte leaves Ash, GNR album this year?, Patriot Search

• Ben Gibbard of The Postal Service unhappy about Apple ad created by "Such Great Heights" directors that copies the original video
  See for yourself here
  

  It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers' new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for 'Such Great Heights' made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without our consultation or consent.

  
  
• Charlotte Hatherley quits Ash
  
  
• Guns N' Roses album this year?
  Haha, yeah right.
  
  
• Patriot Search
  If you don't use Patriot Search, you are against us.

Of Montreal - Requiem for O.M.M. 2 Video

Jenny Lewis in February's Spin

Unofficial Coachella lineup (I won't believe it until I see it on the site)

1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY: Honda human sound effects ad, Desaparecidos, Cam'Ron Jay-Z Diss MP3, Liz Durrett, The Exit, Seedy Gonzalez, much much more!

• Can't believe I've been online with this blog for a whole year. Almost 400,000 unique visitors later, still going strong. Love ya'll
  
  
  
• Honda human sound effects ad [via Amy's Robot]
  This is one of the coolest ads I've seen recently.
  
  
• Desaparecidos - Suvival of the Fittest / It's a Jungle Out There
  A brief update to continue my series of posts on old projects / side projects: Desaparecidos was Conor Oberst's side project during his almost two-year hiatus from Bright Eyes. Desaparecidos is louder and grungier than Bright Eyes but equally angsty.
  
  
• Cam'Ron - You Got It
  Cam'Ron dissing Jay-Z? Ouch. Apparently, he has flow problems and math problems. Hov is 37, not 42. Hov won this battle without responding. Tracks like "Heart of the City" address this kind of garbage already. If Hov's "Takeover" is TNT and Nas' "Ether" is an A-bomb, this is a dud firecracker.
  
  
• Liz Durrett - The Mezzanine
  Liz, whoever you are, I almost deleted this. I am so glad I didn't. This is really lovely. Her site.
  
  
• A couple of tracks from The Exit:
  The Exit - Soldier
  The Exit - Don't Push
  The Exit, who are from New York, caught a lot of buzz with the release of
  their album “Home For An Island” and their first single entitled “Don’t
  Push”. The Exit is now putting forth a 2nd single (and video for)
  “Soldier”.
  
  
• Seedy Gonzalez - Page 28
  I don't know. Lou Reed-ish. This reminds me of Jim Carrol's People Who Died.
  
  
• Seedy Gonzalez - Love’s Theosophy
  
  
• Ghostbusters as an animated gif
  This is amazing.
  
  
• The Beastie Boys Madison Square Garden video project
  
  
• Google, U.S. Clash Over Online Searches
  
  
• Soul legend Wilson Pickett dies of heart attack at 64
  
  
• The Cool Cuts is the UK’s leading tastemaker dance chart compiled from reactions from tastemaker DJs and the Cool Cuts shop panel.
  
  The Cool Cuts is broadcast on Ministry Of Sound Digital Radio ' on Paul 'Radical' Ruiz - 'Anything Goes' show every Wednesday 2-4pm GMT on www.ministryofsound.com/radio and on Tall Paul’s Kiss 100 show. The Cool Cuts is published in the UK’s leading music industry trade publication Music Week and on www.musicweek.com
  
  Cool Cuts Chart for MW issue date 28/01/06
  1 NEW TALK / Coldplay / Parlophone
  Junkie XL remixes make this a sure fire floorfiller
  2 (3) HELLO I LOVE YOU / The Doors / Marine Parade
  With stunning new mixes from Adam Freeland
  3 (1) SORRY / Madonna / Warners
  With mixes from the Pet Shop Boys and Stuart Price under his many aliases
  4 (5) FADE / Solu Music / Hed Kandi
  Hed Kandi’s evergreen classic in new mixes from Grant Nelson
  5 (7) ALONE TONIGHT / Above & Beyond / Anjunabeats
  First single from their album with mixes from Mathew Dekay and Disciples Of Sound
  6 NEW SUGAR / Armand Van Helden / Southern Fried
  With mixes from Paper Faces and Cagedbaby
  7 (14) FALSE LIGHT / Marco V / Maelstrom
  With mixes from Ton B and Danny Olivera
  8 (10) IT DOESN’T STOP / The Young Punx / Mofo Hifi
  Excellent mash up of Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’
  9 NEW ANGEL / Pharrel Williams / Virgin
  With a hot club mix from Axwell
  10 NEW SWING 2 HARMONY / Perasma / Data
  With mixes from Gabriel & Dresden and MYNC Project
  11 NEW LIKE A WATERFALL / Solarstone + Jes / Deepblue
  Quality trance with mixes from Max Graham
  12 (17) SHOW ME LOVE / Robin S / Champion
  Club classic is back with a new mix from Diesel
  13 NEW 2 HYPE / Steve Mac / C2
  Hot fearsome acid house groove
  14 (11) ETERNITY / Matt Darey / Darey Products
  With mixes from Alex Morph, Thomas Dat, John ‘00’ Flemming and more
  15 NEW 123 / Axer / Pryda
  Tough jacking electro house groove from Eric Prydz
  16 NEW DANDELION CRUSH / Atlantic / Alternative Route
  Sampling 808 State’s ‘Pacific’ to good effect
  17 NEW CIRCLES /Audiofly / Adrift
  Atmospheric house groove with Priscilla on vocals
  18 NEW RISE UP / Sunkids / Boss
  With new mixes from Praise Cats
  19 NEW INSATIABLE / Mark Knight / Toolroom
  With mixes from Joey Negro, Buick Project and MYNC Project
  20 NEW YOU’LL NEVER CHANGE / Believers / Oxyd
  With mixes from Dave Seaman and Oliver Koletzki
  
  The Cool Cuts is compiled from reactions from Tastemaker DJs and from the Cool Cuts shop panel: Bang Bang (Bristol), Black Market (London), Bradley’s (Halifax), Catapult (Cardiff), Citysounds (London), Crash (Leeds), Covert (Brighton), Eastern Bloc (Manchester) Global Groove (Stoke), Know How (London) Massive (Oxford & Birmingham), Mixmaster (Belfast), Plastic Fantastic (London), Power (Wigan), Pure Groove (London), Streetwise (Cambridge), The Disc (Bradford), 3 Beat (Liverpool), Trax (London), 23rd Precinct (Glasgow), Urban (Brighton).

Belle and Sebastian: Old Projects/ Side Projects...Looper (Stuart David)

Dev2.0 (Devo 2.0) "Whip It" video

Patti Smith, Cat Power, and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine (!?) - The Coral Sea

New Gnarls Barkley!

MLK in his own words, Idlewild trailer, New Bond girl Rose Byrne

• Time: MLK in his own words
  
  
  
• Idlewild trailer
  You know, that movie featuring Outkast, Terence Howard, Macy Gray, Patti Labelle, and Ving Rhames that keeps getting delayed.
  
  
  
• The new, unconfirmed (but soon to be confirmed) Bond girl is Australian actress Rose Byrne, who had forgettable roles in Troy and Star Wars II.
  
  
• Al Gore speaks on MLK day about"Restoring the Rule of Law"
  

  The greater the power of the executive grows, the more difficult it becomes for the other branches to perform their constitutional roles. As the executive acts outside its constitutionally prescribed role and is able to control access to information that would expose its actions, it becomes increasingly difficult for the other branches to police it. Once that ability is lost, democracy itself is threatened and we become a government of men and not laws.

Nine Inch Nails - Only (Richard X Remix)

New Pantheon Award finalists, Academy screeners, Digital DJ licenses, Cool Cuts Chart

• Here are the finalists for the New Pantheon Music Award, awarded to the best album selling less than 500,000 copies.
  
  The finalists:
  Animal Collective - Feels
  Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
  Arcade Fire - Funeral
  Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
  Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
  Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
  Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
  M.I.A. - Arular
  Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
  The Decemberists - Picaresque
  
  The nominations were places by a partly illustrious, partly dubious panel:
  
  ?uestlove - Member of The Roots
  Adam Brody - Actor on The OC
  Alex Patsavas - Music Supervisor: Chop Shop
  Beck - Mad Scientist
  Benjamin Gibbard - of Death Cab for Cutie
  Chester Bennington - of Linkin Park
  Dave Matthews - of Dave Matthews Band
  Elijah Wood - Actor/Hobbit
  Elton John - Musician, Songwriter, Legend
  Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
  Jennifer Maerz - Music Editor at The Stranger
  John Cameron Mitchell - Actor, Writer, Producer
  John Legend - Singer/Songwriter
  John McCrea - of Cake
  Josh Schwartz - Creator - The OC
  Keith Urban - International Superstar
  Margaret Cho - Comedienne, Writer
  Mike Shinoda - of Linkin Park
  Nic Harcourt - Music Director, KCRW
  Peter Margasak - Writer at The Chicago Reader
  Ric Ocasek - Musician, Producer, Icon
  Ryan Schreiber - Editor-in-Chief at Pitchfork Media
  Shirley Manson - of Garbage
  Steve Hochman - Writer - L.A. Times
  Suzanne Vega - Singer, Songwriter
  Tony Kanal - of No Doubt
  Will Hermes - Editor and Writer
  
  
• If you can't stop industry people from file-sharing, you might as well give up: Academy screeners on P2P
  
  
• Oft-ignored digital DJ licenses in the UK
  
  
• The Cool Cuts is the UK’s leading tastemaker dance chart compiled from reactions from tastemaker DJs and the Cool Cuts shop panel.
  
  The Cool Cuts is broadcast on Ministry Of Sound Digital Radio ' on Paul 'Radical' Ruiz - 'Anything Goes' show every Wednesday 2-4pm GMT on www.ministryofsound.com/radio'
  and on Tall Paul’s Kiss 100 show. The Cool Cuts is published in the UK’s leading music industry trade publication Music Week and on www.musicweek.com
  
  Cool Cuts Chart for MW issue date 21/01/06
  
  1 NEW SORRY / Madonna / East West
  With mixes from Pet Shop Boys and Stuart Price as Paper Faces and Man With Guitar
  2 (3) INCREDIBLE / Shapeshifters / Positiva
  With mixes from Denis The Menace & Jerry Ropero and Mark Knight & MTV
  3 NEW HELLO I LOVE YOU / The Doors / Marine Parade
  With stunning new mixes from Adam Freeland
  4 (5) MAKE A MOVE ON ME / Joey Negro / Data
  Back for 2006 with a full release
  5 NEW FADE / Solu Music / Hed Kandi
  Hed Kandi’s evergreen classic in new mixes from Grant Nelson
  6 (9) PARTY FOR THE WEEKEND / Soul Seekerz / CDR
  Lively party time house tune
  7 NEW ALONE TONIGHT / Above & Beyond / Anjunabeats
  First single from their album with mixes from Mathew Dekay and Disciples Of Sound
  8 (10) WALKING AWAY / The Egg / Cr2
  Getting a UK release with new mix of ‘The Wall’ by Mylo
  9 (11) BOUNCE SHAKE MOVE STOP / M.V.P / EMI
  With mixes from Ian Carey and Trailblazers
  10 NEW IT DOESN’T STOP / The Young Punx / Mofo Hifi
  Excellent mash up of Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough’
  11 NEW ETERNITY / Matt Darey / Darey Products
  With mixes from Alex Morph, Thomas Dat, John ‘00’ Flemming and more
  12 (16) TURN ME OUT / Dirty Old Ann / White Label
  Kathy Brown’s classic gets a disco makeover
  13 (18) PUNCH DRUNK/COPYRAT / Cirez D / Mouseville
  Eric Prydz under one of his pseudonyms with a couple of hot club grooves
  14 NEW FALSE LIGHT / Marco V / Maelstrom
  With mixes from Ton B and Danny Olivera
  15 (20) CLEAR SKY / Kayot / Buzzin Fly
  Cool house vibes with a mix from Manoo and Francois A
  16 NEW SWIMMING PLACES / Julien Jabre / Defected
  Summery house groove with new mixes from Jerome Sydenham and Pete Heller
  17 NEW SHOW ME LOVE / Robin S / Champion
  Club classic is back with a new mix from Diesel
  18 NEW RAZORBLADE / GIVE ME LOVE / Coburn / Frontier
  Sexy electro pop tune
  19 NEW WHAT’S YOUR DAMAGE / Test Icicles / Domino
  Digitalism and Alan Braxe & Fred Falke on the mix
  20 NEW IN THE EVENING / Rob Boskamp / Spinnin’
  Pumping reworking of the Sheryl Lee Ralph classic
  
  © Original Artists 2006
  
  The Cool Cuts is compiled from reactions from Tastemaker DJs and from the Cool Cuts shop panel: Bang Bang (Bristol), Black Market (London), Bradley’s (Halifax), Catapult (Cardiff), Citysounds (London), Crash (Leeds), Covert (Brighton), Eastern Bloc (Manchester) Global Groove (Stoke), Know How (London) Massive (Oxford & Birmingham), Mixmaster (Belfast), Plastic Fantastic (London), Power (Wigan), Pure Groove (London), Streetwise (Cambridge), The Disc (Bradford), 3 Beat (Liverpool), Trax (London), 23rd Precinct (Glasgow), Urban (Brighton).

Imogen Heap - Goodnight and Go (live on Letterman, video)

New Lauryn Hill leaked

Britney EP, iPod for ID, iTunes spying?, more

• Raw Like Sashimi has an EP of Britney tunes released in the last year.
  
  
• Homeland security that makes sense: UK agency tech head points out that it would be cheaper to give each citizen a free iPod for digital authentication than to issue ID cards
  I'd be all for the U.S. implementing this strategy.
  
  
• Of course, then the government could use it to spy....cuz allegedly iTunes is spying.
  Ok, may or may not be spying...
  
  
• Keep away from your parents: British dance crazes of the 60s
  
  
• Thought this was cool: Green fluorescent pigs!

Jenny Lewis Interview in American Way mag

Even More Adventurous
Jenny Lewis Warms up for her Solo Career in a Rabbit Fur Coat

‘“Baby, I’m bad news,” Jenny Lewis sang on “Portions for Foxes,” a track from her guitar-pop group Rilo Kiley’s 2004 album, More Adventurous. Recently, Lewis’ news has been decidedly better: Adventurous, the Los Angeles-based quartet’s third album, earned the best reviews of its eight-year career, and last fall Rilo Kiley opened a string of shows for the megapopular English band Coldplay. This month, Lewis (a former child actress who appeared alongside Shelley Long in 1989’s Troop Beverly Hills) releases her first solo album, Rabbit Fur Cat, a mellow, slightly country-fried take on Rilo’s tuneful L.A. groove. We shared lunch with her on New York’s Lower East Side and asked her where the CD came from.

So why make a solo album?
I actually didn’t really plan on it. It just was suddenly upon me and seemed appropriate. I had started writing a bunch of songs as we were recording More Adventurous, and I knew that it would be a really long time before I could record them with Rilo Kiley.

Who did you ask to play on it?
Jason Boesel, who also plays in Rilo Kiley, is one of my best friends and someone who I consistently play new songs for. So it was kind of a no-brainer to have him play drums, and he was really enthusiastic about it. And then Jason’s roommate and best friend Michael Runion—who’s one of my other best friends and Rilo Kiley’s guitar tech—I asked him to play bass. For most of the songs, it was just the three of us in our practice space messing around.

Was making the album a lot different than making a Rilo Kiley album, even though you were working with some of the same musicians?
Yeah, very different. I mean, being in a band for eight years, it’s very loaded: [Rilo guitarist] Blake [Sennett] and I have been writing together for 10 years; we used to go out with each other. It can be very productive, and it’s a really rewarding experience to know people so well and to make music with them. But there was nothing at stake with this. I didn’t really plan on putting it out until it was finished, and if I didn’t like it, I didn’t have to. It was more just about making music with my friends.

How did your writing differ?
I wanted to create something that was really stripped down, something where I played guitar and sang at the same time and did it one or two times. Certainly, I think some of the songs on Rabbit Fur Coat could’ve made their way onto the next Rilo Kiley record.

More Adventurous jumped around quite a bit between different styles, but Rabbit Fur Coat seems more of a piece.
Sometimes I think about More Adventurous as like being in an airplane and looking down on California and seeing a bunch of swimming pools. As opposed to this one, which might be a lake, you know? It was more about the songs; some of the themes are similar throughout. And I wanted to make a record that you don’t know when it was made—it could be a modern record because of some of the references, but it sounds kind of timeless, too.

Are you planning to play Rilo Kiley songs on your solo tour supporting this record?
I’ve thought about that a little bit. I don’t think so. I think I’ve been playing those songs on the road for a really long time, and I might want to play some new stuff in addition to the songs that are on my record. If I write something that day or week or month, I might want to try that out, rather than going back to these songs that I know I’ll play again with the band. –Mikael Wood"

Raekwon - State of Grace (remix) featuring Busta Rhymes (MP3)

Mary J. Blige - Be Without You (remix)(MP3)