GET READY FOR IT! New Annie Megamix from the new album 'Don't Stop'

This shit is so hot I can't even stand it.





annie's homepage:
www.anniemusic.co.uk

link to the megamix (pop justice's link went back, so here's a swedish site's):
http://www.smuglesning.no/view.aspx?postID=1581

Thar She Blows

New CSS Album Update!

From Pitchfork.com:


CSS New Album Title: Donkey

Wow, that CSS album we mentioned when we ran down their tour dates a week ago was even more imminent than we realized.

Donkey, the sophomore platter from the Brazilian quintet, is due in stores in July, and in the Great Album Title Hall of Fame right about now. The disc was recorded in the band's native São Paolo during a four-month respite from their ever-exhaustive touring plans.

UPDATE: WE'VE GOT A RELEASE DATE! JULY 22 ON SUB POP!

Those looking to hop on this Donkey a little early have but a few days to wait. On April 28, the song "Rat Is Dead (Rage)" will be available on their website for download free of charge, and it will also hit the radio.

The band kick off that sizeable tour of theirs May 5 in Cardiff, Wales.

CSS:

05-05 Cardiff, Wales - Great Hall #
05-06 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC #
05-07 Dublin, Ireland - Academy #
05-09 Brittany, France - Art Rock Festival
05-23 Warsaw, Poland - Freshsounds Fest
05-25 Northampton, England - Gatecrasher Fest
05-26 Newcastle, England - Evolution Festival
05-31 London, England - Roehampton England
06-04 Montreaux, Switzerland - Montreaux Jazz Festival
06-05 Belfort, France - Les Eurockeennes
06-06-07 Frankfurt, Germany - Rock in Park Festival
06-07-08 Loch Ness, Scotland - RockNess
06-13 London, England - Rise Festival
06-19 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
06-20 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
06-25 Mt. Fuji, Japan - Fuji Rock Festival
07-18 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-19 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07-30 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *^
07-31 Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
08-01 Chicago, IL - Grant Park (Lollapalooza)
08-04 Montreal, Quebec - Osheaga Festival
08-05 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus *
08-07 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
08-08 Jersey City, NJ - All Points West Festival *
08-09 Worcester, MA - The Palladium *
08-10 Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
09-05 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival
09-14 Morrison, CO - Monolith Festival
09-15 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue
09-17 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
09-19 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
09-22 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre
09-23 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre
09-25 Tucson, AZ - Rialto Theater
09-26 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival

# with the Futureheads, MGMT
* with the Go! Team
^ with Black Kids


Video: CSS: Music is My Hot Hot Sex (iPod ad) [from the Cansei De Ser Sexy LP]

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Human Snake

Not sure if this is 'branded content' or not (Nokia is listed in related vids, so who knows?), but i appreciate the grande scale juxtaposed with the simplicity of the stopframe animation...

New and Old Music I'm Excited to Share with YOU!

Haven't made a music post in a while... never even got around to my 2007 Best Album Reco... which, for the record is an extremely tough call between Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam, Radiohead's In Rainbows, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, M.I.A.'s Kala, Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future, Interpol's Our Love to Admire, Datarock's self-titled first album, !!!'s Myth Take, the Shins' Wincing the Night Away, Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver, and finally Panda Bear's Person Pitch. I must also give hearty nods to Tracey Thorn's tender coming-out-of-her-shell album Out of the Woods, Bjork's Volta, Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position, as well as Moving Units' sophomore effort I instantly fell in love with upon hearing the title - Hexes for Exes - and finally the blaringly obvious and loudly critically acclaimed releases from Amy Winehouse (Back to Black) and Mark Ronson (Version).

2008 is already proving to be quite a powerhouse year for solid releases.

Here's what I've recently snagged - some new, some old - this stuff comes HIGHLY recommended, but of course you should always hear for yourselves:

Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Bang Gang - Something Wrong
Kylie Minogue - X
Celebration - Modern Tribe
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Daft Punk - Alive
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Final Fantasy - Has a Good Home
Funk D'Void - Dos
Soulwax - Nite Versions
The Glass (various remixes)
GusGus - Attention
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (get the black bonus track edition if you can...)
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Hercules & Love Affar (Self-titled debut album)
In Flagranti - Wronger Than Anyone Else
Inland Knights - various (it's all good), but Best of Drop Music is a great foray
Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp fame) - Jarvis
John Tejada - various (again - all good)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Miss Kittin - Batbox
Mr. Oizo - Moustache (Half a Scissor)
Mu Fish Fu - Out of Breach
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
Professor Murder - Professor Murder Rides the Subway
Shitake Monkey - Street Beef
Purple Crush - Welcome 2 Emo Club
Riton - Djalma
Robyn - Robyn
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
The Teenagers - reality check
White Girl Lust - Solid Bump Records (you can find this mix on GBH.de - the best funk/disco/tech-house mix I've heard in years!)
Yello - You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess / Stella
Yelle - Pop-up
OM Records' - 300th Release! Sounds of Om Vol. 6
Theatre of Disco - Theatre of Disco
White Williams - Smoke (with the lovely, the talented Sofia Lamar featured in the album art)
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into


Also there's this new site where you can upload your own, and stream other peoples' mixes from all over the place. For anybody who was of the mixtape generation, this will definitely pull your sentimental heartstrings and it's just cool to see what kind of playlists other people are making. The site is growing exponentially. Totally check it out for yourself!

www.Muxtape.com




Enjoy!

Michael/Corocet/Senor Blog

Eclipse Tonight

There is a full lunar eclipse tonight starting at 20:43 (8:43 PM) and will last a few hours. The eclipse will peak around 10:01 and continue for 45 minutes or so.

We won't experience a similar eclipse until 2010.





http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-liluna0221,0,3140991.story

Happy Valentine's Day

you never know...

Goldfrapp - A & E (first single from Seventh Tree)

Goldfrapp's back. Their new single A & E was released last week by itself and this week with remixes. The single was taken from the band's soon-to-be-released album called Seventh Tree - hitting the streets and stores on 25 February - and if you're a true 'Frapp fan, you'll enjoy the change from the disco-dipped glam sleaze we've come to expect from the group.

Seventh Tree touches back to the sweeping soundscapes of their first album Felt Mountain, and adds depth to the band's repertoire. Keep in mind Alison Goldfrapp began her career as a performance artist fresh out of art school. Her first performance pieces combined her classically-trained soprano opera voice with the act of milking a cow.

This effort has lifted the curtain back on Alison's feminine vulnerability, and more importantly exposes the folly that is being human. This is the kind of album you can put on and listen to all the way through and appreciate every song. At first listen I wasn't a fan, but after a few listens I felt myself softening to the pared-down structure of the folky-sounding songs and began to really enjoy them. The drowsy melodies and ghostly guitars beg to be played on lazy Sundays or at twilight dinner parties.

Here's the provacative video for "A & E". If you were lucky enough to see Goldfrapp's last tour, you have to wonder if the leaf-people featured in this video are any of the same horse's head dancers that flanked Alison on stage.

Enjoy!



Goldfrapp's newly-updated homepage:
http://goldfrapp.com/

Hall of Mirrors (Re-post)

I was sitting in a living room watching TV and shooting the shit with some faceless friends. All of a sudden the ex I haven't spoken with for almost 3 years (aka THE ex) appeared on the screen. He appeared to be in a new reality-based show about how people turn out after college or something like that.

Voyeuristically I watched him go through his day. He made some coffee, he showered, he put on clothes, he drove to work, he ate, he returned home. All the while he didn't seem to have any idea that I or any cameras were watching him.

It was at this time I became lucid. I then turned and scoffed to my dream friends sharing the couch with me - "God. This feels just like being in A Christmas Carol and I'm Ebenezer Scrooge! I know I was wrong, and I feel horrible for my actions. My harsh words were unnecessary and wounding. My attitude inappropriate. I realize now how I thrashed wildly against something I loved, and out of self-hate tried to squash something I deep down wanted to lovingly and painstakingly nurture back to good health. But how can I learn what I already know from this excruciating display? What is my lesson!?!" My friends offered neither advice, nor opinions.

I continued pleadingly, as if some invisible angel would hear my torment and grant me everlasting peace (or at least peace from the TV torture). I continued my lament. "This is HORRIBLE! Like always, how bittersweet seeing him again! Yet in the end there is just regret and sadness! Again I ask Where is the moral!?!" No reply from the peanut gallery.

Turning to one of the faceless faces, I began to shake them by their shoulders in hopes a sympathetic face would appear. "You know what all this is like?! This fucking TV business? This is like when I dream about him! This is like seeing someone you want to talk to everywhere all the time, but can't - they are turning a corner. They are buying a paper at the newstand as a bus goes by obstructing your view. They are getting on the train on their way to work just as you are coming down the stairs to the platform. They are doing their laundry at the laundromat just as you...

"No matter what happens you can't say anything, and they will never see you! THIS IS JUST LIKE HAVING A RECURRING DREAM ABOUT SOMEONE YOU HAVE UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH, BUT WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO AGAIN!"

At that moment I awoke, rattled. I rolled over and tried unsuccessfully to go back to sleep. After a few minutes of pondering, I went into the kitchen for a glass of water. My roommate opened his door and we walked together to the living room, plopping ourselves down sleepily on the couch - weekend morning routine as usual.

I began to tell him about my weird dream. Then, something magical happened. In the retelling of the dream, I realized the whole scenario was like watching yourself on TV watching yourself on TV, ad nauseum. I felt almost as if caught in a hall of mirrors. I could see countless versions of myself expanding into infinity, ad infinitum - always one plane/one pane removed - observing, yet inable to affect change or to be seen/heard.

After I finished recounting, the surrounding silence sucked up the dream as if the tale had never been told; the mood of the dream remained. It was humming as it were, resonating with eerie meaning. On one side, my heart was SO full of love. On the other - bitter regret, disappointment, longing, resentment, and frustration.

Closing my eyes for a second in an attempt to get grounded back in my current reality, I distinctly felt like someone was watching me: a reflection in an ever-shifting, infinite hall of mirrors.

Currently listening : Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? By Of Montreal Release date: 23 January, 2007

Watercress and Waterless - Thoughts for the Lost (Re-post)

This isn't any crazy artistic blog - instead just things I've done or am thinking about lately.

Saw CSS with Shout Out Out Out and Dirty on Purpose at Studio B on Friday. 'Twas fun, 'twas. Pics of Lovefoxx and the rest here:

http://www.letsbecomefamous.com/studiob/2007_08_03/

Saw the Bodies exhibit at South Street Seaport on Saturday. The first two rooms were a bit tough to get through. I had to sit and breathe and not look at anything a couple times, dry sweating and vision-impaired. Thankfully they had benches for the queazy. What was weird is that I was always very into anatomy and dissecting things in high school/college.
I guess this was just a bit too close to home? I couldn't stop thinking about meat. We're all just meat. We're flesh. Blood. Ashes to ashes. Food for cannibals. I kept thinking about cannibals and how they believe by consuming, they take a person's soul into themselves. I kept thinking how much human flesh when flayed open and exposed as the meat it is really does look like chicken. Ick. Talking about it right now is making my stomach turn.
After the first two rooms I was fine, and the following rooms were really amazing - circulatory system and babies and organs oh my. It really made me think twice about drinking, smoking, and even pollution. Seeing black lungs will do that to you.
There were garish things too: a giant thumb (think football-sized and then some), conjoined twins, embryos that looked like alien spawn, a cancerous penis, cancerous breasts. I could go on and on.
I got to hold a human brain, heart, and an unpreserved tibia.
One of the coolest things about going to Bodies was watching other living peoples' reactions to what they were seeing/learning about. Little kids were learning the birds and bees from their embarassed fathers (''Didn't think I'd have that conversation today!''). Teenagers lingered around the reproductive section.

That night, I went to see the movie Sunshine with some friends. This is the new Danny Boyle movie (the same guy who did Trainspotting and 28 Days Later). Though there were several holes in the plot, I found the movie very touching. It is a very dark look into a possible future for humanity, but there are moments that made my heart sing, such as when the Captain called everyone to the observation deck to unveil a beautiful, swirling, glowing Mercury in full panorama directly in front of the spaceship. I don't like spoilers, so I won't give too much away, but please go see this movie. It was very entertaining and worth the 12/13 bucks you have to dish out to see a movie in this city.

Mario Party 8 rocks. I always play with Dry Bones or Boo. I added the 'heckle' feature - which makes annoying your competition SO much easier hehe. The Nintendo Wii still amazes me, and I think it'll be a LONG time before I grow bored with it. Wii Fit looks awesome, and I can't wait for Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Brothers, and Wii Mario Kart.

Finally, I'd like to leave you all with a thought I had last night that swooped down into my consciousness from somewhere:

Make an isosceles triangle in your mind/consciousness out of your intention/(thought?)
Emotion/Gut Instinct/Intuition/Fight Mechanism is one leg of the triangle; Thought/Reason/Fear/Flight Mechanism the other leg.

What bisects the two makes a super-trajectory amplifying the intensity of your Higher Self's intention.

It's easier to hate than to love.

Choose love.

Corocet

ps - and because myspace sucks and won't read my codes right, no pics/vids for you guys. Sorry!

Currently listening : Dangerous Dreams By Moving Units Release date: 12 October, 2004