Florence & the Machine:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpsDegqioVA[/youtube]
Miranda Lambert:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHGPmbu3QNk[/youtube]
Guns ‘n Roses:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXIuAz7aryo[/youtube]
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Some years ago, Dove produced this spot, which I think is 1) brilliant, and 2) actually valuable:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I[/youtube]
Was just talking with someone on Twitter about our mutual appreciation of the artist behind the soundtrack (Simian/Simian Mobile Disco) on the above spot, which resulted in some brief Googling. Which resulted in this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odI7pQFyjso&NR=1[/youtube]
Bang.
Just got tipped off that a new Movits! album dropped. Â This looks to be the lead single:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqwfDNzTYks[/youtube]
I love Movits! Â It takes a special talent to demonstrate flow to those who don’t even share your language. Â If you happen to be in the DC area, they’re playing Iota on Friday, May 6th. Â (And those of you that aren’t – check out their touring schedule. Â Excellent live show.)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGEb-y5z7U0[/youtube]
Getting some airport/airplane time in front of me, soon. Â So hoping to get this rolling again.
Just click:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU1v_XKgEPc[/youtube]
Contrary to what your eyes tell you, I miss this place. Let’s start it back up with some music.
Sure, every know knows that Lady Gaga completely ripped off (b/c that’s *well* beyond a “tribute”) Madonna’s Express Yourself. But DJ Tripp makes it all okay:
Lady Gaga vs. Madonna – Express This Way (DJ Tripp) by Mixes and Mashups #20
In something of a parallel act, Crystal Castles recently turned the clock back a few more years into 80s new wave territory, and brought us this superb bit of work. And yes, that is Robert Smith:
Bonus, of a sort: that was actually a cover of a Platinum Blonde song:
There are loads of “punk covers” out there, and they’re almost uniformly crap. (Like most self-identified punk music, actually, but that’s for another time.) But this cover of the Foundation’s Build Me Up Buttercup by the Goops? Tops the original, in my book. Easily.
(The video is mislabeled – that’s the Goops’ cover, not the Foundation’s original)
P.S. – I saw the first daffodil open along the Potomac today.
Cee Lo’s take on Bright Lights, Bigger City:
Took me a while to realize that I wanted to know the name of the artists, but this track – B.o.B – Airplanes (Feat. Hayley Williams of Paramore) – has been working its way into my head over the past couple of months:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU[/youtube]
And then I recently came across a mashup involving the B.o.B. track and Kylie Minogue. Â Ah, Kylie. Â Now that’s someone who has the secret to lasting. Â I remember being in awe of her in the late 80s, found her making up a travel soundtrack in the early 00s, and she’s still cranking it out:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGaW8lBlSk[/youtube]
And here’s Jarod Ripley mashing the two together:
Jarod Ripley – “Get Outta My Airplane” from Jarod Ripley on Vimeo.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9EYSpzlTg[/youtube]