shoomp

Look, if I re-posted everything I love from the Neon Gold blog, this thing would be nothing but Neon Gold posts. And, you know, that's why I link them to the left, because they're awesome, and I love them, but holy moly, I gotta re-post this. I haven't been sold on Mr. Little Jeans just yet, but this Royal Palms remix of "Rescue Song" is hardcore rocking my world. It's all slinky, sultry until the bottom drops out, and it's like SHOOMP SHOOMP SHOOMP.

Lykke Li drops a banger. I like how she always veers away from being too twee or cute. Like she can sing a pretty song, but wouldn't hesitate to shove you against a locker and put a knife against your neck, and even though it would have a mother-of-pearl handle and be, like, three inches long, it's still a knife, you know, and WHAT THE HELL IS IT DOING NEAR YOUR NECK?

Last, here's James Blake's gorgeous cover of Feist's "Limit to Your Love." Not much to say about it (it's awesome!) except that it reminds me of Jamie Lidell. Which is why I'm putting a Jamie Lidell video below it.

future mashup predictions: under the pink friday

Other potential Tori/Nicki collaborations: Massive Earthquakes, Silence All These Hos, Raspberry ... well Raspberry Swirl already sounds like a Nicki Minaj song.

my mama didn't raise no fool

I played Warpaint's "Billie Holiday" on a loop during the summer of 2009. Something about their brand of L.A. girl group gone listless folkie really resonated with me. It was this song that seemed like a combination of Shannon Stephens "In Summer in the Heat" and "Glamorous" by Fergie (yeah. i know). Peep their contribution to the Soundies series below, and maybe you'll get an idea of what I mean. Sure it's raining and they're bundled up in sweatshirts, but I'm breaking out in a sweat, you know?

Anyway, they're back with a new single off their upcoming album "The Fool" and it's a jam. Credit to the always reliable Mixtape Maestro for turning me on to it.

i wrote this song for you to sing

New video for Diamond Rings' "Something Else." You can't tell on record, but from the video it looks like he has something of a sexy lisp.

i know you know

All head explosions about the Milla Jovovich album aside, this is a really great jam.

nested russian dolls

Sometimes you stumble across something in the culture that completely challenges everything you thought you knew. Like, you think you're drinking coffee out of a paper cup, right? But what if you're not drinking coffee, you're reading it? And what if it isn't coffee, it's a newspaper? And what if you're not even reading a newspaper, you're trying to light an inflight magazine on fire while on a budget-air trip to Topeka because that's just the kind of weirdo arsonist slippery motherfucker you've turned out to be?

What I'm saying is this: Milla Jovovich, aka LILU FROM THE FIFTH ELEMENT, put out an album in 1994 called The Divine Comedy (WHAT?). It earned rave reviews (HUH?). She toured with Crash Test Dummies (WHO?). She went on Conan (HIM?).

Now, Diamond Rings (who else?) is covering her single "Gentleman Who Fell" as the B-side to his upcoming 7-inch "Something Else." You'll remember Diamond Rings as the Patrick Wolf-ish young puck who put out that great low-budget-High-School-Musical-as-David-Lynch-gay-porn music video for his previous single "Show Me Your Stuff." It figures. Because that flight to Topeka you were on? Well, you succeeded in crashing that motherfucker, and now you're on an island and there's a smoke everywhere and an ageless guy with eyeliner because that's how wrong you've been about everything.

Oh, and one more thing. Did you catch the hooded guys with mirror faces? GUESS WHERE THAT TURNED UP THIS YEAR?

None of this matters. I am procrastinating. I spent all weekend reading the Polish poets. Adam Zagajewski. Czeslaw Milosz. I know that I know nothing. It's this doubt that propels me. Play me out, Johnny.

they killed john henry but they can't kill me

This month, Justin Townes Earle released his third album, Harlem River Blues, which chronicles his move from Nashville to New York. HRB continues his run of stellar album covers; this one goes baptismal and features some sort of Drew Barrymore type vampire at Justin's side. Justin has postponed his fall tour and entered into a rehabilitation facility for unspecified "addiction."