Song of the Day

Song Of The Day: Kurupt FM featuring Ed Sheeran – The Video

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Paul in Song of the Day | Leave a comment

Glastonbury just announced their full lineup for this year’s festival and while there’s a lot of great names in there, by far the most intriguing act is Kurupt FM, aka the cast of People Just Do Nothing.

That’s right, MC Grindah, DJ Beats, Steves, Chabuddy G and the whole Kurupt FM crew will be there to totally steal the show at Glasto. Ed Sheeran will also be there, so maybe Grindah and the boys will join him to reprise their efforts to make Sheeran “less shit” as they did in this video put together for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day.

Grab a couple bags of peanut dust, sit back, and enjoy:

SXSW Song Of The Day: Lift To Experience – Just As Was Told

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Paul in Song of the Day, South By Southwest | Leave a comment

Denton, Texas-based band Lift To Experience has had a bit of an interesting history. After playing the 2000 edition of SXSW, the trio signed to London-based label Bella Union and went on to release only one album. That album, 2001’s The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, would go on to attain a certain cult status, although the band seems to have gained more of a following in the UK than they ever did stateside.

Now, all these years later, the band is back with a reissued, remastered version of the album and playing a couple of shows for SXSW 2017, including one in a church, which seems somewhat fitting for a band that made a post-rock/shoegaze concept album about the second coming of Jesus Christ in Texas.

Check out “Just As Was Told,” the Slint-esque opening track from that album below:

SXSW Song Of The Day: Whitney Rose – Bluebonnets For My Baby

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Paul in Song of the Day, South By Southwest | Leave a comment

Though her SXSW bio page may say that she’s from Austin, we Canadians know where Whitney Rose is really from. Regardless of her origins though, the P.E.I. born and previously Toronto-based musician does a great job of capturing that authentic old school country sound to an extent that I’m sure a lot of Texans wouldn’t mind claiming her as their own. Unless they’re one of those “welcome to Austin, don’t move here” types, in which case, they probably won’t be in town for SXSW anyways, so whatever.

Check out ’50s-style slow dance number “Bluebonnets For My Baby” from Whitney Rose’s latest release South Texas Suite below:

SxSW Song of the Day: Temples, Certainty

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Gary in Song of the Day, South By Southwest | Leave a comment

Late in 2014, Ricky mused laconically about where the 70s-energy of Temples would be in 2017. Let’s review: “The Golden Throne” from Temples was a compelling track from the moment it opened with an exotic guitar theme. It never let up and held an extremely tight composition throughout the rest of the disco-hued track. Well, here we are now and I’m happy to report that they aren’t bagging groceries, and they’re not going anywhere fast.

That was a compliment. Still dishing out their brand of “name theme, expand theme, and radiate”, we find that they aren’t limited to courting throwbacks. In the new track “Certainty,” Temples wears a new-found joy that conjures some of the same magic, had the jingle from Futurama’s Game of Tones been piled into phyllo pastry layers in a confectionery. Despite the new sound, you can forget about finding a signature. Apparently, their stamp is not in a melody or tempo, but the metaphysical sense of “GLORY”. I believe that’s two for two now, and I only hope they continue to write along this trajectory. Yes, I borrowed from Ricky shamelessly without trying to figure out why their music is interesting. Bite my shiny metal amygdala.

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