R.MThursday, February 11, 2010
Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy [via]
The first follower is just as important as the leader.
reblogged from educationalrap
Thursday, December 31, 2009
New Year's Eve Party Songs - 2009
Last year a friend asked me to compile a list of well-known pop tracks that should be on his party playlist, and I happily obliged. I did the same this year, albeit hastily. As I said to him:
“These aren’t necessarily my favorites, but these are some of the biggest tracks of the year from the pop, indie, and rap scenes. (I didn’t include a bunch that aren’t really suitable for parties like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, etc.)”
MAJOR POP
- Drake - Best I Ever Had (Skeemix) (feat. R. Kelly)
- Kid Cudi - Make Her Say (feat. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak)
- The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
- Lady Gaga - Just Dance (feat. Colby O’Donis) (or Paparazzi, or Bad Romance…)
- The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
- Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
- Beyonce - Halo
- Kanye West - Heartless
- T.I. - Dead and Gone (feat. Justin Timberlake)
- T.I. - Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna)
- The Fray - You Found Me
- Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
- Keri Hilson - Knock You Down (feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo)
- Jamie Foxx - Blame It (feat. T-Pain)
- Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
- Soulja Boy Tell ‘em - Kiss Me Thru The Phone (feat. Sammie)
- Jay Sean - Down (feat. Lil Wayne)
- Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
- Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)
- Ciara - Love and Sex and Magic (feat. Justin Timberlake)
LESS KNOWN BUT REASONABLY WORTH PLAYING
- Gucci Mane - Wasted (feat. Plies)
- The-Dream - Rockin’ That Shit
- Chris Brown - Crawl
- Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (feat. VYBZ Kartel)
- Major Lazer - Keep It Goin’ Louder (feat. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze)
- 50 Cent - Baby By Me
- Mary J. Blige - The One (feat. Drake)
- LMFAO - I’m in Miami Bitch
- Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
INDIE HITS
- Micachu and the Shapes - Golden Phone
- Discovery - Orange Shirt
- La Roux - Bulletproof
- Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
- Passion Pit - The Reeling
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
- Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
- Phoenix - 1901
- Animal Collective - My Girls
- The XX - Islands
INDIE AND OUT THERE
- Joker & Ginz - Purple City
- Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate
- Four Tet - Love Cry
Friday, December 11, 2009
Frank talk with Lady Gaga, Latimes.com
I love her music. She’s incredibly talented. Poker Face still does it for me, and I can’t wait to keep hearing her stuff.
But this interview is full of unbelievably pompous quotes. She’s an attractive woman who belts the shit out of dance songs, has great producers, and has a coherent image. It’s called pop music. It’s not genius, and it’s not a feminist movement—it’s a costume.
This is all happening not because Gaga is cute or takes off her clothes but because (to use one of her favorite words) she is a monster — a monster talent, that is, with a serious brain. (emphasis mine)
She’s kidding, right? Has she seen Lady Gaga? Or seen her music videos? (Weirdly, all the Poker Face videos are currently private, but here’s a live rendition.)
And, yoohoo—the album is called Fame Monster. She’s calling herself a monster. It’s called marketing.
“I don’t make it as a defense. I make it as, OK, guys, it’s been two years, and I’ve made a lot of music, and I know my greatness is individual. And I want every woman to be able to say that.” (emphasis mine)
Come. On.
Love the music, hate this article.
reblogged from meaghano
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Together: The New England Electronic Music Festival
February 8-14th, clubs around the city will celebrate TOGETHER: The New England Electronic Music Festival.
For one week, the Boston electronic music scene will join up as never before. Dance bands, avant-garde aficionados, electro maniacs, anarcho-artists and techno mafia will loose their labels, loosen their inhibitions and lose their minds.For one week, the Boston electronic music scene will join up as never before. Dance bands, avant-garde aficionados, electro maniacs, anarcho-artists and techno mafia will loose their labels, loosen their inhibitions and lose their minds.
[via @wayneandwax]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
My goal was to capture how awesome the dancing Knicks City Kids were, but you can barely see them here.
Friday, November 20, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Friday Slink: Leisure by Dizzee Rascal (iTunes)
For all the hip-to-hip dark dance parties later tonight. Much later.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Friday Slink: Shake It to the Ground (Claude VonStroke Remix) - DJ Blaqstarr featuring Rye Rye (lala)
Boom! Serious chair dancing.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wilcassettes makes you dancecassettes
The MTV Iggy blog likes my man Alan’s remix of “The Warm Heart of Africa” and gave him an interesting new description. AW, just roll with it!
Download the track here.
Alan Wilkis, a Brooklyn-based dance-music dude, takes “The Warm Heart of Africa” out of indie’s upper echelons and brings it to a poolside DJ booth.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (1993)
In brief:
- I had never heard this until I Shazamed it from the radio.
- Shazam kicks serious ass. It was kind enough to recognize (“tag”) the song and note the time, date, and location (via iPhone GPS) of the tagging. (Aug 9, 2009, City of Milford, CT)
- I have no idea how this came on the radio in CT, but a group of us was on our way back from a road trip, so details are murky.
- Early-90s dance music still has a sacrosanct place in my heart. (cf. Show Me Love and Rhythm is a Dancer)
- The Nightcrawlers is “a house music project, assembled by producer, DJ and vocalist John Reid (born 6 September 1973) from Easterhouse, Scotland.”
- Turns out John Reid is not only a recognized dance producer but a songwriter who, among other things, co-wrote the American Idol hit A Moment Like This.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Dance Battle of the Day: A dude and a dog krump to the death by the side of Florida’s SR 50 (a/k/a just another Tuesday in East Orlando). [via.]
I think I’ve finally found a spokeperson for RRR. You’re hired.
reblogged from pablog
