GROUPLOVE: from london, l.a., and new york via crete. kindred spirits hannah hooper and christian zucconi met in manhattan before hooking up with sean gadd, andrew wessen and ryan rabin in crete to form what is now grouplove. their debut ep was released in 2010, filled with zucconi's raw vocals, broken melodies and a shared passion for their music. it's seriously good. check out the video for colours too. its sweet.
...but my favourite thing about his band is probably hannah hooper. girl can paint. she did the cover of their self-titled ep, along with the morning benders 2010 album 'big echo' (a really solid debut album). CHECK HER SITE OUT.
my sick uncle - lil wayne Vs (500) days of summer OST = (500) days of weezy. a mixtape of acapella weezy over samples built from the (500) days of summer soundtrack. verse like...
'she pulled me over... pulled me out the rover then she pulled me closer... do me in the back of the car Put me in handcuffs start ripping my pants off'
...over regina spektor's 'us' should sound like sacrilege. but it doesn't. it sounds great. get the full mixtape here.
hoodie allen - new york based rapper doing what chiddy bang did so well last year. takes hooky indie tunes, mixes, layers with verse, and produces good summertime hip hop.
mouth's cradle - solid summery mix of hip hop, pop and electronica. facebook bio;
'Kevin Hegedus made music with his body ... Brandon Linn made mashups... they met at a party...they formed Mouth's Cradle and havent made a weak beat since.'
'i currently live in san francisco, hobnobbing with lunatics and writing music. i’ve played shows all over the country with a bunch of different artists. this past fall, i wrote, produced, and recorded a non-edible mixtape called MASHed Potatoes. if you were to put hip hop, indie rock, and electronic music in a blender, it would sound like me.'
binary star - alt hip/hop group formed in '98 composed of pontiac, michigan rappers one be lo and senim silla. their debut album 'waterworld' which was recorded, mixed and mastered on a $500 budget. all verses were recorded in one take.
also, i finished reading dave eggers's 'a heartbreaking work of staggering genius' this morning. phenomenal. he writes so vibrantly, so real, so inclusively that it's hard not become emotionally invested in even his most trivial thoughts and actions. and it's the understated moments that cut deepest, his anger and almost innocent hope, and always that underlying fury, feeding him, polarising his opinions. his work is heartbreaking and staggering and genius. it's so good, i mean so fucking good. you have to read it. you must. you owe it to yourself and to the author. he is owed.
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