putting the j in jjosh

do you like feeling good? I hope so, because that's how you're going to feel after you watch this. crank the volume if you can…

Restless People – Victimless Crime from Sean Mattison on Vimeo.

this track…I keep listening to it over and over (the album version), it's got something so good about it…it's great that at Glastonbury Florence showed up to make it happen with the xx, and I love that she sings it in the same way they sliced and diced her vocal on the remix…great… FIXED!

anti-tv screed, matrix style? minus…

mind melt animation? plus!

"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.

this vid has a nice smooth feel…and right when I said to myself "I hope they take it to the next level", they did!

"Surrounded By Your Friends" by Hooray For Earth from Johnny Woods on Vimeo.

we earned it, didn't we?

Konichiwa Bitches Blip from Robyn on Vimeo.

And in a similar vein from yesterday's post, check this…pretty great, big beat, nice dancing/footwork, a bit pop at times, mainly in the chorus, but overall very feelgood…and Big Boi never goes amiss…I predict this may be the jam of the summer…KT's gonna love it…and the video, beautifully filmed, echoes of Cuckoo's Nest, Wes Anderson's font in the opening titles, a great jam of influences, and Janelle appearing throughout like a fully-formed star, but of the kooky variety…

[via the flux]

I'm sure that somewhere there's a way to make MIA's Paper Planes sound lame, but this is not it. Onion AV is doing this thing where they have bands cover new and old classics, and this is The Clientele rocking MIA. The violins and everything…it's so good… The Clientele covers M.I.A.

I'm posting this here because if you haven't seen Spike Jonze's return to music vids with the new LCD Soundsystem single, you really should. Defines "anarchic". Feels good/scary, which is a nice combo. I'm still out on the single…I didn't think that much of it when I first heard it, but I must say, it keeps getting stuck in my head…

this is guaranteed to make you feel better on your Friday.

as youtube commenter foundmyrosebud01 says: 

oh my god, this changes everything

Always sort of admired the guy…seemed to be bursting with ideas…plus how amazing is this track:

Yeah, so this guy made a version of Dark side of the moon just using the audio capabilities of the NES sound chip. It sounds amazing, somehow. I've been listening to the whole thing over and over, there are some parts that are just haunting, and computer game-y at the same time. Go here to download for yourself, and here's a sample ("Great Gig In The Sky") of what I'm talking about:

sometimes I love Pitchfork's echo chamber:

"Years ago, some girl wrote in the classifieds saying she was looking for a man 'with the poetic sensitivity of Leonard Cohen and the raw power of Iggy Pop,' so Leonard tried to get me to set up a three-way with her [laughs]. He said, 'Dude, we can give her both!'"

— Iggy Pop. (via Rolling Stone)

when you announce that Jeff Magnum will be playing his first show in ten years and tickets will go on sale at noon…I do like their fail page though…

UPDATE – we got tickets! sweet! sold out in 15 minutes…

this is pretty sweet. Merton's got skills…

also, in some kind of internet irony, because everyone kept saying that Merton sounded/looked just like Ben Folds, apparently Ben Folds heard about it and filmed his own "tribute", which is also pretty good…the "bobby" song is especially inspired…

Sometimes a mash-up isn't really that good, but there's still something about it, something about the way it triggers your brain…file under cognitive dissonance…