Mila Kunis at the Oscars

Infatuation, thy name is Kunis.

Stream Lykke Li's "Wounded Rhymes"

Streaming full albums before they release seems to be all the rage these days.  Toro y Moi did it.  Radiohead did it.  Now it's Lykke Li's turn to give us the goods before Wounded Rhymes' March 1 release.

Stream here.

I've mentioned my love for Lykke Li before, and this album just piles it on.  My favorites so far?  "Sadness Is A Blessing".  Amen to that.

"I'm your prostitute.  You gon' get some."

Stream Radiohead's "The King Of Limbs"

Radiohead is always full of surprises.  About a week ago, Yorke and company announced that not only was their new album completed, but they would be releasing a digital copy to anyone who pre-ordered the album on Saturday.  As in, tomorrow.  Awesome.

People buzzed about how cool it was that we would all experience a simultaneous eargasm (I'm paraphrasing) when everyone listened to the album at about the same time; something that is rare these days thanks to the inception of album leaks.

Then, just to prove they're no one's bitch (my words, not theirs), they sent out the digital copy a day early.  Needless to say, the album spread across the internet like wildfire.  And, quite conveniently, you can stream the whole album here.  Who loves ya, baby?

 Radiohead - The King of Limbs by ThePEAK

Bonus!  With the early release of the album, the ban also released a music video for the first single, "Lotus Flower".  It has Yorke doing awkward white boy dances.  You're welcome.



God bless you, Thom Yorke, you magnificent, wonky-eyed bastard.

Marilyn Monroe

Old school hotness.

Coldplay - "Strawberry Swing"

This video makes me very happy.  Go ahead and get all the inevitable "You know how I know you're gay" jokes (why is that still happening, anyway?) out of your system.  I fucking love Coldplay.


Coldplay - Strawberry Swing from Hatem Zekri on Vimeo.

Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" Wins Album of the Year Grammy

In a rare moment of good judgment from National Academy of Recoding Arts and Sciences, Arcade Fire won the top honors, Album of the Year, at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

I'm pumped that my favorite album of the past year was recognized, but the thing that excites me the most about the win is the shear triumph.  Appreciate the weight of the situation.  AF beat out mainstream phenoms Lady GaGa and Katy Perry, rap icon Eminem, and the airwave-invading Lady Antebellum.  All of these artists were constantly played on TV and radio.  Persistent exposure.  I can almost guarantee you that you've never heard Arcade Fire on the radio or seen their videos on TV (even though they're amazing).  The indie voice was heard loud and clear tonight, and it was beautiful.

Another beautiful moment:  after hearing that they won, lead singer Win announced that they were gonna play another song on the spot in celebration (and "because [they] like playing music"), and immediately burst into "Ready To Start".  This is what musicians look like, folks.

Celebrate with me by listening to "Month Of May", the track they played just before their win, and the aforementioned "Ready To Start".

 Month Of May by axfight

 Arcade Fire - Ready To Start by Lucky_Vitoria

Swaine Adeney Brigg Classic Kit Bag

I feel like this is the kind of bag Sherlock Holmes would carry.

$3500.  Damn you, J. Crew.

Childish Gambino - Freaks and Geeks

CG just released another track from his upcoming EP, entitled "Freaks and Geeks".  This is the hardest I think I've ever heard him go, but with lines like, "Are there Asian girls here?/Minority Report!" and a particularly hard punchline about waffles, it's still got that Childish charm.  I have no idea what it's going to be named yet, but the EP should be out in "about a month or so", and the anticipation is getting kinda heavy.  Listen.

 Freaks & Geeks - Childish Gambino by GBZGBZ

Sick.

I've never really been into fur.  I'm not really an animal rights activist or anything, it's just not me.  But, everytime I see this picture in my blog roll, I think about how hot I would look in this vest and it makes me a little light-headed.

-via The Sartorialist

Erykah Badu - "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long"

Erykah Badu is an artist who has been praised the world over for her music, but because of her post-1994 Afrocentricity and penchant for weirdness, I feel like people overlook one other thing:  she's damn pretty.

General rule of thumb:  Never question Three Stack's judgment.

See her new video for "Gone Baby, Don't Be Long" below.


Erykah Badu - Gone Baby, Don't be Long from beeple on Vimeo.


Badu's latest album New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh is a phenomenal addition to her catalog.  For good measure, here's the controversial music video to my favorite song from the album, "Window Seat".


Erykah Badu "Window Seat" from triggerhappy on Vimeo.

Toro Y Moi - "New Beat"

If you troll the indie music blogs even casually, you've no doubt seen the unsettling (at least to me, it is) album cover for Toro Y Moi's Underneath The Pine.  Despite the barrage of hype, the album actually doesn't come out until the end of the month, which speaks to how good the tracks that have been released already actually are.  Here's the very recently released video for the newest track "New Beat".


Toro Y Moi - "New Beat" (Official Video) from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.

Does this remind anyone else of those pictures of STDs they showed us back in Health class?

Be sure to check out Underneath The Pine when it drops on 2/22.

**EDIT** - Thanks to Urban Outfitters, you can stream the album in it's entirety here.  Love it.

GANT Spring/Summer 2011 Living Lookbook

Some of these styles are a little hit or miss (varsity jacket with giant baseball player graphic on the back is a no-no), and I swear that Bastian has been trying to sell that same pair of $2000 destructed khakis for the last 3 years or so.  I mainly just like the whole idea of the living lookbook.  Meh.

Chiddy Bang - Rebel

New track from Chiddy Bang's upcoming album The Swelly Life.  Check it.

Chiddy Bang - Rebel by Pretty Much Amazing

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

A couple of days ago, comedian Michael Ian Black tweeted that "Listening to 80s music is great for an hour or so.  Not sure how we did it for a decade."  He's got a point.  After a while, things you start to feel sick, like when you eat too much candy.  Too much of a good thing, I suppose.  That being said, I could listen to The Smiths for hours.  Morrisey's not-really-good-but-somehow-amazing vocals give me hope that one day I can be a frontman despite my voice, or lack thereof.  (I'd have dope stage presence.  You don't even know.)  I feel like if I was born a few years earlier on in the 80s, I would have needed The Smiths just to make everything else more palatable.  Here's one of my favorites by them.  You may recognize it as the theme song to the show "Charmed".

 How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths by ruinednation

...and here's Death Cab For Cutie covering another great Smiths song, This Charming Man:



Interesting fact:  Mexican gangs are really into The Smiths.  It makes me wonder if they're aware of the homosexual overtones.