Gotcha Covered - Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. - Solitude Is Bliss //

Could there be a better way to start your Monday than with Mark Ronson & The Business Intl (including Andrew Wyatt (of Miike Snow) and Rose Elinor Dougall) covering Tame Impala’s ‘Solitude Is Bliss’? We think not.

-k

MV’s Top Albums of 2010 // #10-1

We’re done, yipppiiieee!  Thanks for sticking with us while we counted down our favorite 50 albums of this year.  It was a taxing, but enjoyable feat and we hope you had as much fun reading about the albums and watching the accompanying videos as we did writing about them and putting together our list.  PEACEOUT 2010!! Looking forward to another awesome year of music in 2011.

10. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love

Another concept album, yippie! Sharon Jones teams up with David Byrne and Fatboy Slim to tell the story ofImelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines. The disco-y interpretation of her life is set to take to the theatrical stage in the future, but for now we can picture what it would have been like to live in Imelda’s shoes throughTori Amos, Cyndi Lauper, Sia, Florence Welsh (of Florence and the Machine) and Santigold.

9. The National - High Violet

Most of us love The National some of us don’t.  If you’re an fan you are sure to love this album filled with sad songs, that deep unforgettable voice and the memorable brass and strings section to accompany it all.

8. Jonsi - Go

the lead singer of Sigur Rós first solo effort with moving lyrics and a voice that could move angels to tears. 

7. Here we go magic - Pigeons

The expanded line-up has been described as “psychedelic electro-folk” and walking “the line between ambient hypnotica and melodic indie rock” Whatever way you want to categorize it is up to you, no matter what it’s all good.

6. Robyn - Body Talk

Cooper says, “I like pop music. Even kind of dance-y top-40-y pop, when it’s done so so right. In this case, it’s the mix of personality (confidence and vulnerability in the right places), song writing and top-notch production.”

5. Earl Sweatshirt - Earl

The first thing that people fixate on is that Earl Sweatshirt put this album together at 16 years of age. The more important thing is that he is a lyrical phenom, with the casual, slant-rhyming swagger that sets the most talented rappers (Eminem and Lil Wayne apply here) apart from the herd. Earl raps like he was born to do it — he’s the breakout star in hiding from the rising LA-based rap clique OFWGKTA. And yeah, he’s 16.

4. Harlem - Hippies 

This is their second album. They are a scuzzy sounding 3-peice garage band that sounds like Nirvana and a little Clap Your Hands Say yeah, and probably some other stuff. The songs are about 3 minutes a piece, and they all rock and jam and shamble along from hook to chorus sounding often poppy but never neat. The lyrics are dopey, the album title is dopey, but it’s not asking to be taken seriously; just to be played loud and often.

3. Phosphorescent - Here’s to Taking It Easy

Popular interpretation attributes some of this artist’s musical direction on this album to his prior album of Willie Nelson covers. These songs are lovelorn and folky and remind me of Steve Earl and John Prine. There’s humble and swagger; some songs jam and others take a melancholy trip. It sounds like beer and weed and country and a little rock’n roll

2. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (TIE)

These guys followed up a brilliant and rough freshman release with an even sharper, more cohesive album. All the rough and tumble grit remains — all the vocal-chord-shredding screams, the punk rock sensibility, the incredible song-writing, the chugging Springsteen tempos and structures, the whiskey, the soaring, the tumbling, the awesome

2. Cee-Lo Green - Lady Killer (TIE)

So suave and so much swagger.  Who’s more of a lady killer then Cee-Lo? Not you, so fuck you and fuck you too!

1. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

This album saw the young aussies break in to the US. MV got to witness they’re intimate gig at the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn earlier this year, definitely a musical highlight of 2010.

TAME IMPALA @ Glasslands, Brooklyn //

Friday night marked  Tame Impala’s first Brooklyn show. They’re a few weeks into their first ever US tour (supporting MGMT throughout May and June), showcasing their debut album ‘InnerSpeaker’ which dropped in the US earlier this month. It’s a crime not to pick it up. Get it on iTunes or do yourself a favour and order the vinyl from the good fellas at Modular.

These lads produce a soul wandering psychedelic rock-induced groove beyond their years. Unfortunately their US trek is coming to a close, but if you can, make sure to get a taste of their nonchalant epiphany pop:

Here’s a little footage of their first single from InnerSpeaker - “Solitude Is Bliss” - filmed at ‘Camp Nowhere.’  Enjoy.

Music to your ears. From Mine. With Love. -k

Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker

WARNING: If you click this link prepare to spend the next hour of your life in a Tame Impala hypno-groove trance… http://innerspeaker.me/

Tame Impala’s dreamy Jefferson Aeroplane-inspired psychedelia rock will continue to stimulate your hearing sensory organs with their new album InnerSpeaker - out May 21 in Oz and June 8 in the other 6 continents.

These four lads from oz first caught my attention with Half Full Glass Of Wine off their self-titled EP.

I’m addicted. Get your fix. http://www.tameimpala.com/

Music to your ears. From mine. With love. -k

Kypod’s Top 20 of the naughty naughts..

In no particular order, albeit very personal and therefore probably very biased — like my vagabond comrades, this handful of tunes brings back very distinct memories representing chapters from this decade of my life. Hope you find something in this bunch that you enjoy as much as I did:

1. Gotye - Hearts a mess (2006)

2. Radiohead - 2+2=5 (2003)

3. RHCP - The Zephyr Song (2002)

4. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (2005)

5. Angus and Julia Stone - Paper aeroplane (2006)

6. The Raconteurs (aka The Saboteurs) - Steady, As She Goes (2006)

7. The Black Keys - Strange Times (2008)

8. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows (2002)

9. Bloc Party - This Modern Love (2005)

10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Babe, You Turn Me On (2004)

11. Devendra Banhart - Baby (2009)

12. John Butler Trio - Zebra (2004)

13. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor (2008)

14. Waikiki - Here Comes September (2002)

15. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (2003)

16. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Hard To Concentrate (2006)

17. Tame Impala - Half Full Glass Of Wine (2008)

18. Soku - I’ll Kill Her (2007)

19. The Panics - Don’t Fight It (2007)

20. Wolfmother - Mind’s Eye (2005)

- A decade of music from my ears. to yours. with love. k