Heard this song a few times on XM and love it.  I know it features Karen O, but I don’t really hear where.  Sounds like good old Santigold to me.  If you don’t knwo who she is, click through on the image below and listen to some samples at Amazon.com…really unique stuff.  Reminds me of [...]

Getting ready for dancing this coming Memorial Day weekend.  This song is the most recent bootie shaker that I can’t stop playing over and over.  Hope you enjoy. Click the image below to get more AutoErotique through Amazon!

Since my days in Art Center when Alexander von David turned me on to The Wedding Present, I have been an avid listener (pre Cinerama, I mean).  David Gedge’s constantly fluctuating relationship (according to his songs) played soundtrack for my troubled experience with the other sex.  Seriously, he has three themes to his songs: Goddam, you’re hot; Goddam, [...]

I know, right?  I feel like I should be giving you travel trips and directions from one city to another, but no…this is a band called Beirut playing a song they call Venice.  If you don’t know Beirut, then this isn’t the best starting place.  They are actually a lot less contained than they seem [...]

The majority of the Tune-Yards’ songs are a complete digression from every other one of their songs.  Super unique music for those of us who need variety.  This song in particular gives me such a rush.  From crispy trip-hop beats they cull hints of Morcheeba, Ruby, Portishead, The Cure and dare I say Nine Inch Nails?  I [...]

This is a follow up post to yesterday’s Wolfgang Gartner.  Feel free to compare and contrast.  While Wolfgang is keeping things danceable, Skrillex is making art of the Rude Boy spin I mentioned in that post.  At first, you might say “I can dance to this, Joe.”  Well, first of all don’t call me Joe…my [...]

Back to shakin’ it!  This is the track that I had originally intended on starting things off with on this blog.  Heard it while driving to a Starbucks one morning and it made me want to go to a club and dance.  That hasn’t happened to me at 8AM in a long time! I am [...]

Quick Canal is all but that at over 8:30 in length, but it is a grove that I can dig into, so I don’t mind the extended duration.  In fact, it feels like two different versions of one song put into one track.  The first half is the melodious version for radio play and the [...]

It really blows me away how many different ways music comes into my life.  My sister Michelle turns me onto new stuff, I Shazam stuff I hear in stores, my sister Michelle turns me onto stuff, I see someone open for another band that I go to see, I hear new stuff all over XM [...]

Here is the first of what I hope will be weekly posts (every other week at least) to the Musical Fruitcake blog.  I have had the idea for doing this ever since putting together last year’s fruitcake and to be honest this is not the first song I had imagined to get things up and running.  [...]