Throwback Thursday- The Roots

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Jun 252015
 

The Roots- You Got Me ft. Erykah Badu

This Grammy Award winning song from 1999 is from The Roots fourth studio album Things Fall Apart. Musician Jill Scott co-wrote the song and recorded vocals for it but because she was still relatively unknown the label MCA Records insisted on replacing her with Erykah Badu. The rapper Eve also performs on the track.

As part of the BET Experience, The Roots will be at Club Nokia on Saturday 6/27 to present Dilla, a tribute to the producer J Dilla, with Erykah Badu.

Throwback Thursday- Underworld

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Jun 182015
 

Underworld- Born Slippy. Nuxx

This song was originally released as a B-side of the instrumental and completely different sounding Born Slippy in 1995. In 1996 it was re-released as its own single due to the popularity it received from its use in the film Trainspotting (clips of which are in the video above). They teamed up with the director of that film, Danny Boyle, to help create the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics.

Underworld are currently on tour with the re-release of their critically acclaimed album dubnobasswithmyheadman and are playing the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Sunday 6/21.

Throwback Thursday- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

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Jun 112015
 

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)

It’s the 10th Anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s eponymous self-released debut album, which the song above is from. They are currently on tour, playing the album in its entirety along with other songs from their catalog. The show tonight at the Troubadour is sold out but you can see them in Santa Ana on Saturday 6/13/15 at The Observatory.

Los Angeles Music Shows- FIDLAR at the Regent Theater

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Jun 052015
 

FIDLAR- 40oz. On Repeat

For this video FIDLAR have recreated scenes from famous videos made by artists including Jamiroquai, Britney Spears, Beastie Boys, Devo, Missy Elliot and more (full list is on the jukebox in the beginning). This is the first single off their upcoming second album, Too, which will be released this September.

Tickets for their upcoming tour go on sale today (6/5). In Los Angeles they will be playing the Regent Theater on 10/30 and 10/31. You can buy tickets for that show here.

Throwback Thursday- The Rentals

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Jun 042015
 

The Rentals- Friends of P.

This song is from The Rentals’ 1995 debut album The Return of the Rentals.  The band, formed by former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp, released their first full length album in 15 years, Lost in Alphaville, last August.  The video below is the first track off that album and takes place around downtown Los Angeles.

The Rentals are on tour and are playing the El Rey Theater Friday June 5th.

Throwback Thursday- The Replacements

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Apr 162015
 

The Replacements- Alex Chilton

This song is off The Replacements’ fifth album, Pleased to Meet Me, released in 1987.  The song references singer Alex Chilton who was the lead singer of two bands, The Box Tops and Big Star. He also played guitar on The Replacements song Can’t Hardly Wait, also on the album Pleased to Meet Me.

The Box Tops are probably best known for the song The Letter (below).

Big Star’s In the Street may sound familiar too as it was covered by Cheap Trick and that cover was used as the theme for That 70′s Show.

The Replacements are playing at the Hollywood Palladium on 4/16.

Throwback Thursday- Pete Rock & CL Smooth

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Mar 262015
 

Pete Rock & CL Smooth – The Creator

This song is from All Souled Out, Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s 1991 EP, and is the only Pete Rock solo track on any of their albums. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)  is the song they are most famous for but they were also on Run DMC’s 1993 hit Down With the King, which Rock also produced. He went on to produce and sing the chorus on Nas’ song The World is Yours, from Illmatic, and later worked on several projects with members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

If you haven’t heard this song before but it sounds familiar it may be because it was just used in Android’s handshake commercial.

Pete Rock is performing at the Echo tonight (3/26) with Slum Village.

Los Angeles Music Shows- Mini Mansions at Amoeba Records

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Mar 242015
 

Mini Mansions- Death is a Girl

Tonight (3/24) Mini Mansions are signing their new album The Great Pretenders and performing a live set at Amoeba Records Hollywood (and Amoeba San Francisco on 3/27). They also just released a video for their song Vertigo which features Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.

Throwback Thursday- of Montreal

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Mar 192015
 

of Montreal- Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse

This was the first single off Of Montreal’s album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer, released in 2007. The video was directed by The Brothers Chaps who are most famous for creating Homestar Runner, a Flash animated series that started in 2000 back in the days before YouTube and Facebook.

of Montreal are playing on Sunday (3/22) at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles.

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