So there wasn’t too much else this week other than iTunes, so I’m going to get right into it:
iTunes:
Single of the Week: “Catch Me If You Can” – Outasight (3.8) This is the kind of instrumental hip-hop I like. Lot’s of brass, an actual bass instead of a beat, and a little bit of that Motown style I love. I’ll give this song a nod.
Discovery Download: “Wells” – The Expendables (3.2) It reminds me of a fuller band version of Dispatch’s, with some nice jazz guitar, and a sort of Sugar Ray “rap” in the middle too. Not the strongest vocals, but a decent song.
Video of the Week: “Opposite of Adults” – Chiddy Bang (4.0) You know the video that Nathan wrote about a little bit back that he saw on Carson Daily’s filler between car commercials? Well, here it is for free! Nice, right? Creative remix of “Kids” by MGMT. “Somebody tell Roth that I don’t love college…”
Canción de la Semana: “Colores Colores Colores” – Furland (2.0) It sounds like a bad Waking Ashland song in Spanish, pretty flat.
Last Friday night I was out late watching my beloved OKC Thunder lose a heartbreaking buzzer-beater to Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. It was great game, but I was really hoping to see game 7. When I got home, my sweet wife had fallen asleep on the couch with the TV on and the hilarious Jimmy Fallon had rolled over to the enigmatic and mundane Carson Daly. For whatever reason I ignored my usual impulse to turn him off and just sat down to veg for a few minutes. To my delight he was wrapping up Music Week on Last Call. And surprisingly enough he was in the middle of an interview with a pretty interesting hip hop duo called Chiddy Bang.
Chiddy Bang is a pretty typical product of the current music scene. They haven’t even released an album, yet they are already getting a feature spot on late night television. And their one big hit that helped get them noticed is one of the guys rapping over an MGMT sample. They are just two guys that met in the dorms their freshmen year of college. A kid that could rhyme and actually deliver and a musician that grew up with computers and knew how to lay down a beat. They may not be super original, but they are a ton of fun. These youngsters show a lot of promise, and I am excited to hear what they come up with next.
