She's Baaack

Lily Allen has released her 2nd album, It's Not Me, It's You and here is a live performance of her first single. She looks better than I've ever seen her, and I just bought the album last night, so the review is next.

Official "2AM" Video

2AM Official Video - Slightly Stoopid

New Music

Here's a list of the songs that I've started the year out with.

Feb 09

1. a REAL Weezer song. This song is as great as any song from their Green Album
2. Eminem is back, and not annoying this time. He came back hard with a verse from 50 and Dre, and Dre was also on the production
3. Produced by Polow La Don, Nas comes with a surprise club banger
4. Song #2 for Keri Hilson and Polow, slick beat, nice vocals from Hilson and Weezy
5. New indie group!! Catchy, bouncy track
6. Franz Ferdinand always bring creative music to the scene
7. Weezy comes hard with this grunge-style track
8. This remix is intensly energetic!
9. If U Seek Amy = F-U-C-K-Me. Say it out loud, you'll get it. The creativity behind that title was all it took for me to like this song
10. Sounds like Reggaeton hit the Andes Mountains, sure to be the song of the year with my family :)

Pepper 2 Nights!

Top 10 favorite bands I've seen live is mos definitely Pepper. The boys from Kona Town are finishing up their Law Records Tour in Anaheim night 2 tonight, and I was fortunate enough to see them last night, and Thursday night in LA with special guests Shwayze
Pepper puts on a great live show. They start off a 4-song set and open up the show to whatever the fans want to hear. After announcing their summer tour with Pennywise, the trio tore it down with a little Bro-Hymn, Nirvana, and Blur songs that got the crowd all riled up!

COACHELLA

Just received an e-mail letting me know the line up for this years Coachella

Wow..SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY headlining the 1st night..
Other than the great headliners and names that are easy to read..my picks for each night are
FRIDAY
Silversun Pickups, Ting Tings, Crystal Method, Ghostland Observatory, The Presets, Steve Aoki, The Aggrolites
SATURDAY
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Atmosphere, Mastadon, Glasvegas, Hercules & the Love Affair, James Morrison, Dr.Dog
SUNDAY
Public Enemy, Lykke Li, The Kills, Perry Farrell, No Age, Gaslight Anthem
If I had to pick one..Saturday night has overall the most bands I'd like to see, but Paul McCartney would be amaazing

Heads Up

With the 1st month of the year quickly coming to an end, there's a lot of good music to look forward to this year.

Feb 2
Two Tongues - Self Titled
Feb 10
Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You
Ryan Leslie - Self Titled
March 3
U2 - No Line On the Horizon
March 10
New Found Glory - Not Without A Fight
March 24
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Dates To Be Announced
Dr. Dre - Detox
No Doubt
Aerosmith
Eminiem - Relapse
AFI
Black Eyed Peas
Green Day
Jay-Z
Interpol

That's all that my sources have revealed. Exciting new stuff!

Rebelution Concert

Everytime I go to a concert, and my seats are good enough, I always try to take a good photo-op with my faithful cell phone camera

This picture was taken at a sold-out State Radio/Rebelution show, which was a great concert to start the year with. The fans were amazing, and of course Rebelution killed it! Their debut ablum, Courage to Grow was named 2007's best reggae album on iTunes.

Spotlight

His name is James Morrison, and he is one of my favorite recent British imports. This 24-year-old singer/songwriter's debut album was released in 2006 with the semi-popular single "You Give Me Something". His sophomore album, Songs for You, Truth for Me reached #1 in the UK, and he's making his way to the US charts with this single, "Nothing Ever Hurt Like You". Where we've heard Amy Winehouse and Duffy bring back the "Motown" sound, we finally get the guy-version, and its a good one.

Nothing Ever Hurt Like You - J...

2 Favorite Song of 2008

Feel the synthesizer flow, the beat bounce, try not to dance, and enjoy the following 4 minutes of my absolute favorite track of 2-0-0-8.

Electric Feel Music Video - MGMT

Debut album from a band from Denmark, crazy beat, and a cool video!!

Solo Impala (Take The Money And Run) - The Fashion

For the cLubs of 2008

for the club

1. Also one of my favorite songs of the year, Estelle made a name for herself with this jam (produced by Will.i.am.) and made people dance from when it came out until next weekend when your at the club.

2. As soon as I heard this beat, I knew it was gonna be a keeper. Snoop's rapping was just a plus to this track, which was....my shit this year.

3. Pitbull does it again. Him and Lil Jon use another sample from a song that only ravers should know, but throw some Yeeaaaahhh's, add a lil' crunk-ness, and you got yet another high-energy club-banger.

4. This was the "Hot N Herre", "Get Low", and "In Da Club" of the year. Everyone heard, everyone got low.

5. Janet pretty much always makes at least one good song for the clubs. Only problem is, every time she puts one out, less and less people listen to it.

Rap/Hip-Hop of 2008

Rap/Hip-Hop

1. What can be said about this track that hasn't been said before. By far, the grittiest beat of '08. I've probably heard over 7 artists sample this beat on freestyles, and no matter where I am...if this song plays, the whole house goes wild.

2. With production-style behind a lot of my choices for best songs, an obvious favorite this year comes from members of The Neptunes. There's a lot going on in this song, and I like every part of it. One of N.E.R.D.'s best songs to date.

3. Miami's biggest rapper teams up with T-Pain for this Beastie Boys-sampled track. Although T-Pain didn't produce it, this song wouldn't be as catchy if he wasn't Auto-tuning it.

4. Q-Tip impresses the critics with his most recent album, The Renaissance, and it was this song that started things off. A retro beat and Q-Tip's one-of-a-kind voice is sure to keep this album buzzing throughout the next year.

5. Common hits this track hard with 2 of his greatest weapons, Kanye on the hook & Pharrell on the beat.

pOp of 2008

POP

1. The strums of the guitar, and subtlety of Mraz's voice equals pure, fluffy pop-ness. This song is simply the most relaxing song of the year.

2. I was a fan of their debut album, and have been anticipating to hear a follow-up, and this is it. The Fray hasn't changed much, but this is the sound that made me get into them in the first place.

3. Recently Grammy-nominated, young Brittish singer Adele has the lyrics and aww-inspiring soulful voice that makes us all forget about last year's infamous, drug-addicted, trashy female Brit singer.

4. Another British import, The Ting-Tings were a nominee for the VMA's Best New Artist. This new-wave, retro pop track was a big hit early this in the indie world.

5. All-American Rejects are a great live band. After last seeing them, I've grown to be a fan of their music, and this catchy sing-a-long song makes it easy.