A short while ago a million and forty music journos and bloggers (myself included, as you can see here) expressed well, whatever they cared to express about the fact that Metric was asked to write a song for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack and happily obliged. The better among these folks probably mentioned that the track was more or less decided upon to be the lead-off track to the album and most probably opined that this represents a stunning bit of good fortune for Metric, as the soundtrack to one of the year’s presumed biggest box office hits is almost certain to be bought and listened to by scores of people (even if they’re mostly tweens, teens, and undersexed housewives). continue reading...
The Very Best’s—European production duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya—debut full-length Warm Heart of Africa will be released this fall on Green Owl. The album follows the surprising global success of Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are The Very Best, a free mixtape made available online late last year. Without promotional assistance or financial support, the collection of well-known pop, dance, afro and indie tracks remixed by Radioclit featuring Mwamwaya’s singing in Chichewa, Swahili, Portuguese and English charted more than 200,000 downloads and was hailed by tastemakers including Pitchfork, FADER, and Gorilla vs. Bear among many others. In anticipation of the new album, the band will cross the Atlantic for a series of singular U.S. performances including stops in New York City and Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival. See dates below.
While The Very Best mixtape caught fire with Mwamwaya singing over remixes of Michael Jackson (Free Willy theme), Vampire Weekend (“Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”), Hans Zimmer (True Romance theme) and M.I.A. (“Paper Planes”), the full-length consists of original songs. For the recording, the band brings some guests on board: M.I.A. for “Rain Dance” and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig sings on “Warm Heart Of Africa.” continue reading...
Granted this video is on the mainpage of YouTube and Vampire Weekend is the buzz band du jour, but this is a great video. Creative use of sped up rocking and a catchy as hell tune equals good things. I particularly like the drumming sequences! Check it out now:
