Humble Bee 'When I Should Be Sleeping' Album Launch
We lovingly and unceremoniously ripped this from a Facebook invite. Now you're invited too!
"Over a period of eighteen months, in three different bedrooms, with countless different guitars and amplifiers, but only two microphones, Humble Bee - Carly Whittaker and Ben Revi - recorded an album. They did it pretty much all themselves, from the writing to the playing to the singing to the mixing to the cutting-and-gluing of the recycled cardboard sleeves. The result, 'When I Should Be Sleeping', is a cute, sad, but ultimately celebratory document of the last year-and-a-half of Carly's life".
When: Friday June 12, 9pm.
Where: The Jade Monkey
Much? Just 6 pesos, plus a free album.
Link: FAKEBOOK
Mashups with The Hood Internet
What if R. Kelly discovered his avant-garde side? Or imagine if Fleet Foxes had a penchant for Beyonce? The mash up makes us salivate, and it doesn't always include potato, pumpkin or even sweet potatoes. Throwing caution and lawsuits to the wind, DJ ABX and DJ STV SLV are The Hood Internet, a collaboration responsible for a back catalogue of over 250 mashups and live mixes. With that many hits it’s hard to know where to start, so here’s a few pointers:
The T-Pains of Being Pure at Heart (T-Pain vs. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart)
Oh everyone loves a good pun, like the cafe called Espresso Yourself! near Renaissance Arcade. Sometimes the worst combinations are actually the best, and then again sometimes the worst combinations are actually the worst.
Snatch Da Crystal Cat Back (Khia vs. Dan Deacon)
Anything with an overt sexual reference should put a smile on your dial. I wish I’d never let you hit it from the back… Yes it’s that bad, which is precisely why it’s that good.
Talking About Something Real (R. Kelly vs. The Honeydrips)
Listening to anything that contains R. Kelly is all gold. The man is a hoot! The work on his venture into Swedish pop is a masterstroke, the build of Kelly’s overlapping vocal loops are a gorgeous suffocation.
Bitchz holla for creative licensing, (our very own overtly sexist reference, just for you).
Words by Nick
Link: The Hood Internet
Review: 'Outside Love'
(Jagjaguwar)
Some PR person described this as the musical version of a Danielle Steele novel and it is essentially, bursting with love, romance, hope, loss and grief.
But one thing must be said.
Unlike a Danielle Steele novel,when you open the sleeve to Outside Love, it doesn't ooze cheese.
Pink Mountaintops' 'Outside Love' is genuinely moving and beautiful, a moody record that wears it's heart on it's sleeve. Far removed from the groovy prog of Black Mountain, 'Outside Love' is slow and texturally soaring, fuzzed guitar rumbles low down as strings flitter above with a number of beautiful guest vocals.
words by D.
Link: Myspace
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