As if this trailer wasn’t good enough, director Spike Jonze’s ex, the one and only Karen O, is penning most of the soundtrack. HYPERVENTILATE!
Where The Wild Things Are Trailer:
The problem with playing guitar behind a pretty girl (especially when that pretty girl is wily temptress Zooey Deschanel) is sometimes people forget you’re there. But when it comes to getting noticed, instead of cutting some man-bangs and competing for hearts, you should just craft a jaunty and complex (that’s right) folk album that softly sways votes your way. From For Beginners, the first track on M. Ward’s Hold Time, his classic style and layered lyrics capture your attention and don’t let go. This album sounds extremely American, in the best of ways. Think long stretches of highway, milk in glass bottles, soft plaid shirt cuffs. The songs range from up-tempo, jangly road songs to contemplative folk ballads, and as a whole, does an extremely excellent job of suspending time for fourteen tracks so you can sip on whiskey and do some wistful window gazing. Guests include Zooey herself (swoon), Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, and Lucinda Williams.
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UrbanDictionary.com:
Hyphie-West Coast/Bay Area’s way of being crunk
usage: “this party is hyphie.”
There are certain places where music just sounds different. It’s intangible, but there’s something in the air that sound and light travel through better. After spending a week in the highest of places (that would be California), you can’t help but think about the interaction between music and illicit substances, music and nature, and music and your brain. And whether you’re climbing Mushroom Trees in Santa Cruz or cruising down an East Bay freeway with a Golden State native throwing blunts and forties at you (occupational hazard), shouting about spreading the gospel of hyphie to colder climes, Northern California is a place where music sounds really, really good. And if there’s anything California’s taught me, it’s that life is about two things: getting stoned and going stupid.
Baltimore:
18-year-old tiny rap spitfire Rye Rye dances like a maniac and rhymes just as fast. M.I.A. protegee and tour-mate, she’s garnered as much attention for a Youtube video of her schooling a crowd at a Harlem dance party as for her collab with DJ Blaqstarr, Shake It To The Ground. Her album is set to be released on M.I.A’s N.E.E.T label (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) this March. Her verse on a Paper Planes remix, with M.I.A. and Afrikan Boy, proves she lives up to the hype.
Rye Rye w/ DJ Blaqstarr – Shake It To The Ground
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M.I.A. feat. Rye Rye & Afrikan Boy – Paper Planes
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Diplo f. Rye Rye – Wassup (Crookers Remix)
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Bay Area:
Local hero, Zion I, has released a new album called The Takeover, with a round-up of notable guests like K-Flay, Brother Ali, and Devin the Dude. The album weaves between soft, meditative tracks and high energy club anthems, like the electronica-heavy ‘DJ DJ.’
Brooklyn:
5-piece Brooklyn band Apache Beat’s post-punk gets taken up a notch (and brought to most people’s attention) thanks to remixes and recommendations, and these Neu!-bies count Crystal Castles and Deerhunter among their a-list fans. They continue to keep excellent company, touring the UK with School of Seven Bells to promote their new 13-track album, Last Chants (which was recorded with the help of Martin Bisi, who has worked with Sonic Youth and Afrikaa Bambataa). The album comes out in April on Summer Lovers Unlimited (Crystal Castles, The Teenagers).
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Last Sunday marked the 22nd anniversary of the death of Andy Warhol, the iconic pop artist who, by bringing The Velvet Underground and Nico into his New York Factory scene, ensured you would never cry alone. The soundtrack to one thousand hearts splintering into ice, there are few bands who have directly influenced modern music as strongly, and some would say as surreptitiously, as The Velvet Underground and Nico.
In the spirit of the man who created a counterculture to the counterculture, inspired some of the most haunting, influential music of a generation, and guaranteed we would all spend at least one evening of our young lives stoned and staring at a picture of a giant banana with our own irrelevance sitting on our shoulder (but if feels so GOOD), a playlist tribute, starting with some wisdom from die-hard Velvet Underground enthusiast and all-around mad poetic genius Lester Bangs, who called Andy Warhol “the prophet of our doom”:”…the Velvet Underground were for me part of the beginning of a real revolution in the whole scheme between men and women, men and men, women and women, humans and humans. And I don’t mean clones. I mean a diversity that extends to the stars.”
-From Untitled Notes on Lou Reed, 1980 (Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung)
Calexico w/ Iron and Wine-All Tomorrow’s Parties (Velvet Underground Cover)
Belle and Sebastian-I’m Waiting For The Man (Velvet Underground Cover)
Cat Power-I Found A Reason (Velvet Underground Cover)
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