Sonny and the Sunsets - “Too Young to Burn” | Sonny & the Sunsets basically sound like a 60s surf rock band w/ a little bit of psychedelic rock slow cooked in for extra mellow. getting ready for NoisePop 2012. Wish they let u hop venues more, i mean there are like 6+ shows on saturday… wth?
The Weekend - “Outside”
Lana Del Ray - “National Anthem” | I’m not surprised that Lana Del Ray’s album Born to Die is actually good. She knows how to milk a pop hook. I’m hoping more future pop/indie-ish pop music goes this way. She seems to combine that blisswave garage sound nicely with some hip hop and it turns out out pretty cool.
Alex Winston - “Sister Wife”
Peter McConnell - “Smeeleeya Whao Tupee Upee” | from the SWtOR CE soundtrack. This is a Huttese lounge duet song. It sounds like some sort of circus cantina song.
Explosions in the Sky - “Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean” | And of course I start my Coachella ‘12 playlist with EitS. If they schedule this near dusk it would be musicgasmic. Post rock in the desert just when it cools from the day’s heat is one of the most magical moments in life. U can sit there with ten thousand ppl chilling to this song wait for it to swell and wane. tears. tears i say.
Soda and His Million Piece Band - “Cheat” | Ah classic for my the beginning of my live music days. LA summer nights @ The Hotel Cafe, good times.
Burial - “Archangel” | Starting the yr a little mellow w/ some old school dubstep. This aint ur rave kids’ dubstep.
Etta James, Lattimore Brown, Esther Phillips, Roscoe Shelton & Clarence Brown - “What’d I Say” | pure awesomeness. (via Awl)
