Music Video of the Day: Alanis does Fergie

In what is possibly the most unlikely occurrence this side of a successful Van Halen reunion, Alanis and her angsty-ballady self has decided to cover mock the glamorous and tastey (spelled to Fergie's standards) faux-diva and her Black Eyed Peas song, "My Humps." Easily one of my favorite parodies, which is saying a lot considering Alanis songs usually send me into a furious rage. Please enjoy.



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Monday Morning Playlist

Each week we post five ten songs, old or new, that we hope will help you get through the work-week (or in our case, the school-week). Put them in your iPod (or mp3 player of choice) and press repeat. We promise that the weekend will come faster.

John Mayer Trio - "Gravity" (mp3)
Arctic Monkeys - "The View From the Afternoon" (mp3)
Augustana - "Boston" (m4a)
American Hi-Fi - "Art of Losing" (m4a)
Hellogoodbye - "Here (In Your Arms)" (m4a)
Cary Brothers - "Blue Eyes" (m4a)
Jay-Zeezer "99 Luft Problems" (mp3)
Uffie - "Pop the Glock" (mp3)
Kyle Riabko - "Before I Speak" (mp3)
Presidents of the U.S.A. - "Boll Weevil" (m4a)

Updates and Apologies

First off, I'd like to apologize for my slackness in posting this week. It's hard to get back into the hang of things after spring break, especially when you don't get back home until Saturday at 2 in the morning. I'll try to get things back going this week and have the Monday Morning Playlist next week with some extra songs to make up for not posting it this week.

In other news, I will be traveling up to East Rutherford, NJ Wednesday to play in the pep band with the UNC men's basketball team in the Sweet Sixteen and (hopefully) Elite Eight game of the NCAA tournament. We have a lot of down time, and lucky for me we won't be far from good ole Manhattan. Needless to say, I'll be spending every bit of spare time that I have hitting up the NYC. I've talked to my favorite NYC bloggers, the Music Sluts, and have found some shows that weekend that I'll try to attend. Since I'm still underage (dammit) I can't get into some of them, but be sure I'll find the best ones I can and will have info up on this site ASAP. If blog posts become scarce this weekend, you'll understand why. Either I'm at a basketball game or lost somewhere in the city.

Keep checking out the site for some good reviews and info about my inevitably interesting trip to New York City.

Minus the Bear Announce Spring Tour

Thanks to my handy-dandy Myspace bulletin page, I found the dates for Minus the Bear's spring tour with The Honorary Title and Chin Up Chin Up. Unfortunately they're not coming around my neck of the woods, but be sure to check them out in your area.

4/26 -- Seattle, WA -- The Vera Project
4/27 -- Portland, OR -- Hawthorne Theatre
4/28 -- Eugene, OR -- Indigo District
4/29 -- Reno, NV -- The New Oasis
5/1 -- Orangevale, CA -- The Boardwalk
5/2 -- Santa Cruz, CA -- The Catalyst
5/3 -- San Francisco, CA -- Great American Music Hall
5/4 -- San Luis Obispo, CA -- Downtown Brew
5/5 -- Los Angeles, CA -- Ex Plex
5/6 -- Solana Beach, CA -- Bely Up Tavern
5/8 -- Las Vegas, NV -- House of Blues
5/10 --Colorado Springs, CO -- The Black Sheep
5/11 -- Lawrence, KS -- Granada Theatre
5/12 -- Iowa City, IA -- Picador- TBA
5/12 -- Des Moines, IA -- House of Bricks - TBA
5/13 -- Champaign, IL -- High Dive
5/14 -- Sauget, MO -- Pops
5/15 -- Chicago, IL -- Beat Kitchen w/ Honorary Title AA show
5/15 -- Chicago, IL -- Beat Kitchen w/ Chin Up Chin Up 18+
5/16 -- Milwaukee, WI -- Pabst Theatre w/ Honorary Title, Chin Up Chin Up, Maritime
5/17 -- Minneapolis, MN -- Triple Rock Social Club
5/18 -- Minneapolis, MN -- Triple Rock Social Club w/ Honorary Title, Chin Up Chin Up, POS
5/19 -- Fargo, ND -- The Aquarium
5/21 -- Omaha, NE -- Sokol Underground
5/23 -- Denver, CO -- Bluebird
5/24 -- Aspen, CO -- Belly Up
5/25 -- Salt Lake City, UT -- Club Sound

Jay-Zeezer

Most people have heard of DJ Dangermouse's "Gray album", the mixture of The Beatles' "White Album" and Jay-Z's "Black Album". But one smart man decided to mix Jay-Z's "Black Album" with Wezzer's "Blue Album", to form the "Black and Blue Album". This album is free to download at http://www.jay-zeezer.com/. About half of the songs sound really good and work together, "Undone" sounds really good. It's free and if you like Jay-Z and Weezer than you should download it.

Music Video(s) of the Day: "My Boobs" and "Float On"

First off, I'll have to credit the guys at stereogum for tonight's posting. I found both of these videos on their blog and both were exciting/strange/bad enough that I though they were perfect candidates for Music Video of the Day.
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Norwegian songstress Lene Alexandra assures us (though after watching this video, I don't think that's necessary) that her "boobs are ok." A few fun things to notice about this video. First, the fact that she repeatedly makes fun of her own intelligence. At least she's honest. Also, she creates the 27th letter of the alphabet, "boo," to make "boobs" a three-letter word. She's an innovator. Third, you gotta wonder how much she paid for those "OK" boobs. Let's see how long it takes for this video to reach TRL.


If I didn't already have enough reasons to hate American Idol, the no talent ass-clowns had to go and ruin "Float On" by Modest Mouse. Whoever decided that this video of the Modest Mouse cover should be based around old-school 90s hip-hop with huge boomboxes and break dancing should be fired and shot. Then again, this is American Idol we're talking about. We can't expect too much. Thank God the clip is only 44 seconds long.

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Just after writing this post, I headed over to Idolator during my normal music blog browsing and found an mp3 of the Kidz Bop version of "Float On." I thought that American Idol was the worst thing that could happen to Modest Mouse...obviously I was wrong. Is the "YEAH!" really necessary after each line of the verse? And is Modest Mouse just whoring this song out now?? C'mon now guys.

Kidz Bop - "Float On" (mp3) [via Idolator]

Shit You Should Know...For Your Own Good

Cute Is What We Aim For

I'm usually not a fan of the whiny emo-ish music sung by guys with hair combed over their forehead, zip-up hoodies and scarves, but I stumbled upon these guys sometime last year, via the knowledgeable music resource PureVolume, before they released their now popular debut album on Fueled By Ramen (hell, you could even buy it at Target for a while). For some reason I can deal with the whiny vocals. I'll probably be ashamed of this in the future when they explode and become the next emo craze that every teenage girl falls in love with, but right now I'm enjoying their debut album, The Same Old Blood Rush With A New Touch (see, they even have an entirely too long album title a la Fall Out Boy).
I'm really into these two songs, the ones I originally downloaded off of PureVolume.

Cute Is What We Aim For - "Lyrical Lies" (m4a)
Cute Is What We Aim For - "Teasing to Please (Left Side, Strong Side)" (m4a)


The High Speed Scene
This LA-based trio have been pretty dormant as of late, but according to their website, they're still together and are getting back to work. The lighthearted punk-rockers (that's the best way I can describe them) released one of my favorite albums, their self-titled debut, in 2005, but I didn't find out about them until they came across my Pandora playlist last year (does anyone still use that thing?). They mix punk-rock with lighthearted and often extremely comical lyrics to create a sound that has you bopping around and smiling like an idiot. You should definitely download the songs below, but also pick up their album. You won't be disappointed.

The High Speed Scene - "the IROC-Z Song" (m4a)
The High Speed Scene - "Assingear" (m4a)
The High Speed Scene - "Hottie" (m4a)

P.S. You don't know how hard it was to pick two songs to put on the blog...so I put 3.