Just graduated from Cudi all day to Cudi all summer long.

All Summer is a collaboration from Kid Cudi, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast, and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend for the Converse shoe company. Check out the Converse website to download an mp3 of “All Summer”, and for more details about the project.

The track is mega catchy, and the video features some of those creepy papercraft head masks!

I hope everybody’s simply having a wonderful Christmas time. This is a BUSY time of year, but I want to share some stuff before I start writing some Christmas cards.

Rammstein – Frühling In Paris

Rammstein is on tour right now, promoting their new album “Liebe Ist Für Alle Da”. I picked it up recently and I’m still finding my way around it, but this track jumped out as an instant favorite. Frühling In Paris (Springtime in Paris) is an awesome ballad that borrows lines from Edith Piaf on the chorus (“Je ne regrète rien…”). I guess everybody gets their lighters out when they play this song live, but that shouldn’t surprise you because I’m pretty sure everything is on fire all the time at a Rammstein concert. I used to listen to Rammstein’s first album while I played with Lego when I was about 10 years old, so I always love hearing new stuff from these guys. I could easily listen to this track if it was 30 minutes long, there have only been a few songs that I’ve had on repeat in my car this year and this is certainly one of them.

Ingrid Michaelson – Breakable
Here’s a record I wasn’t aware of until pretty recently. It’s a nice song, but stick with the video for the first 30 seconds or so, because she does eventually take off her hat. Get outta here, Drew Barrymore, with your trilby hats!

Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki remix)
With MGMT and Ratatat doing their thing on the original track, Pursuit of Happiness is already one of the biggest tracks on Cudi’s album, but Steve Aoki takes Pursuit of Happiness in a totally new direction and turns it into a massive hoover-heavy club banger.
Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki remix) at Usershare, big ups to pigeonsandplanes.com

Because I didn’t post anything last week…

Put Yeasayer on your radar. Their experimental rock/psychedelic pop is exactly the type of feeling you need to experience throughout the week. Just sit outside and look at those changing Autumn leaves while listening to their song 2080 and you’ll know what I mean.
The song comes off of their 2007 album entitled All Hour Cymbals. Check it out.

This video was a fanmade vid I found on youtube…

Download this mp3 for free via their website here.

Listen good

Coeur de Pirate – Printemps [youtbe]

Kid Cudi – Mr. Solo Dolo [youtube]

…because I feel so good! Hi! This week I picked up the new mc chris record, “Part Six, Part Two“. If you haven’t been following the gripping narrative in his past few albums: chris was shot and killed, became a zombie, and was banished to hell where he’s currently participating in a gameshow. The last song on Part Two is called Japanese Maid, and it’s a touching club ballad about his fantasy housekeeper / sex slave.

Download mc chris – Japanese Maid

It’s sooooo embarrassing to like mc chris, but I’ll tell you without an ounce of shame that the last track on the album is a skit where a guy is just saying names for 6 and a half minutes, and it made me laugh like an idiot.

THE JANITORIAL STAFF AND THEIR MOTHERS

Mr. Hudson – White Lies – Straight No Chaser out Oct. 5!

Sharam – She Came Along (Doorly remix) (feat. Kid Cudi) – word to Chanelle Fiddy

Mastodon – Oblivion (Troublemaker remix) – I didn’t think much of Crack the Skye when I heard it, but this is fresh. Word to Hypebeast

Update: By the way, “Feelin’ so good, I think I might run for mayor” is a lyric from the Pac Div song Mayor, which is on their Church League Champions record which you can download for free HERE.

What has Joyce been listening to this week? Well, let’s take a look shall we?

I really like the sound of Miss Marina Diamond ( or so she calls herself on her myspace). This song makes you just want to sing-a-long while the video makes you want to go weld some metal together and make beautiful metal art. I suggest also listening to the song Mowgli’s Road which you can find on her myspace or you know, you can just click here. But the song I am presenting is Obsessions. This is one of those instances where you wonder why these artists aren’t as big as they should be. Get the word out!

Now, Phoenix fans probably already know about the new album and one of the songs that I’ve been listening to from it is Lisztomania. So good.

More sweet deals
Kid Cudi – The Sky Might Fall (Full Studio Version) And then we have Kid Cudi doing his thing of course

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dull Life The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have finished their album and this is the magic that comes with it!

Ah 08, as I look back and reflect, twas a year that introduced me to a love of remixes.
I never did like them before because I always had this mentality that you can’t beat the original. However, I discovered that there was a balance. And that reinterpretations rock.

Of course we must welcome the new year, and I hope you all had a better new years eve than I did haha.

2009 will be filled with surprises and I can’t wait for new songs with their remix spawns to come out.
So, for my weekend banger, I chose the song that pretty much changed the way I felt about remixes.

Last year ( it feels weird saying last year when it was only yesterday ) was a pretty big year for Kid Cudi and I just know that 09 is just going to be bigger for this artist.

The Crookers worked their skill and magic on Cudi’s song Day N Night and it has since been on repeat for quite some time now.

From 08 to 09, enjoy.

What makes a good banger? Well for one it’s gotta have a groove. If it makes you nod your head then chances are it’s a weekend jam.

So, my weekend banger is Kid Cudi’s Dat New New.

Sometimes you gotta have that second weekend song. It aint all about the repeat button.
peace.