Based off the best-selling novel of the same name, 'I Am Legend' is a movie about the last man on earth who has to deal with vampires. The last man in this case happens to be Will Smith, which means that the movie has a 50/50 chance of being somewhat decent Still, as far as "end-of-the-world" films go, this one has a really amazing trailer that sort of gets into the back story of the film's plot. Not only that, but it is also like watching the pages of a comic book come to life.



'I Am Legend' will be released on December 14th.

Simian Mobile Disco have a new video for their song "Hustler" in which sexy women eat junk food. It starts off ok, but sort of ends up being, um, gross. It's vastly different from the original video for "Hustler" (which I sort of prefer) but I guess each has its own unique quality. Also does the new video remind anyone else of MSTRKRFT's "Easy Love" vid?



"Hustler" is off of SMD's album 'Attack Decay Sustain Release' which is out now from Interscope.

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Pennsylvania band Black Moth Super Rainbow have a new video out for their single "Sun Lips". It shows what happens after you call Animal Control to come pick up that dead skunk lying in your backyard. Except the way that director Matt Dilmore directed it, there is a certain poetry between the dead animals and the men who come to collect their carcasses. Juxtaposed with the music, the visual provides an eerily heart-warming tale to match a song that is both haunting and calming.



Black Moth Super Rainbow's newest album 'Dandelion Gum' is out now on Graveface Records.

This past Sunday, a friend of mine took me to "Kojo's Comedy Club" which is held in a tiny wine bar just off of Oxford Street. What I didn't realize was that the whole evening was actually an audition where some of London's best black comedians auditioned for Def Comedy Jam's Stan Lathan. Tim Westwood was even there to open up the show with a DJ set.

The main event for the evening however was the promise that Dave Chappelle was going to do a set. So the place was packed. Everyone sat paitiently through a number of comedians, some of whom were better than others. When 11 PM rolled around and there was still no sign of Dave Chappelle, I figured it was alot of false hope. But then Kojo, the host, assured everyone that Chappelle was in a cab on his way over. Sure enough, a little while later there was a clamouring at the door and lots of cameras flashing before a bewildered Chappelle walked on stage and took the mic. When he lit a cigarette as part of his act, security told him to put it out and even gave him an unlit cigarette to use instead.

And while everyone from the management to the host to Stan Lathan was telling people not to video tape his set, you know someone did. Chappelle even mentioned somethng about getting "YouTubed." So here below, along with a couple of photos is a recorded video of Dave Chappelle's act.

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With synths!

And robots!

And monsters!



NICE! The video features the Kaiju Big Battel posse, who need to hook me up with a halloween costume. They rule.

The Bloc Party boys have been busy. New EP/CD/7"/12" for "Flux" to drop next month. New LP in the works. Bloc! Bloc!

I was expecting this to be an exposé on Jay's connection to Dr. York's Nubian Islamic Hebrews cult back in the day.



But this is funny too.

Black Kids "Hurricane Jane"

Do Jacksonville, Florida's Black Kids have the best band name ever? Possibly. They're definitely my favorite new band of the moment though. I described them to a friend earlier today as "like The Cure, but funky." All they have out right now is 'Wizard of Ahhhs,' a internet downloady demo/EP thing (all of which is available via their MySpace), but I'm hoping more is forthcoming, and soon.



Change! "My Sadness is a Special Thing"

While Oakland, California may be the home of one of the awesomest girls I've ever met, it's also the stomping grounds of experimental poster Aaron McEvoy, a.k.a. Change!, and his "Legion of Musical Superheroes." I picked up his album 'When Spaceships Collide because of the boss title. But it's proven pretty interesting, particularly the bass-heavy, Post-Punky ode to emoness "My Sadness is a Special Thing," which might as well be my current theme-song.



San Serac "Tyrant"

If you ever wondered what David Bowie would sound like if he made a record produced by Prince during his Starr Company phase then Providence, Rhode Island's San Serac, and his new album 'Professional,' might be right up your alley. He's nudged Chromeo out of the top spot on my retro-Disco playlist with his smartypants Electro-Funk. "Tyrant" is a good example of why.



Canon Blue "Pilguin Pop"

I'm sure you've downloaded your copy of Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' by now. And if you haven't, then shame on you son. But if you crave more Radioheadishness you might want to check out Nashville, Tennessee's Canon Blue's debut LP 'Colonies.' It's a gooey, Prog-Rocky, piano-ballady ball of Thom Yorkian goodness. "Pilguin Pop" has the big beats, pianos, tape loops and other crazy awesomeness you'd expect from somebody who sounded like Radiohead, but isn't.

"See, the kids, they listen to the Rap music, and it gives them the brain damage..."

It also brings a bunch of crazy animated animals, vegetables, and robots. Yes, robots. Because that's what it'll make you dance like.



The "they" in question is Toronto-based Indie/Electronica band Holy Fuck by the way. And the song, "Milkshake," is from their newest self-titled EP release, which is out now on the Maple Music label.

I was just about to post the non-embeddable version of Kenna's new video "Say Goodbye to Love" that Interscope made available a few days ago when I found this fully-embeddable, decent quality version.



"Say Goodbye to Love" is the Pharrell Williams-produced second single from Kenna's long-awaited sophomore album 'Make Sure They See My Face,' which drops tomorrow on Star Trak/Interscope.

A team of scientists claim to have found the secrets to the origins of our universe in a substance they eloquently call "space dust."

The Spitzer Space Telescope identified large quantities of freshly made space dust in a quasar about 8 billion light years from here.

Astronomers used the telescope to break down the wavelengths of light in the quasar to figure out what was in the space dust. They found signs of glass, sand, crystal, marble, rubies and sapphires, said Ciska Markwick-Kemper of the University of Manchester in England. She is the lead author of a study that will be published later this month in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Dust is important in the cooling process to make stars, which are predominantly gas. The leftover dust tends to clump together to make planets, comets and asteroids, said astronomer Sarah Gallagher, a study co-author at the University of California Los Angeles.

"In the end, everything comes from space dust," Markwick-Kemper said. "It's putting all the pieces of the puzzle together to figure out where we came from."

The authors of 'The Bible' and the 'His Dark Materials' series, which both posited similar notions, could not be reached for comment.

Swedish Indie label Hybris keeps making me want to buy all their records by dropping another ridiculously catchy single by another ridiculously awesome band. The single is called "Young and Hairy," even though it sounds like they're saying "young and happy" in the song. The band is called Elias and the Wizzkids. And they've got some of the most amazing facial hair I've seen in a very long while.



I really want an album by these dudes, but it looks like they only have a couple of singles, including "Young and Hairy," out for now.

The Jewish, Swedish (even though they deny it), and French Anti-Folk group Herman Düne have released another video clip for a track from their slept-on 2006 release 'Giant.' It's for the sappy but goofy love song "1-2-3 Apple Tree," and it's got puppets in it!



I kind of feel like this song is exactly what cable television's Flight of the Conchords would sound like if they made the same sort of songs they make as comedians now, but totally seriously, not all jokey.

Remember when Swedish Indie popsters Peter Bjorn & John's "Young Folks" made whistling cool again? Well, another Swedish band, Club 8 is about to make whistling, clapping and absent-mindedly singing "doo doo doo" cool again with their new single "Whatever You Want."



"Whatever You Want" is from Club 8's retro-fabulous new album 'The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming,' which is out now on the best Swedish Indie label ever, Labrador Records. And is it just me, or is the shot of homegirls' legs and shoes in this video a little "exciting?"

Speaking of surreal imagery, Glitch-Hop guru Prefuse 73 makes use of some of his own in the clip for "Class of 73 Bells." Has dude ever even had a video for one of his tracks before? He's finally blowin' up!



"Class of 73 Bells" is from his newest album 'Preparations,' which is due in stores in the old U-S-of-A October 23rd on Warp Records.

The brother/sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, also known as The Fiery Furnaces, come through with a surreal (though not nearly as surreal as their music) clip for the funky, then rockin', then funky again "Ex-Guru" from the album 'Window City.'



You can find 'Window City,' the group's sixth full-length album, and one of the best records of the year, in stores now on Thrill Jockey.

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I just came across this band, Vincent Vincent and the Villains, on YouTube. They sort of have that 1960's Mod revivalist sound with a dash of ska added for good measure. Their fashion matches their sound too. Sort of like how the bands during the Swing revival wore zoot suits. They have an album entitled 'Gospel Bombs' coming out soon and their first single from the album, "On My Own" is going to be released on November 12th.

Here, however, is the video for said single. Get your girl with the hula hoops.



Also check out more music from them on their MySpace page.

It's mostly Sam Elliot, the witches, and the armoured bears selling me on this 'His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass' adaptation.



Hopefully they don't fuck the rest of the book up too bad. I'm sure I'll be in a dark theatre December 5th with my fingers crossed though.

I had a SNICKERS® feast earlier, and I may have another one later!























My hands-down favorite clip is part seven, where the feast is ruined.

And the only way out is a dose of "Bonafied Lovin'!" Luckily, their sexy rework of the "Money For Nothin'" animation delivers just that.



"Bonafied Lovin'" is the newest single from Chromeo's near perfect sophomore CD 'Fancy Footwork,' which is in stores everywhere now.

That's how you make it right.



How bad do they rule your face? Real bad. That's how bad.

Swedish popstress Robyn has a new video out for her single "Handle Me". In it, she gets kind of crazy in a series of boxes. It's pretty funky and Robyn's clothes are just nuts. And by "nuts," I mean "I want her stylist."



The track is off her self-titled album, which is out in stores now. Check out more tracks on her MySpace page.

The ones that used to come on during 'Yo! MTV Raps' with people like Rakim, Ice Cube, and EPMD busting malt liquor-related raps?



Well, Junk Science and their boy Cool Calm Pete made one to promote their new album and beer brand 'Gran'dad's Nerve Tonic.'

The song "I Know Kung Fu" was the one that started it all for me and Glasgow-based Disco-Punk band Shitdisco back when Emeyesi was caning it on our Urban Alternatives radio show. Now, it's like a year later, and they've finally released a video for the track in question.



The band's debut full length 'Kingdom of Fear' came out early this Spring. You should still be able to find it on a store shelf near you.

I was just remarking to Emeyesi that he needs to get at his boy who works with Esso about getting a copy of dude's new "solo" album 'Egoclapper' the other day. Then, I awoke this morning to see this.



Apparently this is from the bonus 'Esoteric vs. Gary Numan' CD that comes with 'Egoclapper' when you buy it from certain retailers. Shit is way too awesome. And those 'Star Wars' costumes are priceless!

Repping South/Southeast London (Yay SE!), DJ Sinden has been getting around. First off, he has a weekly radio show on London's Kiss radio. He's had nights at Fabric, YoYo (club alma mater of Mark Ronson) and will be part of the lauch of the refurbished Amersham Arms in my old hood of New Cross. At the Get Loaded Festival (where I saw him for the second time), he DJed a mediocre set but redeemed himself by being a wicked DJ for sexy Sri Lankan M.I.A.'s set.

Sinden's partner-in-crime is another up and comer Herve a.k.a. The Count of Monte Cristal. Their remix of Fam-Lay's "Da Beeper Record" has been blowing up on dance floors all over London. Now, Sinden's come out with a mix of Chromeo's "Tenderoni" featuring Imageyenation favorite Kid Sister. It's a banger all right. No doubt about it, Siden's definitely killing it on his remixes.

Sinden & The Count of Monte Cristal "Beeper"

Chromeo "Tenderoni (Sinden Remix)" feat. Kid Sister

Shout out to Discobelle for the Chromeo track

Dri "You Know I Tried"

The debut album, titled 'Smoke Rings,' from Lawrence, Kansas-based keyboardist and singer Dri feels like a warm, sunny Summer day. Which kind of sucks since it's about to be Winter. But fuck it, it's been like 80 degrees here in New England the last few days and the tree in front of my apartment window is still totally green, so it might as well be Summer. "You Know I Tried" is a really pretty, regretfully romantic Pop ditty with some dope beats and samples backing it up.



Mobius Band "Leave the Keys in the Door"

I was taken aback by former Western Massachusetts residents and current Brooklynites the Mobius Band's new record 'Heaven.' You see, it's all jangly and reverby and jagged, on some angular Post-Punk steeze. That's awesome and all, but it's a huge departure from the beats and electronics over their early EPs which originally caught my ear. "Leave the Key in the Door" basically sounds like your boys Interpol or something, but with some cool synths.



Little Dragon "Turn Left"

You might remember I posted the video for the Prince-esque "Test" by Sweden's Little Dragon a few weeks ago. Well, their self-titled debut album is fucking fantastic, so I had to post another track. All at once, the record is one of the best Soul records of the year and one of the best quirky electronic records of the year. It's just so good! And "Turn Left," a playfully soulful love song for a 'Super Mario' video game you've never played is just one of the things that makes it good.



Sly Hats "Liquorice Night"

Takin' it way-way back on some vintage singer/songwriter shit, Australia's Sly Hats is my Emo pick of the week. The songs that populate his new record 'Liquorice Night' are beautifully written and orchestrated melancholy Pop tunes that run the gamut of Pop standards styles from the '50s to the '70s. The title track is achingly beautiful and makes my lonely ass want to cry my little eyes out.

UPDATE: Our boy Wordplay was so shaken by this incident that he actually recorded the final verse for the damn song and sent me an updated mix-down. I've uploaded it here for your downloading and listening pleasure.

[13:34] Emeyesi: And yo
[13:34] Emeyesi: I forgot to tell u
[13:34] elketerbentzadik: yeah?
[13:34] Emeyesi: Your boy kanye stealing your beats/ideas
[13:34] elketerbentzadik: lol
[13:35] Emeyesi: He sampled Feist
[13:35] elketerbentzadik: word?
[13:35] elketerbentzadik: where?
[13:35] Emeyesi: For a Twista song
[13:35] elketerbentzadik: the same song?
[13:35] elketerbentzadik: i got that twista album
[13:35] Emeyesi: Same song
[13:35] Emeyesi: Song abou broads in the summer too
[13:35] elketerbentzadik: bullshit
[13:35] Emeyesi: He didn't flip it like u did
[13:36] Emeyesi: But still
[13:36] elketerbentzadik: no fucking way
[13:36] elketerbentzadik: you better be kidding
[13:36] Emeyesi: Yup
[13:36] elketerbentzadik: imma have to find him and beat him
[13:36] Emeyesi: Nope
[13:37] elketerbentzadik: now wordplay look extra stupid
[13:37] elketerbentzadik: tell him he fucked up
[13:38] Emeyesi: I already yelled at him
[13:41] elketerbentzadik: i gotta fight kanye west now
[13:41] elketerbentzadik: i hate him
[13:41] elketerbentzadik: no more kanye
[13:41] elketerbentzadik: i flipped this way better
[13:41] elketerbentzadik: fuck him
[13:42] elketerbentzadik: this shit is lame
[13:42] elketerbentzadik: L-A-M-E
[13:42] elketerbentzadik: WORDPLAY!
[13:42] elketerbentzadik: YOU FUCKED UP!
[13:42] elketerbentzadik: YOU A DUMMY!
[13:42] elketerbentzadik: WHY THE BLACKMAN ALWAYS STEALING THE JEWISH MAN'S IDEAS?
[13:42] Emeyesi: I dunno why he didn't just use the parts u used
[13:43] elketerbentzadik: I'M NEVER GOING ON MTV AGAIN!
[13:43] Emeyesi: Aw lordy
[13:44] elketerbentzadik: indeed

Twista "Well It's Time" feat. Kanye West

El Keter "June July and August" feat. Wordplay

A few months ago, I posted two advertisements for Bravia, Sony's European line of televisions. This past week, a new commercial featuring a sea of stop-motion bunny rabbits, was released. If you ask me, it's the best one they've done yet (though the one with bouncy balls and Jose Gonzalez is still pretty cool).



All the Bravia ads were thought up and created by Fallon London.

I haven't done too many of these posts, but I figured I'd get back into doing them on Sundays, because they seem like the kind of thing you would post on a Sunday. Today's theme was inspired by the Brother Ali video El Keter posted a couple days ago. It got me thinking about other videos where the musicians/artists/rappers/etc play more than one role in the video's story line. So I have come up with a list of videos that fit into this category.

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"



In this video, the RHCP aren't just playing different roles. They are paying homage to generations of musical groups who have come before them. Everyone from Elvis to the Beatles to Jimi Hendrix to Nirvana...and a bunch more in between.

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With a little bit of help from their friend, Sydney, Australia based pyrotechnician Andy Davis, and a funky-as-fuck song called "Debbie" from their recently released album 'Places Like This,' that is.



You can catch Architecture in Helsinki on tour, alongside Imageyenation dandies Lo-Fi-Fnk and Panther, at various venues across the United States and Canada through December.

At first I questioned the judgment behind choosing Brother Ali's "Take Me Home" as his next single/video. But after seeing the video, and how they put together a really cute concept and executed that concept in such an awesome way I'm sold. This clip represents Brother Ali in all his braggadocios Albino humbleness perfectly.



You should really already own it, but if you don't, Brother Ali's sophomore LP 'The Undisputed Truth' is in stores everywhere right now on Rhymesayers Entertainment. So go get it, and take it home.

In the upcoming feature film Be Kind, Rewind, Jack Black plays a man who somehow manages to magnetize his head. He then erases all the videos in the video store that his friend (played by Mos Def) owns. With all the movies gone, the two men go on a mission to recreate each and everyone. The movie, which is directed by Michel Gondry, also features Danny Glover and Mia Farrow.



If you ask me, this looks like pure comedic gold. Just the scene with Jack Black and Mos Def recreating 'Driving Miss Daisy' is enough to make me laugh hysterically. Hopefully, it will make its way over to the UK!

'Be Kind, Rewind' is set to be released sometime in 2008.

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Canadian Jewish musician extraordinaire So Called has just released his first ever video. It's for his track "You Are Never Alone" and features So Called becoming a one man entertainment machine.



The song is off his recent release 'Ghettoblaster' which can be ordered from Amazon or JDub Records. You can also check out more from So Called on his MySpace page.

If you read everything I write you probably already know that I posted a lengthy rant about how the Hip-Hop media, particularly Hip-Hop radio DJs are, for lack of a better term, "Fakin' the Funk" in my Blogarhythms column on Okayplayer today. I use the term "Fakin' the Funk" because the Main Source song of the same name sort-of outlines exactly the problem I have with the mainstream of Hip-Hop and the "tastemakers" who propagate it on the airwaves.

Emcee and producer Large Professor and his boy Neek the Exotic railed against phony gangsters, female artists that only portray the stereotypical "ho" image, and wealthy emcees who continue to front like they're hardcore and struggling in "the streets." And what's more, every single one of their criticisms is still valid today, some 15 years later. Only today, all those negatives they outlined have become the norm in Hip-Hop. And people who have a long-history as respected Hip-Hop standard-bearers in the media don't seem to have a problem promoting that and only that brand of Hip-Hop, even though many of them were around when Extra P originally put this on wax, if not well before that. But for some reason the "keep it real" ethos fell out of favor to be replaced totally with "Fakin' the Funk."

It's often stated as gospel that Hip-Hop caters to what's "hot in the streets," and that its current state can be chalked up to giving "the streets" what they want. But that's never sat right with me. In fact, I've often felt the exact opposite; that a corporate structure and a select group of "tastemakers" were telling the streets what to like, and the streets were just as accepting to the corporate party-line of stereotypical thuggery and gangstasism as all the other fans of shitty Pop music are things like boy bands and vapid Country. For this reason one thing Large Professor says on the track shouldn't go unnoticed, and that's his declaration that "everywhere has streets, that's not trying to hear the wack rhymes over the same stink beats."

In other words, "the streets" deserve a musical diversity that reflects their own diversity in an authentic manner, and not just the same old trite clichés and homogenized soundscapes dictated by the fakers.

Main Source "Fakin' the Funk" feat. Neek the Exotic

Now I've never been one to knock the next man for gettin' his
You know what I'm saying? (Right right)
And I do realize that Hip-Hop is now a form of showbiz (Uh huh)
But this has always been somethin' with which you have to be true
So in the year of 1992...(Now this is how we do!)

At the age of 19, heard the scene
A lot of emcees that do not come clean
Frontin' on dealin' hard times in rhymes
You see 'em in the streets and you see no signs
Of the hell, and they get on stage and tell
Some old cornball war story, ring the bell (word)
You're fakin' the funk
Talkin' that extra hard junk, you're probably a punk
And Imma let you know, that this way
You just don't cut with the artificial flow

Neek the Exotic break backs and necks
When fakers try to front, they'll get smoked like blunts
My rhyme penetrate like skunk
Ayo word up, I think they're fakin the funk

You're fakin' the funk! (You're fakin' the funk)

You do a song about a current event
Get on television and seem hesitant to represent
And that's what we call fraud
You can't kick the streets with a look I sold out award (word)
And everywhere has streets
That's not tryin' to hear the wack rhymes over the same stink beats
Cause times are real, and I can't feel
Putting... down on the reel to reel

Now Imma let you know
With those weak style of raps, it's time to go
I eject rejects that step
I'm a vet ready to snap your neck
I shine and rhyme at the same time
The mastermind of a sport called the rhyme
Now it's my time to dump chumps that front
(Ayo Professor what's up?)

You're fakin' the funk

You're fakin' the funk! (You're fakin' the funk)

The era of the wack emcee
Is gettin' shut down when the Main Source stomps through your town
Cause we just don't play the role of a clown
And keep things jumpin' with the real... rap... sound

To the producers stealin' beats (You're fakin' the funk)
To the crossover rapper with the pleats (You're fakin' the funk)
To all the chumps that's claimin' the streets (You're fakin' the funk)
Frontin' incredible feats (You're fakin' the funk)
To the girl actin' like a prostitute (You're fakin' the funk)
Wearin' that hooker type suit (You're fakin' the funk)
To the rappers with the big space shoes (You're fakin' the funk)
To the artist that doesn't pay dues (You're fakin' the funk)

'Cause, Exotics is in your zone, with the hyper tone
I can't be blown 'cause my rhymes are hard like stone
So prepare for the scare, 'cause I'm you're worst night-mare, punk
'Cause you're...

You're fakin' the funk! (You're fakin' the funk)

Main Source "Fakin' the Funk" feat. Neek the Exotic

Being a creative type is hard work, which is why sometimes it is both fun and useful to work with other creatives in collaborations. Such is the case with Litte Minx, a branch of the RSA Films company. Five directors have come together to play a round of "Exquisite Corpse", a game that was popular with the Surrealists in the 20's and 30's. Each director takes the last line of the previous director's script and uses it as inspiration for their film. The films are released every few weeks on the Little Minx Exquisite Corpse website.

The first film is entitled "With The Eyes of Every Man Riveted Upon Her" and was directed by Laurent Briet. The movie short follows a young girl as she challanges a mean-looking, one-eyed boxer. I don't want to give too much away, but I will add that the film features the music of French group Black Strobe.

'With The Eyes Of Every Man Riveted Upon Her'

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You can also watch the film on Boardsmag If you want to see more of the films, you'll have to stay tuned. The next film is set to be released on October 15th.

Adrian Orange & Her Band "Window (Mirror) Shadow"

Who makes sallow-faced Indie/Folk with crushing basslines, tribal drums and crazy Afrobeat horns? Why, that would be Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter (and Marriage Records co-founder) Adrian Orange & Her Band silly! His new self-titled album is as sonically tough as it is lyrically "soft." It's a bomb of bassy dopeness.



The Fiery Furnaces "Cabaret of the Seven Devils"

New York-based sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces have been Imageyenation dandies since I discovered their music in the WTCC rock locker. But their new album 'Window City' is nothing short of a masterpiece and totally a contender for album of the year in my mind. I picked "Cabaret of the Seven Devils" because it reminds me of one of my favorite novels of all time, Mikhail Bulgakov's 'The Master and Margarita,' and if I owned a cabaret I'd totally call it the Cabaret of the Seven Devils because that name is cool as shit.



Roar and the Wolf "Ghotel + Right Angles"

Let's face it, Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello are never putting out another Postal Service album. But that's okay as long as groups like Toronto-based huband-and-wife duo Roar and the Wolf keep making the pretty-pretty sad robot music for us. Their album 'Motor Boatown, Mountain Goatown' not only has a great title, it's totally precious, and "Ghotel + Right Angles" is pretty much fucking perfect. One of my favorite songs in rotation in my apartment right now.



Japanther "Fuk tha Prince a Pull iz Dum"

Last week me and 12XU were driving around Connecticut (Cos Cob, eat a dick) and talking about our definitions of what constitutes "Punk" music. Brooklyn, New York-based duo Japanther make the kind of music that defines "Punk" for me. Their new record 'Skuffed Up My Huffy' is scorchingly hot, and the track "Fuck tha Prince a Pull iz Dum" sounds like a Punk version of Bob James' "Take Me to the Mardi Gras." Which is cool, 'cause 12XU likes the Mardi Gras.

Burger King's new ad for its latest chicken sandwich the Spicy Chick'n Crisp is pretty funny.