Madeon had a banner year in 2013 and he looks to do nothing but continue heating up in 2014. Make sure to check him out if you can, and remember, he’s right. There is no bad music, only bad musicians or bad environments for certain music to be played. Try and expand your horizons this year. I know I’m gonna try 😀
Times Square in 1937, and here’s a smooth cover of “What is Love” by Haddaway to get you through the post-NYE recovery period. Rest up, 2014 will demand more than you expect. Don’t disappoint it! 😀
10/10 Would Troll Again. I can support DJs starting to actively troll dancefloors that expect silly ass moron-breaks like we’ve seen on the Beatport Top 10 the last year or so. Kudos to him. Can’t wait for this to become a thing. (Update: IT’S A THING! deadmau5 dropped the remix on the unsuspecting Ultra crowd after he replaced Avicii on the main stage.) Old McDonald Had A Party!
2013 was not the year when all war was reduced to dance battles, iron chef matches & ninja warrior competitions. Let’s hope?
I got concerned that this guy would get arrested, and then I remembered that the only law enforcement in Detroit is that big statue of Robocop that got Kickstarted a while back. Hilarious & innovative way to use space and sound.
A reminder about what we should look to when it comes to ourselves. The stars are a much better guide than the distracting crackle of other people’s fires.
All is not well in Westeros (I’m just going to start using that to describe the land inside Kanye’s mind). Bound 2, or as the rest of us have been calling it “Boning Kim in front of a green screen,” seems to have lifted a major sample & component of the track from a previous artist without permission. Rolling Stone reports that Ricky Spicer recorded the refrain that is clearly audible in the Kanye track when he was 12 years old. Roc-A-Fella Records, Universal, Island Def-Jam & Rhino Entertainment have also been declared as defendants in the suit. This video debuted on Ellen, in one of the more confusing moves of 2013, even by Kanye’s standards. I’ll leave it up to you, the listener this is the original, 12 seconds in:
And this is Kanye’s hilariously bad music video.
Honestly, I try really hard to find the best in everything, but it seriously looks like the entire video was done with a green screen, one of those rides outside of grocery stores & a lot of vicodin. He’s got the entire creative universe at his finger tips & he chooses stock footage of mountains, a sample from 1976, a bunch of tits in your face and tortured rhymes? I hope the lawsuit goes better than the video.
(Image via GQ)
Tell whoever forwarded you that piece about Iron Maiden using data to find music pirates & play for them that they owe you a coke. Real talk from TechCrunch.
Gone too soon. I can’t imagine what music would sound like today if he was still here.
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