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“The Black Presidents” – Great Name For A Band

Luke Hardiman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:48:31 +0000

This day is crying out for a soundtrack. Here’s a President Obama victory playlist…
Anyone know of any other good victory playlists out there, hit me up with the links in the comments.

Lets start it with a positive jam

I can’t think of a better place to jump in than track no.1 on The Hold Steady’s first album.

The Hold Steady: Positive Jam

The Dancefloor Section

LCD Soundsystem: North American Scum
Marlena Shaw: California Soul (Diplo Remix)
Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc
MGMT: Electric Feel

Stone Cold Funk

Bobby Byrd: I Know You Got Soul
Eric B and Rakim: Follow the Leader
Public Enemy: Fight the Power
Ratatat: Despot Freestyle

Gratuitous Live Foreverism

The Stone Roses: Breaking Into Heaven
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man
Badly Drawn Boy: The Time of Times
Ride: Leave Them All Behind
Radical Face: Welcome Home Son
Modest Mouse: The World At Large
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood
The Dodo’s: Paint The Rust

Righteous Indignationalism

The White Stripes: Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise
Two Gallants: Fail Hard to Regain
Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Power of Equality
The Deftones: Change in The House of Flies
John Lennon: Working Class Hero

The Digital Connection

Modeselektor: Godspeed
Mark Franklin: Release To The System
Booka Shade: Hallelujah USA

Local Heroism

Elmore James: Hawaiian Boogie
Iron and Wine: Freedom Hangs Like Heaven

Parting Words

The Shins: The Past and Pending
The White Stripes: Truth Doesn’t Make A Noise
The Hold Steady: Stay Positive

A Change is Gonna Come

Luke Hardiman — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:15:43 +0000

Written by Sam Cooke, immortalised by Aretha Franklin, realised today. Its been a long time coming.

Bring on the funky president.

Monthly hot new albums post

Luke Hardiman — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:07:32 +0000

This is long overdue, I’m going to try and write one of these once a month. Right now there are some definitely some new albums out there that deserve a mention:

The Santogold album

Talented singer and alchemist, Santi White

Santogold is some hot and bothered fashionista shit that is blowing up all over the interwebs right now – believe me, my twitter tracker has been tweeting its little lungs out.

The sound is basically an agit-pop dubbed out meltdown of early Siouxsie / The Slits, a bit of Cocteau Twins, M.I.A, Cyndi Lauper, Le Tigre and Blondie, with a little bit of guest production loving from Spank Rock. Sounds like a recipe for spontaneous hormonal combustion to me.

mp3 > You’ll Find a Way

If you want to engage the lady herself in some one-to-one, John the Beef is fielding questions in the comments on his blog. Answers will be posted this coming Monday.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : Dig Lazarus Dig

Cave, Ellis and crew are an electric tonic for anybody who thinks that getting older means you have to calm the hell down. These guys are out in the back alley behind the venue pissing into the generation gap with a bottle of whiskey in the other hand.

The sound is ballsy without diving headlong into the noise abyss of yore. A lot of this stuff is, dare I say it, quite accessible.

mp3 > Dig Lazarus, Dig

The Roots : Rising Down

Here’s another tight outfit with no sign of calming down – their sound has only gotten tougher since the last album.

I’m still getting deeper into this one, but as usual The Roots’ sound is unique and their lyrics are nuanced in a way that most new hip hop just isn’t.

Guest vocals on the title track from the Mighty Mos Def, with a guitar loop deep in the mix that reminds me of a killer old Solesides / DJ Shadow production.

mp3 > Rising Down
mp3 > Get Busy

Hopefully if you like any of this stuff, and the shoddy online music retailers in this country give you the opportunity to do so, you’ll go buy it.