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Thursday, May 2, 2013
my little brother is in that phase every middle schooler goes through when blink 182 is the greatest band you’ve ever known and travis barker is god
The Specials at Hype Hotel on Baeblemusic
One of the highlights of SXSW. So much fun on stage, you can believe they’ve been doing this since 1977.
Album premiere: Listen to Fitz and the Tantrums’ More Than Just a Dream
Streaming all week on the Hype Machine
FIDLAR - Live at Hype Machine's Hype Hotel Presented By Taco Bell
Watch FIDLAR’s entire Hype Hotel set, complete with Zac’s crowd jump.
More full sets from Charli XCX, Jake Bugg, Hundred Waters, & many more at Baeblemusic
“L’Amour Est Bleu (Love Is Blue)” by Paul Mauriat [1968]
“L’Amour Est Bleu” first received notice as the Luxembourg entry to the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest. Performed by Greek singer Vicky Leandros, the song finished fourth in the voting, a place that would normally leave it as a mere historical footnote. When French light orchestra conductor Maul Mauriat got ahold of the song, however, a surprising thing happened. Mauriat’s instrumental stormed up Billboard’s Easy Listening chart, commandeering the pop chart in the process. In fact, only one song fared better on the Billboard charts in 1968 than “Love Is Blue” and that was “Hey Jude”—the #1 song of the entire decade.
I’m sure Mantovani was jealous…
kre:
Sinead O’Connor has a cover of All Apologies and no one told me?!
Gli Atoms for Peace hanno remixato “Pyramid” di Four Tet: lui è rimasto contentissimo (e anche voi quando leggerete la nostra intervista a Thom Yorke e Nigel Godrich!)
Not sure how this one slipped through the cracks. It’s old music, but I like the way it’s put together. Major Lazer’s don DJ Jillionaire joins forces with The Hype Machine to help present the Top Tracks of 2012 as part of the year-end Music Blog Zeitgeist.
jstn:
Forget Daft Punk, what’s up with the new Boards of Canada?
Album Premiere: Andy Cato’s Times & Places
For a DJ/performer, touring the world is only partly glamorous. The other part involves a lot of idle time, of which Andy Cato has endured plenty during the past 15 years while on the road for his day job (as one-half of Groove Armada). That’s where this album was born—in airport lounges, hotel rooms, planes, trains and “an array of tour buses.” It’s a vicarious trip around the world.
Hear it on the Hype Machine
Groove Armada - I See You Baby (Fatboy Slim Radio Edit)
We’re gonna party like it’s 1999
August 21, 2011
Frank Ocean reblogs Pretty Colors submission
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Frank Ocean releases Channel Orange. It’s album cover is
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