Once more unto the breach, dear friends...

The current stage of our lives is a whirlwind of activity, and in a great way. But it comes at the bitter cost of our dedication to this most superior of blogs. That being said, we are always discovering more music, and you can count on our ultimately unavoidable need to share it with whoever cares to listen.

So in the spirit of celebrating damn good music, I've got some entrancing singers that have recently occupied my obsession. The first is the seductive Lana Del Rey, casually known as Lizzy Grant, whose self described style is that of a "gangsta Nancy Sinatra." She hasn't released a full debut album as of yet, but supposedly that will be rectified in the coming year. For these links, I almost caution against watching the music videos the first time and instead just wrap yourself in her voice. The videos are pretty artsy, which can be distracting while listening to a novel song.

Diet Mtn Dew

Video Games

Blue Jeans

The next artist is Woodkid, born Yoann Lemoine of that teased country we call France. He is actually primarily a film and music video director, having on his resume such works as Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and T-Swift's "Back to December." I personally can't comment on his directing prowess, but his recently released singles reveal a seriously soulful voice possessing a rare richness.

Iron (the music for the Assassain's Creed Revelations trailer, for those who care)

Baltimore's Fireflies

Someone Like You (Cover of Adele)

Brooklyn

Wasteland

Happy listening.

Dedications - New Look

I want to start by explaining some changes to the way the site is organized. As you can see, at the bottom of the screen, an embedded music player has popped up! This way you guys can listen to all the songs on here without having to leave the page, with the ability to chose which songs you want to listen to, pop out the music player, etc. To get it started, just click "Click to play all audio posts," and a playlist will pop up. Please leave your impressions in the comments; any feedback is very crucial and greatly appreciated. Furthermore, any links that you see will be download links. You can listen to songs on the player, and then if you like one, right click it and say "Save As" to download.


When yesterday's post came out, I, very rudely, forgot to mention some people. So, to make up for that, I wanted to dedicate a couple of songs to each of them.


Mike Tseng.

Not to be confused with Mike Tzeng. Who happen to have the same birthday. Crazy. This man goes hard, in pretty much everything that he does except Super Smash Bros. I wanna start off with some pretty sick trance, which I've posted before, but I think is worth bringing up again. Not as intense as Krater of Peak 1.1, but then again, nothing is. Still pretty good.

W & W - Alpha

Second, this man really knows how to dance. And he can head iso like no other. So I wanted to give him something to dance to. Here's to him.

Kap Slap - Illamerica Blow




Audrey Stano.

Raised in the hood of Silver Spring with Matt Sartucci, that neighborhood was rough and you can definitely see it in her attitude. She is one badass girl, and don't tolerate no foolishness from anyone. You can find her on the corner thuggin, chillin with the bad-boy rappers. Most of them are named Max. Essentially, she looks and acts like Kreayshawn. So to her I dedicate this remix of Gucci Gucci.

Kreashawn - Gucci Gucci (Rock-It! Scientist Remix)

Also, joking aside, she has a pretty damn good voice. I hope she goes all out singing to this version of a timeless classic.

Yuna Ito - My Heart Will Go On




Annie Jeng.

Probably the most musically gifted person I had the pleasure to meet, she's a great friend and a really nice person in general. If you haven't you should meet her. She's also in love with cute things. She'll squeal when she sees a puppy on the street, etc. So here's a song for you Annie; it features a kid with the cutest voice I can imagine. Now it may or may not be about tripping on copious doses of hallucinogens, but that's irrelevant. I think. In any case, the accompanying music is also very good.

M83 - Raconte-Moi Une Histoire

Now, choosing this second song for Annie was pretty damn hard. She loves classical, but she knows way more about that than I ever will, so I don't have anything to offer in that domain. I also send her a lot of music before posting it anywhere, so she also knows a lot of my library. In the end, I ended up with this song, a mashup between Leona Lewis's Collide and Avicii's Fade into Darkness, the later of which I will be posting on its own at a later time due to it's awesomitude.

Kap Slap - Penguins Collide Into Darkness

Thanks, Kyle

Wow. It has been quite a while. Like Kyle said, we've been busy, but that's no excuse. We'll always be busy. Just have to be less lazy and make time for this. Much love to him for getting up off his ass and pulling the chair from under the rest of us.

Without further ado, some songs. I've listened to A LOT of music while I've been inactive. I do understand, however, that posting lots of songs per post can be overwhelming and that it would be best to limit it. SO. I'll keep it to 5 songs, try to vary the genre's and see what happens.



I'm gonna start off with one of my favorite songs, Seek Bromance. This song features music from one of my favorite artists, Avicii (aka Tim Berg), but it is not his song per say. Italian DJ Samuele Sartini's Love You Seek ft. Amanda Wilson had it's vocals overlayed and this feel good monster (in my opinion) was born. Enjoy.

Avicii (Tim Berg) - Seek Bromance



While we're listening to female vocals, I just wanted to continue on that track. Tiesto recently made the switch over from trance to almost exclusively house, and even though it's only been a couple of months, he's already shows a lot of promise, and I'm really excited. Featuring Kay, this is definitely a good song to get you in the mood for the weekend.

Tiesto - Work Hard Play Hard (ft. Kay)



For a chance of pace, we go to a mellow, semi-depressing yet beautiful song by Florence and the Machine. It's a single that will also be on the upcoming album on November 7th. Don't quite know what it's about, but I'm guessing some sort of drowning/suicide thing. A very emotionally charged song.

Florence and the Machine - What the Water Gave Me



Speaking of mellow, here's an awesome song that many of you probably already heard, but that never gets old. Doing what he does best, Deadmau5 (pronounced dead-mouse, ahem) starts off this song with an ambient, minimalist vibe, and proceeds to evolve it into a relaxing trance piece with a great beat and melody.

Deadmau5 - Strobe



Finally, a super exciting song. This DJ has some of the best mashups I have ever heard. He's amazing. And surprisingly, every song he makes is free to download at kapslap.com. He also features hour+ continuous mixes of his mashups, which are perfect from leaving on during parties and forgetting about them. This is probably my favorite by him.

Kap Slap - Paper Towels




As always, email us or comment with any suggestions, complaints, etc. We're working on getting music to you in a better way than just youtube links. It'll be done within the next month AT THE LATEST.

K3

We've been busy, lame, and ultimately, lazy.

I apologize, but lets hope these tracks make up for it, at least a little.

Music is important to me because it can directly change my mood. These tracks should hopefully be in an order that goes from a more mellow mood to one that will energize you, and bring a little involuntary dance into your life. I'm going to try and use 8tracks for this, so it's going to be an 8 track minimum post. Here goes.

First up, we have Skylar Grey's Invisible. I love her voice, and the track is beautiful. Nothing more to be said here.

Next we have Howlin' For You by The Black Keys. You've instantly become a smooth operator. You're wearing a nice suit. You're probably playing poker. You're almost certainly winning. There's obviously an attractive person of the opposite sex hanging around you. You're ordering a drink. It's definitely hard liquor.

Moving on is almost a step backwards. It's Invisible again, but this time Miss Grey's song has been amped up by John Dahlback; I don't think it ruins it like some remixes do, just kind of turns a sad observation into a realization that a lot of people feel the same way (happier, too).

Next is a song that takes a while to build up (as do a lot of electro/house songs) but I think it's worth it. Written for his girl Kate, Arty brings us an instrumental song called Kate, showing us that he is, in fact, the cleverest. Can't bash him, though, the song is uplifting, and big.

Nervo. Afrojack. Steve Aoki. Hook N Sling remixed We're All No One and this song maintains that "big" feeling that I love so much. It's those big, synths? I guess that make me just love certain house songs.

We are now at the first of the last 3 songs, all of which I believe should definitely lift your spirits. The first shot of happiness is another John Dahlback remix, specifically of the song Big by Sneaky Sound System (alliteration, anyone? Or is it consonance?)

Tim Berg, also known as Avicii, keeps you floating right on up with his Three Chord Revolution. If you're the type of person who gets simple, yet catchy riffs stuck in your head... You're screwed. Avicii loves messing with those people.

Obviously, I've saved what I view as the best, for last. I loved Coldplay's Every Teardrop is a Waterfall. I've also always been complaining that Swedish House Mafia don't release enough songs. Behold the current mother of all uplifiting house songs, in my humble opinion: SHM's remix of Every Teardrop is a Waterfall.

You better be in a damned good mood. Hell, it's 3 am and I'm basically dancing in my seat.

Let me know what you guys think of the 8track thing. Just fyi, on the second play of the playlist, it will randomize the songs, so make sure you listen to it in order while reading this post on the first try.

The Playlist

K2

Coyote Kisses are a duo who have been friends since childhood, both from Lakeland, Florida. They started producing music during the summer of 2008, but then took a break at the end of the summer since they were both heading off to separate colleges. This means that they are almost exactly our ages, and they have produced some of the best electro that I've heard in a while.

This first track is what I *expected* the Daft Punk soundtrack to Tron to sound like. Daft Punk instead turned Hans Zimmer-ish. Coyote Kisses, however, fulfilled my desire with LazerSwag

Coyote Kisses - LazerSwag


This second track is their most popular one, although they don't seem to be too popular yet. If they keep coming out with tracks like s(star)chaser, they're not going to be unknown for long.

Coyote Kisses - Starchaser