OK, no joke. If the year was to end right now, “Vampire Weekend” would be my favorite album released in 2008. The music’s so infectious, so loose, so danceable, every song I hear from it immediately puts a smile on their face. Their new video (the fourth for this album, I think) is for the song “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”, and it finds the guys taking their name a bit literally, this time. Anytime I see a video based in a graveyard, I keep expecting to see a bunch of ghosts doing choreographed dance moves. No such luck here, but we do get a vampiress (is that a word?) who looks very much like Avril Lavigne. Weird. Anyhow, enjoy the video, and if you don’t have VW’s CD, I suggest you get it pronto!
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New Music: Pink’s “So What?”: Pop’s Baddest Attitude Returns
Perhaps it’s my general love of slightly salty women (Courtney Love and Amy Winehouse would certainly fall into this category), but I LOVE Pink (or P!nk, or whatever she’s called). Not only is she in possession of a truly great singing voice, but there’s a sense of authenticity in her music that’s not present in the music of most of her pop peers.
Hard to believe, but she’s about to release her fifth album this fall. It will be the follow-up to the Platinum-plus “I’m Not Dead”, an album I got right away but it took the general public a little more time to appreciate. The first single, “So What?”. finds her a little feister than usual and being more candid than usual about her personal life, directly referencing her recent divorce from motocross star Carey Hart (no, not the “Sunglasses at Night” guy. That’s COREY Hart). Although it’s slightly reminiscent of “Dead”‘s breakthrough hit “U + Ur Hand” (with a little “Stupid Girls” thrown in…witness the sideways jab at Jessica Simpson), it’s still more awesome than the average retread. Check it out for yourself.
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New Music In Stores & Online 8-5-08: Is It September Yet?
I mentioned the “dog days” in last week’s column, but this week’s set of releases appears to be just as, if not more lame than the one that preceded it. Anyway, since we’re about making lemonade out of lemons here, here’s this week’s hotlist.
The cover of Conor Oberst’s self-titled new album. Conor Oberst “Conor Oberst”-Since Conor Oberst basically is Bright Eyes, isn’t this a little like Trent Reznor making an album as “Trent Reznor”? I dunno. I can’t say that I know much about Bright Eyes except for the fact that the rock press loves him. Tons of friends have tried to get me into him on mixtapes and I just don’t get it. Too pretentious for me. But you can go ahead and like him. I won’t hate you.
