Weezer have a new song out (for free download from iTunes this weekend). It’s called “Represent”, and it’s billed as the unofficial theme song for the US World Cup Team. Opening with the sounds of a cheering crowd and a self-consciously squishy synthesizer intro that is hilarious and, well, you know, inspiring. And by inspiring, I mean, it inspires me to take my Cutting Crew vinyl out for a spin. It essentially announces itself as a song in search of a movie montage; and given that it’s the theme song for a team that, almost by design, has as much chance of winning the World Cup (a prize that rings suspiciously European, and therefore irrelevant or even dastardly, to even many American sports die-hards) as I have of winning the Super Bowl against a team of 12 Ditkas and God, it couldn’t be more a more appropriate big duh of an anthem. Seriously, the only way that this could possibly pack more delicious cheddar into this song is if they’d gotten Joe ‘Bean’ Esposito to guest on it. Goal!
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First Listen: Weezer’s “Represent”
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Awesome Song Alert! Alexis Jordan’s “Happiness”
Alexis Jordan has made me so very happy this spring. The 18-year-old former America’s Got Talent contestant, now signed to the Jay-Z/Kanye West-run Roc Nation label, has just released her official debut single, “Happiness.” I first heard the song via a Sony sampler I picked up from one of my local record stores’ giveaway box last month, and ever since, it’s been getting heavy rotation on my car stereo system, usually at such an extreme volume as to embarrass and/or totally annoy my teenage son. “Happiness” represents the kind of delicious unexpected meeting of two distinct flavors that commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups celebrated when I was a kid. Instead of chocolate and peanut butter, here we have a defiantly un-guilty pleasure teen pop song built over a composition by up-and-coming Canadian hipster-bait trance-house artist deadmau5 called “Brazil (2nd Edit)”. “Happiness” isn’t just based on a sample of the deadmau5 song. It is the deadmau5 song… only with the Alexis Jordan song slathered all over the top of it like so much sweet, sweet, frothy, frothy Ready-Whip. A genius proposition executed in genius fashion, sure to turn as many people on to Miss Jordan as it will to Mr. mau5. This week, the song’s video premiered on Vevo. You can also currently pick up a free download of the song by signing up for her e-mail list at her website.
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Free Amazon Song Download – Your Choice!
Amazon is giving away a FREE SONG to users — your choice! The company is celebrating passing 1 million Twitter followers, but you win.
Head to the special page we’ve shown below (you won’t find a link in Amazon search) and enter the code FIRSTMIL.
You get a $1.29 MP3 download credit. Use it wisely. Go back to your roots and scarf up that one track you’ve always wanted and keep forgetting to buy or explore the fall releases. Please don’t buy Cobra Starship. You’ll simply encourage them to record again.
Free tunes for Labor Day weekend. Drink and disk drive responsibly.
