MF Doom - Rapp Snitch Knishes [hip hop]

Yo, MF Doom, Mr. Fantastik ... I'm really digging the riff in the background. It's originally from a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" by David Matthews (not the Dave Matthews Band one). This song's from MF Doom's 2004 album Mm... Food.

Tyler, The Creator - IFHY [hip hop]

I do listen to hip hop, though solely based on this blog, no one would ever be the wiser. Tyler's someone I've been following a lot recently. Apparently, he had shown Kanye his video for "IFHY" recently and Kanye responded with a vague head-nod. Fast-forward to today, kanyewest.com consists only of an embed for Tyler's video. Twitter reaction here, I'd be going "got damn" too... This song is off his Wolf album due to be released April 2nd.

Cold War Kids - Fear and Trembling [indie rock]

Cold War Kids are a four-piece group from Los Angeles, there's not any other particularly interesting information about this group on their Last.fm page. This is "Fear and Trembling" off their upcoming release, Dear Miss Lonelyhearts, slated for April 2nd (a fact that's mentioned suspiciously repeatedly on their Last.fm biography).

Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Obenhaus remix) [electronica]

I guess while we're on the topic of Daft Punk, they've been releasing some material from their upcoming album, Random Access Memories, out in late May. "All Night To Get Lucky" was released a few days ago on their recently created YouTube channel. Below is the freshly minted Obenhaus remix.

Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Laurent Mathieu Remix) [electronica]

Well, while we're on the topic of covers, I recently came across an album of remixes of Daft Punk's Discovery album from 2001: Re-Discovery, released around late 2012. The songs are a bit modernized but I'll admit that a lot of them a bit repetitive... Well anyway, here's one of the ones I particularly liked, a remix of "Aerodynamic" by Laurent Mathieu.

The Birds and The Bee - Kiss On My List [indie pop]

The Bird and The Bee are an indie pop duo from California. I still remember how I first came upon their music: Many years ago, I was loitering in Chapters and a very pleasant cover of "How Deep Is Your Love" was playing. Well, I looked around on YouTube and, at the time, that was the only similar sounding one. To this date, I'm still not sure if their version was the one I heard at Chapters that fateful day. Nevertheless, it has become a staple on my iPod ever since.

I've recently looked up again on their music and it looks like they released an album in 2010 chock full of Hall & Oates covers, Interpreting the Masters Vol. 1 - A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates. Here's their version of "Kiss On My List", which is probably the only Hall & Oates song I can sing off the top of my head.

Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong [dream pop]

I've recently been relistening to Memoryhouse's The Slideshow Effect album and it does seem a lot better than last remembered it. Was just looking them up on YouTube and it really seems they have a lot of videos, especially live performances. Well, this isn't a live performance but a very nice music video to one of favourite songs on that album: "The Kids Were Wrong" (I could've sworn I made a previous blog post on this but whatever, maybe I changed it to Sleep Patterns afterwards). The singer is so pretty, I think I have a crush :3.

1099 - While The City Sleeps [post-rock]

1099 is a Norwegian post-rock band that had previously release two EPs in 2008 and 2009. They've very recently put out an eponymously titled LP, on which this song, "While The City Sleeps", is found. Check out their Bandcamp here.

The song has a cozy jazz element to it. It really reminds me of stuff from Cowboy Bebop. The song prior to this on the album (Iron Fist (Death Is Here)) is actually very opposite in tone. Listening to them one after another really gives a nice contrast.

Kathleen Edwards - Mint [alt country]

I've been lurking the Polaris Prize short-list for the past bit. Kathleen Edwards, alternative country singer since the 90's, was on there with her Voyageur album. "Mint" is a song that stood out for me from that album. Wonder why I never heard any of her stuff growing up.. well probably because I only listened to the Edge and MuchMusic.