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Jan 18

descendents:

Getting old sucks. We all know it, we all feel it and it helps if you have some great friends to get you through. To help Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman celebrate the big 5-0 this January, we asked some radical musicians to pay tribute to the Manhattan Beach punk band for an exclusive covers album. We are proud to announce the release of FILTER Magazine Presents: Milo Turns 50. The 13-song compilation features reinventions of quintessential Descendents tracks by artists like FIDLAR, Mike Watt, YACHT, Tijuana Panthers, Milo Greene and The Bronx. Click the art to Download the entire album for FREE and check out all of the details below. Happy Birthday Milo! FILTER Magazine Presents: Milo Turns 50 track listing 1. FIDLAR (featuring Brian Rodriguez)“Suburban Home”2. Mike Watt + The Secondmissingmen“Kabuki Girl”3. The Henry Clay People “Clean Sheets”4. The Bronx “Catalina”5. Edsel “Good Good Things”6. Good Riddance “Sour Grapes”7. Tijuana Panthers “Can’t Go Back”8. Milo Greene “Parents”9. TEEN“Ride the Wild”10. Bobby Birdman“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”11. Thrillionaire “Myage”12. Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses “Hope”13. YACHT“All” Curated by FILTER Magazine, 2013.Songs recorded November 2012-January 2013. Mastered by Jason Powell.Art by Chris Shary.

Getting old sucks. We all know it, we all feel it and it helps if you have some great friends to get you through. To help Descendents frontman Milo Aukerman celebrate the big 5-0 this January, we asked some radical musicians to pay tribute to the Manhattan Beach punk band for an exclusive covers album.

We are proud to announce the release of FILTER Magazine Presents: Milo Turns 50.

The 13-song compilation features reinventions of quintessential Descendents tracks by artists like FIDLAR, Mike Watt, YACHT, Tijuana Panthers, Milo Greene and The Bronx.

Click the art to Download the entire album for FREE and check out all of the details below.

Happy Birthday Milo!

FILTER Magazine Presents: Milo Turns 50 track listing

1. FIDLAR (featuring Brian Rodriguez)
“Suburban Home”

2. Mike Watt + The Secondmissingmen
“Kabuki Girl”

3. The Henry Clay People
“Clean Sheets”

4. The Bronx
“Catalina”

5. Edsel
“Good Good Things”

6. Good Riddance
“Sour Grapes”

7. Tijuana Panthers
“Can’t Go Back”

8. Milo Greene
“Parents”

9. TEEN
“Ride the Wild”

10. Bobby Birdman
“I Don’t Want To Grow Up”

11. Thrillionaire
“Myage”

12. Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses
“Hope”

13. YACHT
“All”

Curated by FILTER Magazine, 2013.
Songs recorded November 2012-January 2013.
Mastered by Jason Powell.
Art by Chris Shary.

Apr 23

Presumably, the final mix of Fiona Apple’s “Every Single Night.” Posted to her Facebook page five minutes ago. You’re welcome.

Jan 26

fuckyeahfionaapple:

faerielandsforlorn:

Fiona Apple - O’ Sailor

Everything good I deem too good to be true
Everything else is just a bore
Everything I have to look forward to
Has a pretty painful and very imposing before

(Jon Brion version)

What if I just post some Fiona Apple lyrics on this blog every single day until everyone realizes that Fiona is the best and then her record label is like, “Oh. Oh, crap!” and releases the album?

Jan 21

youngmanhattanite:

Terry Gross’ NPR interview with Jay-Z except his responses have been edited out in the SoundCloud above, so you can respond in his place. You have 10 seconds for each answer.

Try this! Pause it when you need to. You’ll learn something about what it’s like to be an artist and have to give interviews. As someone who’s always the interviewer and never the interviewee, this really opened my eyes to what it’s like to be on the other side. Also, um, you know, it’s fun to do Jay-Z impersonations, you know.

To hear Jay’s responses, check out the real interview - which includes a sample of Charles Strauss talking about “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” AND Jay-Z passing off misogyny as a result of low self-esteem - here.

(via vicemag)

Dec 23

I can’t decide which I like more: Fiona Apple’s outfit above or her cover of “Frosty the Snowman” from The Hotel Cafe Presents Winter Songs. You can listen to the whole Winter Songs album on YouTube, which you should do, particularly if you think Katy Perry has even a smidgeon of talent, because you need to be proven wrong and her version of “White Christmas” is abysmal. What was I saying? Oh, right, Fiona Apple. I like her. The Hotel Cafe record also has lovely holiday jams from KT Tunstall, Brandi Carlisle, Sara Bareilles with Ingrid Michaelson, and Nicole Atkins. Have a listen. And if you’re considering buying these tunes to take home for the holidays, you’ll be glad to know a portion of each sale goes to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

(via fuckyeahfionaapple)

Sep 21

LISTEN: 50 Cent Gets Gritty on B-Side

Kanye West may be grabbing the spotlight with GOOD Friday, and Eminem and Jay-Z may have just come off an explosive run of star-studded shows, but damned if 50 Cent’s going to let the hip-hop community leave him in the dust.

The rapper, who’s working on his next album, The Return of the Heartless Monster, officially released an outtake today from his 2009 album, Before I Self Destruct, titled “They Burn Me.” Check it out below.

“They Burn Me” mirrors the gritty, mixtape-style production of his debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, with sped-up female vocal samples, an industrial boom-bap, and Fiddy rapping, “I try to help a nigga eat/ Man, it’s hard out on the street.” It makes sense that 50 would try to recapture some of his pre-fame street cred, especially after the critically ill-received Before I Self Destruct.

Like Kanye, 50’s also been tweeting like a mad man, offering insanely amusing updates on his dog Oprah (“She be talking crazy to me and shit”), Twitter (“I wanta find me a bad bitch on twitter. Lol”), and his sudden rise to fame (“My first album Get Rich or Die Trying was the greatest show on earth because people knew I could die right in front of them. Its funny to me.”).

But 50’s obsession with Twitter hasn’t taken him away from focusing on his music. He’s recently posted an update about his next record: “Its 4 in the morning and I’m wide awake. I be up writing music late. This albums gonna be a classic.” We’ll see!

They Burned Me by 50 Cent

Aug 17

Fiona Apple WTF

»»» by geraldinewaters

So, here’s a craptacular song by Fiona Apple, Margaret Cho and Ben Lee.

Fifi, quit pussyfooting around with this garbage and get working on an album of your own songs already.

Sidenote: If something is mentally wrong with you and you want to purchase this drivel, it comes out on August 24. But I implore you not to, because I’m beginning to think the only way we’re gonna get new music from Fiona is if she ends up flat broke.

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LISTEN: 50 Cent Gets Gritty on B-Side

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Music and pop culture bloggings from a non-vegan Brooklynite