Songs Of The Week: Gyptian, Phantogram, Pearl Jam, Mr. Little Jeans, Sylvan Esso

by Carmen Cruz

It's a mixed bag. 

Gyptian ~ Turn Me On - The perfect summer song.


Phantogram ~ Fall In Love - In a word, Brilliant.


Pearl Jam ~ Sirens - You know the type of song that just stirs something in your heart? Yeah. This is one of those.


Mr. Little Jeans ~ Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)- The Arcade Fire has been 'Sexified'. Uh huh, that's a word now.


Sylvan Esso ~ Coffee


Enjoy.

Besos,

CC.
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Feist For The Win!

by Carmen Cruz

Congrats to Canadian songstress Feist for winning the 2012 Polaris Music Prize for her fourth album  'Metals'.

She was up against some major Canadian talent this year, including Drake, Fucked Up and the newest indie musician to start making it big, Grimes (originally from Vancouver, yo!)

Feist accepted the award at last night's prize gala in Toronto, from last years winners (Jeremy Gara and Tim Kingsbury of Arcade Fire), and she also pocketed a cool $30,000.

Just after having her name announced, this crazy lady laid down on the floor in pure shock, before finally getting up to accept her award and $$$.




Here's one of the many amazing songs off of her now award winning album.



Yay Feist!

Enjoy.


Besos,

CC.
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Favourite Albums Of 2010

by Carmen Cruz



It's tough to narrow down my list for the best albums of 2010, but I think I've got it down.

Here goes (don't judge!) in no particular order:

God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise ~ Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs (Mind Blowing)

The Black Keys ~ Brothers (Ditto)

Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty ~ Big Boi (I miss OutKast. Seriously)

Body Talk ~ Robyn

Thank Me Later ~ Drake

The Suburbs ~ Arcade Fire

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ~ Kanye West (I don't care that he's an egomaniac. The guy is brilliant.)

The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) ~ Janelle Monae (Holy crap she's AWESOME!!! She's like a female version of OutKast.)

Sigh No More ~ Mumford & Sons (These guys can make a BANJO sound sexy! I mean..C'MON!!!)

Plastic Beach ~ Gorillaz

The Lady Killer ~ Cee Lo Green (Fuck you!!! And fuck her too!!!)

I could literally go on and on (LCD Soundsystem, Broken Bells, Eminem, Local Natives, Vampire Weekend, Crystal Castles....etc, etc.)

HONOURABLE MENTION: Universal Mind Control ~ Common (**Ok. So I know it came out in 2008, but I didn't really 'discover it' until 2010. Better late than never!**)

You should definitely check out any or all of these albums, if you haven't already. Please feel free to suggest any albums that I should be getting into.

Alright. Bedtime. Peace out.

Besos,

CC.

P.S: I'm kinda proud of myself that I finally updated my blog. Pathetic, but true...