It’s almost hypnotic - I’ve already watched this video three times and still want more. These women are ready for their own stage show:

(via Jodi)

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[for those of you who haven't seen this already]

This is brilliant. It’s not a translation of the Indian music video, it’s what the lyrics sound like in English:

My loony bun is fine Benny Lava!
Minor bun engine made Benny Lava!
Anybody need this sign Benny Lava?
You need a bun to bite Benny Lava!

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What’s the best way to break free of corporate shackles? Smash your cell phone, ditch that oxford (wait! keep the tie!) and rock!

Water blasting toms! Synchronized jumps! Heel tapping! Tilted keyboards! Flowing manes! Tractor solos!

I LOVE FINLAND!!!

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Most people don’t know it, but Stevie Wonder plays more than just keyboards. Check out this awesome video of Stevie showing his harmonica skillz alongside an absolute legend– Toots Thielemans. It’s amazing to me how the two of them can communicate so well via music alone…

He also just goes off on drums here, but I don’t want to clutter the frontpage with video. Enjoy!

(via SteveB’s lazy ass)

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Yuri Lane, everyone:

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This has been around the Internet a little based on its 900,000+ YouTube views, but when I saw it today it was new to me and there was no question that it’s Blogadilla material.

I’m a big fan of mashups, but this is a mashup of a different style: music mashed with video. In 2006, Atlanta DJ and rap artist Unk released the addictive track “Walk It Out.” Shortly after, someone took a video clip from a 1960s TV show featuring Gwen Verdon (third wife of Bob Fosse and one of the best dancers of her time) dancing to a song called “Mexican Breakfast,” and had the idea to lay the rap track over the video. I can’t tell you what spurred the idea in the first place, but I can tell you is that the mix works out amazingly well. Check it out for yourself, and then for reference afterward, see the original.

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Just over a year ago, Time Magazine profiled a brother/sister juggling team, Olga and Vova Galchenko, the so called “Juggling Geniuses.” Time compiled 10 of their videos, which go as far back as 1997, when the brother-sister pair was only 10 and 7, respectively.

Their skill is impressive, as is the fact that they’ve journeyed from a tiny home in Penza, Russia, all the way to Hollywood– check out Vova below as a young boy, and later in a Fatboy Slim video with some amazing shots:

(via Time.com)

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It’s no doubt that Web 2.0 can often be categorized by sites with pastel colors and rounded edges, but there’s a ton of cool technology that has developed amongst all the pretty designs. Some of the coolest new stuff profiles you as a user and compares it to all sorts of data (including your friends and random strangers) to come up with a breakdown of stuff you know you like, as well as stuff you didn’t know you’d like (or at least, that’s the point). Here’s a few of my favorite music-oriented sites I’ve discovered:

- This site used to be known as “AudioScrobbler”, but changed it’s name and then was sold to CBS. You run a small program (for all OS’s) on your computer, and it watches the music you listen to. It compares your music listening habits to those of all the other users on the site, then provides internet radio (free!) of not only your music, but other artists that you’ll probably like. Here’s my profile (for a sample of what it looks like).

- This site pools together all the mp3’s posted on various music blogs across the web. Do a search for one of your favorite artists and you’re bound to find some new tracks - covers and live versions in particular. You can also snag the RSS feed for an artist, import it into iTunes, and voila - instant free downloads of those tracks.

LivePlasma - Utilizes the Amazon database of “User’s who bought this, also bought…” to give you a map of artists related to your entered artist. This one works for movies as well - be warned that it’s not very forgiving of misspellings, and a lot of the more obscure artists don’t show up at all. Definitely fun to play with, though.

- This is for the lucky iPhone owners out there, although it works on a normal browser as well. Similar to HypeMachine, this pools together all the mp3’s it can find on the web and offers full listens through the interface. The iPhone version looks amazing on the phones with an interface emulating the iPhone iTunes almost exactly.

Please feel free to share your favorite Web 2.0 music sites in the comments section!

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…because we needed another version of the original.

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I love Lily Allen. I know, I’m kind of late on the Lily Allen train, but here’s why I love her music and you should too. A shit-talking British accent, blown out dance hall beats, horns (in case you miss the Specials), Holly-Golightly-meets-Pink ensembles, and she has the most annoying background ever on MySpace.

Anyone who’s not a rapper and says fuc$ing in the first stanza, on the first song, of their first album, is my new best friend. Who doesn’t want to sic a bunch of British dirt bags on their ex-boyfriend and then “Smile” about it? She’s vicious and adorable. Oh, and who doesn’t love that “old school” cd loading sound that seems to be so popular now.

Here’s the downside. Listening to her gives me hopeful chicken skin just like Liz Phair used to. Ah, I loved Liz Phair. Scary loved. Liz Phair had those two excellent albums and then, she got happy, or married, or whatever, and started to SUCK. I was lost. Whenever a new, talented, smart-mouthed, female artist comes along I fall in love all over again, BUT now, I can’t help but think, “Just don’t disappoint me bitch.”

Anywho, there are some cool little mp3’s at the bottom of this Pitchfork interview where you can also read more about how supremely awesome she is.

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A nice video for Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is a Cage” - utilizing footage from Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” (one of the better, yet lesser known, “Spaghetti Westerns”).

(via Notcot.org)

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