musicleech » Bloc Party http://musicleech.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:38:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Origins of Band Names http://musicleech.com/2009/10/10/the-origins-of-band-names/ http://musicleech.com/2009/10/10/the-origins-of-band-names/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:00:12 +0000 Mark Jackson http://musicleech.com/?p=2479 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The user ByteMe on rateyourmusic.com has compiled a list of band name origins. It's far from comprehensive but it covers a wide spectrum of bands, new and old, so you're sure to find a bunch that you know. And hey, maybe you'll be turned on to some just based on how they got their name!

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Arguably one of the most consistent DJs over the past several years, Diplo has been turning out back-to-back releases and working with the hottest upcoming artists like it's nothing.

To supplement his just out Blow Your Head EP (consisting of 2 Diplo original tracks and four remixes of a song called "Wassup Wassup" featuring Rye Rye) is Decent Work for Decent Pay, a mostly remix album due out January 26 via Big Dada/Ninja Tune.

Decent Work for Decent Pay: Collected Works: Volume One tracklist:

01 Diplo: "Newsflash [ft. Sandra Melody]"
02 Daft Punk: "Harder Better Faster Stronger (Diplo Work Is Never Over Remix)"
03 M.I.A.: "Paper Planes (Diplo Remix)"
04 Spank Rock: "Put That Pussy on Me (Diplo Tonite Remix)"
05 Kano: "Reload It"
06 Diplo: "200"
07 Bloc Party: "Where Is Home? (Diplo Remix)"
08 CSS: "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above (Diplo Remix)"
09 Bonde do Rolê: "Solta o Frango"
10 Samim: "Heater (Diplo Extended Edit)"
11 Hot Chip: "Shake a Fist (Diplo Remix)"
12 Diplo: "Way More Brazil"
13 Black Lips: "Veni Vidi Vici (Diplo Remix)"
14 Claude VonStroke: "The Whistlerz (Diplo Remix)"
15 Diplo: "Smash a Kangaroo"
16 Peter Bjorn and John: "Young Folks (Diplo Youngest Folks Remix)"

Diplo Tour Dates:

10-28 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court *
10-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards *
10-31 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
11-01 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater *
11-03 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
11-04 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *
11-05 Tempe, AZ - Club Red *
11-07 Austin, TX - Emo's *
11-08 Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom *
11-10 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
11-11 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle *
11-12 Washington, DC - Black Cat *#
11-13 Baltimore, MD - Sonar *
11-14 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom *
11-29 Manchester, England - The Warehouse Project
12-05 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
12-06 Rennes, France - Festival Trans Musicales

* with Abe Vigoda, Boy 8-Bit, Telepathe
# with No Age

MP3: Diplo: Brew Barrymore
Video: Diplo ft. Pantera Os Danadinhos:Percao [from Well Deep: Ten Years of Big Dada Recordings DVD]

[via Pitchfork]

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