musicleech » Kid Cudi http://musicleech.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:38:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Bonnaroo 2010 Lineup Announced http://musicleech.com/2010/02/09/bonnaroo-2010-lineup-announced/ http://musicleech.com/2010/02/09/bonnaroo-2010-lineup-announced/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:02:10 +0000 Mark Jackson http://musicleech.com/?p=3287 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> As promised, the listing of musicians performing at this year's Bonnaroo is up:

Dave Matthews Band • Kings of Leon • Stevie Wonder • Jay-Z • Tenacious D • Weezer • The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform "Dark Side of the Moon" • The Dead Weather • Damian Marley & Nas • Phoenix • Norah Jones • Michael Franti & Spearhead • John Fogerty • Regina Spektor • Jimmy Cliff • LCD Soundsystem • The Avett Brothers • Thievery Corporation • Rise Against • Tori Amos • The National • Zac Brown Band • Les Claypool • John Prine • The Black Keys • Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers • Jeff Beck • Dropkick Murphys • She & Him • Against Me! • The Disco Biscuits • Daryl Hall & Chromeo • Jamey Johnson • Clutch • Bassnectar • Kid Cudi • Baaba Maal • Kris Kristofferson • Medeski Martin & Wood • The xx • GWAR • Dan Deacon Ensemble • Tinariwen • Wale • Deadmau5 • The Melvins • Gaslight Anthem • Miike Snow • The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band • Dr. Dog • They Might Be Giants • Punch Brothers • Isis • Blitzen Trapper • Blues Traveler • Miranda Lambert • Calexico • OK Go • Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue • Martin Sexton • Lotus • Baroness • Dave Rawlings Machine • Mayer Hawthorne and the County • Japandroids • Jay Electronica • Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros • Ingrid Michaelson • The Dodos • Manchester Orchestra • The Temper Trap • Cross Canadian Ragweed • Big Sam's Funky Nation • Carolina Chocolate Drops • Needtobreathe • Tokyo Police Club • The Entrance Band • Local Natives • Brandi Carlile • Mumford & Sons • Rebelution • Diane Birch • Monte Montgomery • Julia Nunes • The Postelles • Lucero • Here We Go Magic • Hot Rize • Neon Indian • B.O.B

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Head over to the redesigned Bonnaroo website to choose your redirection for tickets, information, and more.

To put my two cents in, here are my must-see shows (granted I don't know some of them and I tried to keep the list as short as I could):

  • Jay-Z
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Dead Weather
  • Damian Marley & Nas
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • The Melvins
  • Isis (day or night set?)
  • Dan Deacon Ensemble
  • The Dodos
  • Neon Indian

Bonus! Bands that don't deserve to be at Bonnaroo:

  • Kings of Leon
  • OK Go
  • Rise Against
  • They Might Be Giants (just take my word for it, or listen to this terrible song if you don't believe me)

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]]> http://musicleech.com/2010/02/09/bonnaroo-2010-lineup-announced/feed/ 0 My Top Albums 2009 http://musicleech.com/2010/01/17/my-top-albums-2009/ http://musicleech.com/2010/01/17/my-top-albums-2009/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:40:41 +0000 Rad Parker http://musicleech.com/?p=3141 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I realize I am putting this out really late. I always put this off until winter break, thinking I'll have tons of time to listen to the albums, but always underestimate how much I actually need to listen to. But honestly, that isn't a bad thing. I think we are living in a time where there is a lot more new and interesting stuff coming out than ever before. Last year, I probably listened to about 75 albums for my top albums article. Some of them only half way through (because I could tell they wouldn't make the cut) and some in excess of 20 times. I don't feel like doing the math on that, but it takes an incredible amount of time. This year I stepped my game up and literally wrote down every album that made it on at least a few top lists from around the music blog, newspaper, magazine community, including the big wigs: pitchfork, sterogum, prefix, spin, etc.

I think most top lists aren't really substantial if they don't talk about what makes albums 'top albums'. I want to let you know what helped me decide. Basically, I listened to albums all the way through and gave each song a rating (1-5). A 3 being a song that is good, but nothing special. A 4 being a song that is something special, but you can get tired of it. 5s are songs that never get old and never get skipped. I once heard someone say that if you could only keep 1000 songs from your library, they would be all of the 4s and 5s.  Then I check out what each album averages, giving extra points for originality, interesting overall themes, track cohesion, genre mixing, or basically anything that makes it more of an album than a bunch of songs.

Now, once I have a list of albums that are generally agreed upon to be good by the blog community, I go through and weed out bands with sounds that I know I won't find appealing. Albums that are automatically omitted include basically anyone who doesn't make their own music or write their own lyrics, anything considered pop punk, alternative metal, or anything termed just rock or pop, because frankly, I'm not interested. Does that make me seem like a music snob? Kinda. Do I try to be unbiased when the headphones are on? You bet.

This year I at least tried out about 100 albums. If you have any comments, questions, or albums you think should have been considered, drop me a line below.

1. Phoenix -

Wolfgang

Amadeus

Phoenix

Phoenix - "1901"

2. Grizzly

Bear -

Veckatimest

Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"

3. The

xx -

xx

The xx - "Crystalised"

4. Animal Collective -

Merriweather

Post

Pavilion

Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes"

5. Real

Estate -

Real

Estate

Real Estate - "Beach Comber"


6. The

Flaming

Lips -

Embryonic

The Flaming Lips - "Watching the Planets"

7. Girls -

Album

Girls - "Laura"

8. The Smith Westerns -

The

Smith

Westerns

The Smith Westerns - "Tonight"

9. Neon

Indian -

Psychic

Chasms

Neon Indian - "Deadbeat Summer"

10. Cymbals Eat Guitars -

Why There

Are

Mountains

Cymbals Eat Guitars - "And the Hazy Sea"

2009 Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Passion Pit – Manners
Drummer - Feel Good Together
Atlas Sound – Logos
The Antlers – Hospice
Blakroc – Blakroc
Woods - Songs of Shame
10 ft. Ganja Plant - Bushrock
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
The Strange Boys – The Strange Boys and Girls Club
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
Miike Snow - Miike Snow
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Day
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

EP, Mixtape, Compilation, and other non-album Mentions:
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
Kid Cudi - Dat Kid From Cleveland Mixtape
Drake - So Far Gone Mixtape
Wale - Back to the Feature Mixtape
Toro Y Moi - My Touch EP
The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches - The Dark Side of the Moon (Cover Album)
Various Artists - Dark Was the Night Compilation
Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind EP
Modest Mouse - No Ones First and Your Next EP
Washed Out – Life of Leisure EP
Deerhunter - Rainwater Casette Exchange EP
Various Artists – Underwater Peoples Summertime Showcase 2009

For comparison's sake, here is my list from 2008:

  1. deerhunter - microcastle
  2. little joy - little joy
  3. plants and animals - parc avenue
  4. mgmt - oracular spectacular
  5. los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
  6. vampire weekend - vampire weekend
  7. the dodos - visiter
  8. bon iver - for emma, forever ago
  9. the sea and cake - car alarm
  10. starfucker - starfucker

2008 honorable mentions (in no particular order):

lil' wayne - tha carter III
white denim - white denim
atlas sound - let the blind lead those who can see but cannot feel
the ruby suns - sea lion
women - women
beach house - devotion
q-tip - renaissance
albert hammond, jr. - ¿como te llama?
dr dog - fate
girl talk - feed the animals
hot chip - made in the dark
french kicks - swimming
passion pit - chunk of change ep
cut copy - in ghost colours
black keys - attack & release



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]]> http://musicleech.com/2010/01/17/my-top-albums-2009/feed/ 3 While We Were Out: Animal Collective, Yeasayer, Kid Cudi, Gucci Mane… http://musicleech.com/2009/12/14/while-we-were-out-animal-collective-yeasayer-kid-cudi-gucci-mane/ http://musicleech.com/2009/12/14/while-we-were-out-animal-collective-yeasayer-kid-cudi-gucci-mane/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:30:44 +0000 Rad Parker http://musicleech.com/?p=2925 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> So, tons of great music came out over the last month as we were studying for finals. In an effort to reward our viewers for sticking around, I have loaded this post with everything worthy of your ear's time.

From their latest release Fall Be Kind EP (this is the song that has been getting a lot of buzz because it samples an old Grateful Dead song, "Unbroken Chain"):

Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky

Kid Cudi – Pursuit Of Happiness (Steve Aoki Dance Remix)

From their upcoming release Odd Blood (and when I say upcoming, I mean already leaked):

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

Gucci Mane – Dangers Not a Stranger (Diplo Remix)

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]]> http://musicleech.com/2009/12/14/while-we-were-out-animal-collective-yeasayer-kid-cudi-gucci-mane/feed/ 0 Sharam feat. Kid Cudi – She Came Along Video http://musicleech.com/2009/10/26/sharam-feat-kid-cudi-she-came-along-video/ http://musicleech.com/2009/10/26/sharam-feat-kid-cudi-she-came-along-video/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:46:58 +0000 Rad Parker http://musicleech.com/?p=2566 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 148_newsWe didn't get to write about this song when it first came out, but now it has a new music video that you can check out:

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]]> http://musicleech.com/2009/10/26/sharam-feat-kid-cudi-she-came-along-video/feed/ 0 Kid Cudi and Ratatat Perform “Pursuit of Happiness” on Letterman http://musicleech.com/2009/09/12/kid-cudi-and-ratatat-perform-pursuit-of-happiness-on-letterman/ http://musicleech.com/2009/09/12/kid-cudi-and-ratatat-perform-pursuit-of-happiness-on-letterman/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:44:13 +0000 Rad Parker http://musicleech.com/?p=2306 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> manonthemoontheendofdayHere is the video of Kid Cudi's performance from Friday night on the Late Show with David Letterman. Cudi makes a bold statement by choosing his 3rd single, titled "Pursuit Of Happiness", so close to the September 15th release date. Cudi's first lines from the song : "Crush A Bit; Little Bit; Roll It Up; Take A Hit Feelin’ Lit". Seems like he would promote either "Day N Night" or "Make Her Say" to appeal to the more mainstream crowd watching late night television. Regardless, we get to see Kid and Ratatat performing this song live for the first time and they do pretty well. I wish MGMT would have shown for the background vocals that are on the actual album track. Be sure to grab a couple of tracks from the album below the video, or if you are bold, the album did leak a few days ago.

And thanks to Kickin' the Peanuts! for some free downloads:

Pusuit of Happiness (Feat. MGMT And Ratatat)- Kid Cudi

Up, Up, And Away (The Wake And Bake Song)- Kid Cudi


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]]> http://musicleech.com/2009/09/12/kid-cudi-and-ratatat-perform-pursuit-of-happiness-on-letterman/feed/ 4 Music Video: Kid Cudi – Make Her Say ft. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak http://musicleech.com/2009/07/20/music-video-kid-cudi-make-her-say-ft-kanye-west-common-a-trak/ http://musicleech.com/2009/07/20/music-video-kid-cudi-make-her-say-ft-kanye-west-common-a-trak/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:19:07 +0000 Rad Parker http://musicleech.com/?p=2068 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Here is the music video and download for Kid Cudi's "Make Her Say" from his upcoming debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day. Interestingly enough, Cudi revealed at Wireless 2009 he was working with MGMT on the album on a Ratatat beat. The album is set to drop August 25th.

Download: Kid Cudi - Make Her Say ft. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak

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