Joe Budden – Touch & Go and David Banner – When You Hear What I Got to Say
(from 2dopeboyz and Cocaine Blunts)
Club rap bad. Art rap good, say the heads at Cocaine Blunts. We say why not a bit of both? And 2dopeboyz are happy to oblige.
Those Dancing Days – Home Sweet Home
(from It's a Trap)
Remember when a girl band was a grrrl band and every song started with a yelped "ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!"? Those Dancing Days do, and they do it in Swedish.
Eulogies – Two Can Play
(from mp3 Hugger)
A boy/girl duet i.e. a lovelorn tale of miscommunication and promises broken. Featuring Nikki Monninger of fellow LA natives Silversun Pickups.
Tiedye – Ge och (mixtape)
(from Fluokids)
Nice to see the Fluokids blog - which usually hosts the sort of bleepy electro only good for fixing your fringe to - hosting something with a bit of heart for once. This is an expert mix of Afro-funk and 80s balladry from Swedish DJ Tiedye.
CALLmeKAT - Bug in a Web
(from I Guess I'm Floating)
Katrina Ottosen's music is spooky like CocoRosie and skittish like Joanna Newsom. It also has the sense of direction to take her further into the mainstream than either of them.
Special "bonus" track:
Paris Hilton – My BFF
(from Chart Rigger)
It's Paris! It's the theme tune of her new TV show! It's atrocious! Surprised?
