The Strokes and Santogold Unite

Oh, and did I forget to mention Pharrell’s name in the headline?

NME has it:

Santogold has teamed up with The Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas for a song about Converse trainers.

Pharrell Williams also features on the track, reports the Guardian.

Speaking about the song Santogold said: “Everybody on it does their own separate thing and we didn’t do it together so it ends up being just this weird long song with sort of everybody with lots of their own personalities separate.”

Buy The Strokes/MP3: Automatic Stop

Buy Santogold/MP3: L.E.S. Artistes

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Are ya havin’ a laugh?

Because after watching this clip, I am!  Priceless.

As a general rule: As soon as Chris Matthews (correctly) states that you have no idea what you’re talking about, you should end your career in TV punditry.

Transcript:

Matthews: “What did he [Neville Chamberlain] do?”

James: “‘38, ‘39, Chris!”

MP3: The Hives-Walk, Idiot Walk

MP3: Green Day-American Idiot

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Hot Chip Decide to Travel, Play Music

New Hot Chip tour hitting up the North American continent making a lot of people happy.  The list of dates is FAR TOO LONG to put on the front page here, so continue reading to see if they are coming to your town.  Until then, enjoy a few songs:

MP3: Shake a Fist

MP3: Sexual Healing

M@M: The Verve-Bittersweet Symphony

One of the most recognizable tunes of the last decade?

Buy The Verve/MP3: Bittersweet Symphony

MP3: Mashup-The Verve vs. Jay-Z-Bittersweet Dirt Off Your Shoulder

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News Beat, Lifting 9000 times your bodyweight Edition

Ants Invade Houston, Eat Computers

DALLAS — In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.

The hairy, reddish-brown creatures are known as “crazy rasberry ants” _ crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and “rasberry” after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on.

“They’re itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they’re just running everywhere,” said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, who is constantly sweeping them off her patio and scooping them out of her pool by the cupful. “There’s just thousands and thousands of them. If you’ve seen a car racing, that’s how they are. They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy.”

Buy Devendra Banhart/MP3: Insect Eyes

Buy Tapes ‘n’ Tapes/MP3: In Houston

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New Mason Jennings MP3 (Kinda…)

Here is the first 30 seconds or so from the tune mentioned in the previous post (nice find, GC). The song is called “I Love You and Buddha Too,” from prolific Minneapolis singer-songwriter Mason Jennings.  The quality is not very good, but you can (and mos def should) stream on his MySpace site.

Jennings is one of the many people who have helped to put MN on the map, musically-speaking. He deserves your musical respect and your money.  Buy the upcoming In the Ever NOW!  PREORDER IT! THAT MEANS NOW!

MP3: I Love You and Buddha Too (only the first 30 seconds, and not very good sound quality)

MP3: Sorry Signs on Cash Machines (full 259 seconds, and great sound quality)

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