Breakfast at Sulimays

I spent two hours yesterday watching this stuff. It is compelling video. Three old people sitting at breakfast watching modern indie, hip-hop and dance videos and giving there analysis. There is like 36 episodes each varying from around 4 to 9 minutes long, I watch around half yesterday. My favorite is the really old dude that sits on the right side with the glasses, he gives good critical analysis in comparison to the WWII era music. NPR and G4 (he calls T.I.=tie, great humor) have both been all over these guys already. There are two of my favorite. In the first, they review MGMT - Kids video, and they get scared of it. The second contains Young Jeezy and the much beloved Animal Collective. I'm happy that finally somebody is putting Animal Collective in their place. "As repetitious as Rocket Man." "They will never get out of Baltimore," if only that was true. (Bonus : Young Jeezy drops a Talapia line as the old dude says the last 200 years of work by the black race is ruined by Young Jeezy) TTFN!!!

Man on the Moon

I can already hear what you're saying, another over-hyped hipster rapper.  Well, you are pretty much right, Kid Cudi's new album "Man on the Moon : The End of Day" is pretty much a recycling of everything he did really well on his mixtape "A Kid Named Cudi."   This is not to say that I don't like this album, his slow yet forceful rapping style is different than what you hear everyday.  Common narrates through the different "acts" of the album, each with a different theme.  Where Cudi really takes off is the end of the album, acts 4 & 5.  He keeps it interesting in these last acts with collaborations with Ratatat and MGMT providing big beats and hooks for singles.  His label GOOD, run by Kanye, even insisted on putting the over two year old hit single Day N Night.  With that being said my two favorite tracks are "Up, Up and Away," his second stoner anthem, and "Alive"

Music Blogs

Starting December 1st, music blogs will now have to disclose if their are being run on payola schemes similar to what we see on the radio, specifically z100 in new york, or get fined up to $11,000.  I am trying to figure out which large music blogs this could influence, and the only two I came up with is stereogum and pitchfork. Here is some of the exact wording, "the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement."  Now, I don't think this means much to the music blogs because they are still going to love to post about the most obscure act they can find, so they can go around saying they found them first.  But then again, we may not ever see the blog buzz surround a band, such as MGMT or Vampire Weekend, again.