New Music Discovery Kit

This is my new favorite song of the moment.
I love her voice… soothing to the soul.

Metric - Gold Gun Girls (acoustic)

chrisainsworth:

RT @cshirky You can take…a creative process and turn it into a manufacturing process. Great piece on Demand Media http://bit.ly/1SuFJQ #fb

copycats:

I’m A Realist remixed by The Postal Service
originally by The Cribs
(via indierawk)

Every once in a while I hear a song at Starbucks or on the radio, and I have to actually ask the barista the name of it, or wait for the radio announcer to say who was playing (if ever).
This happened to me today with Jaymay’s Gray or Blue.

It moved me so much I asked the barista for a pen & went and pounded out some lyrics of my own.
Jaymay - Gray or Blue
PLEASE support all artists posted here on NMDK. If you like their shit, go out and fuckin buy it you cheapskate. :)

copycats:

Forever Young - Eddie Vedder
originally by Bob Dylan
(posted by sometimesagreatnotion)

The Sixty One removed this feature a while ago, but one enterprising mashup artist, The Upstairs Room, compiled a list anyway.

The Sixty One’s Leaderboard, september 2009

1.RAC
2.Meiko
3.Bearbot
4.William Fitzsimmons
5.Band of Horses
6.Priscilla Ahn
7.Ingrid Michaelson
8.Hot bitch arsenal
9.I Fight Dragons
10.Mr. Westmore
11.Ronald Jenkees
12.Kate Earl
13.Danger
14.FLOBOTS
15.Obadiah Parker
16.Chris Merritt
17.Ugress
18.The Upstairs Room
19.Melee Beats
20.lady danville

I alternate back and forth between preferring this version & The Knife’s original.

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (The Knife cover)

copycats:

Forever Young - Eddie Vedder
originally by Bob Dylan
(posted by sometimesagreatnotion)

To me, this is the song that launched Kid Cudi. While “Day ‘N Night” gets old after a few listens, The Prayer lives on in its timelessness.

This is the Cudi that I grew to know and love. The one I would be glad to have a beer with after a show. (last thing you will hear won’t be about some apple-bottom jeans and some furs, yet we hear him rap about only if you bring a friend on some of his other tracks)
I’m not hatin’ on the dude. Of course your style, message & rhymes will change over time. My message to Cudi: if you desert us, and go the way of The Kanye, honestly… I don’t want to hear about you poppin’ bottles of cristal with blonde models. Your struggles, from the heart, is what attracted me to your music in the first place.
Kid Cudi - The Prayer

Jay-Z and Alicia Keys drop the hit single off The Blueprint 3, Jay’s latest album.

Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind