“Get To Know Me” - Mateo

While we’re on the track of simply beautiful music…

I’ll get to know you, Mateo. Also, calling all artists (namely Chris Bryant and Eric Holljes): you could make a great cover of this joint…and the part where the crowd sings along, I can see the folks of Durham singing already. Bull City!

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“Always Like This” - Bombay Bicycle Club

Back to the roots of this blog: post beautiful music. The lead singer’s voice practically quivers-you can almost feel it.

If I follow the light that I deem the brightest

It wont believe that it’s always like this

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“90210” - Wale (prod. Mark Ronson)

Big shout to Ben (aka DJ heavy E) for sending me a bunch of tracks to listen to today. I’ve got a good lineup coming, but throwing this one at yall first. Some really dope Wale…and I’ve been hating on Wale lately. Of course I love the production by Mr. Ronson. Funny take on what Hollywood can do to people. Even funnier is the degree of separation here…Ronson produced the track, is the brother of Sam Ronson, who was the girlfriend of…Lindsay Lohan. This track could easily be about Lohan. …And to top it off, check this picture out:

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“I’m Deaf and You’re Boring” - You, You’re Awesome

I can’t understand the French on this track, but what I can tell you is that this is one funky jam. Totally different but when it breaks out into the major chord progressions (example, right around the 1 minute mark), it might just make you want to break out into dance.

They list themselves on MySpace as experimental/live electronics/rock. I guess I’d categorize it as that, although it’s hard to say what exactly this is! These two guys (Kevin Bayer on the drums, Yusuf Quotah in charge of the rest) are definitely capturing my attention with this one, though!

MUSIC VIDEO: “Fireflies” - Owl City

Okay so not to toot my own horn or anything (…this is clearly me horn-tooting), but I must remind yall that I started featuring Owl City on here in February-now he’s making it big. Just goes to show that you can hear about artists first here on sunset in the rear view. Okay, enough of that.

This music video is crazy. If you ever had a childhood (if not, I’m very sorry and please don’t go all Michael Jackson on us), you should feel a little nostalgic when you see some of these things. The weird thing is, I honestly walked into a store yesterday that looked just like this room. All antique toys and gadgets. So I knew this guy recorded out of his basement, but if this is what his room looks like for real, that’s just nuts.

Another Mike Posner video. Hiphopofficial.com interviews Mike. Pretty happy to see an old friend doing so well, and on top of all that, being so happy.

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Episode 3 of the Mike Posner Web Series: “One Foot Out The Door”

Be sure you download Mike’s newest mixtape, “One Foot Out The Door.” Watch the video and catch Big Sean raising his pinky when he takes a sip of water-haaaa.

FEATURED: “Take Yo Bitch” - Wiz Khalifa off Burn After Rolling

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Wiz Khalifa dropped his mixtape today called Burn After Rolling. Just finished listening to the whole thing through and it’s definitely worth downloading. There’s only a song or two that I can’t say I love, but the rest I really like. There are some recognizable beats (“If I Were A Boy,” “Knock You Down,” “Diva,” to name a few) and all around good rhyming by Wiz. This featured song is probably my favorite off the album. Track listing and mixtape cover below.

01 B.A.R.
02 Getting’ Up
03 Take Yo Bitch
04 The Thrill
05 One Way
06 Miles
07 If I Were A Lame
08 Meet New People
09 Weekend
10 Young Khalifa
11 Knock U Down
12 On Tha Pill
13 When U Find
14 Mafia Music (rmx)
15 Say U Will
16 Timeless
17 Won’t Land
18 Ode to Naked Pop Stars
19 All My Life Freestyle
20 Great to Be There (Outro)

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“Lonelily” - Damien Rice

I’ve been posting a lot of hip hop recently and wanted to switch it up a bit. Here’s a beautiful song by the soft, whispery-voiced Damien Rice.