Listen To This: The Nosebleed Section

Today, we have a hip hop song from Australian group Hilltop Hoods. Even though it's from 2003, the bangin' beat and a unique sound ensure that this song is sure to be blastin' in my car this whole summer.  Bolens showed me this one (two mentions in a week, well done). Also, I'm trying out a new preview system, so give this tune a listen right under the picture before you download.

Hilltop Hoods- The Nosebleed Section

Hype: Write The Future

You guys may be sick of World Cup ads by now, but I definitely am not. This awesome, epic, and clever Nike ad is probably one of the best ones ever.  Enjoy.

Listen To This: Starry Eyed (Jakwob remix)

This track is pretty different from a lot of the other stuff I've posted, so bear with me. I think this may be the first song on the blog solely featuring a female vocalist as well as the first dubstep song I myself have posted (shout to Bolens from Noizegasm for playing some dubstep at a party and really getting me interested in it).  It's almost a year old, but I think it was better to have found and posted this song now than to never have heard or shared it.  This song is ridiculously hypnotic, and manages to somehow get itself stuck in your head after the first few seconds before blowing your mind with some dirty dubstep around the one minute mark (I don't mean to ruin the song for you, but a YouTube commenter described this part best with the phrase "sounds like optimus prime masturbating").  Enjoy.

Ellie Goulding- Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)

BONUS: How I found this song.  The part where the dubstep kicks in is ridiculous.

Something I Like: Sleep Cycle (repost)

Here's a repost of my post about Sleep Cycle for anyone who saw the TV story and is interested in learning more.

Sleep Cycle is possibly my new favorite iPod app.  This innovative app works like this: before you go to bed, you place the iPod on the corner of the mattress under the sheets.  As you sleep, the iPod's accelerometer monitors the movement on the bed, and uses that to calculate which stage of the sleep cycle you are in (for those that aren't aware of what sleep cycles are, basically you alternate between being really asleep and just kind of asleep).  You set the alarm for a certain time, and if you end a sleep cycle anytime after half an hour before that time, it wakes you up.  Sounds like a load of bull right?  But mark my words, this thing works perfectly (unless you set the alarm for 6:30 PM instead of 6:30 AM like I did).  I wake up every morning feel extremely refreshed, even if I didn't get as much sleep as usual. It's freakin' awesome.  Get it (it's only 99 cents). Also, the App Store says the app only works on iPhones, but it works fine on my Touch.  Also, there's some new music out today and some from yesterday, but I'm not gonna post it because I want all of you to go to the post below this one and listen to Chiddy Bang.

How it works

Lifehacker write-up

Listen To This: We'll Be Alright

Travie McCoy follows up his song Billionaire with another harmless pop song. There's not much substance here (seriously, you can even tell that by the artwork), but hey, it's almost summer.  You might as well enjoy this one before it gets overplayed on Top 40 radio.  I also posted a link for another Bruno Mars song which I think many of my female readers will like (you can pick up his EP on iTunes).

Travie McCoy- We'll Be Alright

Bruno Mars- Count On Me [DIRECT DOWNLOAD]

Something I Like: Journey of Football

It looks like we're in the midst of a short music drought here, so here's another World Cup commercial, this time for African teams. I also included a link to download the song from the commercial.



Gnarls Barkley- Going On

Something I Like: Explosions In The Sky

This was a really slow weekend for music, which worked out well because this weekend was ridiculously busy for me.  A highlight of the last few days was attending Relay For Life, an incredibly powerful and moving experience.  After hearing stories from individuals profoundly affected by cancer, we all walked around the track in silence, for that moment unified in our sympathy and resolve.  Explosions In The Sky, a post-rock (rock instrumental) band from Texas, provided the aural backdrop for this singular moment.  Though the band has no singer, they still convey plenty of emotion through their cinematic mixtures of guitars, strings, and drums.  Each song, referred to by the band as a "cathartic mini-symphony", tells its own story.  You've probably already heard songs by them, as they were and are heavily featured in Friday Night Lights (both the movie and the incredible, incredible show).  You have to be in a specific mood for this stuff, but when you're in the right mood (I like to listen right before I go to bed),  the music is incredible.  Here is their most well known track, as well as a commercial utilizing another one of their songs to great effect (if you don't get chills, there's something wrong with you).