Omodaka | Kokoriko Bushi

This fun song featuring a dancing 8-bit skeleton is actually a remix of what is believed to be the oldest Japanese song in the world. The song is called Kokoriko Bushi, meaning tune of a kokoriko—an ancient string instrument. The artist is Japanese electro-pop collective Omodaka of Far East Recordings; the animation is directed by Teppei Maki



Via: BingBong

Envy | A Winter Quest for Fantasy

Dude Getting Haircut | Be My Baby

Yes, yes.

By My Baby Speed Dub @ Yahoo! Video

Interior Crocodile Alligator

May this go on forever. And I usually hate memes like this, but damned if it isn't catchy.

The Presets | This Boy's In Love (LifeLike Remix)

The Presets are total dicks jerks from Australia. I met them once in Chicago and they were really uncool. Seriously. But this song from their new album "Apocalypso" (which I think is actually kinda clever) reminds me a lot of an older Depeche Mode song remixed and I like that.

Florence and the Machine | Kiss With a Fist

Florence and the Machine was aflutter and abuzz and a girl I heard about more than thrice while I was at SXSW this year. And I stupidly forgot the conveniently sized moleskin(ish) notebook I keep on me to write random thoughts down. So I never heard her until recently.

So now you can hear her recently too. Also, do follow that link to rcrdlbl because not only is the song within (Florence covering Beirut's "Postcards from Italy") really good, the blog itself is marinated in good. So much good I can almost overlook the fact that they've made two posts about Conor Oberst in the last month... Almost... No, really is a cool, cool blog.

LISTN | Kiss With a Fist

Passion Pit | Sleepy Head

I know nothing about this band except that this song explodes my face with smiles.



LISTN | Sleepy Head


DWNLD | Sleepy Head

Zach Hill | Dark Arts

Hella (the band) does little for me. Same with The Ladies (the band). I do think Team Sleep (the band) is pretty great though. Zach Hill is the drummer for all these bands (the band). And more. He's got this way of playing drums that simultaneously makes sense and is completely arrhythmic. It's like he's a jazz drummer - you know you should like and understand it, so you say you do but really you don't (which is the point of jazz- to make fun of people. Specifically white people.) He's got one of the most unique percussive styles out there, which is why he's such a hot drumming commodity. He's one of the only drummers I can think of that can come out with a solo album and garner the reaction, "Oh... well, yeah, I guess that makes sense."

Now he's gone rogue! I mean SOLO (the band)! And he's running around in corpse paint and awesome bracers. To fight goblins? To ravish goats? To burn down chruches? I dunno! Let's find out together, shall we? I'm making blood milkshakes while you start to watch this synthy and drummy music video below.

Tokyo Police Club + Aesop Rock + Yak Ballz | The Baskervilles

I don't know if it's how he pulls off those overly-clever lines, the rasp that makes it almost like you can hear the spit hitting the diaphragm of the mic, or that he's the hip-hop equivalent to Dennis Miller, but we here at Bear Like Blog love us some Aesop Rock. Also Tokyo Police Club (I actually did an interview with them at SXSW this year). And then, using space age technology and good ole time voodoo, all these things got smooshed together by Amplive.

I would never have thought I'd hear Aes Rizzle rhyming on top of a Tokyo Police Club, but it works really well. The dirty, achy bassline present in every one of TPC's songs is the perfect sediment for Aesop Rock to build on.

Give this a spin, it's a really good track.

You can download it from Amplive's Myspace profile.