Left To Right: 50 Cent, Timbaland, Lil’ Wayne, Travis Barker, Sleigh Bells
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
The weekend isn’t here just yet, but the last thing you need to be doing on your days of freedom is searching for new music. Now is the time to start loading up iPods, making playlists, burning CDs (really?) or whatever else you do with your new songs. As usual, we have everything to guarantee that you have the freshest joints (not those kind) out there. MP3 streams and download links wait after the jump. Keep reading to get started…
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Left To Right: Jim Jones, Timbaland, Lupe Fiasco, Juvenile, Freddie Gibbs
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
We usually pride ourselves on keeping the Shuffle playlists diverse, but today’s is all-rap everything. Jim Jones lets his love for black-on-black vehicles be known. Timbaland drops his first single. Lupe Fiasco rocks out for the kids. Juvenile plots a comeback with some help from Gucci Mane. Long story short: there’s a lot of worthwhile stuff to check out before you hit the streets for the weekend. MP3 streams and download links wait after the jump…
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Left To Right: Shakira, Wiz Khalifa, LCD Soundsystem, Wild Nothing, Sean Kingston
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
The blogs were kind of quiet again today, but we still managed to scrape together five download-worthy songs for the playlist. Shakira linked up with Wayne and Timbo, Wiz Khalifa finally dropped a real single, and some unknown kid from Virginia dropped one of the hottest indie rocks tracks of the year. That’s not all of it either. Keep reading for the MP3 streams and download links…
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The Head Porter Tanker Standard Rucksack, to satisfy your daily Japanese product fetish. Ohhhhh Hirooshi. [Selectism]
Pharrell packs a punch with this Brooklyn Machine Works x Billionare Boys Club Gangsta Frame Set that glows in the dark. [Freshness Mag]
(i)Fukkin helps you burn calories. Lose that beer belly with this new iPhone App, Japanese girls in cheerleader uniforms included. [Gizmodo]
Rockstar Games and super producer Timbaland team up to tap into the burgeoning market of wack young beatmakers with Beaterator for PSP. [Daily Drop]
Two questions about this Marc Jacobs x Lady Gaga comic book. Is it anatomically correct, and will it finally settle the debate over whether the pop star is packing? [Fashionista]
Like a lot of musicians, Supersystem's Rafael Cohen had a “eureka!” moment when he first heard Aaliyah's “Are You That Somebody.” “Everyone my age remembers where they were when they heard that song on the radio,” says Cohen of Timbaland's startling, game-changing 1998 track. “You'd wish the DJ would play it over and over.” At the time, guitarist/singer Cohen, Pete Cafarella, and Justin Destroyer (a candidate for “coolest indie rock name of the month”) comprised the abrasively experimental Washington D.C. band El Guapo. But adventurous singles from Tim, the Neptunes, and OutKast made the band “sick of doing pretentious shit,” claims Cohen. “We realized that we wanted to make songs with verses and choruses and hooks.”
With the addition of drummer Josh Blair, El Guapo morphed into Supersystem, a groove machine whose second album, A Million Microphones (Touch and Go), is an assured combination of Timbaland-style electronics, stealth melodies, and the staccato guitar picking of Cohen, a fan of West African bands like Guinea's Bembeya Jazz National. The album stands head to toe with any recent dance-punk record, but, as Brooklyn resident Cohen notes, “that's a community that no one wants to be a part of anymore. We're a straightforward pop/rock band, and proud of it.”
Rob Kemp
Photo by Cody Smyth
For more of our Fall Music Preview, pick up the August/September 2006 issue on newsstands now.
A Million Microphonesis in stores today on Touch & Go Records.
