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Some of you may remember Lykke Li's single Little Bit from the clubs in '07, but the Swede came back with a full album on May 6, Youth Novels, and this ditty, I'm Good, I'm Gone, which was featured on Grey's Anatomy. So what's she so mad about?
G'morning, Juicers. And what a fine morning it is, considering we've got two of the year's hottest shows on tap for the Ford Amphitheatre within the next 36 hours. Tonight it's Kanye West with Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco. Tomorrow it's Radiohead. So let's hear it: If you could only go to one of these shows, which would it be: Radiohead, or Kanye? Leave your answer in the comments. And if you're going to both shows, well, not only does The Juice* envy your disposable income, but we want to hear your mini-review. Come back after the show and tell us what you thought. And who knows--Kanye might actually see your comments, because he pretty much reads everything about him.
(Photos: Kanye, Getty Images; Thom, AP)
We haven't heard from Moby in awhile, but here's I Love to Move in Here from the album Last Night.
We're busy not really working so far today, so here's a little tune to play in the background while you're busy, too.
Remember Amy Winehouse's fab night out, during which she was doing drugs and headbutting people? It earned her a ticket to Bobbyville on Friday, as the 24-year-old was arrested at a London police station on suspicion of assault.
The Daily Mail says Wino was due to be questioned about allegedly headbutting a 38-year-old man who approached ehr as she was trying to get in a taxi early last Wednesday. Folks in her camp say she was felt he was trying to molest her, because she oozes all sorts of class. She faces up to six months in jail and a $4,000 fine.
Speaking of jail, her no-good hubby Blake Fielder-Civil appeared in court on charges of assault and "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice" to pub landlord James King. Something tells us Blake knows all about perversion, but he denied both allegation.
And since Amy wasn't at the hearing, he was free to flirt with Sophie Schandorff, a blonde sitting in the gallery who described herself as a close friend. How close? He mouthed "You all right, babe?" and "I love you" to the 21-year-old, who mouthed "I love you" back.
Maybe that's why Wino was caught doing drugs in a restaurant bathroom the night before. Seriously, her addictions are bad enough, but when a guy like Blake thinks you're not worth the trouble, that's a reason to be depressed.
[Photo: Getty Images]
It's almost tax day, so let's get all melancholy and angry with Machine Gun from Portishead. After the way Uncle Sam treated The Juice* this year, we're glad Beth Gibbons and the gang are back for Third.
I'm back from a long weekend, ready to let 'er rip on all things celebrity, so let's kick off the day with a little Janglish courtesy of Teriyaki Boyz's Zock On! Look out for Pharrell and Busta Rhymes. But seriously, they couldn't think of a better name?
You know, we were actually kind of into Bjork back during her Sugarcubes days, and held on through Post and even Medulla, but then she got really strange.
Of course, now her new album is out and we've already featured her new video for Declare Independence, but this one for Wanderlust is so far out we might have to buy the thing. It's so wackadoo that it earns another Music Monday video appearance.
It's shot in 3-D, and apparently the single will come with 3-D glasses. That may be too much to handle.
(This replaces today's Daily Time Waster, too, so enjoy it.)
It's not Halloween by a long shot, but Bat For Lashes' What's a Girl To Do rocks the Donnie Darko vibe so well in this single-take video that it's perfect for a Monday morning.
The Juice* has never been to Portland, Ore., but this band's Keep Your Eyes Ahead makes it look pretty cool for a city that obviously has no people living in it.
Geeks out there know Yael Naim's New Soul, her single from late last year, as the soundtrack to Apple's Mac Book Air commercial. We know it as a good way to start the week.
As absurd as the title may sound, prepare to hear more from Teyana Taylor. She's already worked with Beyonce, Pharrell and Jay-Z. Just google her.
Spring Training, a sunny day and Monday simply do not mix, so we look ahead to being outdoors with Koop's jazzy old chestnut, Summer Sun. BTW, this features Yukimi Nagano, to whom we first introduced you with her subsequent project Little Dragon.
We were recovering from Oscar dementia yesterday, so we couldn't offer you a Music Monday selection, but today we try to keep you in the fight with The One AM Radio's 2007 cut In the Time We've Got. Keep on punching ...
This morning we're taking you on a trip to south central -- south-central Asia, that is. If you haven't been to a club in the last two years or so, then you may not have heard a lot of bhangra beats. If that's the case, let's start you off with Punjabi MC, who keeps it real with last year's Jogi. This video has it all: bare midriffs, sword-fighting, a sitar player and a cheetah. Expect more bhangra from The Juice* on a future Monday.
Well, she enunciated well enough, she won an award or five, and managed to look like she actually wanted to be there, so rehab must be doing Amy Winehouse some good.
Our Super Bowl hangover is just as bad as yours today, so let's celebrate the New York Football Giants defeating the evil empire with another comeback kid, Kylie Minogue. She's back in the game after a battle with breast cancer with her new single, In My Arms.
We didn't get to post a Music Monday selection yesterday, but here's the latest from Feist, I Feel It All. More videos should be one-takes. Imagine the hilarity that would ensue!
We're running a little llight (and a little late) on MLK day, but here's somethng that you'll either love or hate: the Michael Gondry-directed video for Bjork's Declare Independence.
As always, we're looking to start your week in a chill fashion, so kick back and enjoy this oldie (circa 2002), The Richest Man in Babylon, from D.C. DJs Thievery Corporation. Although we have to admit, the imagery isn't the most relaxing; maybe you should just listen.
The Juice* loves good beats and animated videos, and Free the Robots have provided both with Jazzhole. Stuart O'Keefe follows a young cuckoo bird as he learns to dance from a zombie go-go dancer, a breakdancer and a robot. At least he's trying!
It is major-league slow today, what with half the planet taking the day off for New Year's Eve, but we're still here giving all 12 of our readers what they need to know. We're going to close out the year with a little ditty from one of our faves, Prefuse 73, with his collaboration with School of Seven Bells on his album Preparations. Please to enjoy The Class of 73 Bells.
We said last week this was our favorite Christmas song, and it's high time we put the blog to bed for the day, so here's Run DMC's Christmas in Hollis. Happy Holidays!
Back in 1994, before she was such a hoochie mama, Mariah Carey did songs like this (this is the 1964-style version, not the crushed-velvet mini version) ...
We'll do a couple of these today, in case you're actually at work ...
Besides Run DMC's Christmas in Hollis, this has got to be The Juice*'s fave holiday song. Well, that and anything off Christmas on Death Row, which features a quasi remake by Snoop Doggy Dogg and tha Dogg Pound. Maybe we should run Christmas carols all week ...
If you’re an aging stoner who drives a conversion van airbrushed with a mural of a wizard battling a Viking, you were probably stoked for Monday night, when Led Zeppelin finally reunited at London’s O2 Arena for their first public concert in 19 years. A breathless NME.com liveblogged the entire set, from 
opener Good Times Bad Times to Ramble On (“Done in extremely slow, bluesy manner, with shards of electric guitar from Jimmy Page”) to Black Dog (“Quite muddy sound ... crowd singing the 'ah-ah’ bits back at (Robert) Plant”). “The crowd is going wild inside the O2,” NME’s Alan Woodhouse wrote after Zep played Nobody’s Fault But Mine. “People are hugging strangers, some are crying, some are punching the air with joy. This must be the rock 'n’ roll equivalent of winning the World Cup.” Celebrities in attendance included: Paul McCartney, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Pink, Marilyn Manson, Liam Gallagher and Dave Grohl. And to answer your question: Of course they played Stairway to Heaven. “From the moment those opening notes rang out the whole audience went absolutely crazy,” NME wrote. “The atmosphere is electric.”
Here's the complete setlist, courtesy of NME.com:
Good Times Bad Times
Ramble On
Black Dog
In My Time of Dying
For Your Life
Trampled Under Foot
Nobody's Fault But Mine
No Quarter
Since I've Been Loving You
Dazed and Confused
Stairway To Heaven
The Song Remains The Same
Misty Mountain Hop
Kashmir
Whole Lotta Love
Rock And Roll
(Photos: Ticket, Getty Images; Page/Plant, AP [2003]; album art, Amazon.com.)
The latest proud graduate of the Lynne Spears-Dina Lohan School of Parenting, it seems, is Janis Winehouse. Reuters reports that Amy's mom penned a letter to a British tabloid over the weekend begging the famously drug- and booze-addled, Grammy-nominated songstress to return to this happy little place we call reality. (Because, you know, a tabloid is the best place for a mother-daughter connection.) "We want to help you, but we know that unless you want to be helped -- unless you come to us -- anything we tried would be in vain," Janis wrote in the News of the World. "I pile hope upon hope that your strong will can bend for just a moment to make that decision and come home to me." Janis referenced recent pictures of a distraught Wino wandering the streets of London in only a bra and jeans. "All I wanted to do was rush into those pictures and wrap you up in a big, warm blanket," she wrote. "Early fame has overwhelmed you, it's dizzied you and muddled your mind. For a moment, forget you're a superstar. You're also young and vulnerable, no stronger than any of the rest of us. You think you're strong enough to get through this on your own, darling, but you're not."
(Photo: Getty Images)
People are saying this just may be the most awesomest video ever made by anyone, at any point in the history of music video. You know, in the past 30 years or so. We'd still vote for A-ha's Take On Me, but Snoop Dogg's Sensual Seduction is pretty close.
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we go back a few years to Morcheeba's album Charango, in which Slick Rick did a guest spot called Women Lose Weight, about a man planning to dispose of his portly wife. Enjoy.
Thanksgiving makes The Juice* nostalgic for simpler times, when the media convinced us families liked each other and carbohydrates were considered good for you. In that vein, let's go old-school with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings in 100 Days, 100 Nights. What's cool about this video is that it's actually brand-new (and features a darn good song), but was shot with a couple vintage TV cameras the director, Adam Elias Buncher, bought for $50 on eBay.
The Juice* has a penchant for underground DJ/hip-hop/electronica (which is obvious if you've been joining us every Monday), so broaden your mind with last summer's Beautiful Mindz from 2tall, featuring Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow.
It's almost Halloween, so let's kick off the week with this video, which shows men in rubber suits aren't just for Octobers and Godzilla movies.
Every now and again we need to remember our hip-hop, so we're giving you a look at an old Madvillain (a.k.a. MF Doom) joint called ALL CAPS. For those of you who don't listen to underground styles much, you'll remember Doom from his November Has Come from the Gorillaz disc Demon Days. You'd do yourself a favor to find his stuff.
Perez Hilton calls Aussies Operator Please "the future of music," but we can't help but think the reason we like them is they sound like all the bands we grew up with in the '80s. Take the Pixies, a smidge of the Riot Grrls and a dash of Duran Duran (or maybe Oingo Boingo) and voila! Instant "new sound." Either way, they are pretty bad-ass. Here's Get What You Want:
We're sorry, Kelly Clarkson fans, but this new video (for the aptly named Don't Waste Your Time) is just terrible. Perez Hilton is right, it looks like an old Evanescence video -- except that an Evanescence video is entertaining, at least.
Even though K is lookin' all right here, we don't understand why she's shunning a lumberjack model in his pajamas by hiding in a bramble orb reminiscent of the Widow of the Web in Krull. Oh yeah, we just geeked out big time with that comment.
Please be so kind as to explain why Kelly is allowed to keep making mistakes like this in the comments.
I'm glad to be back from points west, and I see that Britney Spears has kept things interesting. Let's start the day with some of those laid-back tunes you didn't get to have yesterday. Here's TM Juke's Skin:
Our sad, pasty, technophobic, social-anxiety-suffering butts were knocked to the floor over the weekend by the news that Radiohead has finished a new album ... and they plan to release it online, at no set 
cost, in less than two weeks. Here's how it'll work: The 10 tracks of the band's seventh album, "In Rainbows," will be available for download at www.inrainbows.com starting Oct. 10, and you can pay what you want for them. Seriously. Ten cents, $1,000 ... whatever you want. If that's not enough, the band is prepping a massive "discbox," containing "In Rainbows" and a bonus eight-song CD, two vinyl LPs, artwork, photographs and more, for release on Dec. 3. That massive set will cost around $80, but you know hardcore fans will pay it. The band has been without a record label since 2005, and has been toying with how to best release new material. Now it seems everything is in its right place for an album.
Let's go back to a 2001 performamce at the Detroit Institute of the Arts to listen to the White Stripes sing Loretta Lynn's Rated X. Appropriate, no?
We're going to coast into the afternoon with Monsieur Leroc's Cooley McCoolson, because after the drudgery of the Emmys, we need some laid-back beats.
The Juice* is a little groggy from staying up past our bedtime watching the VMAs (and blogging about the Britney Spears disaster live for you) Sunday night, but it's all good.
We're going to share our new musical crush with you: Yukimi Nagano, formerly of a half-dozen jazzy experimental bands, but now running a new project called Little Dragon.
This little shadow theater, while a bit melancholy, is perfect for a rainy Monday. The video is entertaining and Nagano can actually sing, and that's two things we didn't see on MTV.
More Britney Spears tracks have leaked, so we've compiled them here for you. Play them in your cubicle and annoy your neighbors. Although, if she quits eating In-N-Out Burger all the time and sucking down more cigarettes than a poker club, she could actually pull it off -- proof that all you need is a good group of producers to make a Top 40 hit these days.
And for the record, it's not that we like Brit's music, it's just that The Juice* has mortgage payments hinging on her longevity, so we'd like to see her back on the charts before the inevitable meltdown/OD/Betty Ford visit.
Here's Your Heaven:
And then You Got Me High:
And finally, Been Awhile:
Who doesn't love animated videos? Especially this yarn called To the Peasants of the Emperor by AM Syndicate. Get it? Yarn? Hah!
This recent video reminds us of what would happen if Bollywood, Japanese anime, an L.A nightclub and a karaoke machine were put in an atomic supercollider and vomited onto MTV (we prefer the old Galang styles she rocked). But hey, the kids like it, so here you go.
So it's not a music video (that's coming later), but it is the commercial for Gwen Stefani's new fragrance, L. These celebrity scents are supposed to reflect the endorser, so we'd like to think L smells like success and sophistication, with a hint of adolescent angst, club sweat and ganja smoke. Oh, and with Kingston around, don't forget the baby powder.
The Juice* is back online today, so let's fire up the wayback machine to the first Daft Punk song we ever heard (and first Daft Punk video we ever saw -- does that date us too much?) in tribute to their current tour. This can be your substitute since there's no Tampa Bay stop.
Why bring this oldie YouTube staple back? Because John Mayer mixed it up Nelly Furtado-style on Best Week Ever, and it reminded us of this blast from the (recent) past.
In fact, here's Mayer biting off Say It Right right here ...
Okay, this Sia video for Buttons is making the rounds, first on Perez yesterday and now on BWE today, so we thought we'd share this madness with the rest of you. It's no Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel, but unlike most videos it's at least interesting enough to make us watch the whole thing. Looks like Pee-Wee Herman was on to something.
 Make this your daily (heck, hourly) stop for a fresh serving of pop smarts and cool things from around Tampa Bay and the nation. Compiled by tbt* jack-of-all-trades Joshua Gillin and his merry band of rogue journalists, it pokes fun at ridiculous celebrity worship, compiles entertainment tidbits and features fun links to amuse and amaze you and your friends.E-mail Joshua Gillin: jgillin@tampabay.com |
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