Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi “Rome” Trailer

Here in Athens Danger Mouse is what you would call a success story of sorts. He did drop out of the Journalism school but hey now he is mixing Jay-Z with the Beatles and backing up Cee-Lo Green doing production for The Black Keys, Broken Bells,  Danger Doom and Beck.  This right here is his passion project with Italian composer Daniele Luppi called Rome. The fairly secretive project took five years to create songs inspired by their shared love of of classic Italian film scores from the 1960s. Capitol Records has confirmed a new US release date of May 17, 2011 for this collaborative effort and sent out a visual teaser that you can watch above.  I am a big big fan of that genre of music as well so I am really excited about this project!

Song of the Day Big K.R.I.T "The Vent"

I could pick six or seven songs off this mixtape to be songs of the day and just might end up doing that.  But I have been listening to this one a lot during this rainy weather and it is really good.  I really like everything he has to say lyrically.

It's us against them and it's just you and me
Trying to take heed of what I say in my songs
Forgive me if I ever ever stirred you wrong
Most people stop for signs but I've driven through it
If it don't touch my soul than I can't listen to it
The radio don't play the shit I used to love
Or maybe I am just growing up
I never seen a star on a red rug
If I wanna see stars I just look above
To the heavens


I know you've been down so long
So I'll be stronger for you
I know you've been down so long
Cause I've been down too
Yes I understand what you are going through
Yes I understand cause I am going through it too
I pray that you find your way and all things old become new
I pray that you find your way
For my sake cause I am lost too
Yes I understand what you are going through
Yes I understand cause I am going through it too

Big K.R.I.T "Return of 4eva"

Damn Big K.R.I.T is the truth! One of my homeboys has been telling me to listen to him now for awhile and he was right! He just dropped this free album today.  I really can't believe that he is giving this away for free, but I guess the music industry is working on this word of mouth thing, and a lot of artist wait awhile before they drop an actual LP. If you are a fan of southern hip-hop like Outkast than I suggest you go cop this immediately!

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Song of The Day Tv On The Radio "Will Do"

I have been listening to this song pretty hard on repeat for the last week. It is good to see Tv On The Radio put out some new music I feel like I totally forgot how good of a band they are…I am really liking this videos concept right now as well!

Any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove
Any time will do, my love
Any time will do, what choice of words will take me back to you?
   

Tick Tock: Two weeks in one "Any time will do my love. Any time will do, no choice of words will break me from this groove. Any time will do my love. Any time will do. What choice of words will take me back to you?"