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The best new tracks to kick-start your week

emily on October 28, 2010

Babelgum Music attempts to coax you out of that mid-week stupor with some of the best new tracks around, available now to stream and/or download…

Enjoy!


Karen O – ‘If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough’

Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O adopts a Southern drawl for the title track from the forthcoming Jackass 3D movie. How a bunch of nay-be-good thirty-somethings, tirelessly doing frightening things with their testicles and butting their heads into walls, managed to entice the effortlessly cool Karen O into a studio, is beyond us. But we’re glad they did. Karen O manages to turn the title track, penned by Roger Alan Wade – the cousin of Jackass impressario Johnny Knoxville – into something fraught with do-or-die sentiment and naked emotion. Awesome.

Karen O. (of Yeah Yeah Yeahs) – “If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough” by Some Kind of Awesome


Phoenix – ‘Love Like A Sunset – Pt.3′

Just last week, French party-starters Phoenix caused waves with their mind-blowing headlining show at the legendary Madison Square Gardens, as part of the CMJ new music festival. In celebration, the suave rockers have released the three-part epic ‘Love Like A Sunset’ – the third part, a Zdar and Tong remix at over eight minutes long – can be heard below.

Phoenix - "Love Like A Sunset Part III" by Some Kind of Awesome


Sage Francis – ‘Three Sheets To The Wind’

Rhode Island slam poet and seasoned battle-rapper Sage Francis hooked up with Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla (music) and hip hop artist/producer Dan Le Sac (remixer) on this latest tune. ‘Three Sheets To The Wind’ is a slick and stomping underground club hit in the making…

Sage Francis - Three Sheets To The Wind (Dan Le Sac remix) by PCPCP

The Naked & Famous – ‘Young Blood’ (Chiddy Bang remix)

Chiddy Bang churn out yet another would-be-chart-topper with their intoxicating remix of ‘Young Blood’ by New Zealand rockers Naked & Famous. If you love it as much as we do then you’ll be thrilled that the kind people at http://neongoldrecords.blogspot.com have made it available to download, for nothing, in their blog…

The Naked & Famous – ‘Young Blood’ (Chiddy Bang remix) by nmemagazine


Rye Rye ‘Sunshine’ featuring M.IA

Rye Rye, otherwise known as 19 year old Ryeisha Berrain, is a Baltimore-born rapper and dancer, signed to M.I.A’s label N.E.E.T. The spunky, catchy ‘Sunshine’ is the first track to be lifted from her slick forthcoming debut album ‘Go! Pop! Bang!’ and features chants from Hip Hop pundit M.I.A. Warning – it features one of those catchy rifts that in all likelihood will be doing the rounds in your head until Christmas…

Rye Rye - "Sunshine" f/ M.I.A. by Pretty Much Amazing

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Survival 101: Life After The Island

jonah on October 20, 2010

The thing about restraining orders, probation, and court-ordered therapy is that they don’t get to the root of the problem, which is that I was supposed to win. That sand crab competition was totally rigged, burying those fish heads was Leticia’s idea, and if you don’t want people eating out of the food chest at night, maybe you should hang it up a tree. That’s the thing about surviving in the jungle. You have to be prepared for anything. You have to be willing to go the extra mile. Even if that means breaking out of your sequestered hotel room and getting yourself back in the game. This party isn’t over just because I was sitting in a Days Inn off the freeway while my fellow contestants, the traitorous lot, were still fighting over plastic dolls in the sand. Just because I’ve got a meeting with my parole officer and they’re going to Tribal Throwdown without me. My cameras are still on, they’re still rolling, and I’ve got viewers at home who can’t wait to see who wins.

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Reality television star, Donna Wickland, can be seen in the new Babelgum Comedy series, DONNA’S REVENGE.

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The Meat’s in the Mail

jonah on October 13, 2010

Donna & the Birthday Girl copy
Here’s the thing about sending raw meat in the mail. It’s unexpected, it’s memorable, it’s a potential food source in a shortage, and apparently, it’s illegal. All those temp agencies tell you to look professional, be on time, have a positive attitude, all of which I have! What they DON’T tell you is: Don’t use soap to write your phone number on their car, don’t show up at corporate headquarters dressed as a birthday clown, and don’t send raw meat in the mail, because you’ll never get those stamps back. Luckily I didn’t need those jobs because American Conqueror is looking for new contestants! I just saw an audition notice in the gas station bathroom and I absolutely KNOW I am perfect for it! I totally have all of the things they’re looking for, and while I wouldn’t say I’m an Olympic-level gymnast, I definitely can do a forward and backward roll, and what more could they need than that?

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Reality television star, Donna Wickland, can be seen in the new Babelgum Comedy series, DONNA’S REVENGE.

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Tuesdays With Wanglang

jonah on October 6, 2010

One day of therapy down!  Oh I love it I love it so.  My therapist, Dr. Wanglang, he says he’s named after a Panda Habitat in China, and who am I to argue?  He says there are over thirty wild pandas living in Wanglang, and all I can think about is all of them squished into one man’s body.   Desperately trying to get out and see the world.  But Dr. Wanglang is VERY handsome, if a little uptight, and I hope hope hope he’s the kind that sleeps with his patients!  We shall see.

He made me pick three goals for the new year even though it’s not January, and it felt like a lot of goals but I am always up for a challenge, so I picked LOVE, a JOB, and then he kind of made me pick SPIRITUALITY even though I would have picked BUYING A HORSE or WINNING THE LOTTERY or something a little more exciting.  And so I’ve got six months to get all those things AND sleep with my therapist!  Ahhh!  I’m exhausted already!  Well, here goes…

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Reality television star, Donna Wickland, can be seen in the new Babelgum Comedy series, DONNA’S REVENGE.

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