Miami-based ANR’s record label (also home to Passion Pit and Ellie Goulding) recorded the pair covering one of one of Kelis’ lesser-known hits at the end of last year. I’ve had it on repeat since then, and it’s about time I blogged it.
The video below is just beautiful. Talk about eclipsing the original.
NGTV 002 | ANR: ‘Millionaire’ from Neon Gold Records on Vimeo.
They also recorded a string-heavy studio version of the song for Christmas, plus a take on “Little Drummer Boy”.
“On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential bands of its generation at the peak of its popularity, ensuring that the band would go out on top with the biggest and most ambitious concert of its career. The instantly sold out, near four-hour extravaganza did just that, moving the thousands in attendance to tears of joy and grief, with NEW YORK magazine calling the event “a marvel of pure craft” and TIME magazine lamenting “we may never dance again.” SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS is both a narrative film documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision”
Trailer:
Hype Machine’s Zeitgeist for 2011 has finally launched.
This year, singles have been compiled into mixes, which feature the most blogged and favorited tracks of the year. Right now, part one includes Remix Artist Collective (RAC) and The Internet (OFWGKTA), with more to be released each day. It’s a shame there’s no track listing, but they make good work-time listening.
Top Albums are sourced from 403 bloggers’ top 10 lists, weighted according to their ranking. They appear in a top 50 countdown, simply click the album cover to stream from Rdio. Not all albums are available in every region though.
Also released in snippets is the top artists section. This year Hype has teamed up with The Perry Bible Fellowship to create the 2011 Musical Landscape, based on artists most frequently discussed by the blogs the site monitors. More of the map will be revealed each day.
The People’s Choice albums of the year will be launched at the end of the week.
If you’re not a daily visitor to the site like me (I keep it open in a browser all day long) you can follow @hypem on Twitter for updates to the above.
2011 has been the best year of my life.
Around this time in 2010, I published my top 50 tracks of all time.
This time, here’s my soundtrack to the past 12 months and what I’ll always remember to be the year it all began.
(In no particular order). Partial Spotify playlist here.
