We've Moved!

Wow, what a fitting picture. Take Exit 31B for our new blog Georgia Avenue!

We've been posting at Georgia Ave for a few months now and it just hit me that I hadn't linked TKAM to the new one yet. So check it out, better music and higher quality posts & all your favourite theme days including but not limited to Wale Wednesdays and Throwback Thursday.

Ellie Goulding-Only Girl (In The World) (Rihanna Cover)

Fileden.com is some bullshit.

I forgot how many times they would suspend my account or whatever back in February when I began this blog (prior to Blogger deleting it...).

Anyway, as most of you people know I have quite the schoolboy crush on Ellie Goulding... and her rendition of Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)" cements my feelings for the English songstress.

Side note: Can Graham Gano make a damn kick?

Ellie Goulding-Only Girl (In The World) (Rihanna Cover)

Slightly New Noah & The Whale

I've been waiting to post up this Noah and the Whale track once I had some free time, but I think the ironic thing about this whole blogging shit just lets me have an escape from real life and school.

I think this was a free download, if not, I'm sorry Charlie Fink. Head on over to Noah and The Whale and grab it up.

G-Love & Plutonic-Moonshine Lemonade

G Love is back on the scene, and he brings friends (and potentially illegal booze!). He has teamed up with Plutonic to make a little colabo-album called Moonshine Lemonade, sounds stomach-wrenchingly scrumtrilescent.

G Love & Plutonic-Fuck It
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Throwback Friday

I've used this song before, I know, but Pete Rock raps of a young man who lost his life too soon. The question arises when is too soon, your 20th birthday? While you're in college, a semester from earning your degree? There's no right answer and a lot of people look to the sky to find what they're looking for in those regards, many show anger and a few quiet up and act strong.

I stand on my soapbox and ask these questions because this morning I was awoke by a telephone call saying a local pizza joint burned down, and that two people died in the fire. On any other day one would write this off considering the news reports on tragedy hourly, but for me, my brothers and the sisters of Kappa Tau Epsilon it strikes deeply. Today we lost a brother and a sister, two students who didn't deserve this and there's not much more I can say. I let the music speak for me.

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth-They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

Les Grenouilles

Grenouilles are an English folk trio and as reported first here at To Kill a Mockingbird, English folk bands are pretty tight. While listening to their first EP, Hawk On The Down (available here!!!), I've sort of noticed a few artist they remind me of. It's pretty easy to write them off as a Mumford & Sons wannabe, but they're deeper than that. In "Bones" alone, I can hear violins that take me back to Flogging Molly's "Laura", along with an eerie wailing that compares to Bon Iver's "Wolves". And as shown in the song below Grenouilles have an affinity for amazing covers something like London town's own Noah & The Whales (i.e. "Girlfriend In A Coma").

Grenouilles have completely made "Low" a listenable song once again, after hearing Flo Rida's version about fifty-leven times I couldn't stand it. Although it does remind me of pledging to SAE in the spring of '08 and crazy sorority girls dancing on tables.

Grenouilles-Low (Flo Rida Cover)

Fun Fact: #1-During the time when "Low" was released, I thought Flo Rida's moniker was pronounced like the state.
Fun Fact: #2-Grenouille means frog in French.

Throwback Thursday

I'm going to be 100 per cent. I'm not a huge Biggie fan (Jay takes the cake), but I will give credit where credit is due. Biggie was one of the greats, there's really not much more I can say. "Party & Bullshit" speaks for itself.

The Notorious B.I.G.-Party & Bullshit

Wale Wednesday (White Panda Edition)

Yessssir, it's that time again... albeit a day late.

Some pandas took a cut from Matt & Kim's Sidewalks (pick that up via iTunes, if you haven't already) and combined it with Wale's GoGo smash hit "Pretty Girls"

The White Panda-Good For Girls

Okay so I'm super-bored

...and that's my view. Yup 3rd floor of Compton Hall.

So here's some random Das Racist for no reason at all.

Das Racist-Nutmeg

Thank You Verizon SongID!

I love my Mom, she turns me on to songs I'd otherwise miss being away from home. Usually during the summer I'll listen to WRNR 103.1 out of Annapolis, MD, I certainly don't advise listen to radio (see last post) but WRNR is the exception to rule. They'll play up and coming artists based upon who plays shows near the DMV, rather than the top 40 b.s. you can catch on any other station.

Anyways, I've always sort-of-kinda-liked-pretty-much-a-third-grade-crush type thing for Guster (no homo). Like I like them, but like don't tell them I said that or I'll be embarrassed WATCH THIS HUGE JUMP I'M ABOUT TO DO FROM THE SWINGS! Ummmm anyway, my mom has this sort of thing like Shazaam for her 1990's LG flip phone that emails the song name and artist to a given address. Well a few months ago, last semester, she asked for my email and I assumed she'd periodically send me updates, ask how I am... nope. Turns out she entered my email, and every time she enjoys a song on the radio she'll send it to me. Past songs have been Cee-Lo's "Fuck You", and Mickey Avalon's "Jane Fonda", but occasionally I get one I haven't heard and Guster's latest is today's subject.

I couldn't stand the single at first, I got the album and quickly disregarded it as boring and pretty much lame. But as usual if you hear something a few times it begins to grow on you i.e. Nicki Minaj. I went home the weekend before last (the weekend prior to the gayfest known as Waterfowl, tourists and ducks aren't my thing) and naturally WRNR was turned on as soon as I was in range... that and I ran out of mixed CD's. After a weekend of listening to "Do You Love Me" it got stuck in my head, then on to my "Favourites" iPhone playlist and now to the blog... progression.

Guster-Do You Love Me

Buy Guster's Easy Wonderful here!

Noah (Not Me) and the Whales

Goddammit I love bands and other things that share my name... Joakim Noah, Thierry Henry, Noah and the Whale, King Henry (especially #8) and lastly Haddaway the U.K. electronica artist who brought us "What Is Love".

And Goddammit I love me some English bands, especially when they cover some pseudo-classic rock a.k.a. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. So here's TP&B's 2002 classic "The Last DJ".

Noah & The Whale-The Last DJ

Taylor v. Wiz

Dayyyyyum Taylor Swift, you fine as shit.

With that out of the way, let us get to the song... Something of a mash-up, and this on a Monday... Mash-up Monday. Ahhhh alliteration, and I didn't plan that.

Anyways, Wiz's "This Plane" is combined with Ms. Swift's "Mean" to make the following:

Brenton Duvall-Mean Planes & Taylor Gangs

New Chiddy Bang (Plus Some Knocks)

Some new Chiddy Bang is out, a little bit of a remix of The Knocks' "Dancing With The DJ". Enjoy that track, along with the original.

Chiddy Bang-Dancing With The DJ
The Knocks-Dancing With The DJ

Lil' Wayne Rikers Countdown: #1

As mentioned in the Throwback Thursday post (and my fb status) Lil' Wayne is free and was released from Rikers before my ass got out of bed. Alot happens when you sleep.

Compiling this list was tough in places, but from the beginning I knew "BM J.R." was going to be number one. It was a pretty easy choice, a. Its a freestyle b. Dude talks about Riken (Wheretheydothatat?).

"...I ain't tripping nigga, I play the corner like Ripken nigga
with the 40 .cal Ripken nigga, rip a nigga
flip ya vehicle, split ya windshield
wack ya baby momma but I let the kid live..."

Come on. That's a filthy line, and I love it. Secondly this line comes to mind:

"...and when we hungry you look like pie
sweet potato ass nigga, you lemon merangue, apple custard, cherry jelly
don't make me get the biscuit buster..."

I can't even fathom how many times I've texted that line. So with that here's Lil' Wayne's best song ever, off Tha Carter, "BM J.R."

1. Lil' Wayne-BM J.R.

Lil' Wayne Is FREE!

But first things first, Throwback Thursday.

Two Chris Bridges songs within the same week, I must be craze. Na but for real, this song just came on Fuse as the #10 Sexiest Hip-Hop Video and since there's a shout to HU I figured I'd go on and make this the throwback jaunt of the week. Plus it's homecoming here at Frostburg, so that means 8am daquris and a shit ton of alumni 25 years older than I... I don't have time for that shit, I'm headed home. Enjoy all that bs while it snows Saturday nerds.

"...jump in the car and just ride for hours,
makin sure I don't miss the homecomin' at Howard"

Ludacris-Pimpin' All Over The World featuring Bobby Valentino