A few stories maybe worth your time today…

Lollapalooza Day 2 in Pictures

Aerosmith calls off rest of tour

All the good releases this week

New RADIOHEAD track, “These Are My Twisted Words” – and it’s good (of course)

Full lineup for the Monolith Music Festival at Red Rocks is now online and tickets are still available (Girl Talk, YY Yeahs, Mars Volta, M. Ward, Passion Pit, Phoenix, Deer Tick and a whole helluva lot more).

Live music this week on the late night talk show circuit.

To those younger than me and more in tune with the zeitgeist than I, allow me this indulgence, let me for a minute or two suppose I actually discovered Girl Talk, that this isn’t an admission of obsolescence on my part, but that I really am on the cutting edge of music.

Mash-ups are old hat now, and there will be some who, even if they have not heard of Girl Talk, will sneer and scoff at what I am about to introduce as nothing more than mash-ups or worse, dj antics. You sir, would be wrong. You madam, would be wrong.

I am probably the last person to get this excited about a musician that does nothing more than sample pre-existing works, it doesn’t fit my profile, but I AM that excited. It helped that I watched a
documentary that put Girl Talk in context and made me really see the genius of what this guy pulls off.

This is the inevitable result of a mixtape culture, a remix revolution is afoot. Take a listen to a man and his laptop who is changing music by rearranging music.

Bounce That
Bounce That

Shut the Club Down
Shut the Club Down

Still Here
1. Still Here

Here’s the Thing
2. Here’s the Thing

I’m ill
I’m Ill

See Rip! A Remix Manifesto for footage of Girl Talk and a fascinating discussion on the state of the culture war between CopyRight and CopyLeft (my review of the documentary is here)

Behold the future of music, Greg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, a one man lap top wielding collage music appropriator. He is pretty famous now with the young generation but I only discovered him on the documentary Rip! A Remix Manifesto. They are the songs you know but never heard like this. Don’t call him a DJ, what he is doing is far more sophisticated, the layers run deep. The result is something I can genuinely say I’ve never experienced before, how often can you say that?

The first one is a mash-up video created by fans, mashing up video footage to go along with the mash-up music

Girl Talk- Feed The Animals “Play Your Part (Pt. 1)”

and Now the live experience plus interview

How it looks when the audience gets on stage with him

Girl Talk -gravity- #1a tiny dancer

and because I can’t get enough of this guy, his big single made into a fan video:

Girl Talk – Bounce That (Best Fan Video Ever)