MANIAC

A new Kid Cudi track has surfaced today and it features underground rapper Cage that goes be the name "Maniac". What I'm most stoked on is the fact that it features an unlikely sample of St. Vincent's "The Strangers" from last year's album Actor. Not sure how well it works, but we'll see after a few repeat listens. It's expected that this track will be featured on the new Cudi album, "Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager" due out November 9th. Check back here for leak updates, though. Here's praying it's better than the first album!

You can download the track right here.

Also in Cudi news, his video for his first single "Erase Me" featuring Kanye West was released today. Features a cameo from McLovin from Superbad and Clark from Hot Tub Time Machine. Not to mention Kanye wearing the gold chains he seems to be in love with recently.

Erase Me:

Bulletproof Monster

Kanye continues to roll on, and I for one, have no complaints. Just a couple hours ago the Entertainment Weekly website posted an exclusive stream of a new remix of "In for the Kill" by pop act, La Roux. Apparently they're already in the works of creating a video. I think it's a bit much, but that's because I'm not a huge fan of the track, myself. Give it a listen for yourself here.

As a bonus, make sure you check out his latest performances on SNL. Fuckin' brilliant.

Runaway:

Power:

Floating Vibe

Every year or so comes along 2 or 3 albums that I constantly find myself coming back to for repeated listens (ie; Vampire Weekend's first LP, Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest). Surfer Blood is another one of those bands for me. Their first and only album to date, Floating Vibes, was released earlier this year and has gained many a listens for me. This is one of the few bands that can give you a real sunny, summer feel but at the same time give you a colder/fall vibe.

They did a live-in-studio performance for Halfway House where they performed a couple tracks from their first album, and a brand new track, "I'm Not Ready" for their next album. Needless to say, I'm stoked! Give the new track a listen!

I'm Not Ready:

Floating Vibes:

Fast Jabroni:

These Wasted Words

Hello.

So this will be my other blog, my blog that everyone can post on as long as they've got something to say that can't be supplemented with a simple "lol".

When I made the other blog it was not in any effort to be pretentious, to be able to shout out "ha I have a vessel for spreading out my ideas while you don't have anything important to say". No, that's not what I was trying for at all.

I just really like to write. It's an idea that is heading into cliche waters, but you can really find out a lot about what you believe in and think by just translating into a physical form (writing it out, typing it out, drawing it out). I would really just like for this blog to be about people coming to terms with things that they're thinking, contemplating, pondering about. Saying that, I also want to avoid simple conclusions and wandering thoughts - thoughts that lack substance or any meaningful sense of purpose.

Whoever is in, come aboard. Our feet will wander with our minds.

Or so it goes.