Asaf Avidan - One Day/Reckoning Song

Colin Hay - I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You

Bad - Tiara Thomas ft Wale

William Gottlieb's Iconic Photos of Jazz Greats

In the 1930s, a young reporter by the name of William Gottlieb set out to cover the boom of the jazz scene for the Washington Post, only to find the paper didn’t care to dispatch an official staff photographer. Gottlieb, a self-taught photographer armed with his Speed Graphic and an ample supply of flashbulbs, took it upon himself to photograph the subjects of his interviews. Between 1938 and 1948, he documented the jazz scene in New York City and Washington, D.C., and created what eventually became some of history’s most iconic portraits of jazz greats. The Golden Age of Jazz gathers 219 of those, including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan (who would have been 88 today), Billie Holiday, and Thelonious Monk, along with original text from the photographer contextualizing the images and their subjects.

 Sarah Vaughan, Café Society (Downtown)(?), New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1946

 Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947

 Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947

 Joe Thomas, Pied Piper, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947

 Ella Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946

 Nina Simone performing, Town Hall, N.Y., 1959

 Lennie Tristano, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947

 Ernest Tubb, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., Sept. 1947

 Charlie Ventura, William P. Gottlieb's home (table tennis room), N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947

 Henry Wells, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Jan. 1947

Josh White and Mary Lou Williams, WMCA, New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1947

 Cootie Williams, New York, N.Y.(?), between 1938 and 1948

 Louis Armstrong, between 1938 and 1948

 Tex Beneke, ca. Jan. 1947

 Gracie Barry and Dick Stabile, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

Sy Synclair

 Joan Brooks and Duke Niles, New York, N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947

 Vivien Garry, New York, N.Y., Dixon's, ca. May 1947

 Mary Lou Williams, New York, N.Y., ca. 1946

 Dizzy Gillespie, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947

 Buddy Rich, Arcadia Ballroom, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947

 June Christy, 1947 or 1948

 Louis Jordan, between 1938 and 1948

 William P. Gottlieb, WINX, Washington, D.C., ca. 1940

Mister (Billie Holiday's dog), New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

The Neighborhood - Sweater Weather

Django Django - WOR

Mercury prize nominees Django Django have released the video to their track WOR inconjunction to music channel Noisey, which brought them to Allahabad, India where they documented and created a short film out of the infamous Indian Well Death riders. Speaking about the video, Noisey said: "We happily obliged, getting our shoes stolen in the process, but it was worth it to meet a bunch of guys with the most rock solid testicles we've ever come across." Check it out above.

Cam'Ron - Oh Boy

Townes van Zandt - If I Needed You

Its been said that this song was in Townes' dream. When he woke up, he wrote it down, lyrics and chords all in one 5 minute sitting, before he forgot it. Without having to change one thing, this was the end result: 

Glen Hansard - Say it to Me Now

I went to a Glen Hansard concert just a week ago a the Auckland Arts Festival and I have to say it's gotta be one of the better concerts I've been to - intimate, interactive and at the Town Hall too, a place whose acoustics are beautiful. Pretty raw and powerful voice. I'm glad his music got out there - it's so worthy. 

Lyrically Superior... Incubus' Echo

This party is old and uninviting

Participants all in black and white

You enter in fullblown technicolor

Nothing is the same after tonight

If the world would fall apart

In a fiction worthy wind

I wouldn't change a thing

Now that you're here

Yeah, love is a verb here in my room

Here in my room, here in my room

You enter and close the door behind you

Now show me the world as seen from the stars

If only the lights would dim a little

I'm weary of eyes upon my scars

Pink tractor beam into your incision

Head spinning as free as dervishs' whirl

I came here expecting next to nothing

So thank you for being that kind of girl

That kind of girl

Louis Armstrong Interviewed by Ralph Gleason for Jazz Casual c.1963

0.00 - 0.38: It's heaven how he looks back on his life with such pleasure and nostalgia.

The Love of My Life... Justin Timberlake's Mirrors

I was really nervous when Justin dropped The 20/20 Experience.  And his first single, Suit and Tie really underwhelmed me to the point where I thought he had well and truly lost his magic touch. RnB turned into some watered down soul/funk mash-up, Timbaland turned into Jay-Z and the buzz cut turned into a hipster mop top with no trace of his beloved broccoli top. But then I heard Mirrors and realized that our beloved old school JT is still there. Loving the lyrics and the melody so much, this is old school nostalgia at its finest. No one in the world can repalce Justin for me, he is the soundtrack to my life. 

The Chemical Brothers - Electrobank

Mesmerizing witout compromising simplicity, a great music video. Starring a young Sofia Coppola, post Godfather III and pre Lost in Translation, when she was still bethowthed to Spike Jonze, the director of the video. 

90s Throwback: Babyface's When Can I See You Again

Sananda Maitreya - Who's Loving You Live 1987

When it's Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Armstrong

Tinnie Tempah ft. Calvin Harris - Drinking from the Bottle

Mute and watch the vid. One of the best I've seen in ages, a pastiche of The Podigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up" and the Arctic Monkey's "Fluorescent Adolescent".

K-OS

I wish I knew Natalie Portman

The Dog is Mine

Power Trip - J Cole ft Miguel

Miguel's vocals knocks it outta the park again.

Louis Armstrong's Dear Old Southland

Hard to go past this. As close to perfection as it gets: