Archive for Music

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Humpday

It’s almost the end of Wednesday…enjoy a nice humpty dance on Humpday from all of us here at First Pick Blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byIkY9qsTdU

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Crazy Original Voice on “The Voice”

Check out Erin Martin, weird pony-mohawk included, with her performance of “Hey There Delilah.” Knowing America, she won’t last too long. Still, I’d buy an album she put out any day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSWOj5RLSM

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Bonnaroo 2012

 

Some notable Bonnaroo released acts for the wonderful music festival taking place in Manchester, Tennessee from June 7th to 10th include The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Phish, the Shins, Foster the People, and Skrillex.

Some of the funniest names out of the bunch: Afrocubism (Sounds like some sort of a religion started by Ben Wallace), NEEDTOBREATHE (Prince Fielder when he hits a triple), SBTRKT (uhh…really…? What on earth could this stand for? Stoned Babies Try Really Kool Toys?) , Moon Taxi (the best type of transportation), and Trampled by Turtles (the Nate Robinson story).

Complete List: (click names to watch videos of some of the bands)

Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Phish
Bon Iver
The Beach Boys (featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks)
The Avett Brothers
The Shins
Foster the People
Skrillex
Aziz Ansari
Dispatch
Feist
The Roots
Alice Cooper
SuperJam
Black Star
The Word (featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars)
Ludacris
Ben Folds Five
Flogging Molly
Spectrum Road (featuring Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid)
Mac Miller
Childish Gambino
Major Lazer
tUnE-yArDs
Afrocubism
Flying Lotus
Umphrey’s McGee
Little Dragon
St. Vincent
City and Colour
The Civil Wars
Young the Giant
Two Door Cinema Club
Punch Brothers
NEEDTOBREATHE
Fitz & the Tantrums
Bad Brains
Yelawolf
Dawes
Battles
Danny Brown
The Black Lips
SBTRKT
Phantogram
Kendrick Lamar
Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires
The Kooks
The Joy Formidable
The Antlers
Kathleen Edwards
Mimosa
Kurt Vile & the Violators
Alabama Shakes
Das Racist
Delta Spirit
Gary Clark Jr.
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Laura Marling
Trampled by Turtles
Mogwai
The War on Drugs
Ben Howard
Grouplove
Blind Pilot
ALO
The Devil Makes Three
White Denim
EMA
Here We Go Magic
K-Flay
The Lonely Forest
Mariachi El Bronx
Big Freedia
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
The Soul Rebels
Kvelertak
SOJA
Steven Bernstein’s MTO All-Stars Play Sly
Big Gigantic
Sarah Jarosz
Orgone
Darondo
Fruit Bats
Moon Taxi
More to be announced