Hypeful wishes everyone a safe and happy hypeful New Year. I’m ringing in NYE with The Flaming Lips (& excessive champagne) tonight and welcome 2008 with open arms. There’s plenty to be hypeful about in ‘08 - a presidential election, Olympic summer games, and we’ll finally get to see that bloody Cloverfield monster!
Hypeful is going to take the day off tomorrow to recover & recharge, but I want to leave you with 8 tunes featuring an “8″ in the title to help celebrate the new year!
MP3s:
Cool Kids - “88″
Deerhoof - “+81″
Explosions in the Sky - “Day 8″
The Libertines - “Eight Days A Week”
Modest Mouse - “Interstate 8″
Plasmik - “Eight to Nine”
Polyphonic Spree - “Section 8 (Soldier Girl)”
Rufus Wainwright - “Dinner at Eight”
The holiday box office reports are in and America’s appetite for Helen Mirren is insatiable! Sadly, however, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story was ignored by audiences. Admittedly, I’ve yet to see it - but after the tons of lavish promotions and favorable reviews I refuse to believe it’s not one of the funniest movies of the year. I’m planning on helping its box office numbers by taking in a screening or five ASAP and encourage you to stop watching your DVD of The Queen and go see Walk Hard with your friends.
Need more convincing? Maybe this once-in-a-lifetime all-star performance of “Walk Hard” will help change your mind! It features Ghostface slow-rapping while Jewel yodels in the background!
MP3:
Ghostface Killah, Jackson Browne, Jewel and Lyle Lovett - “Walk Hard”
Check out the trailer below for the upcoming documentary Young@Heart (out on 4.18.08), which follows a Senior Citizen Chorus who has delighted audiences worldwide by performing covers of everyone from The Clash to OutKast to Radiohead. Sounds like an awesome This American Life segment, no? With an average age of 80, Y@H courageously tackle some unexpected tunes and give whole new meanings to familiar lyrics.
An amazing example is the below clip of Y@H’s Fred Knittle performing Coldplay’s “Fix You”. This song was intended to be a duet between Fred and another chorus member, Bob Salvini. A week before the performance, Bob sadly died of a heart attack and Fred (who suffers from congestive heart failure) was left to carry the song on his own. Echoing Josh Cash’s take on “Hurt,” this performance could be used as a litmus test for the human soul.
Videos after the jump!
In a post titled scotch_mist (which sounds a lot like something I might be drinking on New Year’s Eve), Radiohead announced that they be broadcasting a special webcast performance on December 31. Radiohead will perform In Rainbows
The last ep of 30 Rock gave us two things - big laughs and another Tracy Jordan holiday novelty track, “It’s a Jordan Christmas!”! With lyrics like “Imagine Christmas wishes shooting out of your eyes…,” Tracy has followed up “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” in the best way possible. Hopefully it’s not too late for you to squeeze this new tune into your holiday playlists. I love it so much, I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant!
Hypeful has dragged its feet long enough! Putting together a “best of” list is never an easy task and this year was filled with some tough, musical Sophie’s choices when it came to the best best albums. Finally, Hypeful has settled on a list of the 27 best albums from 2007. Faced with some ridiculously hard decisions, I’ll admit that there were plenty of albums not listed that I would’ve loved to include. However, after countless revisions and changes in my rankings, this is Hypeful’s list of the best 27 and I’m sticking to it…for now…
Check out the Top 27 Albums of 2007 complete with MP3s for your sampling pleasure. Please feel free to leave your own lists in the comments!
If there’s one list currently being checked more than Santa’s, it’s the latest Nielsen SoundScan numbers. Why? Josh Groban’s Noël claimed an unprecedented fourth straight week at number one, a feat never before accomplished by a holiday album. This means that Groban has overtaken the previous record, three weeks set by Elvis Presley, half a century ago with 1957’s Elvis’ Christmas Album. This also puts Noël in the lead as the year’s bestselling album (sorry, Zac Efron), and if the trend holds, it’ll become the first holiday album to top year-end sales in the SoundScan era.
Once, twice, three times the Jack White in ‘08? The White Stripes frontman has told NME that after his band was forced to cancel their 2007 touring due to Meg White’s anxiety, he has been using his free time to work on three new albums. White unfortunately would not name the other projects he was working on, but denied it was The Raconteurs’ new album or his long-rumored solo album. Perhaps a collaboration with Ryan Adams? It’s been a couple of weeks since he dropped a new album…
Apple has posted the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light, the director’s delayed Rolling Stones concert doc that is now set for release on April 8, 2008. Following No Direction Home, this new musical doc looks like another must-see film this Spring. Also makes one really anxious to see Scorsese’s upcoming take on the life of George Harrison. I’ll post the trailer for Shine a Light below, but recommend heading over to Apple to view it in beautiful QuickTime.
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As “the second most punk-rock band in Britain,” Los Campesinos! performs tunes that truly reflects the exclamation point in their moniker. Now, they’ve released such an awesome new video, they’re deserving of another exclamation. “Death To Los Campesinos!” is the first track/single from their upcoming album (out February 18th) and the accompanying video is a thing of absolute joy. Although the video does deliver the promise of killing Los Campesinos!, don’t worry - the band meets their makers by deadly rainbows, kittens, unicorns, and confetti!
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