New Mixtape: Mansions On The Moon – Paradise Falls

New mixtape project produced by DJ Benzi and Diplo for Pharrell & Shae (N*E*R*D)’s new group, Mansions On The Moon. This is hot, check it out if you haven’t already since it dropped last week and read the official plug below:

“Mansions on the Moon’s mixtape, ‘Paradise Falls’, is now finally available for free download. The Echo Park trio formed a little over a year ago and they have since collaborated with N*E*R*D, Diplo, Benzi & Willy Joy and Xaphoon Jones (Chiddy Bang).

Their debut mixtape ‘Paradise Falls’, presented by Diplo and DJ Benzi illustrates the wide range of Mansions on the Moon’s capabilities. The fusion of Mansions’ electro indie pop into a trip-hop flavored mixtape shows this band has huge things on the horizon. Keep an eye out for their debut original album and tour dates in the early part of 2011.”

Hit the jump for a tracked version of the mixtape (courtesy Hypetrak), a video of Shae & Pharrell talking about the project and the official download link. (more…)

George Bush Says Kanye West Calling Him A Racist Was The Lowest Point of His Presidency!

Fast forward to the 2:05 mark and also CLICK HERE.

Bush was being interviewed by Matt Lauer on NBC to promote his upcoming biography, Decision Points. Not sure I can be arsed to read it though. I tried reading his stooge, Tony Blair’s A Journey biography and it was just terrible: 600+ pages of tortured prose and it took me three weeks to get even 70 pages in (i.e. nowhere close to the part that anyone cares about which is why he backed Bush on the lunacy of starting the Iraq War to depose Saddam Hussein and find his ‘secret’ stash of WMD’s). I gave up and returned it to the library and haven’t been motivated to borrow it again and try and finish it.

CLICK HERE for more (text-only) snippets from Lauer’s Bush NBC interview.

New Music: Amy Winehouse – It’s My Party (feat. Quincy Jones)

Amy Winehouse has still got it even after everything she’s gone through but I kind of hate this song (originally recorded by Leslie Gore back in the day). I think this new track, produced by Mark Ronson, is from some Quincy Jones (tribute?) compilation that I’ve started to hear rumblings about. There’s a record sampling the Sanford and Son TV show theme featuring T.I. or something (??) also floating around.

[via Cactus Cultural]

Three Tracks from KiD CuDi’s Man on the Moon II including Scott Mescudi vs. The World feat. Cee-Lo Green

Hit the jump for “Marijuana” and “Ashin’ Kusher”: (more…)

AP News: Jerry Brown Beats Meg Whitman in the Calif. Governor’s Race

Well that was $140 million down the drain!

Not a good day for California Republican former female business executives-turned-aspiring-politicians all around yesterday. Hit the jump for a video on the news that Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer fended off a challenge from former HP CEO Carly Fiorina to hold her Senate seat for a fourth term. (more…)