Man on the Moon: The End of Day

Soooooo.. Kid Cudi's latest album hits the shelves on September 15th and you should all be pretty excited because it's gonna be massive. The latest single's gonna be called 'Pursuit Of Happiness' featuring MGMT & Ratatat - you know it's gonna be good already. Cudi tells it's going to resemble movie scenes and here I give you the scene listing below:

ACT 1 - THE END OF DAY

1. In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem)

2. Soundtrack 2 My Life

3. Simple As…

ACT 2 - RISE OF THE NIGHT TERRORS

4. Solo Dolo (nightmare)

5. Heart of A Lion (KiD CuDi Theme Music)

6. My World Feat. Billy Cravens

ACT 3 - TAKING A TRIP

7. Day N Nite (nightmare)

8. Sky Might Fall

9. Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)

ACT 4 - STUCK

10. Alive (nightmare) Feat. RATATAT

11. CuDi Zone

12. Make Her Say Feat. Kanye West & Common

13. Pursuit of Happiness (nightmare) Feat. MGMT & RATATAT

ACT 5 - A NEW BEGINNING

14. Hyyerr Feat. Chip Tha Rapper

15. Up Up & Away (The Wake & Bake Song)

Anyway I know you guys are all like hungry hungry hippos for the music as well as the news so here is some older material to keep you going for the next two weeks or so:

Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon (The Anthem)

Kid Cudi - Call Me Moon Man

Kid Cudi - Heaven At Nite

Cool? Get to know Cleveland's best a little better. See you soon.

Kid British, Mr Hudson & Calvin Hazbags

Afternoon. You may have noticed there's been a fair amount of commercial music in my last few posts. It's not because I'm getting too lazy to search for the most indie-est bands on the globe, it's simply because there's been a stream of new releases, and now you will experience the audiovisual delights of a few of them below:



Kid British - Our House Is Dadless
Manchester-based hip-hop group Kid British's new single has a most british air about it, unsurprisingly. It's a good-times, sing-a-long tune partly due to the sampling of Madness but also because of the light-hearted, humourous verses. I'm not sure about you guys, but the video took me on a trip down memory lane when life was simpler. How nice was it to wake up on a saturday morning without bleary eyes and a headache? Just flicking on SM:TV live and eating a bowl of coco pops?



Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
The scotsman's second release off the upcoming album (named 'Ready For The Weekend', incidentally) is a good few steps away from the club feel of 'I'm Not Alone' and for some it takes a while to get used to. The track's got a definitive air about it - it might be a bit too forward to call it the definitive pop sound of 2009, but it seems like a contender, what with most of pop being based around electronic equipment now.

If you were hoping for something to match the energy of 'I'm Not Alone', keep your eyes and ears peeled for remixes from Fake Blood and High Contrast, which I would post but I could only find radio rips. I'm always reluctant to post radio rips, they just seem so sloppy and corny when you've got a DJ talking about his mad night out when this beat got dropped and the club went mental; you understand what I'm getting at, I'll stop before this turns into a rant.

Mr. Hudson - Everything Is Broken (feat. Kid Cudi)
Mr. Hudson's second album, 'Straight, No Chaser' is out October 5th this year with executive production from Kanye West. The album aims to be less ornate and more direct, which is more than apparent in this track. We've got no intricate, fiddly little layers of anything and Mr. Hudson's vocal and instrumental style on this number lets us know that he understands the importance of simplicity. As he rightly explains about the album, "It's not trying to reinvent the wheel. It's straight, no chaser."