Quick, close some (music) tabs!

[drwex]

End of the week, let's see how many of these I can close out. There's some really good stuff in here.

http://audioporncentral.com/2010/05/scissor-sisters-fire-with-fire.html
Last week I noted Scissor Sisters for their "Invisible Light" track. APC linked to this track called "Fire with Fire" also from the upcoming album and called it "...the perfect pop tune." I don't know about perfect but it is DAMNED good. It's catchy and danceable without being cheap or overly auto-tuned; I like it more every time I play it. I also adore the video, which is simple and yet has absolutely brilliant lighting design. I've been searching for the right way to categorize this band. It's got some of the glam-rock sound of Invisible Light, but it also has a more ballad-like feel over some pretty straight-up rock-metal drumming (check out the raised drumstick twirl straight out of GNR or Def Leppard). I'm having a hard time thinking of another band with good male and female vocal leads (B-52s?).

http://audioporncentral.com/2009/10/aggro1-rage-against-the-machine-aeph.html
Aeph (http://www.myspace.com/aephsound) is a UK DJ who lists himself as drum & bass but whose tracks have a much slower and more heavy metal sound than I usually associate with d&b. Here Aggro1 (http://aggro1.com/) takes a classic d&b feeling track from Aeph and weaves it with Rage Against The Machine's thundering classic "Bulls On Parade." The result is slamming sound that needs to be turned up LOUD!

http://www.mashuptown.com/2010/05/dj-lobsterdust-knock-out-eileen-ll-cool-j-vs-dexys-midnight-runners.html
DJ Lobsterdust is back! This is another one of those mixes that probably only works if you like the underlying tunes. He's taking the classic piano-rock tune "Come on Eileen" from Dexy's Midnight Runners and facing it off against LL Cool J's "Momma Said Knock You Out." I don't know how he managed to match these two up, and the concept alone is amusing enough but the execution works. Trust me.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309&Itemid=27
Also back in fine form is Clive$ter who complains he's gotten too busy because of his "Kabinenparty Memories". The price of success I guess. Here he's using the beautiful vocals of 7th Heaven's "This Is Your Life" and Yordis's track "Tonight". Yordis is a heavy-beat electro-house DJ I've not heard before and though I like the original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNKUz4Kr1gI) I think Clive$ter really improves the track by stripping out the electronic voice and using the 80s harmonic sound from 7th Heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li580259YwU
Finally, let me close out with this bit of video from Marc Webb for the group Godhead. They're covering the Beatles' classic "Eleanor Rigby" which is one of those tunes whose lyrics always seemed a little... off, to me. Throw in Godhead's vocal death-metal feel and the whole thing becomes screamingly disturbing, and yet you want to play it cranked up to proper volume.