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Oasis – Merry Xmas Everybody

In fine b3sci tradition… Noel Gallagher covers Slade’s ’73 classic “Merry Xmas Everybody”. This track was recorded exclusively for the 2002 War Child NME charity compilation, 1 Love, which echoed a 1995 War Child benefit album Help. Both albums feature covers from the likes of Oasis, Blur, Suede, Radiohead, Elbow, Muse, Stereophonics, Sinead O’Connor, Portishead and more. They are great collections and you should treat yourself to them Here. If this track doesn’t get you in the holiday spirit, then you must not be fond of holidays… and that’s just a pity.

Oasis – Merry Xmas Everybody

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rating: 10

reviewed by b3

12-24-10

PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose

Track Reviews

“The Last Living Rose” is new today from PJ Harvey. The track plays like paean to its singer’s home nation. Weaving imagery of England that winds through the tune’s sing-songy instrumental; an instrumental that acts as a screen for the motion picture reel projecting through the eye of PJ Harvey’s mind. The video’s not half bad either. Get into it below.

PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose

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Rating: 8.0

reviewed by b3

12-20-10

The Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine (Polow Da Don Soft Touch Remix) / Drake – Fireworks (Tom Wrecks Remix) (Feat. Alicia Keys)

Track Reviews

Thank you, Thank you. You’re far to kind. You know we had to flip this on a Sunday Night. J5/Polow A. Keys/A. Graham, lets do it!

The Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine (Polow Da Don Soft Touch Remix)
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Drake – Fireworks (Tom Wrecks Remix) (Feat. Alicia Keys)
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reviewed by b3

12-19-10

B3SCI Top 50 Albums of 2010

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2010! What a year! We laughed, we cried, we got into it! It’s mid to late December, so you know what time it is, the presents are being wrapped, the tree is being trimmed, and all the world’s music writers are popping champagne and slapping each other fives, cause it’s Best of list season! So here goes the b3sci staff’s picks for the Top 50 LPs of the year. P.S. Many thanks to our readers for a super cool 2010, the blog has grown in ways we never could’ve imagined really. 2011 is going to be massive (unveiling the now under-construction site redesign!) so stay tuned to b3sci in the new year!

Kanye West – All of The Lights (Feat. Elton John, Alicia Keys, Fergie, The-Dream, Tony Williams, Rihanna, Kid Cudi, John Legend, Charlie Wilson, Ryan Leslie, Elly Jackson)

Gorillaz – Stylo (Feat. Bobby Womack and Mos Def)

Flying Lotus – Mmmhmm (Feat. Thundercat)

Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

Erykah Badu – Fall in Love (Your Funeral)

Cee-Lo Green – Bright Lights Bigger City

Foals – Spanish Sahara

Sade – The Moon and the Sky

Tame Impala – Alter Ego

The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio

The Black Keys – The Next Girl

Aloe Blacc – You Make Me Smile

Deadmau5 – A City in Florida

The Tallest Man on Earth – A Lion’s Heart

Janelle Monae – Neon Valley Street

Bonobo – Stay the Same (Feat. Andreya Triana)

Gil Scott-Heron – Me and the Devil

Agalloch – They Escaped the Weight of Darkness

Beach House – 10 Mile Stereo

Big Boi – General Patton

Jose James – Lay You Down

First Aid Kit – Hard Believer

Salem – Frost

The Walkmen – Lisbon

Band of Horses – Infinite Arms

Deerhunter – Desire Lines

Big K.R.I.T. – Hometown Hero

The Roots – Dear God 2.0 (Feat. Monsters of Folk)

Four Tet – Plastic People

The Morning Benders – Excuses

Mount Kimbie – Adriatic

Phantogram – When I’m Small

Raheem DeVaughn – I Don’t Care

Broken Bells – The High Road

Curren$y – Breakfast

Corinne Bailey Rae – I’d Do It All Again

Tinie Tempah – Snap

B.o.B. – Past My Shades (Feat. Lupe Fiasco)

Grinderman – Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man

The Soft Pack – Answer to Yourself

Rick Ross – Maybach Music III (Feat. T.I., Jadakiss, and Erykah Badu)

Surfer Blood – Harmonix

Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom (Feat. Horace Andy)

Seu Jorge – The Model

Example – Kickstarts

Delphic – Clarion Call

Laura Marling – Blackberry Stone

Futurebirds – Johnny Utah

M.I.A. – XXXO

Best Coast – Crazy For You

Honorable Mention:
TOKiMONSTA – Midnight Menu
UNKLE – Where Did the Night Fall
Crookers – Tons of Friends
Neil Young – Le Noise
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings – I Learned the Hard Way
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Darker My Love – Alive As You Are
Lissie – Catching a Tiger
Ty Segall – Melted
Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
Summer Fiction – Summer Fiction
Small Black – New Chain
Freddie Joachim – Midway
Reflection Eternal – Revolutions Per Minute
Warpaint – The Fool
Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives
Magnetic Man – Magnetic Man
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
Belle & Sebastian – Write About Love
Gayngs – Relayted
Professor Green – Alive Til I’m Dead
Deftones- Diamond Eyes
Ellie Goulding – Lights

reviewed by b3

12-17-10

Jamie Woon – Night Air (Deadboy Remix)

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Deadboy is on some kind of run right now. The South London producer serves up another heater on this flip of the oft-remixed (seriously!) “Night Air” Jamie Woon tune. Interesting flip of the track here as the sound is sort of morphed into a 2010’d Craig David/Daniel Bedingfield kind of feel. Tell us you hear that too (We ain’t crazy!). Regardless, we’re digging it and are eagerly anticipate Deadboy’s next blend.

Jamie Woon – Night Air (Deadboy Remix)

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Rating: 8.3

reviewed by b3

12-16-10

Casey Veggies – Get Through (Feat. Dom Kennedy)

Track Reviews

A welcome slice of summer in L.A. on this C.A.F. (cold as fuck) New England evening. Dom Kennedy with a brief feature on the track. Let that summer shine in.

Casey Veggies – Get Through (Feat. Dom Kennedy)

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Rating: 8.0

reviewed by b3

12-16-10

Omarion – Morning (Feat. J. Cole)

Track Reviews

The ex-B2K crooner grabs Cole for this smooth burner. Sure, Omarion sounds like Drake here (especially in the verses) but the song is good enough to still stand on its own (Aubrey Graham aping or not). Cole on point as usual.

Omarion – Morning (Feat. J. Cole) via Hip Hop Is Dream

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Rating: 8.0

reviewed by b3

12-16-10

Flux Pavillion x Biggie Smalls – I Can’t Stop (DJ Robin Banks Mash) / Flux Pavillion – Bass Cannon

Track Reviews

It’s. the. motherfucking. Flux. Expected to drop official sometime early 2011, “Bass Cannon” is both massive and filthy in all the right ways. Plus.. DJ Robin Banks adds a little Biggie to “I Can’t Stop” making for some knock out moments courtesy of a pleasant yet raw vocal mix.

Flux Pavillion x Biggie Smalls – I Can’t Stop (DJ Robin Banks Mash)

Flux Pavillion – Bass Cannon

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Rating: 8.5

reviewed by b3

12-15-10

Soulja Boy – Pretty Boy Swag (Shlohmo Remix)

Track Reviews

We original caught this mix during Sholhmo’s set opening for Mount Kimbie in September. It was sick then, and it’s sick now. On another level, literally. Listening to track feels like floating; floating on some sort of Soulja Boy-piloted cosmic MARTA bus bound for Fulton County’s swaggiest interstellar regions. (Bitch u ride it.)

Soulja Boy – Pretty Boy Swag (Shlohmo Remix)

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Rating: 8.3

reviewed by b3

12-14-10

Burial – In McDonalds (Mokhov Ghost Remix)

Track Reviews

I think if there’s a schedule of rules or fundamental commandments of dubstep, post-dubstep, whatever, Don’t fuck with Burial should probably be on it. And when I first heard this Burial mix done by Russian-born now U.S. musician Mokhov, I kind of feared for the worst. But maybe 15-20 seconds into the track I was already hooked, that play turned into several and before I knew by late afternoon today I had played the track maybe two dozen times. Something about the measuredness of Mokhov’s drums and how they sort of blended with the track, moved with it, inhaled/exhaled in and out with it that really drew me in. The restraint to keep the remix’s embellishments to a minimum, complementing the simplicity and spaciousness of the original mix, should be noted too. A+, well done.

Burial – In McDonalds (Mokhov Ghost Remix)

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Rating: 8.3

reviewed by b3

12-14-10

Rui Da Silva – Touch Me (Jamie xx Remix)

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The x man continues his Worldbeating tour of nonstop jams on this flip of the Rui Da Silva track “Touch Me”. A track that minus the semi-dated turn of the century production values could be, in a parallel world of (Imagine!) The xx 10 years ago, an xx track itself. Expect a sonorous blend of caviar percussion tones and champagne synth voicings in the mix. A tip of our tumblers to the ham and eggers over at mymatestretchy on the track.

Rui Da Silva – Touch Me (Jamie xx Remix)

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Rating: 8.5

reviewed by b3

12-14-10

Machine Gun Kelly – Cleveland (Feat. Dubo) / Lazy Bone – Brown and Orange (Feat. Young Shank and Tae Harlem)

Track Reviews

Yeah, so the Cavs have lost like 8 in a row, the Brownies just got beat by the worst team in the NFL, and there’s like 11 feet of snow on the ground. Head up, 216. We got you.

Machine Gun Kelly – Cleveland (Feat. Dubo)

Lazy Bone – Brown and Orange (Feat. Young Shank and Tae Harlem)

reviewed by b3

12-13-10