Music Monday Is Dead! All Hail The Playlist!

Recently I made a conscious decision to start writing more and as Seth Godin says, the more you write, the less rubbish you get. Some might even say, the better you get. I'm hoping to get out a bit of the nonsense that rattles around in my mind and hopefully put it in some form of entertaining and even informative discourse for the readers. For a while now, writing about things that interest, intrigue and inspire me is a pursuit that I really enjoy, and the fact that it keeps me searching for and discovering these "things", whatever they may be, is just as important.

But I digress. This post is an announcement. ANNOUNCEMENT. Music Mondays is no more. Though I loved the posting up whatever had been filling my ears that week, I fear that I won't be able to keep posting every single Monday. I still felt it was important to keep the music aspect of Village Boy as music is such a huge and important part of my life, I couldn't do without it. Plus I love nothing more than getting people interested in music I love, and when people do the same for myself. So make your peace with Music Mondays and welcome The Playlist in the world. The Playlist will be featured whenever I few it is necessary to share a track with you, new or old, genre irrelevant. As the posts grown it will create a series of songs for your listening pleasure. So with that, enough for your eyes, here's something for your EARS:

Drake - Headlines


Drake ft Nicki Minaj - Make Me Proud



Nas - Nasty



The Black Keys - Lonely Boy



Duck Sauce - Big Bad Wolf



Jay Electronica ft Mobb Deep - Call Of Duty: MW3




Now that seems like a pretty good way to start The Playlist.

How To Make It In America Music Video: Luis Guzman By Duck Sauce

This is BRILLIANT: Presented above is a witty revision of Duck Sauce’s hit track “Barbra Streisand” in anticipation of How To Make It In America’s second season this October. The music video is reworked and highlights Luis Guzman, the Puerto Rican actor who stars as Rene Calderon. Sharing the limelight with some infamous companions including Terry Richardson, Pharrell, Kid Cudi, Mark Wahlberg, Guzman takes us around the diverse and notorious neighborhood of New York’s Lower East Side. Hypebeast. How random is Asher Roth and Justin Bieber (probably the source of 75% of views) though?

Music Monday 57: BUMPER EDITION.

Seeing as I missed last week's post due to Glastonbury fatigue, I feel that it is only fair that I throw a whole load of new music at you this week. (And to be fair, it's pretty difficult to decide between it all)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle



The boys are back with some super fun indie sounds for our ears. SO excited for the new album.

Gold Panda - MPB



Duck Sauce - Big Bad Wolf



I can't quite wrap my head around this, it's either an incredible dance track, or just some terrible noise. Either way, it's mental.

A - Skills - California Soul (A Skills Remix)



That's that in my ears? Yup, that's summer.

Bjork - Crystalline



That strange little beautiful sounding (and looking) lady is back.

The Weeknd - The Morning



Championed by Drake, there is a lot of hype going around for The Weeknd, it's pretty easy to see why.

Apollo Brown - Heirloom (ft Has-Lo)



Love the old-school beats to this, going to have to explore Apollo Brown.

Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand Ft. Barbra Streisand

Here's the video from one of my favourite tracks of the year. The video puts plenty of fun and energy into the song and has little regard for how it was initially intended to sound with random singers, raps, scratching and keyboard-alongs. Plus a nice number of cameos never hurts (even if it just shows how cool you are).

Music Monday 15.

Week missed due to post-21st birthday recovery. So let's get back on it.

Young The Giant - My Body



Only just found out about this band, and apart from knowing their from California, I know nothing about them. Oh well it doesn't matter, great bit of indie rock for the summer.

Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand



The combination of A-Trak and Arman Van Helden in the form of Duck Sauce is quickly becoming one of my favourite production teams of the moment. After the undeniable bangers that were Anyway and The Motion, Barbra Streisand is dance perfection. It's almost painfully simple, yet painfully addictive. The track knows exactly when to kick in, back off and then just simply smack you in the face. Seriously, seriously good stuff.

Ellie Goulding - Lights (Messed Remix)



Yet another Ellie Goulding track to be given the remix treatment, and yet again it works. The original song still has a strong presence on this track yet it has been given such new energy, it is an entirely new track. And boy is it a track!

Caspa ft Mr Hudson - Love Never Dies (Back For The First Time)



Unsure on this. LOVED the original from Caspa, one of my favourite tunes of the summer, but to add Mr Hudson's vocals over the instrumental is a risk. It's difficult to tell if it pays off, a lot of people say it's a grower. Gonna have to wait and see.