Ok ok. I admit that I have a musical man crush on Penguin Prison. In my defense, the dude ticks a lot of boxes in terms of my musical values. That sounds a bit weird but bear with me here. So his music is fucking awesome. It’s fun and funky. He has an unreal voice. His output is immense. Crucially, in terms of why he’s such a big feature here in the kevinisabastard.com offices ( I write as I lie in bed) is because he puts out a shit tonne of free music. His first album will cost you but it’s excellent. So good that I bought it on vinyl. But he does a huge amount of remixing of other people’s songs, he shares remixes of his own stuff for free and he has a bunch of 40 minute plus mixes which are 100 percent on point.

I’m sharing his soundcloud with this entry and that initially seems like a cop out, but look at the amount of great music that you get there! There’s the Viceroy and Elephante remixes of his new single “Calling Out”. Super sweet long mixes of cracking disco bangers. There’s excellent remixes of artists like Kylie Minogue, Jamiriqoui and Lana del Rey. There’s a Penguin Prison cover of motherfucking Sade.

Follow this link. Download the truck load of free music. Enjoy. Then come see the dude with me if we’re ever lucky enough to have him come to Ireland or, for a strangely high percentage of you, go see him when he goes to Brazil.

Most importantly, show Penguin Prison love. He’s doing an awesome thing and he’s doing a lot of it for free.

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Two weeks of no tunes means a bumper playlist of free music for my Brazilian followers and everyone else I suppose. There’s a stream through this one, starts off electronic and moves towards rockier sounds . You’ve got the new Chance the Rapper in there, two Jhameel tracks and the usual mix of remixes and covers. Enjoy and download for the total cost of nothing. You’re welcome.

If you’ve got music that you want shared gimme a shout either in the comments or on twitter. I suppose you could shout at me on the street too if that floats your boat.

Also, if I’ve shared your music and it is not supposed to be floating around for free, get in touch and I’ll remove it.

Peace

It’s been a busy few weeks with college and I haven’t had the time to trawl through soundcloud for any real gems. I have been thinking about music though and listening to a lot. One of the trains of thought is part of a larger life issue of feeling older and whatever. Taylor Swift had written “22” by my age and what have I done? I try not to get into that one because it’s tragic but I have been thinking about my teenage years. It’s almost a decade since I turned thirteen which is a trippy idea. That got me thinking about what was popular then, what I liked and in retrospect, having access to a much larger bank of music, what I think that I might have liked if I’d heard it.

With this in mind, I’ve started a Spotify playlist. It’s called “It’s 2005 and I’m feeling fine”. If you can travel back in time and decide that you want to win the heart of a thirteen year old me, this is the playlist to arm yourself with. It’s all very skinny jeans and all comes from 2005 or earlier, in general trying to stay this side of 2000.

So I’m going to keep adding to it and just gather the tracks that would make a younger me happy. I’d love to hear what anyone thinks of it or what tracks would make it onto your own early teenage mixtape.

UPDATE: That spotify list shooooooooooould load up. It just takes a few seconds coz Spotify is too busy sucking it’s own motherfucking dick. I hate Spotify right now

Key to getting free stuff is the email address that you never use. You have to sign up for news letters and shit but it still costs you nothing. There’s one track in this batch that needs an email address but I’ve done the hard bit and found the tracks. All that you have to do is download and enjoy.

 

Obviously stealing music isn’t the worst thing in the world, but it’s not very nice. So here is a playlist of free tunes so nobody has to be a criminal. I tried to cover a variety of genres so there’s something for most people. The tracks include remixes, covers and originals from artists and groups of varying degrees of fame. It’s all about the ethical cheap vibes.

1. Bud Light – William Bolton
2. Blue Jeans – Lana Del Rey (Penguin Prison Remix)
3. Faded – ZHU Ft. Sean Dee
4. PYT – Michael Jackson (Bixel Boys VIP Edit)
5. John – Bowens and the Wood
6. Douchebag – Skizzy Mars
7. the new karate workout – wait what
8. My Lovin’  (you’re never gonna get it) GoPro Live – This Club
9. Radio – The Royal Concept
10. Erdbeer Mund – Franz Ferdinand

You can click on any of the tracks to go straight to it on Soundcloud where you can find the download or you can click here to listen to the full playlist

I’m not even going to apologize. Poor form on the blog writing yet again. I have the final installment of “Dirty Danish Delights” in the works as well as a post about an old album from an artist who I think should be bigger than bleedin’ Abba. Is it Abba or ABBA? Fuckit.

I wanted to post something short and sweet, just to touch base with you guys, make sure you’re doing ok and so you can see that I’m alive after an intense few weeks of Electic Picnic and graduation. Woop Woop. So here is what I’ve been listening to:

“Penguin Prison” by Penguin Prison.

Penguin Prison just one dude kicking ass and making music. Fucking love the whole album. I bought it on vinyl because I thought that would make me cool.

“The Walkyr” by Cult Called Man.

Sweet single by a cool band. They played two gigs at EP and I didn’t manage to see either of them. My life is filled with shame. This track is really impressive because of it’s completeness. That sounds like a super douchebag of a sentence but give it a listen and you’ll understand. Lots of nice little details and quirky sounds.

“Five Seconds” and “To the Top” by Twin Shadow.

One of my EP highlights. I like to think that Twin Shadow is what Bruce Springsteen would sound like if he lived in a future ruled by Prince.

“Girl” by Beck

One of my favourite tracks from one of my favourite albums by one of my favourite humans. Beck was fab at EP and this was the pinnacle.

So that’s it. What is the rest of the world listening to? Gimme some suggestions and i’ll start a positive rumour about you

xo

So my second album was honestly the one I was looking forward to the most, “Lukas Graham” by Lukas Graham. And it was pretty disappointing. I heard Lukas Graham like two years ago with a cool kinda live version of “Drunk in the Morning”. It was just a video of the dude himself and the band just playing the song in his gaff. They looked like scaldy piss heads and he just had the most amazing voice. I was so excited about it. I checked out some other tracks and wasn’t that sold on them. Decent, but underwhelming.

I bought the album off the back of “Drunk in the Morning”. The thinking was that nobody could have written such a good song and not be able to write anything half as good. Lies. There’s a kinda weird faux gansta thing going on and it’s just a bit tragic. I like to pretend to be the pimp mac daddy as much as the next white college educated man but this is upsetting. The album has interludes. I got one listen though and I can’t say I see myself returning to it for a while. Even the album version of “Drunk in the Morning” is disappointing.

So, while I’m not sharing a great album, I am sharing the original video which is worth the heart break. Actually, I’m not even sharing the album at all. Fuck it.

So much for up before the weekend I suppose.

So for the last couple of years I’ve kinda had a hard on for Scandinavia. Music, TV, women, everything important. So when I went to Denmark last week I had the plan to buy some albums and come back and share them here with all the Brazilians who have been reading my blog this month. I had a short list of artists that I knew pretty well and I picked four albums that I thought seemed worthwhile. One was Alphabeat so we’ll ignore that. That leaves three albums for me to share with yissers.

So for Part One of Dirty Danish Delights I’m gonna go with The Blue Van’s “Man Up”. Wikipedia reliably informs me that The Blue Van are a Danish “blues-rock band”. The album’s from 2008. It’s not ground breaking or avant garde or anything like that but it’s a solid album of pretty solid songs. A bunch of the tracks have been used in ads for shit over the years and that’ll give you the idea. If I was to compare it to another album I think I’d go with Orson’s first one. Kick ass singles and then the rest of the album maintains the vibe without straying from what is probably a “dad rock” sound. I like it though and I’m fairly certain I’m not a dad so don’t worry.

Give the album an auld listen and  I’ll love ya forever xoxox at least listen to the opening four. Well worth it.

The Blue Van – Man Up

 

Sorry for the delay since the last post. I started something and then couldn’t finish it. Then I was in Copenhagen for a week with the fam. The plus side is that I’m gonna try boost my out put for the next few weeks to make it up. I’ve got a mini series of posts called “Dirty Danish Delights” coming up which I’ll hopefully get kicked off before the weekend. And today I’m starting off the category I was trying to start before I left.

The original intention of kevinisabastard.com was to find a shit tonne of kick ass free music and show it off. I got pretty sidetracked just writing about stuff I liked or had on the brain. So this is the first of the posts which focus on free above all else. I wanted to open up with something strong, “Joshua’s Demons” By JOSH JAKQ.  Well it’s strong apart from the fact that in some places it’s “Joshua’s Demons” and in others it’s “Joshuas Demon’s”. We’ll forget about that though.

Fucking belter of an album from Oz. Killer voice, sometimes reminds me of the guy from Reef without the attempted Mick Jagger thing going on when he sings big if that makes any sense. Check “Intro” out and you’ll hear it. I was really struck by the whole record originally because the first track I heard was “Freak Some More” which is real funky and chilled in a pop way. The thing is though, the whole album is deeper than that. It’s trippier and more serious. My personal favourite is “See You Later” which is super sexy and laid back with some serious falsetto going on.The album is on Soundcloud as one playlist or ya can download the tracks individually for free free free. The dude is amazing and only has like 800 likes on the auld book of faces and 300 followers on Soundcloud so you get bonus hipster points which means you’re allowed listen to some Alphabeat afterwards. At the very least check out his big hair in the bizarre video for “Freak Some More” and his menacing merchandise.

 

 

 

 

 

I wore a shirt for this post but no socks just in case anyone was wondering…