How d'ya make it slide around like that

Judi Chicago are a gaggle of guys from Atlanta that just turned my day on its head. Being a former ATL-ien, I've seen then several times in both GA and NY, and as such I know that, live, they make an electroacid kool-aid, with a little free-form beat poetry to make Shaun Ryder a proud pappa, that begs to be guzzled.

What I never expected was for their new album, Bright Lights Fun City, to do the impossible and translate the sweaty, tongue-in-cheek genius to a recorded medium.

Judi Chicago: Universal Butter

So what all happens in this song? An almost tribal house groove gets paved, and re-paved, fucking cemented in fact, there's a heady, trippy chorus, and a sax solo, all with that hypnotic Kerouac-ian chant, by Ben Coleman, of "butter butter butter butter". This isn't a song as much as a voodoo chant, a command to strip to your socks like you're in a southern summer.  And the entire album is like this--track after track of post-ironic, entirely irreverent stream-of-thought Acid House. It's enough to make James Murphy wet himself in jealousy. You can almost hear Ben singing "Atlanta, I love you, but we're sweating it out." Summer is officially here, because Judi Chicago commands it.

How DO they make it all fucking rock like that? Well...it's butter, ya know what I mean?

Just Bein' Miley

Everyone's favorite tween sensation who's not Justin Bieber released a new music video yesterday.

Yes, our beloved Miley Cyrus has finally crossed the threshold she's been toeing for so long, fully abandoning her Disney Channel, girl next door roots for full-on slutdom. The clip for her new single, "Can't Be Tamed," (insert coming-of-age, teenage girl rebellion joke here), cinematically resembles the latest Harry Potter installment and features her basically writhing around in a cage for a few minutes, looking like the product of a one night stand between Lady Gaga and a giant crow.

She's definitely jumping on the Gaga-Glambert train musically, but there's enough good production behind it to make up for the fact that homegirl can't really sing all that well. Or at all.

My first reaction to the song itself is that I kind of like it. In fact, I really like it. I'm also trying to forget about the fact that she's like 14.

What do you think of the newest entry in the Miley Cyrus juggernaut? Sound off below!

Update on May 5, 2010 by Russ

ooooh Hannah Montana discovered orgasms AND Gaga on the same day!

Update on May 5, 2010 by Marley

Miley! I love it. I've heard (that is, my friends have said over email) that it's just Miley being Gaga'd and sexed up but if you watch the E! Online interview with her she talks about writing the song, designing her video herself, and how the sexy video is kind of an eff you to her boyfriend who got all the attention when he was all half-naked in the movie where they met... so whether she was influenced by pop music's recent dark turn or Gaga's video style or if she's just being fed a script, she's spinning it as her own creation. 

And it's hot.  And she looks hot in it (did her teeth get smaller or did her face get bigger?).  I'm not ashamed to say I'll take one of every outfit she wears in it.  And some wings...

And shit if the song ain't a jam.  

Update on May 5, 2010 by Kristin

I wish the beginning announcer guy had been Crispin Glover.

How old is she again? A quick Google search: 17, 18 in November. I'm a little creeped.

Well, this answers who will fill the void left by Britney Spears. The video does seem like it wants to cash in on the Gaga aesthetic, but look at those Britney faces! Britney-esque writhing! Even the age factor brings me back to the glory days of Ms. Spears.

Also, she totally touched her boobies.

On the first listen, the thump-bounce of this song immediately gets me. I like the video, I like the tune, I like the direction. I  can't believe I'm saying it, but I'm down.

We love the holiday jams, and the holiday jams run free

It's obvious-the lazy haze as your eyes glaze over, your incessant back-of-the-neck scratching...you're gearing up for holidays with your family, aren't you?

Ugh.

Holidays can suck, and holiday music can suck worse-so here at soldout, we want to be a part of your new holiday tradition: stuff that makes the Christmas and your other non-denominational holidays beyond-tolerable.

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