Oh. My. God. Becky, look at this video.

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You've got to love some good ol' fashioned Major Lazer craziness.

Finally we get an official video for what is so far one of the top five songs of 2012. You can't help but love "Get Free", from its relaxed reggae vibes to its powerful lyrics and vocals from Dirty Projectors' own Amber Coffman, but the original video always felt like nothing more than a placeholder for the video that we now have. Shot entirely ( Read more... )

Speaking of summer jams, you can't have a great summer playlist without some new Major Lazer. Well, Major Lazer delivered in a big way today with "Get Free". It's hard to put a pin into what exactly makes this song so damn good, but it has something to do with its amazing electro-pop reggae slow-jam sound. There is a fantasticly upbeat melancholy ( Read more... )

Santigold's sophmore album 'Master Of My Make-Believe' is due out this spring and as a preview we get this video for "Big Mouth", which looks and sounds a lot like a M.I.A. song. It has the same sort of African/Caribbean rhythms and Major Lazer-style beats (which makes sense, since it was produced by Major Lazer's Switch and Portuguese band Buraka ( Read more... )

Remember that mysteriously amazing video I posted a while back with the Napoleon Dynamite-esque family dancing with swords to techno music in their backyard? Well, mystery solved. Turns out it was a teaser video for Major Lazer's "Original Don" video. This version of the video is equally mind blowing and, it seems, that was not the first time ( Read more... )

Recently Beyoncé created a bit of controversy (amongst hipsters, anyway) with her new single "Run The World (Girls)." The song significantly ripped off Major Lazer's "Pon de Floor," although we have to use the term "ripped off" loosely, considering Diplo and Switch (aka Major Lazer) actually produced the track. Sure, everyone samples songs ( Read more... )

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