This one is for all my ‘whipped’ brethren out there. Skateboards, ukeleles, blokes, and tiny shorts…who could ask for more. If you look closely the two friends at the beginning, they remind me of the duo Stony Rivers…with the roles reversed of course!

As you should know by now the highly anticipated new Vampire Weekend album is out there. Here is the video for the first single Cousins. As always the video is great and as always the song is fun and catchy. Below it, Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of VM helps out on the track Warm Heart of Africa by The Very Best. The Very Best is a collaboration of Esau Mwamwaya a singer from Lilongwe, Malawi and Belgian DJ/production duo Radioclit.

Major Lazer is a collaborative musical project from DJ/Producers Diplo and Switch.

Directed by the visual genius Eric Wareheim.

Please do this video justice and watch it in HD!

Angus & Julia Stone are a brother-sister duo from Newport on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Their debut EP Chocolates and Cigarettes was released August 2006. Their second EP Heart Full of Wine was released in February 2007. Both EP’s were released through EMI Music in Australia and independent label, Independiente Records in the UK. Their debut album A Book Like This was released on the 8th September 2007 through EMI Music Australia and March 2008 in UK/Europe through Flock Music. It was later released in the USA through Nettwerk on the 3rd March 2009 with an alternative track listing. The album has also been released in Japan (Village Again) and (Korea Leaplay Music).

Béatrice Martin (born September 22, 1989) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter from Quebec, who performs under the stage name Cœur de pirate. She started playing the piano when she was only three years old, and later played as a keyboardist in the post hardcore band December Strikes First when she was 15 years old. After a brief stint as keyboardist for Bonjour Brumaire, she released her debut album Cœur de pirate in 2008 on Grosse Boîte. The album was subsequently nominated for Francophone Album of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards.

From the soundtrack to really cool movie Whip It! The horn solo at the end makes me melt!