6-pack, Outside Lands & Burning Man edition

This week's 6-pack is split between music from last weekend's Outside Lands festival, and songs that I attach to my memories of the Burning Man.

Up top is Tiga's excellent cover and even better blinged out video of Nelly's 'Hot in Herre'. Below is the full 6 pack. Be safe this weekend.

DOWNLOAD: 8/29 6-pack.zip

Nelly - "Hot in Herre"
Why? Because it's fucking hot at Burning Man. Really, really, really incredibly hot. And the only way to deal with the heat is to sing and laugh with it. That and crack open a Tecate.

Common - "The Light"
"There is a light that shines, special for you". The chorus is a love letter between everyone in my camp on Sunday, as we end our extra-special, summer camp extravaganza and head back to Reality Camp.

Ian Brown - "F.E.A.R."
Amy and Mads discovered this one on their drive in last year, and we enjoyed it on the way out. Truth be told though, this one was in our iPod on the way in for 2k5. The sense of "Fantastic Expectations, Amazing Revelations" couldn't be more spot on for the playa.

Telepop Musik - "Just Breathe"
This dusky gem is one of k8's favoritist on-playa songs. Reminds me of 2003, the year that we somehow convinced Hart, Bern, Annelise & k8 to go. k8 hasn't missed a year since.

Outside Lands songs

Radiohead - "House of Cards"
Friday night was a nightmare for me, between work phone calls right before Radiohead started, Tokyo-like overcrowded subways and being unable to locate my friends at the show. Radiohead almost made it worth it though.

Bon Iver - "Skinny Love (live)"
Sunday was the opposite of Friday night. The sun made its way through the Golden Gate fog, the good family Hazelrigg made a surprise appearance, and oh, Bon Iver restored my faith in the power of music. Redemptive and cathartic, haunting and beautiful and raw, they literally had some members of the audience in tears (including yours truly). For "Wolves (Acts I & II)", Justin taught the audience how to sing the "What Might've Been Lost" part. I turned and watched the Presidio Meadows crowd become the 5th, 6th and 3000th members of the band sans irony in a communal realness. At the end strangers were beaming at each other, and a few thousand new converts were added to the Bon Iver flock.

8.15.8 6 pack

download: 8.15.8 6-pack.zip

Footloose (Kenny Loggins cover) - Doveman
Into the Groove (Sidechains remix) - Madonna
The Escapist - The Streets
Paper Planes - I'm from Barcelona
Acquiesce - Oasis
Oliver James - Fleet Foxes

NOTE: Fleet Foxes play the El Rey on September 22nd. Give me a shout if you're going.

Contrails & Calexico

Very, very, very nice.

8.8.8.6

After last week's 6-pack of comfort food in honor of my disorient campmates, this week gets boppier and a little more sun-drenched. Special happy birthday to fellow Leos Ms. Van House and Dee.

This week's descriptions, like the above movie marquee changing from Hancock to Batman(HT: Mike Ward), are full of showbiz metaphor mixing.

DOWNLOAD8.8.8.sixpack.zip

How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees cover) - The Bird and Bee
Like the disco floor got transported to a beach house bedroom and the strobes replaced with sunshine through gauze curtains.

1234 (Feist cover) - Bikini
If Cylons (the 70s sci-fi ones, not the new humanoid ones) followed the Battlestar Galactica all the way to Earth, then took

Kim & Jessie (Montag Remix) - M83
Music for lunch at the Breakfast Club, except this time everyone brings sushi.

Move - Cansei de Ser Sexy
GetupGetupGetupGetupGetup. This is like twitter translated to the dancefloor.

Too Hot To Stop - The Bar-Kays
Such funky, funky goodness that even black folk start doing the white man's overbite.

Divine - Sebastien Tellier
Like the Beach Boys hiccupping while riding Segway's down the Venice boardwalk. Golden.

Friday 6-pack 8/1

This one's for our campmates Cal&Tony, and for my Disorient friends and for our grief. Going to miss being out there on the playa with you this year.

These are the remembrance songs, the remember to tell your friends you love them songs, the old comfort songs.

DOWNLOAD: August 1st 6-pack.zip

Tracklisting:
Verve - 'BitterSweet Symphony (live in SF)'
The The - 'This is the day'
Modest Mouse - 'Float On'
Bonnie Prince Billy - 'A Minor Place'
Jeff Buckley - 'Hallelujah'
Richard Ashcroft - 'Brave New World'