we found this sweet version of Bo Diddley’s ‘Diddley Daddy’ check it out:

http://www.last.fm/music/Bo+Diddley/_/Diddley+Daddy

edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros playing live @ kcrw morning becomes eclectic

MIA Unstoppable

Fergie

K-os still resists classification - “I am not indie rock,” he announces on opener, “Zambony” - and on this day, calls himself “prog hip-hop” then a moment later, “songwriter’s hip-hop.” He says hip-hop artists should be afforded more room to define themselves.

“In rock ‘n’ roll music, you can have everything from Thom Yorke to Kid Rock, and that’s still rock ‘n’ roll,” he said. “But in hip-hop, if you’re different, you’re no longer hip-hop.

“Hip-hop needs to be allowed to have more parameters.”

Meanwhile, he’s excited - and completely unapologetic - about the unbridled pop of “Yes!”

entire metro article…

and something from that new album:

4,3,2,1 first video from k-os off the new record YES!. The video was co-directed by Drew Lightfoot & k-os