An extremely impressive video, both from a content and from a production standpoint. Seeing this kind of video and this kind of thinking fires me up, reminds me that anything is possible. Looks like the days are getting longer up in Maine and it’s almost February! Next thing you know we’ll be surfing on Tuesday afternoons and talking about how good we’ve got it. • Notorious B.I.G – Going Back To Cali (Viceroy Jet Life Remix) – Jet life is right – I am feelin’ da riddim on this one, giving Biggie a whole new island feel. Definitely the anthem for Thug Life in downtown Torotolla. • Krewella – Killin It – Krewella is nothing short of raw electricity and this one is no exception. A fierce and raw song about being an absolute slayer. • Sex Ray Vision – Mind Explosion 2011 (Mashup) – Similar to the other 2011 mashups, Sex Ray Vision does a terrific jobs at keeping the melodies in tact for all you Girl Talk lovers out there.

• Justice – On’n’on (Rick Rubin Remix) – This is such an awesome beat, really glad to have found this one. A sweet remix of a 90’s jam.

• Drive By Truckers – Pulaski - This song reminds me of how awesome the simple life can be. No matter how titanic your successes, no matter how high the highs are, sometimes all you want is a cold beer, a good sunset, and a good friend. Love this song.

Pretty sure I’ve never seen a video or a lineup like this – fully electrifying. I don’t think it is any accident that over 18 million people have seen this. Needless to say, I’m looking up tickets this afternoon for a Europe throwdown. Hot beats and cold weather this week, kind of like the ski lodge on a power day. EXACTLY where I want to be. • Break Science – Talk That Talk (Rihanna Remix) – This remix is SO good. Definitely on my top 10 "wish I had a Landrover" jams for 2012. Love the huge bass lines and voluptuous beat drop. • Shwayze feat Adele – I Won’t Go – Smooth operations all around. The voices and piano in this one are silk for the ears. Not the soy milk kind. • Left Boy – VIE – Two weeks in a row, Left Boy delivers a much more authentic music blitz, sampling from an older days. Kind of like a Hoodie Allen, if you’re into that.

• W.E.E.D – Love for Free – I like this a lot. It’s got that sexiness that makes hip hop work, fused with some straight 50-Cent style rap.

• Temple of the Dog – Hunger Strike – Blast from the 90’s, Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell lay down one of the most vintage angst jams. What’s funny is that most people just refer to this song as "Oh – yeah I heard that in the first Girl Talk album." Sigh.

Big ups to the snow storm this weekend and to all your skiers out there. Glad to see this YouTube theme is alive and kicking – nothing funnier than making fun of stereotypes. Hope everyone has their 2012 injections in all the major veins – it’s party time. • The Jane Doze – Kids, Set Fire to Someone That I Used To Know – It was only a matter of time until someone unleashed a bangin’ remix of these songs. A fun one for the snow storm, makes me want to pour some 5 hour energy into my Bailey’s. I mean coffee. • Jay-Z – Glory – Classic Hova slowing down the beat to deliver us a message about something that is way too serious for a Friday morning. I want more Z and less Jay. • Left Boy feat. Mirakle – Video Games Fix- Sweet remix of the Lana Del Ray jam, glad someone put some beats behind that one. I have no idea what kind of video games she was playing when she wrote that song – definitely not Alpha Combat

• G-Unit – Poppin’ Them Thangs – Heard some G-Unit being spun at a party this past Monday and was instantly reminded how much I love these guys. Let’s get real – 50 Cent kills it. "I’ll sleep when I’m dead!" He makes me want to change my company name to Bluecloud – Thug Marketing.

• Bruce Springsteen – The Long Goodbye – Picked up the Boss’ album "Human Touch" for xmas and finally have a good reason to replace "Ready to Die" in my car CD player. I honestly can’t even describe how awesome this album is, apexed by this America-loving, power chord searing, foot stomping, f*ck yeah I love to hang out song. Bruce Springsteen makes me want to live harder. Download this immediately.

Yeah I know this is kind of touchy feely but it’s awesome, so deal with it. Could not be more fired up about this kind of stuff. Hope you all are pumped about 2012 – this is going to be the best year of your lives. HELL YEAH • Adventure Gallery – Addict – Great jam to kick this off – almost a feel good version of Arcade Fire, with a little bit of Cake mixed in. Arcade Cake? Twinkies. • Scissor Sisters – Shady Love – Handed to me on a sweet mix, Scissor Sisters bring it back from their 2011 days and drop the hammer on this jam. • Morgan Page – Fight For You (Remix) – A nice little dance hit, kind of like Ellie Goulding, but way less heavy.

• Grimes – Genesis – One of the hottest jams on the web right now, Grimes takes this beat and put its in the stratosphere. Electronic ambience.

• Bruce Hornsby – The Show Goes On – First snowy day of the new year and I had to put on Bruce. Easily my top 3 favorite artist of all time – so feel good. God bless America.

DJ Earworm slays it with this mashup and puts together and amazing video to boot. 2011 was way better than 2010, that’s for sure. 2012 is going to be legit incredible – I cannot wait. Hope everyone rocks out super hard this weekend and bring in the year like an Olympian. • DJ Earworm – United State of Pop 2011 – Figured I should send out the mp3 of the above video. Love it. • B.O.B – Play the Guitar feat. Andre 3000 – This is an awesome jam – super pumped to get this one on the box. Max out that volume and say SEE YA to 2011. • Strome feat. Kanye West – Alors On Danse – Kind of a dance/hip hop jam, great for getting really aggressive around 12:45am tomorrow night when you realized the party you were at really wasn’t that fun.

• Benoit & Sergio – Walk And Talk – Nice little electronic beat session for ya, nice background music for your 2012 resolution sessions. Best Album name – Where the Freaks Have No Name.

• The Submarines – Modern Inventions – Straight out of the hot new Pacifico commercial, this jam kills it. Make me want to get real on some pacific coast highway driving. No beers, involved, obviously. This girl’s voice is HOT.

This is so awesome. Seeing someone create a masterpiece like this is the greatest Christmas gift I could ask for. A Festivus miracle! All the best to you and your friends and family this holiday season. I’m asking Santa for 200 pushups. What’s on your list? • Nneka – My Home – Loving this new jam from Nneka – kind of a Reggae meets Asteroid Galaxy Tour sound. Absolultey worth a download – do it, or at least put it under the tree for someone else to enjoy. • Needtobreathe – The Reckoning – Never had a better road trip song, but for the kind of road trip where you don’t know where you’re going. These guys electrify me…and I love it. Coming to the State Theater this spring! • Sunday Girl – Where Is My Mind – An epic version of the Pixies classic. Reminds me of Birdy’s Bon Iver cover. Super smooth, like egg nog. Gross.

• Santogold – You’ll Find a Way – Drank half a bottle of bourbon at the bar last week listening to this album blaring on the stereo. Absolutely love this sound – raw and out of control.

• Lucero – What Are You Willing to Lose – Ska meets rock meets feel good times. Download this one if you like getting down on in-your-car-by-yourself-fist-pump dancing.

I laughed for about 10 minutes after watching this 5 times in a row. What a genius. Perfect. No offense ladies, obviously, but this is unreal. Let me know when someone makes one about guys. Huge weekend coming up! On the 3rd day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a fat stack of hot jams and a case of champage. See ya never. • Lloyd – Dedication to My Ex (feat. Andre 3000)- I heard this on the radio yesterday. Oh my god. Absolute rocket fuel for anyone who likes to dance. Seriously one of the best party songs of 2011 – maybe ever. Please download this – your weekend will be revolutionized. • M.I.A – Spaces – I pulled this one from the Entourage Season 7 episode where Vince jumps out of a plane. Totally sick jam. M.I.A has been a little m.i.a. lately, glad to bring her back in the mix. • Gang Starr & Inspectah Deck – Above the Clouds – I have a soft spot for Gang Starr and love this one for a slow cruise around the West End being super thug life at Aurora Provisions. Get real. Wu-Tang coming to the State theater next week – who’s going?

• The Lions – Girl From North Country – This was introduced to me by a girl from the north country and it’s incredible. Raw rock cover of one of my favorite bluegrass classics. No coincidence that my favorite animal is a lion. This song slays, definitely test your speakers with it.

• Whitney Houston – How Will I Know (Van Hooft & Forever Kid Remix) – I mean, how can you really go wrong with a sweet techno remix of Whiney’s epic 90’s hit? Put it on repeat and do something that makes you happy – like Occupy The Bar.

Hard to beat a good taxidermy commercial. Really? Fired up about the jams the weekend – lots of firepower coming at you to ride it through December. The holidays are coming up and that means mistletoe, egg nog, and thinking about being a kid. And watching Home Alone six times. See ya! • Phantogram – When I’m Small - I thought this song was sick. Then I watched the video. Now I’m a diciple. If I had to describe this music in one word it would be….big. No – bouncy. No – mesmerizing. Take a peek and you’ll see why this makes me think of motorboats. Great jam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28tZ-S1LFok • Phoenix – Fences (Casa del Mirto Remix) – This is a sweet remix of one of Phoenix’s classix. Love the beat – can’t wait to hijack a boom box with this. • Owl City – Alligator Sky – Dorrough has managed to extend his reign into every possible music category, which now includes the most hipster possible CD I’ve ever heard in my life.

• Lana Del Ray – Blue Jeans – (Count Ninjula Remix) – A slow jam that flirts with dubstep but never goes down that twisted, DMT driven experience. Thank god.

• Cobra Starship – You Make Me Feel – Shameless, in-your-face, not afraid to admit you’ll be dancing to this late night music. Do it.

It’s hard to pioneer new things in a market as saturated as the ski film industry, but these guys did it. Wow – totally awesome. Huge props to this creativity. Can’t wait to see him iron cross over a dump truck. What’s up Maine having the hottest weather in the USA this week! Love it. • Jhammel – Waves - Found this one the other day and have been pumping it straight all week. Clean, crisp, and catchy. Universally awesome. • Odjbox – Birmingham – These guys are fresh on the scene and deliver some of that R2D2, instrumental jamtastiscism that we all got down on in college when we thought we knew what we were talking about. • Mike Posner – Looks Like Sex – Mike P delivers his newest smash hit and it kills. Love this cover art.

• Corey Monteith – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – A pretty epic version of the Lauper hit. It took me a few minutes to realize it was the same song, but quite the listen.

• The Velvet Underground – Venus in Furs – I watched the Oliver Stone movie "The Doors" the other night and fell in love with this song. It’s played when Jim Morrison meets Andy Warhol and Andy gives him a gold phone. "I was told I could talk to God, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Maybe you’ll have better luck."

Taj Burrow dropping the hammer in Fiji. I am very thankful for killer weather and big waves, along with everything else that is awesome about life. Pushups and Tryptophan: The Story Giving It Hell. Have fun lounging! • Kennedy – Karate - Pretty phenomenal disco-dance jam straight out of Los Angeles. One of the hottest I’ve heard in a long time, it’s exactly what you want. • Birdy – 1901 (acoustic) – Birdy lays down another monster acoustic cover following her Bon Iver stint. Throw on some candles and eat a few slices of pie and you’ll be all set. • Marina & The Diamonds – Starring Role – I am digging this Marina song, almost has a shade of Lady Gaga in there, maybe a little Dido after some barbituates. It uses the best parts of rock-dub without getting weird.

• Avicii vs Journey – Don’t Stop Levels – Hard to go wrong with a solid maship of techno and Journey’s most popular ballad. I heard this at a club last weekend and the place went nuts.

• Poison – Unskinny Bop – This song brings me back to the hayday of playing my stereo at volume 11, shades on, high fiving the parents of my neighbor as they came in to drop off Gatorade before their son’s lacrosse game with Ted Lyons at 10:30 on a Saturday. If I ever start a band, this is the kind of music we would play. Band name: Suns out Guns out.