For You Right Here It’s Awesome

Johnny Boy “Fifteen Minutes” – The wall-of-joycore sound of “You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve” was no fluke. Almost every song on Johnny Boy’s debut album reaches a similar sort of ecstatic peak, and most of them reach those dizzying heights and never quite come back down to earth. Taken one song at a time, it’s a magical thing, but listening to one after the other is overwhelming and can numb a person to the brilliance of the material. (Click here for the official Johnny Boy site.)

Aziz Ansari – Excerpt from “Invite Them Up” – Comedy Central’s cd compilation documenting material performed at Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale’s weekly Invite Them Up showcase on the Lower East Side is usually quite funny. The album’s three discs generally tip in favor of strong material from the likes of Mirman, Jon Glaser, Andy Blitz, David Cross and Jon Benjamin, and Jessi Klein, with only a few brief detours into lameness and unnecessary musical interludes. The highlight of the set comes from fellow blogger and comedy newcomer Aziz Ansari, who offers up a solid nine minutes of stand-up on the topics of turtle-fucking, Kayne West’s work ethic, hitting on M.I.A., and beating a cop with a brick. (Click here to buy it from Comedy Central.)