​Not to get all sorts of heavy on you here on this otherwise happy hump day (seriously, isn't the weather just picture-perfect today?), but this song by Martina McBride hit me in just the right way as I was driving earlier this morning, in the same way that countless others, like Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me," did once upon a time, and I thought I'd share it with you.

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Man, do we love robots. Especially when those robots are bringing us the latest and greatest DFA sounds. We've been wearing out our copies of LCD Soundsystem's This Is Happening for a while now, and just as we're thinking it's time to give it a rest comes a new slice of brilliant DFA goodness, in convenient, robotic Song of the Day form!

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​Oh, man, this is the goods! Have you heard the new Cee Lo Green cut, "F**CK YOU"? Gonna go ahead and call this now: This track will, in all likelihood, end up being my favorite song of the year.

Even though the song is reportedly the first single from Cee Lo's forthcoming album, The Ladykiller, I can't imagine it has a prayer of getting within a hundred feet of any radio playlist. It's a smash-in-waiting, though, by god, if programmers can somehow figure out a way to get past the blatant f-bombs without ruining the song.

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Weirdest thing: It was just the other day that we were thinking, "Man, the world needs more hip-hop-inflected tunes that use video game samples for the beats and video game metaphors to explain life." And then today, guess what we find? Yep, that exact thing. Coincidence?

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It's been three years since Radiohead released In Rainbows, and fans are getting kind of itchy to hear some new material. This past weekend at England's Big Chill festival, Thom Yorke scratched that itch -- maybe. He played a newish song called "Give Up the Ghost" (debuted in February, apparently, but we hadn't heard it before) that is thought to be a candidate for inclusion on the work-in-progress followup. So, how is it?

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You've heard this sound before. It's nothing new or even particularly novel. At least it won't strike you as such, particularly if you own the first three U2 albums. Just the same, by god, does it sound absolutely fanfreakingtastic! These dudes just completely smash it on this cut! It's a little ditty called "Squeeze," and it's from an outfit led by Frankie Abbatecola called Monroe Monroe, rechristened from its previous moniker, the Legendary Beep Beeps.

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Ever had your heart broken? I mean, just absolutely shattered, utterly smashed to pieces to the point where you can't tell up from down and it's all you can do to find the strength to pick yourself off the floor? In "I Can't Stop Crying," one of my all time favorite songs, Sam Phillips once sang the words, "I know that this heartache is a speck in the sky of love, but it's all I feel around me." Gospel. Been there. Woe is me.

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​Nod your head to this: We've got another brand new track to lay on you on this week.

This one, fresh out of the lab and still hot to the touch, is by Lil Ceej from his forthcoming mixtape, Street Fame Vol. 1: Told You So. The cut, which is built on a Johnny Juliano beat from Sound Click, was recorded by Dyalekt and LeeZy at Diamond Boi studio.

Lil Ceej is a Diamond Boiz affiliate who previously appeared with Dyalekt's "Polish My Wingz," from his Dreams, Caffeine & Nicotine mixtape. Listen and download "Imma Do It" below, and then keep an eye out for the full Street Fame mixtape to be released very soon.

MP3: Lil Ceej - Imma Do It

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Naeem Oba should already be on your radar. But just in case he isn't, feel free to get up to speed on the Minneapolis-bred MC by reading the Q&A we posted with him and brikAbrak this past December. Dude is deep. Real deep. Right now, he's working on an album based on 1984, George Orwell's prescient novel from 1949. If you prefer hip-hop that scratches the grey matter as much as it makes your head nod, check out "Julia" after the jump, and then download it on iTunes. It's the first track from Naeem Oba's forthcoming album, Unorthodox, recorded at CCM on Colfax, featuring brikAbrak, and produced by Illmind.

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Today's Song of the Day pushes every nerd button in our nerdy little hearts -- and that's a lot of nerd. The song is 8-bit infused hip-hop with a clever MC who drops lines about classic gaming, smoking weed and even name checks Colorado. His style is a little bit Del tha Funky Homo Sapien, which we can all agree is a good thing for 8-bit nerd rap, right?

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