Following the buzz and momentum Cage gained by appearing on National television with KiD CuDi & St. Vincent on Jimmy Fallon, he went ahead and released the official video for his latest song Captain Bumout which was strangely labeled Katie’s Song on his latest album, Depart From Me. Not sure why he decided to change the name of it or anything, but I personally think that it’s definitely one of the easiest song for the common music listener to ease in to what Cage is all about.

download : Cage – Captain Bumout

Alright, I don’t post alot of tv shows performances, but seeing Cage and St. Vincent on stage with CuDi during his performance of Maniac, the last single of his forthcoming album, Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager, at the Jimmy Fallon Late Night is something that I find utterly cool. Not only because Maniac is one of my favorite song of the album, but Cage on national television? count me in anytime.

Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager will arrive in stores on November 9th.

download : KiD CuDi – Maniac ft. Cage & St. Vincent

Okay, so there is no word on the why, where and what of this song, but I have to say that this is the kind of unexpected collaboration I live for. I mean, CuDi and Shia Laboeuf’s favorite rapper on the same track? Never would have dreamt of that… No word on exactly where this will actually end up, but I’m fine with being on my iPod/iTunes rotation for now. On the side, CuDi’s sophomore album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager is set to be released on November 9th.

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download : KiD CuDi – Maniac ft. Cage

And offered here below is the official video for KiD CuDi’s lead single of his forthcoming sophomore album, Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager, directed by Jason Goldwatch and featuring not only Kanye West wearing a gold crown, but also Christopher Mintz-Plasse and CuDi channeling their best British rock stars impression; which is quite reminiscing of what we’ve seen Katy Perry’s husband, Russell Brand, doing lately in movies such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall & Get Him To The Greek. Oh and there’s a little of Clark Duke in the video too.

download : KiD CuDi – Erase Me ft. Kanye West

So we’re already six months in 2009 and well into the seventh … here’s a little shortlist of what I thought best of what was released so far (in no particular order). I know Top 30 might seems like an odd number, but I just wrote down songs off the top of my head and it ended up around 28, so i added 2 more to reach 30. You might also notice that I play around with the release dates of the songs, some of them leaked in 2008 and are still on the list, because they were officially released in 2009 and so on … anyway, here it is in no particular order.

download : Mr. Hudson – Supernova ft. Kanye West
download : Dan Black – Symphonies
download : Dirty Projectors – Stillness Is The Move
download : Phoenix – Liztomania
download : Lupe Fiasco – Shining Down ft. Matthew Santos
download : Camera Obscura – French Navy
download : Clipse – Kinda Like A Big Deal ft. Kanye West
download : Little Boots – New In Town
download : Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
download : Phoenix – 1901
download : The Lonely Island – I’m On A Boat ft. T-Pain
download : N.A.S.A – Gifted ft. Kanye West, Lykke Li & Santigold / Aoki Remix
download : Animal Collective – My Girls
download : Metric – Help I’m Alive / Acoustic
download : Kid CuDi – Make Her Say ft. Kanye West, Common & A-Trak
download : Frankmusik – Better Off As Two
download : Coeur de Pirate – Umbrella (Rihanna Cover)
download : Timid Tigers – Are You Gonna Go My Way ft Lenny Kravitz, Ludacris & Notorious B.I.G.
download : Manchester Orchestra – I’ve Got Friends
download : Kanye West – Paranoid ft. Mr. Hudson / Big Sean Remix
download : Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
download : Keri Hilson – Turnin’ Me On ft. T-Pain & Lil Wayne (Remix)
download : Passion Pit – Moth’s Wings
download : Drake – Best I’ve Ever Had
download : Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity of Huge ft. Chris Keating
download : Bat For Lashes – Daniel
download : Asher Roth – I Love College / Chamillionaire Remix
download : Chester French – She Loves Everybody / Shawn Chrystopher Remix
download : Daniel Merriweather – Change ft. Wale
download : La Roux – Quicksand
download : Handsome Furs – I’m Confused

Oh and Charles Hamilton getting punched in the face by his on/off girlfriend, that shit was priceless …

ps. I wanted to squeeze in I’m Not Alone of Calvin Harris, but couldn’t find the mp3 on any of my computers and neither on the web.

And that will be all folks.

Here’s the long awaited collaboration between Shia Lebouf and Cage in form of videoclip to one of his latest track I Never Knew You.

Thanks to iLLRoots for this another joint from Cage upcoming album Depart From Me. Not the biggest follower of Cage, but while you can tell he’s the one who did Agent Orange, you can also tell that something has change in the way he delivers.

ps. Still waiting for that video collab with Shia LeBoeuf

download : Cage – Dr. Strong