I was just thinking of posting this, but thought I’d reblog instead. Watching this makes me seriously excited about seeing them on Tuesday at Spaceland. There new album is gold, and you should buy it.
Video: Efterklang - The Soft Beating in a about a 100 different ways
This track is seriously good.
Thank you UK. Thank you Internet.
You can download this track at Jai Paul’s Myspace (click pic).
(via Rostam :: via dontdiewondering)
And this is obviously important for all of us.
Beach House on La Blogotheque.
I literally was thinking about Chris Taylor today on my way to work. Thinking about how anything with his name on it producer-wise or other-wise, is nearly always next level. Also, how I’d love to hear something else from CANT. But, I guess until then we’ll just have to deal with things he’s got his hands on. Go down to Green Lable Sound and download Neon Indian’s new song. It’s so sooth it hurts.
Vincent Moon’s new website went live yesterday. He is a god.
If you’ve ever thought you loved what you saw at La Blogotheque, what your probably were experiencing was the genius that is Vincent Moon. Who is Vincent Moon you say? Aside from my personal hero that is?
Vincent Moon was born in Paris in 1979. At the age of 18, he decided he wanted to see it all, to learn things on his own, out of curiosity, even if that could have led to overfeeding, and so for ten years. From that experience, images came out, through photography first, which we studied under the influence of Michael Ackerman and Antoine D’Agata. Some years later, as he discovered the work of Peter Tscherkassky, his images gained movement/motion. He made use of the Internet and developed various projects related to music, directing videos for Clogs, Sylvian Chauveau, Barzin, The National. In 2006, overwhelmed by the beauty of Step Across the Border, directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, on the English guitarist Fred Frith, he created the Chryde and Take Away Shows project, La Blogotheque’s video podcast www.concertaemporter.com. This series of outdoor/wild documentaries consists in improvised video sessions with musicians, set in unexpected locations and broadcast freely on the web. In a year, he managed to shoot over a hundred clips with bands like REM, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Grizzly Bear and many more. He perfected a style immediately recognizeable of intimate, fragile, dancing and shadowing long shots, and at the same time changed the whole idea of what should be a music video. While he works on his Take Away shows, Vincent Moon also keeps side projects, exploring other formats. He directed a movie-essay on New York band The National titles A skin, A night, released in May 2008, also created a one hour movie on The Arcade Fire and works closely with Michael Stipe and REM on several video and web projects related to their recent album: the 48′essay 6 Days, a free documentary on the recording of Accelerate, the experimental ninety-days-long web project called 90nights, and the video for the single Supernatural Superserious. He released in November 2007 his first dvd, a very unique film with Beirut, all the 12 songs from his new album being filmed in the streets of Brooklyn. In his attempt to find new ways to film music, distancing himself from mainstream and commercial formats, he filmed in 2007 an average length gonzo film on the ATP Festival, Sketches from a nightmare, the first of a serie on this festival, as well as on the Music Now Festival in Cincinnati, in a very different style – a 30 min one shot in a building filled with musicians. In October 2007, Warp Films signed him up as a video clip director. But he doesn’t really enjoy video clips. Exploring new forms and territories being not only a metaphor Vincent Moon is developing now what will be his lifetime project: to document every country in the world, as temporary areas, on a very unique website – WWW.TEMPORARYAREAS.COM – and not only dedicated to music this time. The first territories explored are Mali, Jerusalem, Iceland and The Lower East Side. A lot is still to come.
Here is a much briefer bio.
Also check out these other projects of his:Fiume NightsTemporary CopenhagenTemporary AreasVimeoTwitter
Die Antwoord is at Cinespace in Hollywood right now. And I can’t go. Fuck
No more exclusivity POPJUSTICE. Yeasayer’s video for O.N.E. is free and alive. Thank you.
A post that in some way incorporates pretty much everything that I’ve wanted to post today but have felt too lazy to actually do. Perfection.
Thank you elcoyote:
Yeasayer debuted their new video for “O.N.E.” on POPJUSTICE today.
Their video for Ambling Alp has been, so far, one of my favorites of the year (or the end of last). But this one takes the zaniness to a new level. It’s like a spectacular mash-up of TRON, Logan’s Run, the Mos Eisley cantina, MC Hammer and other assorted 90’s Freshness all rolled into one.
Video aside, I think, overall, Odd Blood is tits. Been heavy into it for the past several months. Stoked to see them with the uber buzzy Sleigh Bells in April up in SF.
Notorious B.I.G. died 13 years ago today (March 9, 1997).
CocoRosie teaser for Grey Oceans! Excitement!
“Trailer for “Smokey Taboo” off upcoming CocoRosie release, Grey Oceans, out on Sub Pop Records on May 11th 2010. Look for more trailers before release date and get more information on CocoRosie here: subpop.com/artists/cocorosie”
(via subpop)
I didn’t want to lead with a picture of Justin Vernon because the focus is this amazing new record coming out by Anaïs Mitchell Hadestown. From JagJaguwar, they say, “Hadestown is a modern folk opera whose songs tell the tale of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice re-imagined and set in the United States.”
And if that statement doesn’t both blow your mind and make you question everything you’ve ever known, I don’t know what will. But what makes it even sweeter is that Justin Vernon is contributing to a number of tracks on the album, which for any fan of everything Justin touches, like me, is exciting news.
The record is out on Tuesday, March 9th. You can download the track below at JagJaguwar. <3
Cults - Go Outside
I wish I could say that all the hype about Cults is ridiculous; but, goddammit if it’s not all exactly on point. From rags (and that’s not a reference to the quality of GvsB!) to riches in just days. It’s so good. So just go get it okay!?
(via therecordmachine): Song Of The DayRun and don’t walk over to the Cults’ Bandcamp and download this song with two others. I have had this little EP on repeat all morning. I have already listened to Go Outside a good 5 or 6 times and the rest a few more times. I want to hear more from Cults now. It is infectious.
I was going to post this myself, but here you have it in reblog fashion. Love all three tracks by Cults, for sure. Catchy, catchy stuff.
“We only write about two feelings: one is the first day of summer when you and all of your friends are standing on the edge of a cliff watching the sun set and being overcome with all of your hopes and dreams at once. The other is when you’re walking alone in the rain and realize you will be alone forever.” -The Drums
It’s not even spring, and I already feel a favorite summer album coming on. That is Summertime! by The Drums. If you listen to The Drums and find yourself wondering when the music was made, you wouldn’t be the only one. It seems like Surf Rock is back and in full affect. The album is bright and smooth, with a hint of heartbreak in places. But still leaving you wanting to bounce all the way to the beach and into the water. The album has been lightening my load recently, and I can’t see that changing for a while.
(buy on iTunes)
Get into it:
LA band KISSES song “Weekend in Brooklyn.” One additional track on their MySpace page.
Sounds to me like a dancier version of Jens Lekman, who I love. Playing the Echo Curio on April 24th.
<3 for LA bands.
Ditto. <3
