Here’s a sweet performance by Iron & Wine, playing a live version of “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” a few nights back on Jay Leno. In a characteristic Sam Beam way, the whole experience was relaxing, eerie and pleasant. Proof again that he’s just as good both on stage and in the studio. Off his critically acclaimed, 2007 released “The Shepherd’s Dog.”
Like every March, hundreds of bands are set to perform in Austin,TX’s SXSW art fest, battling for some attention and maybe a label contract. Most of the bands are great, some are more awesome, some are lameass, doesn’t matter really. We all get a kick of it. Bellow you can check out the full list of the initial line-up, which will be constantly updated with new names, until it hits a few hundred. To save…
“Common let’s get hiiiiiiiiigh,” goes Franz Ferdiand’s Alex Kapranos as their latest single, Ulysses, unfolds. As fun as the actual track may be, the video is definitely a spectacle for both ears and eyes, featuring the band sharply dressed, jumping around indoors, streets and a desert (?? space cookies??). Off the band’s latest upcoming studio effort, “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand”, out January 27th.
Think of The Village, only a lot more disturbing and less lame, and you can make an idea of Bodies of Water’s new awesome video for “Under the Pines,” off their last year summer release, “A Certain Feeling.” The video’s plot is quite interesting, although ringing of clichés, but that’s what makes it so fun, because it’s so intentionally predictable, I guess. A man going hunting in the woods, shoots a dog. While gutting it,…
With only a few weeks before the new Bruce Springsteen album, “Working on a Dream,” comes out, spirits are getting pretty restless. Anxious, if you will. The whole tension has been building up since the first video, Lucky Day, popped out – a motivation anthem, packed with hope and messages of change. Bruce’s latest video, however, for the “Life Itself” is quite different, although the setting is kinda the same – Bruce and the guys,…
What’s probably the most influential electronic music band in the world, Kraftwerk, will surprisingly tour with Radiohead, as gig openers, for their upcoming 2009 trek. Quite an end to German-English rivalry. Although, Kraftwerk is on board only for a hanful of shows, Latin American fans will be delighted to see the two giants on tour, starting March 15-16, when they’ll kick it off in Mexico City, before calling it quits on April 25-26 in Wolfsburg,…
This year’s “Narrow Stairs”, by Death Cab for Cutie, was beautiful, melancholic, soothing; well damn right awesome. Actually, it’s kinda the album that got me into DCFC and turned me into a fan, so naturally I now always get exited when I get to see the band play. Wednesday, the band graced the Late Late Show with their presence, where they played a very solid performance of “Cath,” off Narrow Stairs, after a proper and,…
I’m a really big fan of the X-Men series, be it the original Marvel comic books or the awesome movies that followed, so, naturally, one of my most expected movies for 2009 is, without a doubt, the latest movie in the franchise, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, that unravels the mystery behind the impenetrable mutant. I just saw the movie’s trailer, after a friend past it along via IM, and it’s pure awesome! I won’t spoil the…
It seems Scott’s really Happy In Galoshes. I mean, who can blame him, right? I’d be happy too, if I could get to ride around the mexican desert, next to a hot brunette and, as one can see in his latest video “Missing Cleveland”, get to play astronaut with a blond lady friend. I’m not gonna touch on how the track sounds, ’cause frankly there’s not too much to talk about. Moments like these make…
There was a time when Rolling Stone’s editorials and features could rise or break an artist. In time, though, it’s influence has steadily decreased, as the magazine became increasingly irrelevant. I blame MTV – damn kids. A lot of years back, one of the most awaited issues was the December one, as it presented Rolling Stone’s take on the years best albums. For 2008, Rolling’s Stones list is surprisingly diversed, but as usual with some…
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