After last year’s Ted Leo hilarious music video for “Bottled in Cork”, comes a new extravagant roller coaster ride courtesy of the same director Tom Scharpling, this time for The New Pornographers latest single “Moves”. The video, disguised as a fake trailer for expectantdadsmovie.com “staring” Paul Rudd and Bill Hader, follows the rise to fame of one of Canada’s most appreciated artistic imports. Its indeed interesting to see actors portray the band members, and it’s…
The new Daft Punk soundtrack for one of the most anticipated theatrical release of 2010, Tron: Legacy, is slated for tomorrow, and this latest hype builder of a music video for Derezzed, which premiered just earlier today, does nothing but amplify the sentiment. Nothing too much to say about the video, other that it’s quite awesome – the duo enter the film’s legendary Flynn’s Arcade setting where they get sucked into Tron’s marvelous video game…
Last night Conan’s eccentric show, which featured the host wearing ladies’ jeggings and the three Kardashian sisters on the same couch, which is three too many, was topped by a sharp performance of Deerhunter’s “Helicopter” off the band’s latest full length effort, the recently released “Halcyon Digest”. This was Deerhunter’s first national TV appearance and the band performed well on par. Check out Helicopter live on the video player below. Watch the ghostly official video…
Damon Albarn and his Gorillaz, helped out by singer Daley, played a wonderful three song set for BBC’s Radio One, of which their new single “Doncamatic” and “On Melancholy Hill”. However the highlight of the show was the unexpected cover of The xx’s barren, yet touching “Crystalised”, which the band performed remarkably and even more stripped down than the original – just acoustic guitar, piano, and xylophone. Watch the live video of Gorillaz’s take on…
One of 2010’s best albums is without a doubt Deerhunter’s Halcyon Digest, a record which excites senses and triggers soulful introspection. My favorite track off the LP is “Helicopter” and below you can see the visuals which transfigure the sound in the official video. It’s been out for two months now, but only after repeated viewing I’ve been able to slowly understand it, although I don’t want to pretend I’ve managed to grasp it, if…
After a series of intense reunion tour dates and a recently released platinum awarded compilation album, albeit released bundled with Guitar Hero cards, Soundgarden rocked the house last night for Coco with two great tracks off Telephantasm. The band first started with “Black Rain”, a previously unreleased studio leftover from the Badmotorfinger sessions, after which a seemingly rehabilitated Chris Cornell and co. jumped to “Hunder Down”, the band’s first single released in 1987. Check out…
A brand new video for a fashionably old Streets song – beware! Beware of Mike Skinner and his incredible appetite that is, since, besides incredibly rapid fire close-ups, he can be seen devouring copious amounts of food, while sitting back enjoying an after-meal fattie. Although the video isn’t that interesting, I’m more than happy to post “Trust Me” anytime. It’s “dancing music to drink tea to” like Skinner very well went on to describe the…
Best Coast is definitely shaping up as this year’s best new band, marveling pair upon pair of ears with their stunning debut. One of “Crazy for You”‘s gems, the sparkling ’60s vibe revamp “Boyfriend” just got its official video up recently. Directed by Taylor Cohen, the video makes up for a sweet capture of a typical Mexican wedding, complete with the retro vibe. Crazy for You is out now on Mexican Summer.
Warpaint’s Undertow has been haunting me for a few weeks now, slowly making its way on the top of my playlist, and today I couldn’t be more thrilled to hear the band released an official video for their debut’s first single. The video is pretty simple, but pretty much follows and feels what the song would look like if sound would’ve been transposed into visuals – scenes of reminiscences and passionate memories. As a fun…
Spontaneous and fascinating, the animated video for The Japanese Popstars’ “Let Go” will make you want to take off, clean and scrub your eyeballs. This is dirty, this is techno, this is awesome! The technique somewhat reminds me of Blu’s stop motion graffiti animation, which you guys should check out, if you haven’t already.
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