Massive Attack’s new video for “Saturday Come Slow” featuring Damon Albarn premiered last week on Feeder, but I wasn’t until recently that I found the time to post it. It’s actually more of a moving short-film documentary, telling the story of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ruhal Ahmed and his experience with torture through music – such a despicable way of instrumenting pain. [via feeder] This short film by renowned photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin…
Beach House dropped by La Blogoteque’s latest live sessions outlet, the relatively newly added “Les Soirées de Poche,” where the band played the first five songs off their latest stellar album, “Teen Dream.” The elegantly performed set can be viewed bellow. You can shuffle through the songs by clicking the white dots in the player. Enjoy!
Following The National’s previous two instant classics, “Alligator” and “Boxer”, the Cincinnati five piece will release their fifth studio full length titled “High Violet” on May 10th via 4AD. I know a lot of you are very curious, and anxious alike, to have listen to the new material, so I managed to find this great performance of High Violet’s opening track “Terrible Love” played by The National live just a few days ago on Late…
A world of polygons, gradients and other pointy stuff is all that is present in White Hinterland’s latest video for her latest single “Amsterdam” – that doesn’t mean that all is as it seems, though. I’ve really just recently come across Casey Dienel’s (aka White Hinterland) work, but I can say I’m well already within her tight musical grasp. Who couldn’t love a voice like that? White Hinterland’s sophomore release “Kairos” is out now via…
Models and music don’t usually make a good mix, but Jack White sure knows how to pick ’em, considering his wife, Karen Olsen, has some great set of legs pipes. Don’t believe me? Check out her first music video for the title track off her 12 songs debut album “The Ghost Who Walks”. Simple, yet strangely spooky, the video features Karen gently strumming her acoustic guitar unfolding a gentle ballad. The Ghost Who Walks was…
Wolfmother just recently premiered the video for their smashing heavy-funky groove single “White Feather”. Very simple and straight forward, the video basically features the band jamming crunchy riffs like there’s no tomorrow on a cross-fading dawning lighting. Heavy, heavy stuff! White Feather is off Wolfmother’s latest studio effort “Cosmic Egg” out now.
In a recent gig at Beck’s Festival Bar, in Sydney, The Decemberists played a brand new song, called “Springville.” Someone from the audience caught the song on tape being performed live solely by the band’s frontman Colin Meloy and his beautifully strung acoustic guitar. The sound is very folksy and warm, like much of their previous grand effort had to offer, last year’s critically acclaimed “The Hazards of Love”. Worth noting is that the video…
Coma Cinema is a very eery South Carolina collective project led by local scene figure, the talented Mat Cothran. The band just recently released their debut album, a free demo compilation of 14 songs recorded from 2005 to 2009, titled “Baby Prayers”, on their web site where it’s available for free download. There’s a certain vibe of nostalgia and dreamy atmosphere that revolves around their music, something I can’t really put into words. Heck, must…
Next week will see Beach House release one of our most anticipated releases of 2010, their third studio album, “Teen Dream”, via Sub-Pop. It’s an album I’ve been bugging everyone with for the past few weeks (seriously, I’ve been mistaken with the band’s PR on some occasions), with every chance I get. Today, it’s the duo’s latest video for Silver Soul, twhich was directed by the band’s frontwomen Victoria Legrand herself and features abstract lighting,…
Ever noticed how every town, big or small, has one of those lunatic false prophets that preach about the end of the world? You know, ZZ Top-like beard, a maniacal stare, a billboard/sign relating how terrorist monkeys killed his family and so on. Yeah, I’ve got one of those, too, but you gotta admit, they’re really fun. I mean, there’s something about prophecies of impending doom coming our way that really strikes a funny bone…
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