Tibi PuiuGreg Dulli and Mark Lanegan’s latest joint effort The Gutter Twins proved to be quite successful; with two grunge stars what could go wrong the first place anyway? Saturnalia, the duo’s debut LP got a lot of attention and positive critical feedback, receiving a lot of praise for their grungy, shit kicking tracks, like the first single Idle Hands. However, TGT’s latest single “All Misery/Flowers,” strays away from their usual hard rocking pattern towards more…
New Chromatics video: ‘Killing Spree’
For their latest single, the Portland synthpop duo Chromatics, have chosen to make a more darker and creepier video, then those with which they’ve accustomed us with; definitively much more creepier. The video in cause is for the haunting instrumental “Killing Spree,” off of the band’s last year effort “Night Drive”, in which director Johnny Jewel has done a remarkable job at capturing the song’s creepy, haunting vibe on the tube, YouTube actually (bad joke,…
New Portishead video: ‘Machine Gun’
There’s been a lot of hype, around the trip-hop veterans’ first album in ten years, during the past weeks, however their one of the few acts that actually deserve it. I mean isn’t a new Portishead album enough reason to run about, telling everyone about it? For me it is and whenever I get the chance, I try cover them and today that chance is a new video for “Machine Gun,” the first single from…
New Modest Mouse video: ‘Fly Trapped In A Jar’
Last year was a fantastic one for, Washington based band, Modest Mouse. They’ve released their fifth studio album “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank”, the first one with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, with tremendous success, landing on top of the Billboard 200 chart and extensively touring the US with mates R.E.M./The National. With all these under their belt I think it’s safe to say the band deserve to have a bit of…
New Kaki King video: ‘Pull Me Out’
Kaki King is one of my favorite contemporary guitarists, she just has style beautiful weary way of playing the guitar, that just makes me feel all warm inside. She’s also got a pretty decent voice and she’s a girl, what are the odds? Anyway here new album “Dreaming of Revenge” just came out this week via Velour Records and as I expected the first video is for the album’s highlight “Pull Me Out.” The video…
New Bon Iver video: ‘The Wolves (Act I and II)’
Justin Vernon or Bon Iver, as he’s better known in the indie music community, made a lot of waves, towards the end of last year, with his independently released debut album “For Emma, Forever Ago.” The intense passion and soul of the album can be sensed from the very first listen, probably because it was truly an album centered around a man’s quest for finding himself. Isolation and sorrow are of the album’s themes, probably…
New Cat Power video: ‘New York, New York’ (live on Leno)
Yesterday night “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” had none other the Chan Cat Power Marshall as its performing guest. The she sang a more then honorable rendition of Frank Sinatra’s classic “New York, New York,” song also present in her Jukebox covers album.
New Jay-Z video: ‘I Know’ (feat. Pharell)
American Gangster was one of the few rap albums, of the last year, that really managed to pack a punch on the scene and actually deliver. The Neptunes produced “I Know” was from the start my favorite track from the album and now that it, recently, was joined by a video, I can only rejoice. The video, directed by Philip Andelman, was made in the same dark and mysterious vibe as the song, but also…
New Yeasayer video: ‘Wait For The Summer’ + ‘2080 (live on Late Night with Conan)’
Brooklyn based experimentalists Yeasayer just released a gorgeous animated video for “Wait for the Summer,” not for the original version you might be familiar with from All Hour Cymbals, but a re-recording for an upcoming UK single. The video was directed by the Mixtape Club, who some of you may recall as the dudes that brought you TV on the Radio’s Me-I. Brilliant video. Also the band were featured on the Late Night with Conan…
New Spoon video: ‘Don’t You Evah’ (alternate version)
You’ve all gotta remember Spoon’s keepon video for their single “Don’t You Evah,” in which the little dancin’ robot got to stroll all over Tokyo, while some fun band cameos were pupping out all over the video. Now another video of the song has surfaced, this time more human, featuring footage of live performances by the band, places they’ve been on tour and stuff like that, all mixed in with some strange cinematography technique, including…