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My Brightest Diamond – La Blogothèque (videos)
My Brightest Diamond’s new album, All Things Will Unwind, came out yesterday in the EU (10/10) and it hits the U.S. next week (10/18). You can stream the entire album here on NPR First Listen. You can pre-order it from Amazon on CD, vinyl, and mp3 download.
She recently allowed the French video bloggers, La Blogothèque, a peak into her life… similar to back in 2007:
It’s a gorgeous album. If I could only rave about two vocal albums in 2011, it’d be this one and Wussy’s Strawberry. Go get ’em both.
My Brightest Diamond is also doing a little tour (of which I’m happy to be going to Portland)…
- 14-Oct-11 –Littlefield -Brooklyn (record release party)
- 19-Oct-11 –Fitzgerald’s -Houston, TX
- 05-Nov-11 –St. Mark’s Cathedral -Seattle, WA
- 06-Nov-11 –Mississippi Studios -Portland, OR
- 17-Nov-11 –St. Giles-in-the-Fields-London
- 21-Nov-11 –Circolo degli Artisti-Rome
- 22-Nov-11 –Teatro Martinitt-Milan
- 23-Nov-11 –Papiersaal-Zurich
- 24-Nov-11 –Club ADS-Berlin
- 26-Nov-11 –Gebaude 9-Köln
- 27-Nov-11 –Le Guess Who? Festival-Utrecht
- 28-Nov-11 –Stuk-Leuven
- 29-Nov-11 –Café de la Danse-Paris
MBD’s release party is this Friday night at Littlefields (NYC), though tickets are going fast! Doors open at 8pm, and DM Stith opens shortly thereafter. 21+, tickets just $15; buy them here.
~Dan – np: Tool – Undertow
björk “moon” (video)
Björk is being more and more assimilated into her Biophilia App… with the “Moon” video, directed by björk, inez and vinoodh, m/m paris and james merry:
The full-length album, Biophilia, comes out October 11th. It’s available for pre-order now.
~Dan – np: Chromeo – Business Casual
Nellie McKay – New Video & Touring behind her musical ‘I Want to Live!’
I Want to Live! a musical death row revue, conjures the life story of “a woman of dubious moral standards…often a guest in seedy bars…”
“Inspired by the 1958 movie of the same name, I Want to Live! combines Nellie McKay’s virtually unlimited gifts as a singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, ukulele player, mimic, satirist and comedian into a show that is much deeper than its surface might suggest,” writes Stephen Holden for The New York Times. “In the most lighthearted way they evoke a heartless environment of social injustice in which people who fall through the cracks are invisible to everyone else.”
“Pretty darned unique,” adds Michael Musto of the Village Voice.
Nellie McKay – “I Want to Live!” limited tour (so far)
June 30, 2011 – New York, NY / Joe’s Pub
July 9, 2011 – Los Angeles, CA / Catalina Jazz Club
July 10, 2011 – San Diego, CA / Anthology
July 14, 2011 – San Francisco, CA / Yoshi’s
I Want to Live! promo
“Beneath the Underdog”
(music video from Home Sweet Mobile Home)
~Dan – np: A Perfect Circle – eMOTIVe
Holy F*ck – live on Q
Canadian live electronic/groove artists Holy Fuck hit Studio Q with Jian Ghomeshi a few months ago. It was a fave of mine on the Q podcast. Well, now the video for the session is online… “Red Lights“…
And “Latin America“…
~Dan – np: Marc Ribot – Shoestring Symphonettes 
My Brightest Diamond @ MusicNow 2011 (video)
If you’re like me and you missed My Brightest Diamond + yMusic at the Cincinnati-based MusicNow Festival 2011, here’s a neato 8+ 4+ minute video from the performance…
video from A Story Told Well
“We Added It Up” redacted
“Reaching Through”
(thanks comment people
for the 2nd song name)
Now, get out there and enjoy the sunshine!
~Dan – np: Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
The Arcade Fire – The Wilderness Downtown
OK, I’m late to the dance on this one… it’s old…
The Arcade Fire’s latest 2010 video is an interactive interpretation of their song “We Used To Wait“… you put in where you grew up, and it brings in your old neighborhood into the video mix. Behold, “The Wilderness Downtown“…
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
Creepy technology using Google Maps API, HTML5, and scripts… read more about the tech here.
~Dan – np: Garage A Trois – Emphasizer
Blackfield – Waving (music video – 2011)
The first single from Blackfield’s 3rd album Welcome To My DNA… “Waving”…
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree / No-Man / etc) & Aviv Geffen are taking Blackfield on the road in North America this spring. The album is on-sale at Amazon…
~Dan – np: PfR – Them
Shara Worden with yMusic on studio 360
I just had a post with some Shara Worden / My Brightest Diamond news the other day (lots of collaborations hitting us SOON)… here’s an in-studio video from her recent session with yMusic at Studio 360:
“We Added It Up”
You can stream or download (for free) the entire audio from Shara’s Studio 360 session at:
http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2011/01/21
¡ ♥ Shara.
~Dan – np: No-Man – Returning Jesus
Over the Rhine – The Laugh of Recognition
Great new musicFOG video of Over the Rhine performing “The Laugh of Recognition” from their forthcoming album, The Long Surrender:
TLS comes out February 8, 2011.
http://overtherhine.com/
~Dan – np: Ozric Tentacles – The Yumyum Tree
Sufjan plays “Too Much” on Jimmy Fallon
Sufjan Stevens and his Age of Adz band hit Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Quirky, to say the least. I love it… check the video over on Stereogum (sorry wp.com doesn’t support all flash video formats):
http://stereogum.com/583011/sufjan-plays-fallon/video/
Check out photos from the Portland Oregon show a few weeks ago…
~Dan – np: Peter Mulvey – The Trouble with Poets
Jónsi – Live at Origami
Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi abruptly canceled a run of intimate acoustic in-store dates after playing just one performance in the Go Closer series.
“Standing there nose-to-nose with fans in the cold light of day the other day in Origami Records, Los Angeles, he had the sudden and undeniable realization that this is not the environment in which he flourishes,” said his management in a statement. “To those of you who saw it in Echo Park, cherish it, because it ain’t going to happen again.”
Well, luckily the Los Angeles performance was recorded… here are two videos caught by Jack Schlinkert (director) and Max Sweeney (add’l camera).
“Stars in Still Water”
“Go Do”
~Dan – np: dredg – The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Let’s do the time warp again… (Jónsi)
So, another time-lapse video from Jónsi‘s Wiltern show in Los Angeles… this time longer…
Film by Henry Jun Wah Lee and Kim Reid
I don’t know if there was a special project to do time-lapse shots for this tour, but I’m digging it! Nice behind the scenes, soundcheck and in-concert shots included.
Nellie McKay 10/29 Eugene show at the Shedd photo blog coming tomorrow…(?)
~Dan – np: Mogwai – Travel is Dangerous EP
Jónsi @ the Wiltern (time lapse)
Cool new time-lapse from Jónsi‘s show at the Wiltern (in Los Angeles) by Wes Johnson:
I’d be en route to Las Vegas today for the show tomorrow… alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Rassen frassen changes in work plans.
~Dan – np: Steven Wilson – Cover Versions
Holy F*ck – Red Lights (official video)
Holy Fuck‘s new video for “Red Lights” (their 2nd single from this year’s Latin) is adorable and dance-worthy…
Director: Brian Borcherdt & Michael LeBlanc
Production Co.: Slowlover Films
Executive Producer: Michael LeBlanc
DOP: Michael LeBlanc
Editor: Phil Prates
LATIN is one of my favorites this year. Go check it out on the Amazons.
Holy Fuck. Inspired by Kittens.
I’ll be seeing HF tonight at the Holocene in Portland, Oregon. Review with photos to be posted on Friday.
~Dan – np: Metallica – Ride the Lightning
El Guincho’s “Bombay” video (NSFW)
This came out about 3 weeks ago, but I recently got to see it. El Guincho‘s “Bombay” is entrancing, odd and heavily features nudity (thus the NSFW warning).
Directed by Nicolás Méndez.
Produced by CANADA (lawebdecanada.com)
http://elguincho.com/
http://myspace.com/elguincho
Check out their album, Pop Negro:
~Dan – np: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey – Stay Gold
not suitable for work due to nudity, sexual content, adult themes, tits, ass, boobies, and the other stuff we all like looking at but shouldn’t while at work
Rain Dance by Turf Feinz
It’s raining in Eugene today… we don’t have dancers like they have in Oakland, though…
Dancers are No Noize (red jacket), Man (back jacket), BJ (striped shirt), Dreal (white shirt).
Directed and edited by Yoram Savion
http://www.YAKfilms.com
Simply stunning. I don’t know if this is break-dancing, popping & locking, a combination of both, or something totally different. Regardless, it’s awesome.
Update: it’s called turf dancing or turfin’…
~Dan – np: Over the Rhine – The Long Surrender
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Glen Phillips on SB Creative Community
Here’s a half hour interview (and live session) with Glen Phillips from earlier in April…
Good interview with a hometown interview show (Santa Barbara Creative Community)… he talks about his solo stuff, Works Progress Administration stuff, RemoteTreeChildren, Plover, Toad the Wet Sprocket, touring, etc…
Keep up on all things Glen Phillips over at http://glenphillips.com
~Dan – np: Kaki King – Junior
The Album Leaf interviews 2010
Here is a new video interview with The Album Leaf frontman Jimmy Lavalle:
Click through for my coverage of the Portland (2/5) and Eugene (2/9) shows.
~Dan – np: George Hrab – Interrobang?!
PES – Western Spaghetti
Brilliance defined…
~Dan – np: Explosions in the Sky – How Strange, Innocence
Swell Season, Alice in Chains, Extreme
The two singer-songwriters behind the movie ONCE, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (aka The Swell Season), are out and about promoting their new record, Strict Joy. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon. It is set to be released on September 29th.
They just did a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. Its available over here or as a podcast (do a search for “NPR Live Concerts” in iTunes). They do some new songs in the NPR studio as well as some faves.
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Alice in Chains‘ new one, Black Gives Way to Blue, is also available for pre-order…
It’s out September 29th as well…
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And rounding things out… Blabbermouth reports that Extreme recently recorded their August 8th show at the House of Blues in Boston for a DVD release later this year.
~Dan – np: Dream Theater – Master of Puppets
-Eyvind Kang
-Frank Zappa
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