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Beastie Boys “Sabotage” (by kids)
Fitting and cute Beastie Boys tribute to the fallen MCA / Adam Yauch…
Well done, kids!
~Dan – np: Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
O.S.I. “For Nothing” video premiere
One of mellow tracks from O.S.I.’s latest album, Fire Make Thunder, now has a video…
“For Nothing“
Directed by Jimmy Ahlander
Threatening smoke, odd beings and glorified body parts, create dark poetry in this twisted, visual representation of OSI’s melancholic tune.
~Dan – np: O.S.I. – Fire Make Thunder
Sigur Rós new album ‘Valtari’ (late May 2012)
Updated with official notice, sample tune (Ekki Múkk) that you can buy/download & video trailer from Sigur Rós (below).
Update 4/4/12 with cover art done by Jónsi’s sisters, Lilja and Inga Birgisdóttir (incidentally, Inga was the baby on the band’s first album cover, Von.)
As reported by Q, 24bit and Paste, Sigur Rós’ new album is called Valtari and due out on May 28th (Europe) or May 29th, 2012 (US). At first, this looked like an elaborate pre-April Fool’s Day joke to me, simply based on this call out quote. I bounced an email off of Peter at 24Bit, and he seemed to have vetted it a bit.
Simply based on the fact that I know Sigur Rós was in the studio working on new material, I’ll give my skepticism kudos but I’ll also give this news the benefit of the doubt. Here’s what was reported on 24bit…
Following up a stunning solo LP and film score, Jónsi is back with the great Icelandic quartet Sigur Rós for a full-length successor to 2008′s Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust. Due out on May 28th and titled Valtari, the 7-track effort features “more electronic stuff than before,” bassist Georg Hólm told Q Magazine (via). “But don’t worry,” he added, “we haven’t made a dance record.”
Aside from track titles, the release date, and a few non-specific adjectives (“beautiful,” “dreamy,” “introverted,” etc.), Hólm and Jónsi offered their own differing images of what to expect:
Hólm: “…this I’d compare to looking at an old landscape painting.”
Birgisson: “…like an avalanche in slow motion.”
It sounds like — as with most of the Sigur Rós oeuvre — we’ll have another cinematic set left gloriously open to interpretation. While we wait, the pair shared these track titles for cuts recently mixed with co-producer Alex Somers below:
Valtari Tracklist
- Ég Anda
- Ekki Múkk
- Varúð
- Rembihnútur
- Dauðalogn
- Varðeldur
- Valtari
- Flogur Piaro (?)
No official word on the Sigur Rós news page, but I imagine it’ll be forthcoming soon if true.
Nevermind… it’s legit!
Pre-order featuring exclusive merchandise coming soon!
~Dan – np: Skeleton Key – Gravity is the Enemy
Talkdemonic on LOOK Sessions
Post-rock duo Talkdemonic is wrapping up their tour. They stop by Eugene’s Sam Bond’s Garage on Friday night (2/24). The first of two LOOK Sessions was posted the other day… “Summer Glass.” Check it!
3/1 update: “Revival” from the same Look Sessions…
~Dan – np: Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2
Damien Jurado – Static To Be Sold @ Pickathon (7″ release)
The first session posted and the last session recorded from Pickathon 2011, Seattle-based singer-songwriter Damien Jurado and his new band take us through “Static To Be Sold” recorded by Live & Breathing in the Pickathon Pumphouse:
Per Damien, the song won’t be on the record, but will be out on a 7″ vinyl…
https://twitter.com/damienjurado/status/154258706962456579
https://twitter.com/damienjurado/status/154257729492488192
https://twitter.com/damienjurado/status/154284366703493120
On February 21, Secretly Canadian will be releasing the upcoming Damien Jurado LP, Maraqopa, another collaboration with musician/producer and Cottage Grove-Oregon resident, Richard Swift.
Go HERE for more info on Maraqopa. You can pre-order it HERE on CD or vinyl. There’s also a free mp3 download of “Nothing is the News” here:
~Dan – np: Wussy – Funeral Dress
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
Sigur Rós – Klippa [video]
New video from Icelandic post-rocker Sigur Rós for the song “Klippa“…
Gorgeous yet odd, and based on the link on the vimeo site, somehow related to their upcoming Inni DVD release.
~Dan – np: Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
Steven Wilson solo album cover art (video reveal)
I suppose so no one can easily steal the jpeg image? Anyway, here’s the “cover art video trailer reveal” for Steven Wilson’s upcoming Grace for Drowning album, due out in September.
For more about the album, I did a “here’s all the info we know thus far” recap a few weeks ago.
~Dan – np: Weird Al Yankovic – ALpocalypse
Kaki King on the Les Paul Google doodle
Did you miss the Les Paul 96th birthday celebration Google doodle from June 9th? Well, check it out, play something, record it…
…and then compare what you did with the three that guitar phenom Kaki King did for Brazil’s MTV Hive:
Further proof that this is one of the best Google doodles conceived thus far.
~Dan – np: Saviour Machine – Saviour Machine II
Elysian Fields “Red Riding Hood” (video)
NYC artrock duo Elysian Fields have a new album out called Last Night on Earth (tomorrow on Ojet Records). The debut video for “Red Riding Hood” is out now… sultry and sexy, as Jennifer Charles’ voice is prone to project…
You can get the CD for only $12 (*shipping included) at Ojet’s webpage. I’m sure the download version will show up on Amazon and iTunes soon… currently only an expensive import is available on Amazon.
~Dan – np: Les Rhinocéros – Les Rhinocéros 
dredg “Upon Returning” video
The official video for “Upon Returning” from dredg:
Directed & edited by merkley???
Produced by merkley??? & Tyler Gourley
Water FX: James Dirschberger & Ken Fisk
End FX: merkley???
Elder Derelict: Ron Turner
Teen Derelict: Lars Gourley
Younger Derelict: Liam Bridges
Youngest Derelict: Jett Bridges
Life Guard: Dexter Simmons
Koolaid Fairy: Athena Rose Djurkovic
Koolaid Fairy Assistant: Mila Lilith Djurkovic
Cute, colorful and clever – nice work from merkley???. They had me until… the second part of the “watersports.” The watersports set aside, the video and album are both quite great. It’s still building on me, but I dig it. Chuckles and Mr Squeezy, silly name, solid tunes. My favorite track is probably “The Tent,” highlighted in this trailer by Jorge Feres…
~Dan – np: Les Rhinocéros – Les Rhinocéros
Steven Wilson – Grace for Drowning (2011)
Update 8/24: there’s a new video for the song “Track One” with the image below, as well as pre-order information at THIS BLOG.
After some news leaking slowly, Porcupine Tree/No-Man/Blackfield frontman Steven Wilson’s next solo album finally has a name… Grace For Drowning. It also has a trailer…
http://www.gracefordrowning.com/
Recapping the news from prior posts:
- it’ll be two 40-45 minute albums in the same package… due “Autumn 2011” (September-ish)
- album names: Deform to Form a Star and Like Dust I Have Cleared From My Eye
- pretty organic feel, mostly inspired by the darker end of vintage progressive music and some… movie soundtrack stuff (Morricone especially)
- the usual array of excellent SW options: double-vinyl release, 5.1 surround sound, hard back book edition, CD, digital…
- Update 7/19: free download… 9-minute full-track by signing up for the mailing list at http://www.gracefordrowning.com/
Stay up with his Facebook page and http://www.gracefordrowning.com/ for the scoop as it develops. Steven just finished up his tour with Blackfield, and also in the works… Storm Corrosion with Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt (likely a 2012 release).
~Dan – np: Remy Zero – Villa Elaine
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
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
Pink Martini @ OBF (trailer)
Here’s a great new trailer for the upcoming Pink Martini performance at the Oregon Bach Festival (they play Saturday, June 26th at the Hult Center).
OBF tickets are on-sale now… http://oregonbachfestival.com/
~Dan – np: Carissa’s Wierd [sic] – They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave
Bad Veins @ Extraneous Noise
Check ’em out… Bad Veins doing “Falling Tide” on Extraneous Noise Music…
Extraneous Noise Music also has videos by Royal Bangs, Hanne Hukkelberg, and more on their YouTube & Vimeo channels. More to come… http://www.extraneousnoise.com/
~Dan – np: Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Attack Attack!’s Stick Stickly
This is the best worst thing I’ve seen in a while. I kinda love it…
(Note: if the Vimeo video above doesn’t work,
let me know and I’ll refresh the link)
So amazingly, A+ horrible that it’s A+ good… poop squat guitarist moves, jumping around flipping guitar over head, death metal vocals, dance breaks, auto-tune vocals (a la Akon, Justin Timberlake, etc)… I mean… what’s not to love/hate/love again? No matter how seemingly painful, you can’t turn away.
And if you just wanna watch the silly pieces forever, here are some animated gifs of the Attack Attack! “Stick Stickly” action (click for larger, or right click to save):
~Dan – np: The Weepies – Hideaway
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