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White Denim plays tonight here in Dallas at the House of Blues. Saddle Creek-signees Tokyo Police Club and Syracuse, NY's Ra Ra Riot will attempt to follow. As a quick primer, here's some footage of WD playing "Let's Talk About It" at their EP release show in Austin last month, presented by Super!Alright! and Transmission Entertainment (via our friends at partyends.com). View the video after the jump...
"A new direction...A new genre of music I like to call 'space reggae'. There's going to be a huge communal band made up of 50 people and we're going to make space reggae."--Devendra Banhart, 2004
Annie Clark stopped by Minnesota Public Radio's the Current for a short interview and an amazing, stripped-down performance of a few songs from Marry Me, including a particularly shredding version of "Your Lips Are Red." Have a listen.
We're happy to present the 2nd stop on John Vanderslice's official "Emerald City: Live From Tiny Telephone" blog-tour, following up the awesome "Kookaburra" video with the premiere of the live vid for "White Dove," the album's potent first single:
While we're still on our Bollywood kick from yesterday, here's the promo video for Madlib's upcoming Beat Konducta in India: Vol. 3-4, featuring snippets from the album, and everyone's favorite tiny dancer, Little Superstar:
Thanks to our friends at Vice for hooking us up with the premiere of this new video for the Black Lips' upcoming UK single, "Katrina," a revivalist surf punk lament from a lover scorned (by a hurricane, no less), grooved out on a mod-pop soundstage. Have I mentioned that I can't wait for these guys to come to TX?
Here's the trailer for Wes Anderson's new film, The Darjeeling Limited, due out September 29. The film stars Anderson regulars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Angelica Houston, and the trailer happens to feature one of my favorite Kinks songs ever. Looks like Anderson is sticking to his signature stylistic devices on this one, which is fine by us:
We were slightly apathetic about hearing the upcoming Camp Lo record, until our friend Weiss went and made the bold claim that In Black Hollywood is "a legitimate contender for best hip-hop album of the year." He also anoints opening cut "Posse From the Bronx" the best opener since "Shakey Dog," which I'm not quite sure about just yet. But I will agree that this record is surprisingly good, and this jam is some vintage Camp Lo that could've come from the Uptown Saturday Night sessions:
"The sound of innocence won back. Light like a feather, deep like an ocean. The only music we'll need this summer".
"Everyone seems to have remix fever nowadays! So...we figured, why not take it one step further and remix the mix. This disc contains an alternate version of the Spank Rock "Fabriclive 33" CD, as seen through the eyes of Devlin & Darko. Using the original tracklist as a basis and starting point for each mix, we have created two completely unique and varied outcomes of what might have happened under different circumstances"mp3:
We have to give a happy 1st anniversary shout to Dallas' official rookies of the year (and today's Quick coverboys), The Party. Sort of hard to believe how much these kids (Nature, Sober, and $elect) have improved the local scene in such a short time, and they've got even more rad shit lined up in the coming weeks. Come out to Zubar tonight to wish them a happy birthday:
GvsB's good friend Aquarium Drunkard threw up a really great post today about Harry Nilsson's 1971 animated feature, "The Point," complete with an mp3 of one of Nilsson's songs from the cartoon. One of the comments on said post pointed to the equally wonderful Maurice Sendak-animated "Really Rosie" shorts from the '70s, featuring the "Nutshell Library" stories set to music by Carole King. These clips sparked up some serious feelings of nostalgia, as I was not only a huge fan of Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are as a kid (who wasn't?), but I also loved Carole King's Tapestry, thanks to my mom ("It's Too Late" was my jam when I was like 6). Here's one of my favorites from the series, and you can view some more here.
The David Vandervelde/Blitzen Trapper train made a whistle stop at the Loft last night, and it surely didn't disappoint. The four-tracking Blitzens delivered super tight, and wacky, southern-fried shambles, never mind some outstanding harmonies, and the Vandervelde three-piece pretty much kind of wailed. Neither band smelled particularly good, however.
Here's the new video for one of our favorite songs from one of our favorite records of the year. Like Stereogum says, you're gonna need a Kleenex for this one...I think it's the Polaroids. At any rate, this video made us love the song even more than we already did. Just beautiful, epic (like, Sigur Ros-level epic) stuff:
Just wanted to drop a quick reminder about tonight's David Vandervelde/Blitzen Trapper show at the Loft. As an added bonus, behold Lily Allen's triple nipple (via Egotastic). One in ten people have one? Who knew? Man, it's a slow news day:
Despite this year's subpar sound, the Pitchfork Music Festival has firmly established itself as one of the most laid-back and all-around-enjoyable fests around. The weather was ideal, the Ice Cream Man was in full effect, and we left Chicago with the revelation that all festivals should be required by law to feature at least 3 legendary hip-hop acts. Here are our top 5 highlights from the fest, accompanied by a shit ton of Polaroids™:
GvsB favorite Alela Diane just released a music video directed by Portland writer/director Vincent Caldoni. The video is a perfect fit for Alela's sound. The video, which features Alela, is grainy, sepia-toned and looks like old west archival footage. But unlike that picture of you and your ex taken at Six Flags, this looks like legit archival footage. Maybe something filmed in an old mining town. And if you haven't listened to the Daytrotter session that we keep mentioning, what are you waiting for?
Here's the dreamy, Science of Sleep-like new video for Grizzly Bear's "Central & Remote," directed by Jesse Elwes (via Subterranean Blog).
By now we've all seen the original, and I may be in the minority here, but I think the remix, which beautifully utilizes the Requiem for a Dream score, is even better:
Here's the first official video from Spoon's new one, featuring a voyeuristic imaginary studio session for "The Underdog," complete with Mariachi horn section and one dead producer. Certainly not 2007's "Float On", though:
Thanks to Kevin for pointing out that hip-hop pioneer and all-around legend Q-Tip has a new song for free download on his myspace page from his upcoming album, The Renaissance (which, according to the myspace page, will feature some production from J Dilla). "Work It Out" obviously isn't Tip's best work, but the man gets a pass because, well, just because. I'm not exactly feeling the production on this track, but his flow is as golden as ever. Now can we get that Tribe reunion please?
"Fireworks," just in time for the 4th (via Pitchfork and Domino):
"...like Echo and the Bunnymen trudging the Velvet Underground alongside Sonic Youth...Horse + Donkey is what the Black Angels should aspire to approach - more energy, more complexity and more fun..."
"This Cardiff trio's superficially low-key 1980 debut has an almost mystical power to etch itself into the fabric of the listener's everyday life..."
I'm not the biggest fan of Matt & Kim, but this Demonbabies-directed video for Flosstradamus' remix of their "Yeah Yeah" is pretty fun and totally fitting, considering the duo kinda reminds me of Mates of State re-imagined as Sesame Street characters. Plus the idea of the Flosstradamus dudes pop-and-locking while watching this thing on TV is funny (thanks to Big Stereo for the tip via myspace).
Domino will release Animal Collective's "Peacebone" single on August 21. The b-side will allegedly be live favorite "Safer." Pre-order it here. Here's footage of the band performing "Safer" at the Malta Festival:
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