Category: video
-
Chucklehead Farewell Show, Mama Kins, November 1997
Fantastic video, with remastered audio, of the Chucklehead Farewell show at Mama Kin, in November 1997 (above). Video cuts out in the middle for ~30 minutes but it’s well worth watching all the way through. (New version posted which doesn’t cut out). If you just want audio, check out the Board Tapes list on Chucklehead.com…
-
David Byrne & Jherek Bischoff – “Eyes” Video
Via Stereogum Earlier this year, composer and member of Amanda Palmer’s Grand Theft Orchestra Jherek Bischoff released a massive orchestral album Composed, featuring guest appearances from David Byrne, Tropicalía luminary Caetano Veloso, and others. Byrne’s cut, “Eyes” is a sweeping strings soundscape punctuated with a modern take on 1950s pop. The video is filled with…
-
David Byrne & St. Vincent – Free EP
In support of promotion for the “Love this Giant” tour 2013, David Byrne and St. Vincent have posted a tour video and a free EP. The EP has one song that didn’t make it on the record (a waltz featuring some lovely glass harmonica), a couple of energized remixes of some of the album tunes…
-
Bring it on Down to Veganville
Nice to see Justin Timberlake in a Tofu suit on SNL in which the vegan isn’t the butt of the joke! (Via too many sources to count)
-
History of Man in 3:30
Great animation from Steve Cutts. MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo. Animation created in Flash and After Effects looking at mans relationship with the natural world. facebook.com/SteveCuttsArt twitter.com/#!/Steve_Cutts www.stevecutts.com
-
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in Tiny Desk Concert
This has got to be my favorite Tiny Desk Concert of the year. Macklemore has so much energy and enthusiasm – but still manages to pull off the performance without knocking over anyone’s desk. They do “Same Love,” their pro-gay-marriage (really anti-discrimination) anthem, but also “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us” (with Ray Dalton).
-
Reignwolf live on KEXP
Wow. That’s really about all one can say about Reignwolf. Kind of a one man White Stripes meets the child of Page and Hendrix on the spot where Robert Johnson sold his soul. Play this somewhere you can play it really loud: headphones, your garage, your office when no one else is at work. Worth…
-
The Giving Tree Band on Audiotree Live
Great session from Giving Tree Band on Audiotree Live – http://www.audiotreemusic.com/music/sessions/atl_thegivingtreeband/video.html
-
Other Lives
So I’m sometimes convinced I should just turn this blog into an auto-re-posting feed of everything that comes into my podcast client: between KEXP‘s Music That Matters, Live Performances, and Video of the Week; KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Eclectic; and NPR Music‘s All Songs Considered, Tiny Desk Concerts, and Live in Concert, I’m never going to…
-
The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
Discovered this wonderful new duo via Morning Becomes Eclectic. Imagine The Swell Season if Glen Hansard was from Alabama rather than Ireland, Marketa Irglova from LA rather than the Czech Republic, and they’d met in Nashville rather than in Dublin. (They even have a song called “Falling” which reminded me a bit of the Swell…
-
Tiny Desk Concert – The Decemberists
Great quick video from the Decemberists’ Tiny Desk Concert at NPR: “I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just trying to work,” The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy says a little ways into this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices. “I kind of like the romance…
-
Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three
Loving Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, who I discovered via this Tiny Desk Concert from NPR (above).
-
Mary Gauthier and Tania Elizabeth at Me & Thee Coffeehouse
Friday Jo and I had the chance to see one of our favorite songwriters, Mary Gauthier, at the Me & Thee Coffeehouse in Marblehead (blurry iPhone foto above). The Me & Thee has been holding shows in the Unitarian Universalist Church on Mugford Street for 41 years, and is really a wonderful venue for seeing…
-
Songs for living
From the always masterful Ze Frank, a TED talk highlighting a number of his recent projects, starting with Ray (I’m about to whip somebody’s ass) and culminating in the Chillout Song. Somewhere between “I’m about to whip somebody’s ass” and “Hey, You’re Ok” is my new personal theme song. If I were a multi-millionaire I’d…
-
Cee Lo Green’s F&#* You in French Sign Language
(via Stereogum and other places) comes this French Sign Language reading of Cee Lo Green’s recent hit. Love the enthusiasm and attitude throughout.
-
Strange Powers
(via NPR Music) Stephin Merritt of the Magentic Fields is the subject and star of a new documentary: Strange Powers. Apparently it was released on 10/27/10 and screened in Boston last April – but it won’t be available for the Netflix queue for a while.
-
God is a Concept – Tweedy Channels Lennon
(via Sterogum, via TwentyFourBit) comes this video of Jeff Tweedy fronting Autumn Defense (with John Stirratt and Pat Sansone also of Wilco) in a rendion of the classic Plastic Ono Band song “God”: “I Just Believe in Me . . . Wilco and me.” Nicely done, on 12/8/10.
-
Pointless, Action-Free, and Totally Mesmerising
(via ze frank) – “pointless, action-free and totally mesmerising” (as described on b3ta) video shot with a high-speed camera from a fast-moving train in Bath. Every 7 seconds of video you watch represents 1 second of actuality. more info.