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I like the idea of mixing animation and live-action. A little bit MC Skat Kat, a little bit Fidelity commercial.
So you're just casually watching this video thinking it's cute and sentimental about a girl he crushed on that became a groupie when ohhhhhhh, what.. it's a metaphor for Hip Hop! Too real. Oh Murs, I haven't been this Shymalan'd since Vertical Horizon.
Here's some video of Eternals Summers playing SXSW earlier this year. Beach Fossils are hanging out in the back door, not really putting their all into the go-go dancing, quite frankly.
It's unclear who owns the falsetto at :44. I like to think it's the voice of drummer because he's torrid on the drums and to have that intensity paired with the sweetness of his voice would be kind of cool.
(via) Eternal Summers Pogo
++I've said this before; I like songs that give play-by-play on the activities of a song's protagonist. (Squeeze comes to mind. These types of songs keep you at the edge of your Eames. What happens next?? Will he head to CVS and try out Dr. Scholl's Footmapping technology?)
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Sorry About Dresden Sick and Sore was here.
++The Fleet Foxes still untitled upcoming album was recorded in Big Sur and is based on the protest songs of Graham Nash, like this one.
++In this video for the song Do Do Do by Carte Blanche, Kid Sister offers up a makeup tutorial. So many make up tips this year. Grab Carte Blanche's Gare Du Nord right here.
++Bruno Mars really missed a great opportunity to do a cheesy video for his song Just the Way You Are. He coulda been crooning the song to women who when they turned were made up to look like characters from Where The Wild Things Are.
++Don't be fooled by the title of this track by The Bloodsugars called Self-Control. It's not a lesson on hyperglycemia, it's a cover of the old Laura Branigan song. Aw, some critic from the New Yorker has already made these lame jokes.
The band commissioned students from the Savannah College of Arts and Science to help with their official videos and has set up a donation page. Ooh, goodies.
Ooh here's some good news. Gimme Tinnitus has posted a new track from an old favorite, Future of the Left. The Welsh band has added a female member to their mix, former Million Dead bassist Julia Ruzicka. Someone for Yukimi Nagano to talk necklaces with if their bands ever meet up.
Future of the Left I Am The Least of your problems mp3
++Catch Ken Roht's 99c Only Same-Om An Electric Ballad, a techno-musical based on the discount chain 12/18 and 12/19 at the Bootleg Theater. This year's theme is all paper and recycled materials.
I'm buying whatever Hot Sugar is selling right now. Hot Sugar, do you accept ATM??
'Specially love the soul in Aaron Livingston's voice. Livingston has previously done work with RJD2, but there isn't much else out there about him. I'm assuming he's not the Assistant Professor of Sports Management at West Virginia University. If so, those would be the most laid back workouts ever. (song via) Hot Sugar Color Wars Ft Aaron Livingston mp3 was here.
"...still make it in time for breakfast."
Party responsibly: Xaph Jones says don't forget about the most important meal of the day.
The Knocks Dancing with the DJ Chiddy Bang Mix mp3 was here.
When Diego Bernal isn't off crafting beats, he's a civil rights attorney (..fighting for your right to funky?).
(via) Diego Bernal A Long Second mp3 was here.
(Photo by JM Bertin)
Hard to believe that early MGMT, Cut Copy and Klaxons are now getting to be something of the distant past. Here's a new video by Goose and a link to the cinematic and dizzying Bloody Beetroots remix.
++Keyshia Cole's latest album Calling All Hearts is out December 21st and offers up some throwback R & B (Track #4) in addition to make-up tips.
++This video by Poor Spirits can be viewed one of two ways. It's either about the search for a ghost in an old spooky house or (and this is my preference) one person's lonely battle against gingivitis.
Austin's Oh No Oh My new album People Problems comes out on January 18th. Oh No Oh My was originally known as the Jolly Rogers but eventually renamed themselves after a song by The Robot Ate Me, a band lead by man about the music scene, Ryland Bouchard. Listen to some of The Robot Ate Me's music after the cut.
Oh No Oh My Walk Into Me mp3 was here.
++The chatty kathys from yesterday's Spoon song could take a pointers from R.Kelly's much more organized "Afterparty!!" loving audience on Jimmy Fallz.
++The level of chatter in the background of this suave Spoon cover of Destroyer's It's Gonna Take An Airplane is in parts bothersome but also kind of adds to the song. Weird. It's got Brittles sounding scratchy and soft at the same time, like a favorite old wool sweater. (via)
Spoon It's Gonna Take An Airplane Destroyer Cover mp3 was here.
++Chaka Khan favorite Sam Sparro's sweater is mesmerizing this interviewer, who is clearly taken with him. Sparro is awfully cute and openhearted. These graphics are cracking me up.
++Be careful with those Vers earphones around anyone who's trying to quit smoking.
++From the inbox: John McCauley of Deer Tick, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes and Matthew Vasquez of Delta Spirit have changed the name of their band from MG&V to the much catchier name 'Middle Brother." Maybe they can tour with Twin Sister. Their self-titled debut will be released in March, get a sneaky peek here.
++Who are the two most commonly searched for people on this site? Mike Shinoda and Bill Kaulitz, lead singer of Tokio Hotel, even though the original posts may or may not have been picking on them. In any case, Happy Birthday Tokio Hotel!
Pretty sad how I heard this soothing Nouvelle Vague version of XTC's Making Plans for Nigel and first thing I thought was how Nyquil could revamp it for their purposes. (via)
Nouvelle Vague: Making Plans for Nigel xtc cover and Depeche Mode Master and Servant Nouvelle Vague cover mp3 were here.
Assorted ramblings on these acts, after the jump...
Alan Pownall Colorful Day , Jay Jay Pistolet Happy Birthday You (recommended) and The Vaccines Blow It Up mp3s were here.
Plenny o' news from the inbox:
++Liars will play the last show of their tour here in LA on December 3rd at Thesex. More info here.
++LA hiphop group Strong Arm Steady are on Talib Kweli's Blacksmith Records imprint. See their new video ft. handpicked SOG fave Too Short here. Still the same ol' shortdog!
++Tame Impala had one of my favorite singles of the year with their remix of Midnight Juggernauts' Vital Signs. Here they take on Aussie siren Abbe May's Mammalian Locomotion.
Abbe May Mammalian Locomotion Kevin Parker Cam Avery remix mp3 was here.
I like the aeshetically pleasing, image heavy old school layout of this interview by Stop Being Famous with Yukimi Nagano, lead singer of the band Little Dragon. In it, she talks about how the biz is mostly male dominated and how excited she gets when she comes across another female: "Wow! We can talk about how my necklace looks."
She also talks Washed Out's Ernest Greene. See the much viewed shadow puppet video for Little Dragon's Twice after the jump.
