Releasing two albums in one year is no easy feat, but that’s precisely what Jesse Harris has done in 2010. After releasing Through the Night in August of this year, Harris unveiled an album on instrumentals, entitled Cosmo, in September.
Harris recently released a music video for the song “Little Star,” off of Cosmo, which we’ve included down below. And, for those of you interested in hearing what Through the Night sounds like, download the song “Its a Long Way Just to Say Hello” HERE.
We Were the States were almost done with their recording of their new album when the Nashville floods filled their studio with almost two feet of water. Defiant and ready to beat this mishap, they recorded the rest of it in the Club Roar studio.
The result of this album is an energy-filled album called “Rasa”, with leading single “Gold”. The track, which can be listened to here, is a euphoric love song that has enough rock to get your head nodding.
Check out their album teaser video after the cut!
Fresh off of his newest album Age Of Adz, Sufjan Stevens has just released his the first music video.
Featuring the song “Too Much” the video features some out-of-this-world dancing mixed with extremely trippy effects throughout. There’s not a lot to ponder here, just a lot of dance moves and crazy video tricks. And isn’t that what we all really want anyways? Enjoy!
Catch it right here.
Emil & Friends has released a superhero-inspired video for their song “Short Order Cooks.” The song is as quirky and catchy as the video and was shot “guerrilla-style in the financial district of Boston in the wee hours of the morning.” Emil & Friends’ EP Downed Economy is available now and includes covers and remixes.
Watch the video HERE!
Rejoice. With their first studio album since 2001’s United by Fate, New York rock outfit Rival Schools, release their first single for Pedals, due out March 8, 2011. In an effort to satiate those in wait for the past ten years, the song, “Shot After Shot,” is out now on Itunes as a deluxe single, featuring both the original and acoustic versions, along with the video and a b-side, “Arranged Marriages.”
Check out the official video for “Shot After Shot.”
The new video for “We’re An Industry” by the San Francisco band Birds & Batteries conveys a lot using just some metal and other hard materials employed by the method of stop motion. The video was carefully crafted by the Made By Cabbage Head production company who designed the set by hand and filmed frame by frame.
The protagonists of this video – seeming like more of a short film – are two steel wool people placed in a desolate, industrial setting with pipes, coils and other constructional components who discover they create sparks when touching together.
The song itself is a lamentation of belonging to the center of the earth with lyrics describing baring the burden of causing natural disasters under rough and hot conditions, sorrowful strings and mechanical, almost militaristic drums.
Then, the instrumentation becomes looser and builds up with the percussion quickening and the vocals all the sudden taking a new, proud tone. Greenery begins to grow up the metal structures and flower as the vocals harmonize and reach higher notes and the two steel wool characters look on, sparking hand-in-hand. By the end of it, you are left with a beautiful, resolved feeling.
Birds and Batteries are currently on an American tour:
November 26, 2010
9pm
San Diego, CA
Soda Bar
with: Longstay, Patrick Norton & The Saints, DJ Lord Nelson
November 26, 2010
5pm
Los Angeles, CA
Origami Vinyl
November 27, 2010
Tucson, AZ
Cafe Passe
November 28, 2010
Albuquerque, NM
Low Spirits
with: The Cave Singers, Excalico
November 30, 2010
Lubbock, TX
Bash Riprock’s
December 1, 2010
Austin, TX
The Mohawk
with: The Authors, Sunset
December 2, 2010
Frisco, TX
Lochrann’s
December 3, 2010
Fort Worth, TX
Lola’s
December 4, 2010
Denton, TX
A Spune Christmas
Hailey’s
with: Telegraph Canyon, Doug Burr, Monahans
December 7, 2010
Memphis, TN
Buccaneer
December 8, 2010
Louisville, KY
Zanzabar
December 9, 2010
Pittsburgh, PA
Thunderbird Cafe
with: Nik Westman and the Central Plains
December 10, 2010
New York, NY
Pianos
with: ARMS
December 11, 2010
Boston, MA
Great Scott
with: Marconi, Mean Creek
December 12, 2010
Brooklyn, NY
Littlefield
with: Scrambler Seequill, Tallest Trees, Elastic Summer
February 4, 2011
Tacoma, WA
The Warehouse
with: Grand Hallway
February 5, 2011
Seattle, WA
Chop Suey
http://player.vimeo.com/video/15017110
Birds & Batteries- We’re an Industry from Birds & Batteries on Vimeo.
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