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.
Out of Denver, Colorado come Woodsmen, an experimental ambient post-psychedelic (their genre, not mine) quartet. Featuring “totemic percussionists and two sonic animators who employ electric guitars, feedback loops, and recorded samples to build the dreamy astral soundscapes that define Woodsman’s sound.” While traveling up and down the West Coast, Woodsman stopped by Terroreyes TV in Sacramento to perform “Insects” from their upcoming album Rare Forms, out 1/25 via Lefse Records and Fire Talk Records.
Earlier this year Lefse Records released their Mystery Tape EP, and will follow it up in January with their Rare Forms full length from which “Insects” is drawn. Heavily influenced by hazy mountain passes, the cinema of Stan Brakhage, and early 1970’s improvisational recordings by Miles Davis. Woodsman has crafted aural offerings that are uniquely their own. Watch full screen in HD!
Gorillaz has recently debuted their new video “Doncamatic” on MySpace. The selection of “Doncamatic” as a single was peculiar, given that guest performer Daley is responsible for nearly all of the song’s vocals, and the video is equally odd. The video finds Daley piloting a submarine through turbulent waters, before eventually finding his way to the “plastic beach.” Check it out down below.
I don’t know about you guys but, when I first heard the debut single from Lykke Li’s new album, I began to eagerly anticipate the release of its accompanying video. After all, the song was entitled “Get Some.”
Yesterday, that video arrived via PitchFork. But, its not at all what I was expecting. Absent is the innate sexuality of the song. In its place is an almost cult-like call to arms. Check out the slightly disappointing video down below, along with Li’s upcoming tour dates.
Upcoming Tour Dates
12-01 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
03-09 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
04-04 Hamburg, Germany -Grunspan
04-05 Berlin, Germany – Astra Kulturhaus
04-06 Munich, Germany – Muffathalle
04-08 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
04-11 Cologne, Germany – Gloria
04-12 Bristol, England – Trinity
04-14 London, England – Shepherds Bush Empire
04-15 Leeds, England – Cockpit
04-16 Dublin, Ireland – Tripod
04-18 Glasgow, Scotland – Arches
04-19 Manchester, England – Academy 2
04-21 Paris, France – Le Cigale
04-25 Rennes, France – L’Antipode
04-29 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega
04-30 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
05-02 Stockholm, Sweden – Cirkus
05-15 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
05-16 Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts
05-17 New York, NY – Webster Hall
05-20 Boston, MA – Paradise
05-22 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre
05-23 Chicago, IL – Metro
05-26 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
05-27 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre
05-28 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
05-30 San Francisco, CA – Regency Center
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