Noah and the Whale just released their third album, Last Night On Earth, this week via Mercury Records. And you may have already seen their video for the song “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N,” but you can now view a live performance of “Give It All Back,” which Charlie Fink, the band’s frontman, says is about “the infatuation you share with your friends for the bands and music you love. Music you feel so passionate about that you’re prepared to humiliate yourself in front of everyone you know.”
Tape Deck Mountain released their latest EP, Secret Serf, last month and they are sharing the title track with the public! However, that is not the news they are bringing. They have also made a video for their song “It Goes Down” which you can now view below. The video is dark, yet has psychedelic accents and shows a myriad of very different appreciations of the song.
Listen to “Secret Serf” below:
Watch the video for “It Goes Down” below:
If you enjoy the songs above, or if you’ve been following Tape Deck Mountain since their 2009 album Ghost, you might be interested in checking the few tour dates below in order to see them live!
Here are their upcoming tour dates:
03/05 San Diego, CA – The Che Cafe (with Velveteen)
03/11 San Diego, CA – Casbah (with Asobi Seksu and Braids)
03/12 Las Vegas, NV – Neon Reverb Festival
03/21 San Diego, CA – Casbah (with Esben and The Witch)
03/26 Los Angeles, CA – Fresh Bruises Warehouse Party
On February 22nd, Toro Y Moi will be releasing Underneath The Pine on Carpark records and you can now view the video for one of its star tracks, “Still Sound,” which just premiered on Pitchfork. Directed by Steven Daniels, the video is a cute and playful still 8 insight on frontman Chaz Bundick and bandmates goofing around, rehearsing and even dancing. The retro image grain matches the old school r’n’b funk mood of the song and at the same time maintains the hipster image associated with chillwave. You can watch the video HERE.
And just to add to the good news, Toro Y Moi will be extending their Spring tour where they will be joined by Cloud Nothings, Braids, Adventure and Nite Jewel. Make sure to check below to see if they will be coming by your side of the US.
Here are the upcoming Toro Y Moi Spring Tour dates:
03/11 – Athens, GA – 40 Watt (with Cloud Nothings)
03/12 – Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn (with Cloud Nothings)
03/13 -New Orleans, LA – The Saturn Bar (with Cloud Nothings)
03/14 – Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds (with Cloud Nothings)
03/15 – McAllen, TX – M.P.M. Fest – Ambiente (with Cloud Nothings and Nite Jewel)
03/16 – 18 Austin, TX – SXSW
03/19 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada (with Cloud Nothings)
03/20 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace (with Cloud Nothings and Braids)
03/21 – Tempe, AZ – Sail Inn (with Cloud Nothings, Braids and Nite Jewel)
03/22 – Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar (with Cloud Nothings)
03/23 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour (with Cloud Nothings)
03/24 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall (with Cloud Nothings)
03/25 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir (with Cloud Nothings)
03/26 – Kennewick, WA – The Red Room (with Cloud Nothings and Braids)
03/27 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile (with Cloud Nothings)
03/28 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore (with Braids)
03/30 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge (with Adventure)
03/31 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge (with Adventure)
04/01 – Kansas City, MO – Riot Room (with Adventure)
04/02 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown Jr. (with Adventure)
04/03 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry (with Adventure)
04/05 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle (with Adventure)
04/06 – Bloomington, IN – The Bishop (with Braids and Adventure)
04/07 – Toronto, Ontario – Wrongbar (with Adventure)
04/08 – Montreal, Quebec – La Sala Rossa (with Adventure)
04/09 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall (with Adventure)
04/10 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg (with Adventure)
04/11 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom (with Adventure)
04/12 – Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church (with Adventure)
04/13 – Baltimore, MD – Talking Head (with Braids and Adventure)
04/14 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel (with Adventure)
04/15 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 (with Braids and Adventure)
04/16 – Columbia, SC – Indie Grits Film Festival
04/23 – Honolulu, HI – Next Door
News about An Island trickled into the blogosphere in small doses: in November 2010, Efterklang and Vincent Moon announced that they were working on a film together, to be premiered in February 2011; in December we were told that Efterklang will bring An Island with them on their 2011 European tour.
Now, Efterklang and Vincent Moon are welcoming all of their listeners and followers to host their own premiere screenings of An Island- people can sign up to host a screening, to be held between February 1st and March 31st.
Efterklang and Vincent Moon call these screenings Private-Public Screenings, and the rules are very simple:
• The screenings need to have free entrance.
• The screenings need to be public.
• The screenings need to have a minimum capacity of 5 people.
• The screenings need to be verified by Efterklang & Vincent Moon, and only screenings that are featured onwww.anisland.cc are official Private Public Screenings.
An Island is an unconventional mixture of performance film and abstract documentary- about both a band and an island. Last summer, French filmmaker Vincent Moon and Efterklang’s 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast. The objective was to shoot a film: a film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances, experiments, and collaborations. Over an intense period of 4 days, Efterklang collaborated with more than 200 local musicians, creating new performances and interpretations of songs from their album Magic Chairs- filmed in its entirety by Moon.
For an updated list of the current and future Official Screenings and Private-Public Screenings of An Island, visit: http://anisland.cc/home/attend-a-screening/
Be sure to check out the third teaser for An Island here:
Denmark’s Alcoholic Faith Mission has debuted a brand new video to celebrate 2011. The video is for the song “My Eyes To See” and you can catch it right here.
The song is off the band’s latest album (their third overall) Let This Be The Last Night We Care. The album came out last March.
Look for Alcoholic Faith Mission at this year’s SXSW March 16-20.
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