videos – Modern Mystery

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!

http://vimeo.com/16751042

A brand new video premiered this morning from internet darlings OK Go. You’ve seen them dancercise in “A Million Ways”, show of their prized pooches in “White Knuckles” and this year alone wrack up UK Video Music Awards for “Best Rock Video” and “Best Video of the Year” with their mind boggling Rube Goldberg machine making “This Too Shall Pass”. Today they released their first ‘animated’ video for the tune “Last Leaf’.

In partnership with Samsung, the band “ expressed interest in working with Nadeem Mazen and Ali Mohammad, founders of Serious Business Design, on an animation idea they’d been dreaming up, and after some dialogue, Samsung turned OK Go loose with its latest innovation in premium camera technology, the Samsung NX100 camera. Each second of the video is a sequence of fifteen Samsung NX100 photographs, which OK Go, shot with Mazen, Mohammad and a crew of interns.” The video is premiering via Myspace and at www.okgo.net/lastleaf. The band will be appearing on ‘The Today Show’ premiering a video starring them with the Today Show’s Hosts on November 18th. The group is also wrapping up their US headlining tour November 27th in LA at the Nokia Theater. Is there anywhere the band wont be soon? And to be fair they’re only Supporting Metric because it’s in Canada.

Tour Dates:

11/8 in Fredericton, NB @St. Thomas University-Aitken Center (supporting Metric)

11/9 inPeterborough, ON @ Trent University-Memorial Center (supporting Metric)

11/13 in Victoria, BC @University of Victoria-Market Square (supporting Metric

11/19 in Santa Barbara, CA @ The Hub @ UC Santa Barbara (headlining)

11/27 in Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia (headlining)

12/3 in Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club (WBOS Radio 92.9’s Christmas in Paradise)

12/5 in Providence, RI @ Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (WBRU’s Holiday BRU-haha with Neon Trees)

12/8 in Phoenix, AZ @ KEXX Concert Series @ Gila River Casino with Smashing Pumpkins

12/11 in Colorado Springs, CO @ Stargazers Theatre (103.9 RXP’s Xmas Ball)

12/13 inMilwaukee, WI @ Eagle’s Ballroom (WLUM’s Big Snow Show 5 w/Cake & Switchfoot)