Video of the Day: Dent May, “Meet Me In the Garden”
Some people are just born with no shame whatsoever. Ultrageeks goes ultralounge!
Random 10 for February 18, 2009
I had to rebuild my music library over the past few days, shove it into a new computer and resync the Podsie, so I’ve been unable to do a random for a while.I found about 2,000 songs in strange files that probably had not been touched since the 2001 rush of “definite article” bands. Yes, that’s how old that particular computer was — just before it started making death rattles and emitting toxic fumes.
1. Tahiti 80, “All Around.” More beautiful melodies and simple sentiment from the French perfect-pop band, which released its latest disc, Activity Center, last year. Those familiar with the two-year wait for a domestic release of Fosbury, be prepared.
2. Eels, “Agony.”
3. Curtis Mayfield, “Junkie Chase.”
4. XTC, “That’s Really Super, Supergirl.”
5. Peter Murphy, “A Strange Kind of Love.” One of those artifacts that came out of my digital excavation, but it gave me an excuse to post this video with Murphy performing the song with Trent Reznor. Nice.
6. The White Stripes, “St. Andrew (This Battle is In the Air).”
7. Nina Simone, “Rich Girl.”
8. Amy Millan, “Baby I.”
9. Mates of State, “So Many Ways.”
10. Fight Bite, “Swissexlover.” A stunning song from a Denton dream-pop band that richly deserves an immediate record contract with 4AD.
Video of the Day: Tahiti Boy and the Palmtree Family, “1973″
What you need right now, as you prepare for a productive day, is to let this Parisian psychedelic band send you on a hallucinogenic freakout that would make Sid and Marty Kroft blush.
Video of the Day: Ra Ra Riot, “Can You Tell?”
Well, there’s that. Or, you could ring the doorbell.
Video of the Day: The Presets, “If I Know You”
Director Eva Husson has an eye for choreographed teen drama set to atmospheric electro-pop – she directed M83′s “Kim and Jessie” — and her work on this new one from The Presets is pretty glorious in itself. One caveat: the male dancer touches the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard. Don’t ever do that. Ever. There’s not enough Purell in the world.
Are you #@(%!! nuts?
The Family Guy meets Christian Bale. Great stuff.
– Chase
Static 1: Steven Stark
While we did a soft-launch on this last fall and had to work some kinks out before moving forward, this is the official first episode of “Static,” a new music performance and interview show on NewsOK.com. I’m particularly proud of what’s been done here, and I sincerely hope you like it. My thanks go out to Steven Stark for being the guinea pig, and to my producer/director/videographer Tanner Herriott, who is entirely responsible for the superb look and feel of this new series.
Part 1: Interview
Part 2: Lazarus
Part 3: An Airplane Disappears
Part 4: The Joy of Just Three Chords
Random 10 for February 12, 2009
1. The Pipettes, “Because It’s Not Love (But It’s a Feeling).” Sniff. The Pipettes showed such promise, but then Rosay and RiotBecki got shoved out, Gwenno brought in her sister Ani and Anna McDonald, and then McDonald left in November. She still hasn’t been replaced. So, was the coup worth it?
Update: Thanks to a reader who wrote in as “anonymous,” we now know that a new Pipette was announced yesterday — her name is Beth.
2. The National, “The Geese of Beverly Road.”
3. Brazilian Girls, “Le Territoire.”
4. Deerhunter, “Wash Off.”
5. Thee Hydrogen Terrors, “All Hail the Panamanian Subversive.”
6. Q-Tip, “Getting Up.” As some of my favorite rappers were leaving behind jazz and neo-soul leanings in favor of icy electro, Q-Tip was reasserting his love of the urbane sounds that the Native Tongues movement championed. The Rennaissance is highly, highly recommended.
7. Feist, “Brandy Alexander.”
8. Colourmusic, “Fall Song.”
9. Brookville, “Slow Emotion Replay.”
10. The Chills, “Heavenly Pop Hit.” One of my favorite songs of the late ’80s — the spectacular chord progression on the chorus is the kind of ear candy that leaves a dusting of sugar crystals.
Video of the Day: Doves, “Kingdom of Rust”
The wait is nearly over: Kingdom of Rust releases April 6. Doves take their sweet time between releases, but rarely do we hold it against them once we finally hear what they’ve been doing all these years.
Ah, The Cryptic Campaigns of Indie Film
This afternoon, I received a courier package that was obviously too flimsy to be actual media. I opened it, and there was a greeting card with a cupid on the cover image saying “Be Mine: Day (1),” and then same cupid weeping inside with the caption, “Or Not (Day 500).”
On the back: the title “(500) Days of Summer.” This is all I got, along with a URL leading to this:
According to the site, the teaser trailer was based on the trailer for Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” (Le Mepris):
Perhaps. This looks like a date movie for Staticblog readers. Look for it in 160 days. That would be summer.
