Video of the Day 2: Dominant Legs, “Hoop of Love”
Ryan William Lynch of the great indie guitar-pop band Girls and keyboardist Hannah Hunt clearly listen to a lot of “High Land, Hard Rain.” Damn. The duo’s first full-length, “Invitation,” is out next Tuesday. If the rest is anything like “Hoop of Love,” it will be a candidate for the year-end list.
Roddy Frame, if you’re out there, this is a definite tip of the hat.
– Lang
Dominant Legs - "Hoop Of Love" from stereogum on Vimeo.
UPDATE: Listen to “Invitation” now via Hype Machine:
Video of the Day: Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse, “Body and Soul”
This is the track from “Duets II,” out today, that was mentioned in so many Winehouse eulogies. There is apparently some raw material out there from later studio work, but the 1930 jazz standard is a nice way to bookend things officially. She sounds great here, and Bennett, old softy that he is, always gets strong performances out of his foils.
– Lang
Video of the Day: Neon Indian perform “Polish Girl” on Jimmy Fallon
Fallon dearly loves Neon Indian — his ringing endorsement of “Psychic Chasms” played no small part in Alan Palomo becoming a top player in the chillwave subgenre. Much like Toro y Moi’s “Underneath the Pine,” “Era Extrana” is a far more slick article, produced by the esteemed Dave Fridmann. While the official video has its low-budget sci-fi charms, the live version has fellow Dentonite (Dentite?) and Fight Bite keyboardist Leanne Macomber, who is a kind of living, breathing special effect.
– Lang
Video of the Day: Neon Indian, “Polish Girl”
Stunning song from the Dave Fridmann-produced “Era Extrana,” the video (as Stereogum) noted, has a low-budget 1980s science fiction vibe, but StaticBlog places it more specifically in the realm of the microbudgeted 1985 sci-fi cult classic “Trancers,” minus the creepy zombiesque killers but with slightly better production values. Similarly, Alan Palomo has upped the production values on Neon Indian this time around, with Fridmann emphasizing beauty and gloss instead of the wobbly, warped-cassette sound of “Psychic Chasms.”
– Lang
Video of the Day: Emmy the Great, “Paper Forest (In the Afterglow of Rapture)”
Hong Kong-born singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss’ sound is steeped in British folk-rock traditions — it doesn’t seem to fit a period or scene as much as it evokes a kind of timeless English pastoral sound, with only occasional synthesizer intrusions. “Virtue,” her second album for Close Harbour, is out now.
– Lang
Emmy The Great - "Paper Forest (In The Afterglow Of Rapture)" from stereogum on Vimeo.
This Sunday: See Josh Sallee Tape the Season Premiere of STATIC
Rapper Josh Sallee, who recently landed on the cover of LOOKatOKC, will be the first artist featured on the new season of STATIC, and we will tape the performance before a live audience at 5 p.m. Sunday, at VZD’s, 4200 N Western. Admission is free. We want a big crowd for this first installment, so drop all your other Labor Day Weekend activities and take a break with Josh for a couple of hours of great local music.
Video of the Day: St. Vincent plays “Cruel” on “The Late Show with David Letterman”
I’d like to say that we fully expected Annie Clark to perform “Cruel” on Letterman and just thoroughly knock us down, but we should just get used to her exceeding all expectations. “Strange Mercy” is out in two weeks. The countdown begins… Nowwwwww.
– Lang
St. Vincent on “Late Show With David Letterman” Tonight
Annie Clark will perform a track from “Strange Mercy” (Due Sept. 13) on “The Late Show With David Letterman,” which runs at 10:37 p.m. on KWTV Channel 9 or whenever you want it to if you have a DVR. I’ll let you guess what Tuesday’s “Video of the Day” will be.
– Lang
Video of the Day: Jay-Z and Kanye West, “Otis” Live at the MTV Video Music Awards
When it starts like this, it isn’t going to get any better. Man, can you handle the unbridled passion between Biebs and Gomez at the end of this clip? Did Elton dress him or something?
– Lang
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Video of the Day: St. Vincent “Cruel”
As my colleague BAM reported, Annie Erin Clark debuted her video for “Cruel” today, and it’s a stunner. In the clip, she is kidnapped, put in a trunk, held at gunpoint and buried alive. It’s harrowing and beautiful all at once. The only thing cruel about the first video from “Strange Mercy” is what it will do to poor friend-of-StaticBlog Matt Carney, who is probably in a fetal position right about now, sucking his thumb.
“Strange Mercy” arrives Sept. 13. Mark that one as a new StaticBlog national holiday.
– Lang
