Anna Karina & Belmondo in Pierrot le Fou.

- Ma Ligne de Chance.

- Jamais je ne t'ai dit que je t'aimerai toujour.

Awesome Color.

Comparisons to the Stooges, The Scientists, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Spacemen 3 aside, the only comparative description you need to know about Awesome Color is, "if the members of Led Zeppelin had started a punk band, it would sound like Awesome Color." I saw them last week with American Sphinx (eh...) and LadderLegs (from Boston with members of RatPack and Ghost in My Basement, and they also played a great set). It was a decent show, Girl Talk's coked—up—groupie—entourage excluded (he played earlier at Cornell. both the show and the guy himself...kinda lame), and then Awesome Color came on and they were fuckin' great. Real loud and noisy, and strings were stretched, and my face was rocked off. From Michigan—via—Brooklyn on Ecstatic Peace! They have one self—titled from 2006 and Electric Aborigines from 2008. If you're a big fan of the Stooges, then you'll like the self—titled, but i think ELectric Aborigines is better. Go become a huge fan.

Bobby Conn: More than just a Man.

The tiny little disco-punk genius.



Awesome dream sequence from Roy Andersson's Du Levande (You, The Living). the danes.....ugh.

Aleisa Moussa: A Curated Retrospective.

The Zombies - This Old Heart of Mine.

Ramones - Baby, I Love You.

Iggy Pop - Sixteen.

Hank Williams - Lost Highway.

Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, 1957.

Mae Mercer - Careless Love.

Outer South.

I got Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band's new album, Outer South today. It's pretty good. I mean it's not as good as their last, and certainly not as good as bright Eyes' Wide Awake, but it should excite old-school bright eyes fans. Some other guys in the band (Taylor Hollingsworth, Nik Freitas and Jason Boesel) have songwriting credits, and it's easy to tell who wrote what, but the more collaborative style is pretty sweet. The songs Conor did write sound like Bright Eyes songs ala letting off the happiness and fevers and mirrors, only played by a tight rock band. So people who liked the songwriting on the earlier stuff, but couldnt stand the actual musical and vocal talent of drunk teenagers, you'll wet your pants. It doesn't come out till May 5th, and Ashley got all butt-hurt when I posted the link to the Felice Brothers' leak, so I guess you'll just have to wait for it or find it yourself. Thanks alot, Ashley.

p.s. I can't/haven't tried all that hard to find out who produced it. It doesnt sound like Mike Mogis, so if anyone knows, that would be a nice tidbit.

p.p.s. Also not sure why they're on Merge and not Team Love, but looking at the roster of Merge bands, an old-fashioned label tour would be fuckin awesome.

Seaside Heights.

The combination of the 1970s, French, and vaguely bossanova elevator music can make everything, even New Jersey, seem awesome.

Dance Music for White People.

FuBu

The Teenagers - Homecoming. [Though technically "french," i still consider them white.]
Tom Vek - Green Lights.
Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80's.

Some Music.

This dumb blog will let me put up pictures & videos, but wont let me post songs. So I hunted down some YouTube crap. I've been listening to these bands a lot recently. It's bubblegum pop for grindcore-punks. which is awesome.

The Death Set - Negative Thinking off of "Worldwide" on Counter/Ninja Tune 2008.

On monday, a band I'm in was slated to open for Japanther here in Ithaca. However, since for some reason they had to haul ass back to NYC by 2 a.m., they ended up opening for us. In any case, Japanther is just the bee's knees. They're like a Pop version of Lightening Bolt. sensing a trend?

Japanther - Challenge off of "Skuffed up my Huffy" on Menlo Park (at the time) 2007.

I was gonna link to something off of Times New Viking's "Rip it Off" (Matador 2008), but couldn't decide on one song, because the entire album is amazing. So go get it.

Moving away from noise-pop into the world of neo-americana, the new Felice Brothers album "Yonder is The Clock" (Team Love) is due to come out on april 7th, but you can get it here. I was skeptical, because they're first one is one of my favorite albums of the past couple years. The songs aren't as up-tempo and fun as their first album, but the production is better, and the songwriting is better (a tall order).

1980,000,000

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Glitchez!!!

Can't say that I'm all that into Chairlift's music. They're tight, have good producers, and are quiet enough to ignore, but they're just not my cup of tea. The recently released "official visuals," to their track Evident Utensil, however, are fuckin' awesome. This is why glitch video hasn't gotten boring yet.


Chairlift's Evident Utensil
(you could YouTube it, but this looks much better)
Director: Ray Tintori
Cinematographer: Rob Leitzell
Data Bender: Bob Weisz
Shot at Maison du Z, July 11th, 2008.

There's a new Kanye video out that does similar stuff. It relies a lot more on digital effects, though, not just data-bending. Better song, in any case.

Kanye West's Welcome to Heartbreak
Director: NABIL (nabilphotography.com)
Editor: Ryan Bartley
Post: Ghost Town Media
Producer: Kathleen Heffernan
Label: Island Def Jam
Production Co: Partizan