Peep this video from Crystal Castles and answer the following for me… which is more annoying: the song or the video?
Add video gamers to the long list - Celine Dion, the Amish, even Wal-Mart - of those who have unabashedly expressed their love of AC/DC recently. Fired as an emphatic warning shot to next month’s release of their new album Black Ice (which, from what I’ve heard so far sounds EXACTLY like every other AC/DC album, which is a pretty great thing), one of the band’s classic tunes “Let There Be Rock” has been used to precision in recent television spots for Rock Band 2.
Have a look below and try not to get too excited about the second generation of Rock’s noticeable upgrades (the drums have cymbals! there’s actually a bass guitar now! sunburst guitars!). Rock Band 2 comes out on September 14th….for those about to rock, we salute you! Read more…
Straight from the PR people’s mouths to your eyes:
For Dead Confederate’s first music video, the band wanted to do something special. They wanted something that would stand out, but wouldn’t sacrifice the integrity and message of their music. What do they do? They team up with Pamela Littky to make an outstanding visual interpretation of the first single from Wrecking Ball. Wrecking Ball, Dead Confederate’s debut LP, is out
September 16 via TAO Records. Buy it HERE.
Watch: “The Rat” by Dead Confederate (below)
See also: “Tourtured Artist Saint” by Dead Confederate (below: interview and live footage at SXSW)
Listen: “The Rat” by Dead Confederate
Dead Confederate live dates:
09.11.08 – Exit/In – Nashville, TN
09.12.08 – Sky City – Augusta, GA - w/ Turf War
09.18.08 – The Hummingbird – Macon, GA
09.19.08 – 40 Watt – Athens, GA - w/ Kuroma, Twin Tigers, Gift Horse
09.20.08 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA - w/ Wax Fang, Twin Tigers
09.23.08 – JJ’s Bohemia – Chattanooga, TN - w/ Wax Fang, Twin Tigers
09.24.08 – The Bottletree – Birmingham, AL - w/ Wax Fang, Twin Tigers
09.25.08 – Sticky Fingerz – Little Rock, AR - w/ Wax Fang
09.26.08 – Emo’s – Austin, TX - w/ Wax Fang, Heartless Bastards
09.27.08 – The Cavern – Dallas, TX - w/ Wax Fang
09.29.08 – The Bluebird – St. Louis, MO - w/ Catfish Haven
09.30.08 - The Granada - Lawrence, KS - w/ Catfish Haven
10.01.08 – The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE - w/ Catfish Haven
10.02.08 – The Annex – Madison, WI - w/ Catfish Haven
10.03.08 – Mo’s Irish Pub – Milwaukee, WI - w/ Catfish Haven
10.04.08 – Schubas – Chicago, IL
10.06.08 – TT the Bears – Cambridge, MA - w/ Catfish Haven
10.08.08 - The Khyber - Philadelphia, PA - w/ Catfish Haven
10.09.08 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY - w/ Catfish Haven, Kuroma
10.10.08 – Union Hall – Brooklyn, NY - w/ Kuroma
10.13.08 - Talking Head Club - Baltimore, MD
10.14.08 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC - w/ Heartless Bastards
10.16.08 – Exit/In – Nashville, TN - w/ Heartless Bastards
10.17.08 – Proud Larry’s – Oxford, MS - w/ Hearless Bastards
10.25.08 – Voodoo Experience – New Orleans, LA
Visit Dead Confederate on MySpace.
Below is a sampling of five of the videos currently rocking the Elbo.ws What’s Hot: Videos chart. We’ve got one song each from CSS, Foals, The Teenagers, Metallica, and Lykke Li. Believe it.
ABOVE: “Move” by CSS
ABOVE: “Olympic Airways” by Foals
ABOVE: “Feeling Better” by The Teenagers
ABOVE: “The Day That Never Comes” by Metallica
ABOVE: “Breaking It Up” by Lykke Li (live on Late Night With Conan O’Brien)
We haven’t gotten around to watching the VMAs in their entirety yet; it turned out our decision to catch the Silver Jews at Bowery instead proved to be a wise one judging by the consensus “meh” reaction to the annual gala around the web today. And in all honesty, not a single category proved especially compelling, though if we were do to a roundup of the best winning videos (and we are), here are the three we’d choose:
Gnarls Barkley - “Run” (above); Winner - Best Art Direction, Best Choreography
Death Cab For Cutie - “I Will Possess Your Heart” (above); Winner - Best Editing
The White Stripes - “Conquest” (above); Winner - Best Cinematography
This weekend, the increasingly-sociable David Berman and company roll into town for a series of shows at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (Saturday) and Bowery Ballroom (Sunday). Yeah Silver Jews! We cannot wait; it’s been too long since we last saw them slay Webster Hall on St. Patrick’s Day a few years back. And with considerable amounts of touring and live shows logged since then, we anticipate Berman to be at the very peak of his game in front of an adoring New York crowd. So we’re sending you into the weekend with a series of videos to get you in the proper mood, all of which are culled from 2005’s outstanding Tanglewood Numbers - except for the final video, which is a trailer for the forthcoming documentary about the Silver Jews’ trip to Israel. Expect a review of at least one of the two shows early next week. Read more…
Today for your viewing pleasure, a handful of new and newish videos from Mute Records, including selections from their newest signings XX Teens (think Jonathan Richman on amphetamines), Hercules and Love Affair (this one looks like one of those old Lexus commercials), I’m From Barcelona (our former Band of the Weeker makes himself at home in the elevator), M83 (80s nostalgia alert in the best way imaginable), and Goldfrapp (”Caravan Girl” = “Cinnamon Girl” circa 2008?). Have a look see… Read more…
Submit for your approval the compelling phenomenon of the “rock frontman”, a figure indigenous to well-lit, amplified environments ranging in size from coliseums to cramped cellar bars. No two strut, howl, sweat, preen, shake or rock in precisely the same way, and for that reason it’s worth taking a closer look at three specimens who happened to have just released new music videos this week. The Hetfield, the Followill, the Leithauser, all remarkably distinct portraits of the frontman….one growls and hisses in the desert, one writhes in a well lit dungeon-like environment, and one croons in creepy clown-face, but yet all prevail in rock….
Read more…
This past Thursday night saw the final stop on Radiohead’s 2008 North American Tour. For this final show the band decided to webcast the show. If, like me, you were watching something else that night, here is a chance to catch a bit of what you missed - seven videos from the encore of their show in Santa Barbara.
ABOVE: “Cymbal Rush”
ABOVE: “Paranoid Android”
ABOVE: “Go Slowly”
ABOVE: “Everything in Its Right Place”
ABOVE: “Videotape”
ABOVE: “Lucky”
ABOVE: “Idioteque”
One of our very first Band of the Week selections was Screaming Tea Party, the masterful UK-based purveyors of the whole loud/soft and violent/gentle dynamic that we’ve grown to love so much. And yet, we haven’t heard much from them lately, most obviously because they still have yet to play any shows in the US. They have, however, just released a fantastic new video for “I’d Rather Be Stuck On The Stair Rail” and also were the subject of a recent short documentary “In The City”. Have a look and listen at both below. Read more…
In case you weren’t keeping track, Sam Champion is set to release their sophomore album Heavenly Bender this coming Tuesday, September 2nd. Hot dog! And for those who second Tom Petty’s assertion that the waiting is in fact the hardest part, take solace in the fact that you can now pre-order the album over at Amie Street for only three dollars. In the meantime, check out the following pair of amazingly surreal promotional videos the band recently cooked up:
above: Part 1
above: Part 2
Word on the street is that we can expect two more of these videos in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
What’s hot right now? Leather jackets, fur skirts, the DNC 2k8, fantasy football drafts, St. Germain, Michelle Obama, Madonna’s outfits, pumping your own yogurt at 16 Handles, Tropic Thunder, the Jonas Brothers, etc. etc. ad infinitum… it’s tough to keep up with it all sometimes. We sure can’t. However, one thing that we’ve got covered is the question of ‘what’s hot?’ in the world of music videos. Check them out below. Read more…
The Secret Life of Sofia have been named Jezebel Music’s Featured Artist for the month of August. They ran a great piece on the band - which you can read HERE - and also had them post up campfire style on a Brooklyn rooftop and perform an acoustic version of “Outside” from their excellent new album Seven Summits. After that, they throw some questions back and forth and bust out some Beatles a capella, check it out!
Buy Seven Summits on Insound.
The interview with this week’s Band of the Week, The Laughing, ended up mentioning a wide variety of bands. Below you’ll find videos from some of them.
ABOVE: “Young Men Dead” by Black Angels
ABOVE: “Firecracker” by Voxtrot
ABOVE: “More Than This” by Roxy Music
ABOVE: “2080″ by Yeasayer
ABOVE: “Time To Pretend” by MGMT
ABOVE: “Cadillac” by Gang Of Four
Friends of EAR FARM Goes Cube just recently appeared on the television show Fearless Music and played one of their new, “titled”, songs called “Clenching Jaws”. Check out the performance below. And, watch out for another performance from the band this Saturday 8/23 at 12:30am on Fearless Music where they’ll be playing another new song.