This is my favorite band of the moment.  As somebody who grew up on 80s new wave, I was pretty much predestined to like them, I think.


The part of the video that starts at about 1:10 makes me incredibly happy.  :)

I got this from weebull .  I only know of ONE song with my name in the title, but at least it's a bad-ass song:


There are older versions of this song, of course, but Nick Cave OWNS it.

The song is called "Shot In The Back Of The Head," and the resulting video is pure Lynch: dreamlike, strange, scary, and awesome.

Apparently this was arranged as a stunt for a Belgian TV show.    The reactions of the passers-by is wonderful.  Real life needs to have more of this.

"Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides to artists, writers, philosophers, sociologists and other thinkers published by Fontana paperbacks. The series, edited by Frank Kermode, began in 1970."  I love this LiveJournal post by Nick Currie (a.k.a.  imomus , a.k.a. underground pop star Momus) about an old series of philosophy paperbacks and their extremely hip cover art.

This is cool...  a guy who works with blind students takes a corrupted PDF file and turns it into a song.

Warp Records says yes, probably:

Steve Beckett, founder of Aphex’s parent label Warp Records, exclusively said: “We’re definitely going to be putting out a new album by him. Hopefully it will be this year, if I can prise it out of his hands. It’s definitely on its way.”

Yay!

I know they're from Atlanta, but I like them for totally non-regional reasons.  I heart Black Lips.

I love that they used to promote shows by coloring the lips on ad posters with black Sharpie, writing their show info alongside.  I love that they sometimes sound like the Zombies.  Hell yeah. 

New song from Röyksopp.  The song is good, and the video is GREAT. 

I bid on a copy of the Krush Groove soundtrack CD over on eBay on Friday...  it sold today for 80 BUCKS.

Madness.

Especially since most of the ones you find online are pirated copies.

I really just want it for one song:  She's On It, by the Beastie Boys.

Good god...  there's so much awesomeness in this video I can't stand it. 

I had no idea that Gerry Rafferty, of "Baker Street" fame (he also sang "Stuck In The Middle With You" when he was in the band Stealer's Wheel) has been missing since August.  It sounds like the poor guy had fallen on very hard times.  (via MetaChat)

More from Blossom.   (Thanks bearzbub )

R.I.P. Lux Interior, lead singer of the Cramps, one of the most insane live bands I ever had the pleasure to see.

I'd never heard of this Gotye guy until today.  Apparently he builds music tracks out of samples, a la The Avalanches, and then drums and sings over them.  Nice!

I don't know how I managed not to hear about this Brazilian band until today, but wow...  they are awesome.  :)


Here's an excellent live version of the same song (this is the one I heard first, actually, and it's MUCH better than the record version), and here's another song of theirs with the wonderful title, "Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above."

It's for the song "Batcat," by Mogwai.


This video came on a DVD included with the CD (the overall-excellent The Hawk Is Howling), which I've been listening to for a week or more, but I just got around to watching the video last night. Whoa.

It was directed by a guy who goes by the name Dominic Hailstone, a special effects dude who previously directed a freaky little horror short called "The Eel."

...so it must be time to RAWK OUT.


Bootleg quality, but at least it includes "Terms of Psychic Warfare":  


Check out the mosh pit.  It takes me back to the days of my misspent youth... 



 

Last weekend while we were out grocery shopping, I found a DVD that contained a remastered version of the 1973 movie The Harder They Come, starring reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, and that also included the soundtrack on CD.  Having been aware of this movie since I was a teenager, and having heard the soundtrack a LOT in college and thereabouts, I picked it up.


I was home sick from work today, so I watched it...  it's not a perfect movie by any means, but really fascinating.  It was the first feature film ever made in Jamaica, and the soundtrack is thought to have helped popularize reggae in the U.S., coming out a year before Bob Marley's first album.  Apparently there's an earlier,  Criterion edition of this movie, too (the one I have is a 2006 restoration by a company called Xenon)...  I'm still trying to figure out if there are any major differences in the two versions, as far as the cuts of the films.