Recent Posts Tagged With 'alt'

• Salvador y Lluvia

  Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 16:58 in live, Mexico, Electronic Music, animation, classical, experimental, bizarre, alt, ableton live, hannah manfredi, jesus contreras

  This was done by Jesus Contreras and Hannah Manfredi as a music and video collaboration. The story is about a little girl that wakes up to find herself in Mexico. She meets a young boy named Salvador who is on his way to sell mangos at the market. ...

• Phosphorescent- Wolves Live

  Posted on Friday April 11th, 2008 at 10:40 in alt

  Love this tune from Brooklyn folksters Phosphorescent, and I was pleased to discover this spirited and somewhat raucous live performance of it. Phosphorescent performing the song “Wolves” of their album “Pride” at Cake Shop i...

• Man Man- Studio hijinks and fireworks

  Posted on Friday April 11th, 2008 at 10:13 in alt

  So by now you must have discovered Pitchfork TV, if not happy day for you. The online video showcase was launched recently by the same people who bring you Pitchfork obviously, and features exactly what you’d expect, good alternative music vide...

• Happy Holidays

  Posted on Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 23:27 in alt

  Christmas music is usually enough to induce an instant vomit reflex in me, but I am constantly charmed by the Christmas albums of Sufjan Stevens…His happy little translations, and honest tunes seem to convey a sense of warmth lost in most of th...

• The Carps- Compton to Scarboroo

  Posted on Sunday December 16th, 2007 at 20:32 in alt

  From the fertile musical spawning grounds of Canada comes yet another great new band. The Carps are a bass and drums duo who combine a punk rock ferocity with somewhat R&B style singing you can find this tune on their debut cd out now…and ...

• Tin Hat Trio - Willow Weep For Me (Live)

  Posted on Wednesday November 21st, 2007 at 23:43 in alt

  Good God damn…Carla Kihlstedt totally fucking nails this Tin Hat Trio song live with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia playing back up band. She is just an amazingly well rounded musician who continues to grow and expand her talents across ...

• Kiss- Scout Niblett and Billie “Prince” Bonnie

  Posted on Sunday October 21st, 2007 at 12:30 in alt

  Another great duet featuring Bonnie “Prince” Billie. This time he is putting on a skeleton suit and singing with Scout Niblett. The song slowly builds around the “This kiss could have killed me” line…which is one of thos...

• Radiohead In Rainbows- Results seem positive

  Posted on Friday October 19th, 2007 at 20:34 in alt

  So Radiohead has claimed they won’t release results on the sales figures for In Rainbows, I’m not sure why not really but whatever, there are some pretty good guesses being floated and it sure looks good. Here is a quote from the Seminal-...

• Arcade Fire “Neon Bible”- Flash Fantastic

  Posted on Wednesday October 10th, 2007 at 14:15 in alt

  This is one of the coolest flash pieces since the mind blowingly awesome Polyphonic Spree “Quest for the Rest” game surfaced. Thanks to Gomez the Grand for this link, and be sure to click around while it plays for some interactive neatne...

• Radiohead- It’s about damn time!

  Posted on Monday October 1st, 2007 at 18:45 in alt

  In case you’re living under a rock and missed the news, Radiohead dropped a bomb on us today in releasing their next album (earlier than expected) over the internet…for free basically, or HOWEVER MUCH YOU THINK IT’S WORTH. What an a...

• Patrick Watson- The Great Escape

  Posted on Wednesday September 26th, 2007 at 19:26 in alt

  Here is a lovely animated video for Canadian artist Patrick Wilson’s The Great Escape. The song is an understated tune which reminds me a bit of Nick Drake, or a less flamboyant Antony and the Johnsons, and the black and white distressed animat...

• John Vanderslice Live in the Parking lot!

  Posted on Wednesday September 12th, 2007 at 09:36 in alt

  John’s out on tour now, and he’s really a lot of fun live. He seems to fly just under the radar of alternative mainstream, possibly because a lot of the content of his songs is pretty gruesome? All that really means is you still have a ch...

• Magnolia Electric Company

  Posted on Tuesday September 4th, 2007 at 11:31 in alt

  So I just caught these guys for the first time last night at the Someday Lounge here in Portland. I have been a fan for a while, but it takes a lot to drag me out to a show these days. Magnolia is one project of singer songwriter Jason Molina. Mr. Mo...

• Young Marble Giants- Brand New Life

  Posted on Sunday September 2nd, 2007 at 16:59 in alt

  Every now and again I am reminded just how great Youtube is. I mean occasionally I’ll just drop in a search for some obscure band I loved in the past, and bam! rewarded with some excellent video footage. So here it is, some great quality live f...

• Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip “Thou Shalt always Kill”

  Posted on Tuesday August 28th, 2007 at 11:36 in alt

  Bearded clever white guy rappers are all the rage these days and Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobious Pip are amongst the top tier. Check out the fun video for the song “Thou Shalt Always Kill” directed by Nick Frew. The song is a fun romp through a...

• Animal Collective Peacebone-

  Posted on Wednesday August 22nd, 2007 at 11:56 in alt

  I have a love hate relationship with the music of Animal Collective, a lot of it seems too self indulgent and inaccessible, however they are certainly one of the most creative and innovative sound makers to break through to mainstream, or at least al...

• Elliot Smith- Pain and beauty

  Posted on Thursday August 2nd, 2007 at 00:05 in alt

  I remember hearing the haunting song “Needle in the Hay” in the film Royal Tennenbaums and getting goosebumps. That was such a perfect choice for the scene when Luke Wilson slits his own wrists. One has to wonder if Elliot Smith killed hi...

• Extra Action Marching Band - Black Chicken

  Posted on Tuesday July 31st, 2007 at 13:06 in alt

  The Extra Action Marching Band takes the excitement and costuming of stadium school marching bands and brings it to a nightclub setting. They mix big horns with a hipster vibe and add some real action courtesy of lots of writhing dancing eyecandy in...

• Bonnie Prince Billy- Seedling Video

  Posted on Sunday July 29th, 2007 at 16:09 in alt

  Will Oldham continues to blossom into one of America’s great singer songwriters, and Drag City just released another video for “The Seedling” from last years excellent album The Letting Go…which is really a must own for anyone...

• The Robocop Kraus- You Don’t Have To Shout

  Posted on Monday July 23rd, 2007 at 12:52 in alt

  From the Talking Heads we move on to Talking Heads homage. This video is clearly a nod of the head to the original Heads, and the band often gets accused of stealing from the Heads. You can give some of their other stuff a listen, to me it’s pr...

• Flight of the Conchords: Hip-Hopopotamus vs. The Rhymenocerous

  Posted on Monday July 9th, 2007 at 10:40 in alt

  Seems like everyone is talking about this HBO show Flight of the Conchords. The show is a musical situation comedy featuring a band from New Zealand in NYC trying to make it. For those of us living without the benefits of HBO we’ll have to make...

• Barracuda vs. Barracuda vote now!

  Posted on Saturday June 9th, 2007 at 13:22 in alt

  So I was wasting time on Youtube when I should have been working…it's OK I am kind of the boss, so I'll take it out of my own bonus this year thank you. However I “stumbled upon” this interesting video from Miho Hatori, who was a me...

• Spoon: The ghost in you lingers

  Posted on Tuesday May 29th, 2007 at 11:13 in alt

  This is the first single touted for release from the new Spoon album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (why not just call it 5Ga's). It starts with a rather percussive piano part which lays the foundation for the whole song as it meanders here and there with some rever...