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Kata Rokkar is Icelandic for Kata Rocks. The name derives from a song by the Icelandic sensation, Björk. No, I’m not one bit Icelandic. However, I’m obviously a huge fan of her work. For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved telling peo
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Kata-TV Friday
El Perro del Mar – Change of Heart Thoughts: …interesting. Amazing Baby – Supreme Being Thoughts: Looks like a cross between a Gap commercial and an iPod Commercial. Cursive – Let Me Up Thoughts: A bit slow at first but an ...
Treasure Island Festival: Music Videos
Old People Watch MGMT’s Kids Video The Streets – Don’t Mug Yourself The Decemberists – The Rake’s Song The Decemberists – The Rake’s Song from The Hazards of Love (2009) Yo La Tengo – Sugarcube Beirut &...
Hopewell – Island [video]
Hopewell “Island” from Good Good Desperation I am falling in love with these Jap-Cult film turning into awesome videos. 1971’s “Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go Into The Streets” by director Shuji Terayama, inspired...
65daysofstatic / Live CD/DVD
65daysofstatic – Radio Protector If you caught this year’s Cure tour, you might have stumbled across a little band called 65DaysOfStatic. Well, not little, but you most likely hadn’t heard of them until they blasted your ears with their ba...
Kata-TV Friday
Bat For Lashes – Sleep Alone My favorite song off her new album get proper treatment. Them Crooked Vultures – Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I (Sample) Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin b...
Kata-TV: Yo La Tengo
Changing it up a bit. Each week I’ll showcase a different artist’s catolauge of music videos. This week, indie heroes Yo La Tengo, who will be kicking it at the Treasure Island Festival in San Francisco this year. Yo La Tengo – Her...
Kata Rokkar at Comic-Con 2009
Here’s my best attempt at explaining what happen this past weekend at the San Diego Comic-Con for us… I missed the Avatar screening but from what I’ve heard it was phenomenal. Welcome back, James Cameron. Got to see Terry Gilliam a...
Kata-TV Friday
Bad Veins – Gold And Warm In addition to this neat little video, ABC News is streaming Bad Veins’ entire album live on their site – head to abcnews.com to listen! Look for Bad Veins on tour in the US this fall. Bad Veins – Gold and Wa...
Kata-TV Friday
The Lonely H – The Singer Off of their third album ‘Concrete Class’, The Lonely H return with this junior high school play-esqe video for their wicked layed back tunes, ‘The Singer’. The Lonely H - The Singer RX Bandits...
Kata-TV – Regina Spektor
Regina Specktor – Man of a Thousand Faces Is she making a video for every song off ‘Far’? Certainly seems like it. Hey I’m not complaining, more of Ms. Spektor’s pretty face for me. Anyway, here’s some more video f...
More Björk Voltaic Hype
Nonesuch Records, the label that’s putting out Björk’s monumental CD/vinyl/DVD box set ‘Voltaic’ in the U.S., just put out this trailer for the box-set, featuring some pretty jubilant footage of the singer’s tour, that&...
Kata-TV Friday
New Album Leaf Preview The above video is Jimmy Lavalle (The Album Leaf) mixing his new album in Iceland. I am super psyched about this especially after seeing him perform some new tunes this year at the Bottom of the Hill. The Album Leaf – Ai...
Oh Videos, You’re So Crazy!
Band of Skulls – I Know What I Am Band of Skulls – I Know What I Am Here’s Band of Skulls’ new video for the blue rock swinger “I Know What I Am.” It sounds like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club debuted a female singer...
Kata’s 2009 Film Watch List
The Road - Release Date: October 16, 2009 I have been waiting for this film for a long time and it looks as though it will not disappoint. This may be the most important movie of the year, I guarantee it. Anti-Christ - Release Date: US Date TBA As ...
V-I-D-E-O-S-!
I am certain this song will be in a ’summer fun” commercial at some point. I know it! Anyway, here’s Metric’s little homemade video for “Sick Muse.” Enjoy! This hilarious spin-off cliche Norwegian Metal videos is ...
HEY VIDEOS! OVER HERE!
Two Weeks There’s something terribly odd and humorous about Grizzly Bear’s new video for Two Weeks. I’d pay extra for my Fillmore ticket to see them next month if this is what happens to their heads when they play the song. Pre-ord...
I Had A Dream I Went To Coney Island
If you went to Coney Island with a Super 8 and the song A Musician and a Filmmaker from Panda Bear in your head….it would probably look like this. Australian filmmaker Sherwin Akbarzadeh’s surrealistic short film was chosen by Spike Lee h...
Video Schmorgisborg
via P4K.TV I showed this video to a friend at work and he said (and I quote), “…well that wasn’t weird or anything.” I love this band. Mae Shi website The Mae Shi - The Lamb and The Lion The video represents Greycoats‘...
VIDEO UPPERCUT!
You’ve probably noticed that I am totally gay for spazz-rockers The Mae Shi. So you can imagine my childlike glee when I found out about this video from SXSW of the song Run To Your Grave featuring Slow Club and Kid Static. Many thanks to the B...
Videos! Videos! Videos! Dan Deacon!
Here are some videos from the insanity that took place last night during the Dan Deacon show at the Great American Music Hall. If you kept up with my twitter feed last night…you kind of have an idea what to expect. Also Dan took a bit of spill ...
Your Friday Dose Of Music Videos
M. Ward - Rave On (Featuring Zooey Deschanel): Rave On is the 2nd single from M. Ward’s album Hold Time, out now on Merge Records. St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work: First single from the new album Actor due May 5th. Man Man - Rabbit Habi...
Your Friday Music Videos! Hooray!
The adorable band, Company of Thieves performs “Even in the Dark” overlooking a “lucky horseshoe.” Company of Thieves - Oscar Wilde ex-Distillers frontwoman Brody Dalle’s new project Spinnerette Ghetto Love Music ...
Your Friday Veg-Out Music Video Fest
Panda Bear - Take Pills Directed by Gang Gang Dance’s Brian Degraw. from the album “Person Pitch” on Paw Tracks Records. It’s new…I guess. Well the song isn’t but the video is. Typical psychedelic Panda Bear. Panda...
Metric measures up with Fantasies
“I stumble…” That is the first line you hear from Metric’s latest album, Fantasies. After a few listens, ’stumble’ is not exactly what this album does in the least bit. First off, they are gradually eliminating tha...
Your Friday Music Videos
Thoughts - While the song itself is a metaphor for courage, the video represents the song well. The Ropes - Kitty Get Down Audrye Sessions - “Turn Me Off” from Black Seal on Vimeo. Thoughts - Definitely highlights their entrancing li...
Not Far From The Studio
Fans of the band Far can rejoice once again. According to lead vocalist Jonah Matranga who recently spoke on Live 105, Far has (almost) signed with Vagrant Records to make a brand spankin’ new record. Apparently guitarist Shaun Lopez has been s...
She Farted And Created The World
She Farted And Created The World from Scott Coello on Vimeo. Does the animation in this video look familiar to you? It should. This is the work of Kata Rokkar web designer Scott Coello. Paired with the music of his band, Son of Robot, this is an epi...
Bid Adieu to Conan O’Brien
For anyone that is a true fan of performance comedy, Conan O’Brien is up there as one of the pioneers of post-modern self depreciating humor. His off kilter antics and absolute wackiness has become a staple in American culture and Late Night TV...
