And here's Local Natives in a special January 11, 2013, KCRW concert at Apogee's Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica (with a long Jason Bentley interview after the song Colombia for some reason).
Here's an IndieATL video directed by Matt Rowles of Quiet Hounds' performance at The Goat Farm before a crowd of about 800. Quiet Hounds constructed the staging, lights, sound and artwork for this event in honor of the soldiers who died at Andersonville prison in 1864.
In the two years since we saw Ms. Ford and company play Pioneer Courthouse Square during MFNW, the brassy, bluesy quartet put out a great debut album, played Letterman, and blew up in France, and—if the barroom-brawlin’ promo video for its second effort is any indication—got even tougher in the process.
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside will be playing Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday, March 18 with Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Oh, look. We The Common [For Valerie Bolden], a single from the new Thao & The Get Down Stay Down album We The Common, has been released, following the prior preview of the song Holy Roller. The album comes out February 5, and pre-orders via The Ribbon Mart will receive a bonus limited edition 7" titled We The Covers featuring Thao & The Get Down Stay Down covering Melanie's Brand New Key and The Troggs' With a Girl Like You.
This The Making Of. . . video is one of the funniest things I've seen, and beats about any episode of Portlandia at whatever it is that Portlandia's doing.
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down will perform on March 18 at Atlanta's Smith's Olde Bar, with Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside opening. A must-see show.
Oh, look. Our multi-instrumentalist girlfriend Emily Wells has formed a new band called Pillowfight with hip-hop producer Dan the Automator, and has released a single Used To Think. Another track, Get Your Shit Together, is streaming at their Soundcloud site.
Taraka and Nimai Larson, the sisters behind the band Prince Rama, have a song on their latest album entitled Welcome to the Now Age. What is not well known is that the Now Age is more than a song, it's a philosophy.
"The Now Age cannot be named, for once named, it becomes part of a fixed moment in time, and is thus lost. It is not to be confused with the New Age, because there is nothing new about it. It is, always was, and always will be."
Taraka recently gave a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum on this philosophy, which began with a discussion on the devolution of the cross and the triangle into kitsch (kitsch being a symbol divorced from its original historical context) and continued onto an examination of the mirrorball as panopticon ("the closest thing the Now Age has to a deity" as it does not create but only reflects) and Now Age aesthetics, which seek to embrace the potential of beauty through the rejection of actual beauty.
It would be hard to imagine Taraka simply speaking in front of an audience for an hour, and the lecture did not disappoint. It included dancing, face paint, and a lot of glitter.
Not to let Taraka do all of the explaining, here's an amusing little essay written by Nimai.
Oh. look. Minneapolis Mormons Low have released Just Make It Stop, the first single from their forthcoming album, the Jeff Tweedy-produced The Invisible Way. The song is reportedly but one of five songs with lead vocals by Mimi.
Low are touring in support of the album, but are not coming anywhere even near the American South. However, they will be playing Portland's Mississippi Studios on Friday, April 5.
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