Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
Movie Music Kills a Kiss
This might be the most beautiful thing I've seen all year, but then I've always been a sucker for long, single-take videos.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
Joseph Arthur
Has Joseph Arthur's time finally come? For their first post of 2014, WNYC's Soundcheck posted this video of Arthur playing with RNDM (Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament), along with a download of House of Your Love from Ballad of Boogie Christ, Act 2.
Oh, yeah, and back on June 25 of last year, he made his first appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight Show:
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Shit I Missed
New Year's fireworks at the Space Needle, synchronized to music. (Belated) Happy New Year, y'all!
Friday, January 3, 2014
Strange Music, Part 2
My off-hand remark about Animal Collective yesterday got me to looking some of their stuff up, and I came across this gem of a concert from 2006, arguably AnCo's best performance ever, including a mind-bending 10-minute version of Safer from the Peacebone EP (starting at about the 10-minute mark and following the comment about going down into the Black Hole). This show was performed shortly before the release of Strawberry Jam, probably my favorite AnCo record, and most of the songs performed here had not yet been recorded but were still in the embryonic, working-them-out-in-performance stage, shedding some light on the AnCo creative process. Enjoy.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Strange Music
As you may have noticed, Unknown Mortal Orchestra rated pretty highly in all of my year-end lists, including the Best Concert and Best Album categories. Last year (it still feels strange calling 2013 that), we saw UMO three times - at 529 with Foxygen, an incendiary performance at Branx in Portland during MFNW, and back in Atlanta again at Terminal West (above), and each show was a delight.
The band is touring China right now, with shows scheduled in Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. But before they left, Ruban Nielson gave the world a parting Christmas gift - a 22-minute, experimental, ambient guitar exploration titled SB-01, which sounds a little like Robert Fripp on codeine, or Animal Collective in Transverse Temporal Gyrus mode. Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
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