Video – Still Corners : Endless Summer
Watch the Georgina Hudson directed video for Still Corner’s Twin-Peak-y track “Endless Summer” on Sub Pop.
Video – Tame Impala : Elephant
Watch the analog synthesized video by artist Yoshi Sodeoka – for the first single “Elephant:” off Tame Impala’s forthcoming new LP Lonerism.
Watch – Until the Quiet Comes
Amazing short film from Kahlil Joseph, with music from FlyLo’s highly anticipated new LP , Until the Quiet Comes, featuring Erykah Badu.
Video – Grizzly Bear : Yet Again
The new video for “Yet Again” taken from Grizzly Bear’s album Shields, out now. Produced by The Creators Project in partnership with Warp Records, the video was directed by Emily Kai Bock and shot in Toronto.
Listen to Grizzly Bear’s Shields in its entirety below.
Video – Tamaryn : Heavenly Bodies
Watch the new video Directed by Grant Singer – for “Heavenly Bodies” From Tamaryn’s new album Tender New Signs, out 10/16/12 on Mexican Summer.
Video – Dum Dum Girls : Lord Knows
Christin Turner directs this new Dum Dum Girls video for “Lord Knows” – out now on Sub Pop.
Video – Frank Ocean : Pyramids
Director Nabil does it again with the new Frank Ocean video for “Pyramids”.
frank ocean [pyramids] from christopher francis ocean on Vimeo.
Album Stream – Band of Horses : Mirage Rock
Band of Horses has launched a new BOH website with the release of Mirage Rock, the follow-up to 2010’s Infinite Arms. Both the album and the website features the photography of Christopher Wilson throughout. Check out www.bandofhorses.com for all the latest news, tour dates, videos and more and stream the new album in its entirety below, via the band’s website.
Video – Fear of Men : Green Sea
You were just saying that you missed the Cranberries…
Watch Fear of Men’s video for ‘Green Sea’
Grab Toronto’s Beta Frontiers dancefloor re-mix of “Green Sea” below:
Video – Taken by Trees : Large
Taken By Trees “Large” from Other Worlds, available as an instant download today).
MP3 – Vaadat Charigm : Witches
Bob Odenkirk interrogates The Soft Pack
Purchase the limited edition LP here digital album via iTunes here.
MP3 + Video – Smokey Robotic : Schizophrenic DJ
The guys dropped off a brand new video this week for their most recent single, Schizophrenic DJ, shot by Pier Pictures.
MP3 – ROOM8 : Transduction
ROOM8 “Transduction” is a crossroads on the electronic highway. An audio film that takes place in a musical past, present, and future. The brain child of Ezra Reich and Nic Johns, “Transduction” features Electric Youth (from the neon noir hit “Drive”), Martha Davis (leader of classic New Wave icons, The Motels), the sax work of Ian Young from M83, guitar work from Giorgio Moroder’s arranger and guitar player and famed producer, Richie Zito, mixed with Gavin Mackillop (Human League, General Public, Heaven 17). With artwork by the legendary art collective, The Zonders.
Get a sneak peak and listen to the first single, “Visions of You (feat. Electric Youth)” and B side “Neon and Dice” below.
Watch – Sound of Vision
Sound of Vision is a glimpse into one man’s journey to belong: born and bred in the city that never sleeps, Frank Senior spends his waking and dream-swaddled hours confronting the hurdles, and embracing the beauty, of the city he will never see. This short documentary was conceived as part of a competition for the International Documentary Challenge, where it won the POV Award, the Jury Award for Best Film, the Audience Award, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Use of the Experimental Genre.
WATCH IT NOW ON PBS P.O.V. HERE
MP3 – Hills : Hills LP
Hills are a surf rock band from Los Angeles. They just released their self-titled album, which you can download below.
Alt-J : An Awesome Wave
Rating: 5/5 stars
Label: Atlantic
Leeds quartet Alt-J (aka ‘triangle’, aka △) not only wrote one of the most diverse and addictive albums of 2012, but successfully created a new “non-genre” genre. Exploring a variety of music styles, including pop, folk and R&B, Alt-J masterfully piece together a beautifully rounded puzzle of style and influences. Nasally, blues-like vocals gush over dark, fuzzed-out bass -lines, guitar scratching, island beats and intricate vocal harmonies that are never short on literary references or imagery and never feel over-complicated or too ambitious.
Listen : Alt-j : Fitzpleasure(remix)
Listen : Alt-j : An Awesome Wave (viaSoundCloud)
Grizzly Bear : Shields
Rating: 5/5 stars
Label: Warp
After a long three year hibernation, Grizzly Bear awakes, evolved, lurching with a thundering new record and some teeth. A record, as much about coming together as it is about falling apart, Shields is an unpredictable album that re-defines the band’s group dynamics and takes comforts in it’s own imperfections. Showcasing guitarist Daniel Rossen‘ s expressive six-string style and “psychedilic tempest” songwriting abilities, this album is a stormy swirl of aggressive guitar swells building into roaring climaxes that is quite unpredictable. But while it explores a wide range of themes, textures and sounds, it is ultimately the unpredictability that makes Shields such a rewarding listen.
Listen : Grizzly Bear : Yet Again (viaSoundCloud)
Cat Power : Sun
Rating: 5/5 Stars
Label: Matador
Longtime Miami indie Goddess Chan Marshall was born again in 2012 with a short, cropped, breakup haircut and the first Cat Power album of original material in over six years. Transformed by her struggles as an artist, Marshall revisits her roots and comes into her own with this collection of moody, bluesy, songs layered by drum machines, synths and beautiful background vocals, which help showcase Marshall’s seductive, whispered croons and clever wordplay. If that isn’t enough, Marshall raps on the album and there is a surprise appearance from Iggy pop in the middle of the ten-minute Velvet Underground homage ”Nothin But Time”.
Listen : Cat Power : Ruin
Video – Van She : Jamaica
Van She‘s new album ‘Idea of Happiness‘ is practically the musical genotype of the very Caribbean itself, almost as if Bob Marley were taken in and raised by a ragtag group of synth-addicted 80’s runaways. Watch Van She traipse around the song’s namesake in the official video for ‘Jamaica’, second single off the album. Directed by Mike Piscitelli.
‘Idea of Happiness’ is out now through Modular Recordings, get it from iTunes / Van She Store / JB Hifi. The Jamaica Remixes EP is out now, featuring remixes from Unicorn Kid, Mad Professor, L-Vis 1990, Plastic Plates, Riva Starr and a special one from Van She themselves, grab it on iTunes.
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