NEW VIDEO FROM AU PALAIS: TENDER MERCY
Watch the official video from Toronto bred- now London based Au Palais from their debut Tender Mercy EP, released by The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing. The video, created by Istoica: Mary Gerretsen, James Cooper & Liam Cushing, features brother and sister duo Elise and David Commathe running chilly through a snow covered forest and along Toronto’s waterfront.
You can stream their album HERE
THE DRUMS: LIVE AT W.I.P. 2.14
The Drums performed a 4 song set last night (Valentine’s day) at W.I.P. (short for Work-in-Progress & owned by the proprietors of the Greenhouse). We caught The Drums last at CMJ 2010 (Photos). Starting roughly an hour late a midst the bottle-service-heavy underground art house (even if a bit contrived), The Drums tore through perennial favorites such as “Best Friend” as well as their more current hit “Money” and the dancing made me really miss the days of Mondo at Don Hills.
Catch the photos from last night’s performance below.
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[photos: Cory Greenwell]
DOWNLOAD STARFAWN: GREENLIGHT [TEEEL REMIX]
Check out this dark disco remix of Starfawn’s “Greenlight” from Teeel.
Download a copy of Starfawn’s EP – available digitally now through Moodgadget, more info at moodgadget.com/starfawn/
Starfawn is a collaboration between Producer Misha Mross and Vocalist Amber Schaefer that began in early 2011. The two met through mutual friends and connected over a shared love for synthesizers and electronic music.
Misha Mross currently lives in Brattleboro Vermont and splits his time between his day job as an electro-optical engineer, writing music, and his musical engineering projects, which include building custom MIDI controllers and interfaces, and programming synthesis software. Influenced by both the organic (Vermont woods, classical music, physics, math) and the technological (NES/SNES, electrical engineering, synthesizer music), his production style, while heavily synth based, has natural motion and melody.
While Misha Mross is the technical expert of the duo, Brooklyn resident Amber Schaefer brings her natural charisma and song-writing abilities to the project. Amber tangibly brings her acting and improv background to their performances, cooing as she nonchalantly rolls around on the stage.
Together as Starfawn, they craft highly personalized electronic music that has been described as “an instantly recognizably retro, yet strange and otherworldly soundscape … that revels in experimentation while still understanding the importance of actually having a song amongst the indulgence.”
Photography by Cody Cobb
Photos by Cody Cobb.
Light Photography by Robert Canali
Photos by Toronto based photographer Robert Canali. 
Multi-Exposure Photography of Stephanie Jung
Multi-exposure photos of Japan, by Stephanie Jung.
Beyond The Black Rainbow Trailer
Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983,
BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW
is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. We are hoping the transgressive mind-trip of a sci-fi throwback, lives up to it’s trailer, which looks like a cross between 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Tron and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The film was spawned from the pre-teen fantasies of debut writer-director Panos Cosmatos and premiered at the 2010 Whistler Film Festival and showed at several film festivals throughout 2011, including Tribeca and Fantasia. The good folks at Magnet, the genre division of Magnolia Pictures are gearing up for a limited domestic theatrical release for the film.
Cosmatos was born in Rome in 1974 to the late Greek movie director (George Cosmatos) and a Swedish experimental artist mother. He spent his early formative years traveling all over the globe before settling in Canada. In 1981, the family lived for a year in Mexico where exposure to the strange local interpretations of American pop culture had a profound and lasting effect on his creative life. Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, and science fiction horror films, which he still does to this day. He then immersed himself in the underground art and music scenes making short films, album covers and music videos with a burgeoning group of influential and groundbreaking artists. Panos currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.
ADULTSWIM PRODUCED NEON INDIAN VIDEO: FALLOUT
The new video for Neon Indian‘s “Fallout” is an Adult Swim-produced cartoon directed by Lilfuchs. Paying homage to 80’s Saturday morning cartoons and sexy commercials, a scantily clad, pink maned, chill-wave Barbie cruises the scene in her 80’s convertible while paralyzing gas station workers with her gaze.
NEW VIDEO FROM THE BLACK KEYS: GOLD ON THE CEILING
The Black Keys Follow up their buzz-worthy viral video for “Lonely Boy”, with a new video for “Gold On The Ceiling” off of their late 2011 release, El Camino. The video, directed by Reid Long, keeps it simple, following the band through their recent world tour intertwining studio footage with clips of the band behind-the-scenes and performing on stage.
TEEEL SHOW THIS WEEK + NEW ALBUM COMING THIS MONTH
Inspired by italo, electro and the 80s new wave movement, Teeel aka Jim Smith credits his sound to marathon movie watching and being an obsessive gear head. Creating music in a 10×10 teal painted room, stacked with vintage synthesizers and guitars, TEEEL creates music that ranges from hypnotic synthpop to dreamy disco and dark electronica. Although TEEEL is a fairly new solo project, Jim Smith is no rookie in the music industry. He’s been producing a wide range of music, performing with bands and DJing in clubs since the late 90s. His debut album, AMULET (Moodgadget Records) has generated quite the buzz in the blog world as well as being featured on KEXP radio. “Dark Passenger” was featured as “Song of the Day”.
You can check out a night of electronic bliss this Thursday at 11:15 at Lit Lounge in New York City with Teeel performing along with Starfawn, Jacob 2-2, and Crozet. Doors open at 8:30pm. Lit Lounge is 93 2nd Ave. (btwn. E5/E6th St). Click HERE for more details.
TEEEL – “University Heights” (Coming 2/22/2012)
Original Cover Art by: Hayden James Mitchell
TEEEL – “Amulet” (Moodgadget Records, February 22nd, 2011)
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