Discosalt video of the week 5/30/10: The National’s newish video for “Bloodbuzz Ohio” off their new album High Violet features charismatic National front man, Matt Berninger, cleaned up, beard trimmed and donning a handsome suit in black and white doing sort of a lazy mans electric slide.
Director Martin de Thura re-unites with Danish indie rockers, Mew to direct their new video for ” Beach”. Another installment in a series of ambitiously shot, mysterious, strange, eerie videos to promote their just as ambitious, mysterious, strange titled album “No More Stories/Are Told Today/I’m Sorry/They Washed Away/No More Stories/The World Is Grey/I’m Tired/Let’s Wash Away”…and breathe! There is a camp of dirty pale kids, a peering mountain, a spinning dreammachine headed dancer and some creepy animation to the soundtrack
Los Angeles-based electronic-pop artist Active Child releases his debut EP titled Curtis Lane on FILTER US Recordings today. The EP can be purchased digitally through the iTunes music store HEREor on 10″ white vinyl, which is available through his official Web site.
Active Child is the new project from choirboy-turned-indie pop musician Pat Grossi. The influence of chorale singing, along with the sensibility of non-secular music, is as apparent in Active Child’s work as the influence of cherished pop bands like
Somewhere in the recesses of your early nineties record memory, you probably remember the Cowboy Junkies cover version of The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane” on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Well, the band is still together, and one of the few bands that has lasted so long with their original line-up intact. Fewer, still, have created as consistently satisfying a body of work, since 1985 with some milestone albums in the nineties that chronicle the bands creative path which has
Here is a preview of this weeks Rooftop Films:
Thursday, May 27
ETIENNE!
Directed by Jeff Mizushima
NY Premiere! A quirky slacker road movie comedy about a man and his hamster.
Etienne! tells the story of Richard, a shy type who spends his days taking care of his best friend, Etienne, a dwarf hamster. One day Richard finds out that his hamster has terminal cancer. The veterinarian recommends euthanasia before the animal begins to suffer. Before he lets his best friend go, Richard decides to
Dark Disco / 5.30.10 / Element
WHEN: Sunday, May 30th
DOORS: 9pm
WHERE: Element
TICKETS: $20 adv, $30 door (advanced tickets available HERE )
On Memorial Day weekend, the folks behind Brooklyn Yard, MeanRed are bringing together established and emerging talent from around the globe to lay down the future: MJ Cole, Ikonika, Actress, Michna, Kenny Dope, House of House, Worthy, Nick Hook & Egyptrixx. Each of these artists are visionaries, pioneers, and icons… many of whom rarely play in New York. (This is
Two voices are better than one – or so goes the mantra of believers in the cult of Peggy Sue. Best friends and creative compatriots Katy Young and Rosa Slade, along with drummer Olly Joyce, bob and weave their soulful, R&B-ready voices in and out of complex vocal interplay achieving sonic qualities all their own. A folk power trio of sorts, Katy, Rosa and Olly blend minimalist drums, acoustic guitars, accordion and strings into a soul-folk shotgun blast that is
In their much-anticipated second album, New Medium, Faded Paper Figures return with a richer, fuller sound, even as they maintain all of Dynamo‘s indie-tronica charm. Fans of the band will be happy to hear all of the familiar blips, harmonies, and intellectual pop-references, but with even more life and energy this time around. Striking melodies, lyrical images, and classic pop forms–New Medium‘s lush electronica feels both intimately familiar and astonishingly new.
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Listen to the song “Invent It All Again” off of
Kids Of 88 have teamed up with the Remix Artist Collective to bring you a free download of their “My House” remix. Download the track below:
MP3: KIDS OF ’88- “MY HOUSE (REMIX)”
McCarthy rules vocals, programming and “complaining too much”. While partner-in-heartbreaking Arts, plays synths, programming and “not complaining enough”.
The twosome describe their music as a “whimful combination of dirt spitting kicks and feathering grit. An overdose of nightlife; the lubricated moan of spilt vodka. The hard realization of concrete and
Discosalt Video of the Week 5/23/10: This weeks video of the week is Drive-By Truckers new video for “Working this Job” off their eighth studio album The Big To Do. Its a more melodic and rocking sounding track than anything since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera and the perfect disgruntled working man’s anthem to start your week.
And since we are talking sh*tty jobs, If you are sick and tired of slaving your life for the man, Discosalt made you
Just in time for the weekend we have the perfect video for you to watch while getting ready to head out.
Red Wire Black Wire is a Brooklyn based 6-piece that creates music with the immediacy of a DJ and the subtlety of film score. The band’s recordings combine dense but precise layers of synthesizers, guitars, strings, horns, and pounding drums. Eschewing irony, singer Doug Walters focuses on the melancholy; critics have compared him to Robert Smith, William Burroughs, and Frank
Wrapping up the tail end of their Spring tour, Seattle rockers Minus The Bear have unveiled their latest video for lead single, “My Time“. Check out the multi-colored, choreographed video via MTVu.
Their latest record, OMNI, is available now courtesy of Dangerbird.
Tour Dates:
May
18 Albuquerque, MN – Sunshine Theatre
19 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
20 Los Angeles, CA – Mayan Theatre
21 Pomona, CA – Glass House
22 San Diego, CA – SOMA
23 Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theater
26 San Francisco, CA –
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