NEW VIDEO FROM MUMDANCE: DON’T FORGET ME NOW
Check out the official first music video from the pun and fruit friendly Mumdance for “Don’t Forget me Now”(feat. Esser), directed by Ben Reed and starring some close relatives of the Mighty Boosh’s Milky Joe. After spending the last two years creating high profile remixes for the likes of Santigold, Gucci Mane, Radioclit and more, Mumdance (aka Jack Adams) is switching his focus to all original productions with the release of his debut EP, Mum Decent. Mumdance’s ability to interwork eclectic vocals by UK crooner Esser and grime MC Badness on top of production that spans continental influence is what ultimately has allowed his work to stand out amongst his peers. The three tracks that make up the Mum Decent EP follow this summer’s outstanding Different Circles mixtape and lay the groundwork for even more original production on forthcoming releases with Bonde Do Role, Toy Selectah, Brodinski and Drums of Death. In the perfect marriage of worldly inspiration and hip influence, Mumdance will be on heavy rotation this fall.
NEW VIDEO FROM PISSED JEANS: FALSE JESII PT. 2
Sub Pop‘s Sludgey Punk Noise masters Pissed Jeans may have dropped this ultra low budget music video for the King of Jeans opening track “False Jesii Part 2”, but just don’t expect them to be excited about it. Stepping outside the bands typical rowdy stage performance, they deliver a lackluster performance, taking a dig at the conventional music video. And yes, the drummer is using a slice of pizza and a beer as sticks.
NEW VIDEO FROM EL GUINCHO: BOMBAY
Discosalt Video of The Week 03/10/10: Spanish psyche-tropicalia artist El Guincho’s new video for “Bombay”, directed by Nicolás Méndez is also the trailer for Mendez’ new film by the same name… and leaves, well, little to the imagination. Some bs about the Cosmos and then a lot of boobies, foot sucking, women licking branches, naked women jumping into pools, playing with fireworks, cracking eggs, killing stuffies and vacuuming. You only wish your weekend was this fun. Not safe for work, unless you work in a cat house.
NEW VIDEO FROM SUUNS: UP PAST THE NURSERY
Montreal band Suuns’ first video for “Up Past The Nursery,” directed by Petros Kolyvas and Ben Shemie drops the band off in the woods, where they play with fire, before facing a near death drowning experience.
NEW VIDEO FROM LOCAL NATIVES: WIDE EYES
It’s Land Shark Week for Local Natives, in their new video for “Wide Eyes” which premiered on Pitchfork today.
SUNNY DAY FOR FILM SCHOOL
We know it’s been about 157 degrees the past few days in Los Angeles, so what better time to unveil Film School’s new video for the song “Sunny Day” which gives the viewer a little tour of LA’s eastside. Fortunately, temperatures were below the triple digits when frontman Greg Bertens shot this video…make sure to watch till the end 🙂
NEW VIDEO FROM WE ARE ANIMAL: BLACK MAGIC
In Snowdonia, North Wales Owain Ginsberg used to trek up to quarries and forests with nothing but an 8 track recording machine and his guitar for company. Next came actual, physical band members in the form of the Hamer brothers (CASTLES), Sion Edwards on drums and Liam Simpson on keys. The strength of their demos alone attracted taste makers such as Huw Stephens and by the time their debut single came out they found themselves playlisted on Radio One, NME Radio and XFM. Their live shows truly live up to the bands name and bagged them slots with Radio One’s Big Weekend in Bangor and the SWN festival amongst others.
You can grab the single from NME’s Daily Download below:
NEW VIDEO FROM THE FLAMING LIPS: SEE THE LEAVES
Where to start with this one. Best video of the year? The new Flaming Lips video for “See the Leaves”, will have you seeing, well, more than leaves. The video takes the psych-rock jam off Embryonic to a new level that is better watched at home than the office. Before you click play, a naked blindfolded girl absorbs/ingests some neon yellow cartoon rays from a giant furry vagina ball and then shoots it out her downstairs business. Then there is a big fire. The end. Surprisingly, shes not a redhead.
NEIL YOUNG BRINGS LE NOISE
There was a brief albeit muddled moment of musical clarity in college when I sold every last one of my Neil Young albums to a local record shop (Buffalo Springfield, CSNY included). Years of spinning “Cinnamon Girl” on endless repeat, Neil’s whiny depressing helpless, helpless croon bringing me down and “Sample and Hold”? (I wasn’t ready), had driven me to desperation. Against all sound judgment, even a friend’s final protest: “You are going to regret this, man”, I purged my life of Neil. Better to burn out than fade away? Obviously, this was a huge mistake. A southern man might not need Neil around, but I learned the hard way, I do. I spent a good part of my early twenties re-acquiring my Neil discography… which is amazingly still growing.
Neil Young may have 62 years under his belt, but is clearly not le tired in his old age. The prolific godfather of grunge is releasing a brand-new solo album, Le Noise, Sept 28th on Reprise. The eight-song album is a collaboration between the acclaimed rock icon and musician/songwriter/producer Daniel Lanois, known for his work with U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, The Neville Brothers and many others. Le Noise features Young on acoustic and electric guitars with Lanois adding his trademark sonic textures, creating one of the most sonically arresting albums Young has ever recorded. No band, no overdubs, just “a man on a stool and me doing a nice job on the recording,” as Lanois puts it:
“Neil was so appreciative of the sonics that we presented to him,” Lanois says. “He walked in the door and I put an acoustic guitar into his hands — one that I had been working on to build a new sound. That’s the multi-layered acoustic sound that you hear on the songs ‘Love and War’ and ‘Peaceful Valley Boulevard.’ I wanted him to understand that I’ve spent years dedicated to the sonics in my home and that I wanted to give him something he’d never heard before. He picked up that instrument, which had everything — an acoustic sound, electronica, bass sounds — and he knew as soon as he played it that we had taken the acoustic guitar to a new level. It’s hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock and roll, but I think we did it.”
Watch the premiere of Neil Young’s film “Le Noise,” featuring performances from his new album! Directed by Adam Vollick.
NEW VIDEO FROM FRENCH HORN REBELLION: THIS MOMENT
Harry Fellows recorded this video to accompany the new French Horn Rebellion retro jam ‘This Moment’ whilst the Milwaukee born and raised brothers Robert and David Perlick-Molinari were on a photoshoot for Collective Magazine. According to Robert and David,here is what the song is about:
“Have you ever noticed that the most stressful things in life are either things that haven’t even happened yet or that might supposedly happen? If you focus on the past or the future too much, that means you are not doing what you need to do at this moment to change any of it. When you are not in the moment you are not really living. The past is gone, the future is unknown, so thinking about it leaves you in some sort of limbo world that has nothing to do with your reality right now – be present every day. A song you can vibe to that constantly reminds you about ‘the moment’ is one of the most powerful tools a person can have”. (Et Musique Pour Tous)
Following the release of “This Moment” French Horn Rebellion will unleash the genre-bending odyssey that is ‘The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion.’ It is a debut album that warps the fabric of dance, electro, rock and funk and may turn out to be a contender for 2010’s most ambitious, multi-faceted and engaging debut album.
NEW VIDEO FROM OK GO: WHITE KNUCKLES
The official music video for OK Go’s prince-esc single “White Knuckles”, directed by Trish Sie keeps the bands video tradition of filming entirely in one shot. So, how does the band attempt to top their previous DIY tongue-in-cheek, choreographed music videos? Trained dogs? Yes, its a big day for dogs in music video’s today. Luckily, these dogs are far less menacing than the ones in Delorean’s “Real Love” video. No band members were mauled in the making of the video, but instead Ok Go have teamed with the ASPCA to raise funds for the Rural Rescue Dog Fund in a possible attempt to quell tensions between dogs and hipsters.
Some other OK Go Videos you may have missed:
NEW VIDEO FROM BLONDE REDHEAD: NOT GETTING THERE
For Blonde Redhead’s “Not Getting There” video, director Timothy Saccenti takes on the bands darker direction, giving us a highly atmospheric teal toned video that is less shoegaze and more ghostly. Grab the track below:
NEW VIDEO FROM DELOREAN: REAL LOVE
Music video from Spanish altera-dance band from the Basque country, Delorean performing the single “Real Love” off their album Subiza. An early holiday gift for hipster hating dog lovers everywhere, from Focus Creeps: the directorial tag team duo of Aaron Brown and Ben Chappel. Things go terribly wrong for a bunch of beach going hipsters when they get kujo-ed by hipster’s worst friend. ” It’s unexpected, oddly emotional, primal, absurd, violent, full of remorse and regret and longing and of indeterminate resolution. In other words, real love.”
FREE MP3: OFF!: UPSIDE DOWN
Over the weekend OFF! Dropped their first video: a live rendition of the song “Upside Down”. The new project from Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) are joined by the SLAVE skate team. Rowdy. Check it out and grab the track below:
NEW VIDEO FROM MOON DUO: KILLING TIME
Discosalt Video of the Week 9/19/10: Video for “Killing Time” from Moon Duo, the soulfully noisy psychedelic space-rock side-project from Wooden Shjips guitarist Erik Johnson and keyboardist Sanae Yamad. Hidden under walls of trippy reverb that recalls Velvet Underground, Suicide, Silver Apples and Spaceman 3, is, as their name suggests (Coltrane and Rashied Ali), an experimental jazz resolve rocketing through outer space. The video directed by Jacqueline Castel finds the duo fittingly trekking across an other worldly landscape.
Check out Moon Duo performing live on KEXP:
NEW VIDEO FROM SUCKERS: A MIND I KNEW
Suckers “bedtime story for adults” track “A Mind I Knew”, has a new video premiering on Pitchfork directed by Brian Aiken, the drummer of the band. A crazy dude burns down a kids “bouncy” house and a hippy chick spins a flaming hula hoop around her neck. What more do you want?
NEW VIDEO FROM TWIN SHADOW: CASTLES IN THE SNOW
Twin Shadow has mastered the retro sound and now the retro aesthetics in the the new super 8 looking video shot by Jamie Harley for “Castles In The Snow”. A punk suits up Rambo style, wanders around the city, meets up with some rowdy friends, rides the train, shops for records and rocks the bunchy sock. Watch it below:
You can also stream the entire album right HERE.
LEELOU: GASOLINE
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LeeLou: Kiss. Death. Love. Come.
Label: Enso Records
Release Date: 11th October 2010
‘Kiss. Death. Love. Come.’, the debut release from LeeLou (aka Rebekah Dobbins) is reminiscent of the carefully crafted post-punk sound that harks back to a time when pop artists were exactly that…artists. Intelligent and exhilarating, there’s a substance to the music so often lacking in today’s chart fodder. Like Siouxsie and The Banshees or The Cure, there may be a brooding aesthetic that packages this innovative music but their uncompromising songs bleed positivity and hope. LeeLou’s powerful voice tears through the rich tapestry of Paul Simm’s production to create inventive and adventurous pop music that cuts straight to the core.
Inspired by the MP expenses scandal of 2009, lead track ’Burn Your Houses Down’, is a visceral assault on the senses and a revolt against the carefree, nonchalant use of money by those who have plenty of it. Lyrically sharp and witty, the song translates into a powerful slice of socio-politically fuelled pop. The bass parts on the track were recorded with a little help Tessa Pollitt of the seminal female post-punk trio The Slits. ‘Kill For Your Love’ is a powerful song that reflects a timeline of memories. Dark and brooding, its subject matters are escapism, fear and the craving for love. The rousing third track, ‘Gasoline’ explores the idea that no matter how tough a situation may become, we stay strong in the face of adversity and keep shooting for the stars, holding our dreams and aspirations tight. The closer ‘Kiss Like Carnivores’ discusses mutual indifference to something or someone, using and being used and our acceptance of that. Dark, edgy and effortlessly cool.
Turning her hand to singing, song writing, and poetry from an early age, Rebekah exudes natural talent and breathes the arts. Her profound use of verse to express herself has long been a cathartic outlet for her emotions and remains to this day a prominent part of her daily life. Citing her influences as everyone from Ted Hughes to Vivienne Westwood, she formed her first band at the tender age of 12 and has been on the stage or in a studio ever since. Creativity courses through her veins. Raised by her single mother, the male figures in her life was made up by her brother, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Ted Hughes, Thurston Moore and Kurt Kobain. With such musical and literary rebels pointing the way, she found herself drowning in excess but escaped by moving to a bigger pond. In an attempt to shed the skin of her hometown of Devon, she soon found herself heading for the bright lights of London in search of some like-minded souls and cultural stimulation. While occasional modelling and session work kept the wolves from the door, it wasn’t until a random encounter at a party that things really started to happen for Rebekah. She got talking to Nouvelle Vague’s Marc Collin, who later invited her to join the band for their forthcoming tour. Already using her artist name LeeLou, she also sang on the band’s last album NV3 which was released in 2009, before turning her full time attention to the project with songwriting and creative partner Paul Simm. Like Rebekah, Paul is no stranger to the music business, sculpting hits for the likes of Amy Winehouse, The Sugababes, Siobhan Donaghy and Neneh Cherry, which has seen his songs grace the charts on many occasions. Finding Rebekah, brought him out from behind the scenes and back into a driving role with LeeLou. The pair met in a Denmark Street studio and immediately recognised that they had found what they were looking for in a musical partner. “She told me about a conceptual art/music installation she was working on and asked me to come along and see it. I knew straight away that she wasn’t just another pretty face with a good voice”. Indeed she is not.
NEW VIDEO FROM A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: I LIVED MY LIFE TO STAND IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR HEART
A Place to Bury Strangers have a new video for I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow of Your Heart, the fourth single from the bands critically acclaimed Exploding Head. The video, directed by Sian Alice Group guitarist Ben Crook (Spiritualized, Fratellis, Black Lips), was shot during the band’s London show at Heaven on May 25th 2010 and marks the first official appearance of new bass player Dion Lunadon. The song was released as a 5-song digital EP on June 22nd. The EP features a new track, “Girlfriend”, and remixes by Secret Machines, Cereal Spiller, and Broken Spindles. Download the Secret Machines remix or watch the new video below:
A Place To Bury Strangers have been quite busy on the remix front lately with two recently released remixes for Maps “Die Happy Die Smiling” and School Of Seven Bells “Windstorm” and forthcoming remixes for Holy Fuck and Grinderman. Additionally, APTBS frontman/guitarist Oliver Ackermann lends vocals to “Behold The Black Light”, a song featured on a new Volcom snowboarding film titled 9191 due out on September 13th. The track premiered on RCRD LBL August 26th and is available as a free download now. The original soundtrack by Baron also features Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Mike Conte of Early Man. Go to http://9191movie.com/ to check out the trailer for 9191.
NEW VIDEO FROM SURFER BLOOD: FLOATING VIBES
Surfer Blood, Laurel Canyon’s answer to Japandroids, have a new lo-fi video for “Floating Vibes” off the laid back surf vibe album Astro Coast. The video, directed by G Warner and Ralphael Blanco, features the band spoofing a bunch of TV tropes that includes a mustached ambulence chaser, a local guitar playing weatherman, a casual chic home shopper and a pinecone home improvement show host.
