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Monday, August 30, 2010

We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire


There is no way that you have anything more important in your life than watching this video. SO GET ON IT ALREADY!

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Pa Pa Power - Dead Man's Bones


This is sad and wonderful and if you are looking at this, you need to go watch it. It put me in a funk.

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Lovely Bloodflow- Baths


A lone, wounded samurai wanders through a wonderfully muted forest. Excellent cinematography and costume design make this clip a keeper. Plus, who doesn't love Baths?!

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Friday, August 13, 2010

Night Drive Pt II - A playlist

For all of those late, lonely, night drives. Hopefully I'm not the only one who finds himself on an empty highway at 2 am. Give yourself some contemplation time with this playlist:

Rosyln- Bon Iver and St. Vincent
Lump Sum- Bon Iver
Your Hand in Mine- Explosions in The Sky
Canvas- Holly Miranda
Heavy Water/ I'd Rather Be Sleeping- Grouper
Sodom South Georgia- Iron & Wine
Red Right Ankle- The Decemberists
Casimir Pulaski Day- Sufjan Stevens
Southern State- Bright Eyes
Hallelujah (Acoustic)- Jeff Buckley
Gust of...- The Album Leaf
I Want the Wind to Blow- Microphones
Hands Away- Interpol
Night Time- The XX
Wake- The Antlers
Fake Empire- The National

HEALTH - A Live Film (Paris, 2009)







HEALTH. A Live Film in Paris is an edited version of the bands 40 minute set. You experience the entire spectrum of HEALTH's sound and then some. This short film is really a show of great editing and filming and the energy and abrassive sound HEALTH brings to the table.
"Watch in the dark, listen carefully with headphones"

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Stress - Justice


This video is seriously fucked. The song is incredibly intense and you can't listen to it without having a feeling of dread. So the director of this music video decided to take that feeling and apply it to gang violence. A group of teenagers decked out in very cool Justice jackets turn the city upside down, destroying anything unfortunate enough to cross their path. The video is extremely well shot, so well shot in fact, that there was originally confusion over whether or not this was real. If you think you can take it:

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The "Back to School" Playlist


Summer is over. The hazed adventures that will be reminisced over for another month or two have come to an end; however not a total one. Each summer has a theme. A theme that isn't always totally apparent but close to the heart; something that reminds us of the fun we once had... something that makes us look forward to warm summers and cold lives. So; here is my rendition of the perfect summer playlist. I bring to you! an entire, pre-recorded album! I will admit I'm absolutely obsessed with this album and artist in every way, but it's a little hard not to when it literally becomes the soundtrack to every...adventure throughout my summer. Now, it doesn't hurt that the album is entirely about summer, being happy, natural beauty, psychedelics and much much more. A seemingly simple album is more cohesive in presentation, appeal and pure spirit than any other I've heard. Making it a total masterpiece in my book. This... is Dandelion Gum by Black Moth Super Rainbow.

1. Forever Heavy
2. Jump Into My Mouth and Breathe in the Stardust
3. Melt Me
4. Lollipopsichord
5. They Live in the Meadow
6. Sun Lips
7. Rollerdisco
8. Neon Syrup for the Cemetery Sisters
9. The Afternoon Turns Pink
10. When the Sun Grows on Your Tongue
11. Spinning Cotton Candy in a Shack Made of Shingles
12. Drippy Eye
13. Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods
14. Caterpillar House
15. Wall of Gum
16. Untitled Roadside Demo
17. (untitled)


Can't Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West


Zach Galafanakis lip-sincs a Kanye song... It really doesn't get better than this. In between shots of tractors bumping to the beat, and Zach pelvic thrusting anything within 5 feet, a troop of tap dancing 12 year-olds breaks it down. This is one you can't pass up.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

The "Back to School" Playlist

Yes, yes, the summer is ending, we know, it's a terrible thing, but at least the heat is going down. Here is a playlist for your car to get you through those awful gloomy mornings when you remember what is coming for you in the next weeks.

Cheer up, you've got an entire hour of musical goodness:

1. Fake Palindromes- Andrew Bird
2. Is There a Ghost- Band of Horses
3. Lisztomania- Phoenix
4. Patient Patient- The Morning Benders
5. After Hours- We Are Scientists
6. Sun Hands- Local Natives
7. This is Music- The Verve
8. Skyway- The Apples in Stereo
9. Like Eating Glass- Bloc Party
10. Drunk Girls- LCD Soundsystem
11. Floating Vibes- Surfer Blood
12. Water Curses- Animal Collective
13. Madder Red- Yeasayer
14. People Say- Portugal. The Man
15. Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn- The White Stripes
16. Ize of the World- The Strokes
17. Tesselate- Tokyo Police Club
18. Ring Ring- Sleigh Bells