December 2010
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Audio: Battles - The Line
Yesterday I posted...
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“The label’s embrace of the vintage and the futuristic shined bright when...”
– Cameron MacDonald on London label Honest Jon’s
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Video: Battles - Atlas (Live on Jools Holland)
Back in 2007 Battles released their awesome debut album “Mirrored”, they even managed to play the track ‘Atlas’ on Jools Holland. Since then the band is still working on the follow-up and Tyondai Braxton has left the band, they’ve even contributed a track to the Eclipse soundtrack.
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Covers: Grand Ole Party - Humanimals
Remember when Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls went by Kristin Gundred and played drums and sang for Grand Ole Party?
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“The lyrics represent the weird hippie fantasies of a yuppie toolbag. Quoth...”
– Maura Johnston and Christopher R. Weingarten, as they Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ as the worst song of 2010. for Village Voice’s Sound of the City.
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Video: Radiohead - Nude
Super slo-mo
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Covers: Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
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Video: The xx - Basic Space (Live on It's On with...
The xx came on the air in th US and played the track ‘Basic Space’, this performance is from last year when Alex Chung had her own show in the US. You can watch the performance below.
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Video: Sufjan Stevens - Lakes of Canada
I need a banjo
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Covers: Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago...
I prefer the original to the one used by Jagjaguwar
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Video: Feist - I Feel It All
I would to scared to shoot all of this in one take
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Covers: Sufjan Stevens - Noel: Songs for...
Since it is Chrismas
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Covers: The Velvet Underground - White Light/White...
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Covers: St. Vincent - Marry Me
One of the best of 2007
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Video: My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay
How can you not like this video?
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“So, I named my balls Belle & Sebastian”
– Zach Galifanakis
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Covers: Pavement - Watery Domestic
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Video: The Strokes - You Only Live Once
Unfortunately, it’s true
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Covers: Blur - Beetlebum (Single)
It is arguably the band’s best song.
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James Blake Made His Live Debut Last Week
James Blake opened for Everything Everything last week in Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music. He played with a band which featured guitar and drums while Blake played keyboard. You can watch him perform the new song ‘Wilhelm’s Scream’ below. For more videos you can go here.
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Covers: Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
I used to dig Jemina Pearl…
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Covers: Toro y Moi - Underneath the Pine
Hipster Runoff says it best:
Does the album cover look like some1 ‘chomping on pussie’?
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Video: Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook (NSFW)
This video was first banned from youtube when it came out a couple of years ago but apparently its okay to put it up.
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Covers: Blur - The Best Of
That looks familiar
Brooklyn musicians getting together for a 'Rock... →
Alix and Carlie of Golden Triangle
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Vladimir Putin Covering Fats Domino's 'Blueberry...
Russian dictator Prime Minister Vladimir Putin serenaded a crowd of people in Russia, watch:
PS The picture just shows how much of a general badass he can really be
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Covers: Phil Selway - Familiar
Reminds me of this.
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John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe
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Video: John C. Reilly & Will Ferrell (As Bring...
John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell did a reanactment of the famous strange duet between David Bowie and Bing Crosby. You can watch their extremely faithful rendition.
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Video: My Bloody Valentine - Lose My Breath
Somebody put My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Lose My Breath’ over Edie Sedgewick’s screen test for Andy Warhol. You can watch the video below.
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Covers: Neon Indian - Mind Ctrl: Psychic Chasms...
I’ve neglected tumblr for so long…
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Video: Die Antwoord - Zef Side
I actually like ‘Beat Boy’ but this video just made me find the group repulsive with DJ High Tech living with his granny to Ninja dick-sliding with his “Dark Side of the Moon”; they’re actually not that bad.
