The Awl posted a great article, yet again on pop culture. Only this time focusing on one of my favorite bands for God knows why, The Strokes.
The Internet, and the cultural glut brought on by technology totally apart from the Internet, has brought us to a situation—since we could never possibly in a normal human lifetime consume all the things we might find enjoyable—we grab things in snippets and soundbites and half-formed conceptions based on half-read blog posts and yet, it all gets heightened. You like Vampire Weekend? You are a privileged white person who goes on cultural rape cruises! You don’t like Taylor Swift? You are a bad feminist! You do like Taylor Swift? You are a bad feminist!
The reason why I hate Vampire Weekend….or I love hating them….or why everyone hates them and I wasn’t aware of it? I don’t know, great Fader article here.
Yours Truly is one of the best sites doing exclusive video content right now. If you are not regularly following their video updates you need to start. There are some good ones coming up I assure you…..
For now, check out these fabulous Lissie performance in San Francisco. She plays at Hotel Cafe next Tuesday 2/16, where I will gladly miss episode 3 of LOST to watch her.
This video was filmed over Christmas by Brandon Goodwin
It is Stacy Dupree of Eisley, Jeremy Larson on piano and Darren King on guitar. Jeremy also produced this track and I think it sounds absolutely incredible. Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac are an all-time favorite and I think these three do it justice….alongside some great video work. More from them soon, for now you can check out some of Jeremy’s new music here.
This will be the last CWK post (for the month at least)….but you all must check out the new video for “Audience” – world premiere on Spinner/AOL Music homepage today. I wonder if Maust’s swimming skills are as piss poor as mine and that’s the reason for the floaty? I would rock the shit out of one of those if I were in the deep sea like that. I also would not be throwing avocados into the ocean, that’s just wasteful and bad taste. Closed captioning on music videos is humorous – not as amazingly humorous as the Pee Wee Herman show was last night making me laugh until I had no tears left in my body – but still, this video is the highlight of my day so far.
Dan Black’s new album ((Un)) drops on 2/16 courtesy of The Hours but this track “Symphonies” has been ringing in my head for 3 months now. DB originally made this track as a remix to B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize” but after some P Diddy Poppa drama (ie “no, you can’t use this”) he just said fuck it and made his own song with the same catchy beat (yes, that is the intro to Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and that’s why it sticks so well).
Check out the video below, then the “HYPNTZ” version he did first. But most importantly, this new remix with Kid Cudi – proving I don’t always hate this stoner hip-hop…..the kid brings it on this one.
David Bazan played his final house show this past Sunday in Echo Park at our friend Ben & Heather’s – of the lovely band Summer Darling (shameless plug, they’re playing with our friends Kissing Cousins this Saturday Jan 23rd @ the Basement, Long Beach. Free before 9:30). Check out the performance of “Hard to Be” from Ben & Heather’s living room with Bazan and Blake Westcott.
I wish more artists took the house show approach. Maybe it would lose its intimate appeal if so, but I can promise you all 20+ people there on Sunday will forever buy his records and attend his shows solely from the connection they have with him now. That my friend is how it’s done.
Bazan will be playing at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach on March 8th. The one reason I will set foot in that bar after years of saying “oh hell no”
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Two favorites – together. This is why I love Emancipator.
