Land Of Talk thrilled me with their live performance a while back, but first they started me out with their music, and their videos too. I’m happy about them. I love their energy and they do everything right – like writing songs and the way they portray their music in their videos they are something that most bands are not and that is creative and genuine. Here’s their new video for “Quarry Hymns” off of their new album Cloak and Cipher from those longtime lovers over at Saddle Creek.
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Filmed by our official Acoustic Video Session creator Aaron Blumenshine, on a sunny day somewhere around San Francisco with the guys of Not An Airplane bringing their music back to where it came from.
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Here’s a bit of Dan Sartain’s new music for his new album. Atheist Funeral is his first official video and the first single taken from the album ‘Dan Sartain Lives’.
Release Date: 10th May 2010
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We just got word about a fun new video project by Akron Family that involves fans sending in their homemade videos and the band sorting through them, finding their faves, and posting them up on their Vimeo site. http://vimeo.com/channels/wildfreevideos
“They’ve received a number of great, homemade visual takes of songs off of Set Em Wild, Set Em Free. Akron/Family loves them and has been inspired by them so much that they want to keep it rolling. We want fans to take whatever track (or tracks) they would like from the record and set them to the weirdest, simplest, or funniest visual material they like. A bear attacking a trash can. A quarterback being blitzed repeatedly. A herd of buffalo stampeding across the Dakotas. Whatever is their pleasure.”
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Norwegian electro-pop band Casiokids is excited to debut a brand new video for their single, “Finn Bikkjen!,” Directed by Greg Taylor, the video focuses on the protagonist’s search for his dog within a dream (not a far stretch, considering “Finn Bikkjen!” is Norwegian for “Find Dogs!”).
The single itself is currently available for mp3 download, and is off of their forthcoming US debut Topp stemning på lokal bar, coming out June 8 on Polyvinyl.
Set in a sunny corner of the woods, the “Finn Bikkjen!” video features an fuzzy-eared, neon hoodie-clad pack of dancers, with face and hands obscured by glittering scarves. Equal parts eerie and joyous, organic and otherworldly, the video aptly reflects Casiokids’ unique sound. Discovered by former tour mates (and now labelmates) of Montreal, Casiokids put on a theatrical live show, not unlike the video, incorporating a blend of shadow puppets, video projections and animal costumes.
Casiokids is bringing their live show to festivals throughout Europe during the summer, and will return to the US for a national tour in August. Dates to be announced shortly.
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Iceland via Scotland artist Benni Hemm Hemm aka Benedikt Hermannsson recently debuted a brand new, hand-drawn video for his song, “Retaliate”. Directed by Edinburgh illustrators/comic book artists Michael Kirkham and Vivien McDermid, “Retaliate” is the title track off his third EP, (the first to be sung completely in English) and sixth overall release, and is available now on Kimi Records.
Although Benni Hemm Hemm’s live shows have been known to incorporate up to 35 performers at once, Benni discovered a new affinity for home recording, choosing to strip things down for this new release, rather than make his usual pilgrimage to Sundlaugin, the Sigur Rós studio. With Benni playing the majority of the instruments, in addition to the contributions of Emily Scott (double bass) and Peter Liddle (trumpet & alto-horn), the Retaliate EP, is a collection of five songs which feature knives, gold, lazy pioneers, confident talibans, blood thirsty vampires, Stan-Stan-the-caretaker-man and last but not least blood, lots of blood.
Benni Hemm Hemm will tour Europe this spring and summer, with plans to hit the US later this year.
Looks like psychedelia is starting to take ques from math rock. A nice combination made by Light Pollution. Not to mention “Good Feelings” is a gorgeous bit of romance.
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Have you ever wondered, like we have, what a day with Ronald McDonald would be like? Best Coast has taken our daydreams away and replaced them with a dream come true. It’s Ronald time.
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