Never Look Back

September 3, 2010 | In Film, Music, Music Video

Intriguing storytelling in this. A 3 part short film to promote this Midnight Club EP by Russ Chimes.

Watch Part II.
I’m looking forward to part III out September 8.

Directed by Saman Keshavarz.
Written by Saman & Nate Eggert.

So You Had A Hard Time

September 2, 2010 | In Music

Van She – Sharp Knife

These guys need to hurry up and make another record. Jesus.

How Can He Have Her Heart…

August 26, 2010 | In Event, Music

When it got stole…?

Loooooooooove them horns, love that drumline. So crisp.

Soul mixtapes today from Devil’s Pie.
Motown Tribute + UK Soul, personally…

Get it LA. Get it SF.

You Say ‘Can We Still Be Friends?’

August 20, 2010 | In Live, Music, Music Video

I would rather be alone
Than pretend I feel alright

Arcade Fire – Ready To Start

Not Your Steppin’ Stone

August 18, 2010 | In Live, Music

The Flies – The Freakbeat 60′s

Minor Threat – The Hardcore 80′s

Listening through all these old mod and 60′s garage rock comps and I knew there was something about this Flies song that was familiar. Minor Threat covered it. Both versions are great.

Moonhearts

August 10, 2010 | In Live, Music, Video

Moonhearts. CA garage rock.

I’ll Probably Be The Last To Know

August 9, 2010 | In Live, Music, Video

Ben Folds covers Elliott Smith

They want you or they don’t
Say ‘Yes’

One of my favorites covering one of my favorites…

You Make The Wind Blow

August 6, 2010 | In Music

Have a heart
Have a heart
Have a heart
Sixteen Six Six Six and you fell apart…

Sleighbells, 2010.

Sweet syrupy satanic pop music.

This song has a sample of Can You Get To That by Funkadelic. So good.

The rest of this record has the same syrupy vocals and a lot more grinding and distortion and saw wave sounds. Stadium rock. Hand claps. Fun stuff…

Sweet Thing

August 5, 2010 | In Music

And I shall drive my chariot down your streets and cry:
‘Hey, it’s me, I’m dynamite and I don’t know why’
And you shall take me strongly in your arms again
And I will not remember that I ever felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk in gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never, never, never grow so old again…

After being completely consumed by this record, I do some research.
In 1979 Lester Bangs writes:

Van Morrison was twenty-two or twenty-three—years old when he made this record; there are lifetimes behind it. What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend.

One of the greatest albums ever recorded. And it touched a deep part of me.

Homecoming. Redemption. Sadness & Hope.

Who Here Wants To Sleep In The Dragons Mouth?

July 30, 2010 | In Live, Music, Video

Unicorns allum Alden Penner and his new band The Clues. Cave Mouth – Live.

We all know Nick Thorburn has made a ton of music after Unicorns with Islands, Reefer, and Human Highway but its pretty great to have another record that picks up and builds right where Unicorns left off.

Love Love Love.