What do Hindu Gods, Natalie Portman, Venezuala-Texans, and psych-folk have in common?
This spectacular new music video, Carmensita, from Devendra Banhart’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. It stars his girlfriend space princess slash freedom fighter Natalie Portman.
I’m going to spend the rest of the afternoon listening to Devendra Banhart.
RADIOHEAD continues to assert its position as one of our most innovative artists. Disagree? Well, watch the new music video for House of Cards, which was filmed not with cameras, but with lasers and data.
All the data is available at Google Code, along with a “making of” video and an addictive viewer that allows you [...]
Here in Calgary Broken City’s Celebrity Hot Tub and the HiFi Club have localized the global trend of paparazzi-style party pictures.
HoboGestapo, nightlife photographer in Sydney, captured pics of a stabbing outside of a club on film.
HipsterRunoff, who pointed me to the pics, asks:
I don’t think many people have a problem with party pix [...]
Did an entirely strange anachronistic-cultural meme emerge without me being aware of it? Having abandoned MySpace for all but occasional music needs I had forgotten how strange and fascinating it could be.
A story about a London DJ troupe The Shellac Sisters, who only spin 78s on wind-up gramaphone in period dress, showed up on [...]
I sure do adore Justice.
DVNO, from their album †, has a new music video. Like their other videos, it is very impressive and very unlike videos from their musical peers.
The video is a visual-pastiche of reworked 1980s/90s television bumpers and is fascinating to watch. There certainly was a distinctive design aesthetic for [...]
Put options on your gadgets
New Wave in Yugoslavia at Wikipedia? Fantastic.
Totally Spent: New York Times
The only way out of the recession? Give lower and middle income earnings more buying power, permanently.
Potomac Primaries: Obama Steals Clinton’s Base
Happy Continued New Year!
After reading a series of incredibly depressing feed posts I came across this video, which immediately cheered me up. I hope it cheers you up too, when needed. Something about low-quality 8-bit NES style animation always brightens my day.
Even when the strings are cut, the music carries on in the plumbings of our hearts. — Patrick Watson
Patrick Watson, winner of Canada’s 2007 Polaris Prize, is fantastic.
I always knew that, of course, having fallen for his/their music rather quickly. (Still not clear if they’re a band or gentleman, being apparently, both).
Their winning of [...]
I saw Final Fantasy at Calgary’s Warehouse this October.
It was fantastic — more so than I imagined. Toronto’s Owen Pallett is without question one of Canada’s best artists.
On October 25 he was in San Francisco and performed Vancouverite Dan Bejar’s (aka Destroyer) “An Actor’s Revenge” with Edmonton’s Cadence Weapon.
An amazing pan-Canadian cover [...]
[Currently listening to: Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible"]
A New Yorker article, “A Paler Shade of White, How indie rock lost its soul,” was inspired by an Arcade Fire concert earlier this year. The writer, Sasha Frere-Jones, noted in the concert what she believed to be a wider phenomenon: a racial re-sorting of “rock and roll” music.
Sasha [...]