Video

Friday, November 20, 2009

3 Inches of Blood's badass new video: Battles and Brotherhood

Posted by Matt Hickey on Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM

These guys are one of my favorite metal bands that's currently touring. They'll be here on December 11th and you can bet there will be goat horns in the air.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Captain Beefheart: "Upon the My Oh My"

Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM

In continuing the search for footage of various classics on YouTube, I found this here gem of Captain Beefheart performing "Upon the My Oh My" on the Old Grey Whistle Test. It also features a quality Aldous Huxley/vacuum cleaner sales anecdote. According to other parts of the internet, Virgin originally released "Upon the My Oh My" on a 1975 dsampler, V, although it was supposed to be part of a live album that was never released. An obscure Portuguese label Movie Play Gold eventually released 9 tracks from the session under the title London 1974.


Id Gone Wild: Flairs' "Truckers Delight"

Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:46 AM

This video of French group Flairs' "Truckers Delight" is the diabolical handiwork of director Jérémie Perin. It is so very wrong. Enjoy, you sick, filthy bastards.

(Press release after the cut.)


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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Fall: "Reformation": Or How Drunk Is Mark E. Smith?

Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM

I love The Fall (Mark E. Smith), and I just found this video, and even though it's like a million years old in internet years, I thought I'd share it. Mark looks a little tipsy. Also, are the first lyrics to this song "Black people/full motel/cheesesteaks/TLC"? Genius.


How drunk is Mark E. Smith in this video?

Friday, November 13, 2009

VV Brown : "Leave!"

Posted by Dean Fawkes on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:35 PM

It only took eight months.

Never you mind.

But we finally understand what makes "Leave!" by Northampton's VV Brown work.

Besides the '50s rock & roll doo-wopness of it, and a video that demolishes an old Tori Amos idea, it's the way the song's dynamics run up against the walls of each other and does funny things to your stomach.

The end of each verse, interestingly, goes up, uP, UP.

While the end of the chorus goes down.

Simple. Unusual.

Success!


VV Brown : "Leave! [Little Boots Mix]"

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Obscene To Be Believed

Posted by Dean Fawkes on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:43 PM

Wait! About 2006, about Sir Robbie Of Williams, about "She's Madonna," we'd nearly forgotten how unbelievably great and gorgeous the whole thing is.

Slow-mo! Drag queens! Self-awareness! Role reversals! Pet Shop Boys!

The pitch-perfect, straight-faced absurdism.


"You're a good guy, Robbie."

Every acclaimed music-video of the last three years can only be embarrassed for trying.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Always Hanging on a String

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:39 AM

In the way I want to write a line-by-line analysis of "Rapper's Delight" ("...now what you hear is not a test..."), I want write an image-by-image analysis of the video for one of the most magical pop tunes ever composed, "Hangin' On A String (Contemplating)":

I watch this video at least once a month and never find the bottom to its beauty—beautiful voices, clothes, those ropes. And those faces: Carl McIntosh (black Caribbean beauty), Jane Eugene (black American beauty), and Steve Nichol (black British beauty). I can't stop contemplating them all. ("Baby, I feel it too, but what am I supposed to do?")

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Safe Of The Unicorn

Posted by Matt Hickey on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Construction continues at The Unicorn, and one relic of the old Satellite has remained: A half-ton ancient safe. Recently, Adam Heimstadt, owner of the Unicorn, got the combination. Last night it was decided it was time to see what was in the safe.

Was it the missing $100,000 that some say is the reason the Satellite closed? Is it a mountain of pure Columbian cocaine? Is it the brain of Courtney Love?

Here's what was inside:

Lady Gaga: Still More Interesting Than Not

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM

Her new video, for the single "Bad Romance." (The song's no great shakes—it sounds like a rough draft of "Poker Face," which you can sing along to it—but the video is something to see.)

As soon as Camille Paglia weighs in with an essay, Lady Gaga's transformation into "the next Madonna" will be complete....

HLAK & Tilson "Director's Cut" It Up in the Studio

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM

Head Like a Kite (Dave Einmo and Stranger contributor Trent Moorman) and Saturday Knights rapper Tilson have been doing some tracking and wisecracking in Electrokitty Studio with Gary Reynolds. They're shown here mixing the song "Director's Cut" for the Give Seattle 2009 compilation. The Give comp (due out Nov. 17) features exclusive tracks from Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Blue Scholars Common Market, Dave Bazan, Cave Singers, the Long Winters, and others. All proceeds go to local Seattle food banks and the Arts Corp.

Head Like a Kite's next gig happens at the Crocodile with Foscil and Animals at Night Sat. Nov. 21.

Vladislav Delay's "Toive"

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:52 AM

Finnish electronic-music/jazz composer-drummer Vladislav Delay's new video for "Toive" (off the recent Tummaa album, which I reviewed here) is gorgeous and kind of quease-inducing. Directed by Carolina Melis (whose credits include clips for fellow Leaf label artists Efterklang and Colleen) and Lorenzo Sportiello, the video, according to the press release, "is a journey into a spectacular miniature landscape, with crystals forming and transforming into new substances." It is also sooo Scandinavian—and unlike most music videos in that the directors don't assume everyone in the world suffers from ADHD.

Why Fail When You Can Succeed?

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:49 AM

Who needs FAIL Blog? From the life-improving SUCCEED Blog, here's that heartwarming Dance Party Starting Succeed, filmed at the Northwest's very own Sasquatch Fest.


Unstoppable, indeed. See the full SUCCEED Blog here.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Ted Leo's Misfits Cover Band!

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Holy FUCK this would've been awesome to see! On Halloween night, in Philadelphia, Ted Leo and Chris Wilson of Ted Leo at the Pharmacists, Atom Goren from Atom and His Package, and some dudes from Paint It Black and Franklin played a Misfits cover set in full make up (and Leo's case, wig). They called themselves TV Casualty, and thank christ there's video of the entire show.

(Parts 2-6 are all lined up and waiting for you on Pitchfork.)

Shook Ones - "Silverfish"

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Shook Ones' latest full-length, The Unquotable A.M.H., is one of my favorite local records of the year. I'm a broken record, I know. I've said basically that same thing here and here already (although there I said it was the best record of the summer and summer's over, so they've graduated to year, since it's still fucking fantastic).

Anyway, they just released a video for the song "Silverfish." It's cute. It's like an old pop-punk video you'd find on one of the Cinema Beer compilations circa 1998 or something. Well done, boys.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Big Spider's Back - "Warped"

Posted by Eric Grandy on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM

Seattle chillwaver Big Spider's Back (aka Yair Rubinstein) played live on KEXP yesterday at noon—you can stream the set here. Now some joker has made a perfectly faded and blurry and color-saturated video (it's the chillwave aesthetic!) for his song "Warped", which you can watch here:

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween Video Post

Posted by Gina Young on Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:19 PM

In my attempt to avoid posting the most obvious Halloween music video of all time*, I wanted to post Dusty Springfield's "Spooky." But not only is the 60s classic YouTube-nonexistant (Seriously? Like, not even a bad recording-of-a-recording of the song under a moving photo montage of Dusty press photos? Has YouTube let me down?); you can't even buy it on iTunes unless you buy the entire Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels soundtrack, which apparently I am too cheap to do.

So sometimes when you set out to find one thing, you find another. In this case, I stumbled upon The Puppini Sisters, an immensely talented and annoyingly-named Verve recording act. Uh, is it weird that I kind of love this? Especially the way they go "mmm-hmm-op" barely moving their lips?

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Dirtee E.S.P.

Posted by Dean Fawkes on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:57 PM

Speaking of Wiz! He's back with the new Dizzee Rascal video.

If the singles from Tongue 'N' Cheek have so far mined late '90s big beat ("Bonkers") and Ibiza-styled trance ("Holiday"), "Dirtee Cash" is full-on late '80s crossover acid house, which continues the album's deliberately low-brow through-line of mainstream British dance history and works as a sort of follow-up to the "Pussyole (Old Skool)" Wiley-bait that Dizzee put out a couple of years ago before his hit-or-miss abandonment of grime credibility.

Wiz hears the song, in any case, and conjures up a black-faced, beauty-contestanted, rugby shirted, mandolin enhanced, Margaret Thatchered, 'The Wicker Man' book-bonfire dance of death.

As you do.



It's a nice change of pace, both visually and musically. Not as sure-fire a trick as earlier ones. Until you realize it's only a vague update to the 1989 number-one "Dirty Cash" by The Adventures Of Stevie V.



"Road Rage," from the album, should've been the single anyway.

But it is! Or will be.

It's now the next song scheduled for release.

Pop telepathy! Bam!

Which reminds us. Remember when we wanted an extended all-aboard-the-trance-train version of "Holiday"? (We do.)

Bam!



And how, for the last year, we obsessed, again and again, about Little Boots properly unleashing "Earthquake"?

Bam!



We love it when E.S.P. demands come together.

Black Whales - "Diamond Divide"

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:28 AM

The Black Whales just released a video for the song "Diamond Divide," from their new self-titled full-length record.

If you're unfamiliar with the local band, here's what I said about them many a couple moons ago, when they played Bumbershoot.

The Black Whales play the Sunset on November 7th.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Tegan & Sara - "Hell"

Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM

Tegan and Sara's new album, Sainthood, was released yesterday. It as produced by Chris Walla and it was a twending topic on Twitter! (Sorry.)

Here's the video for the album's first single, "Hell":

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Every Year, About This Time...

Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:36 PM

I have to list to AFI's The Art Of Drowning.

I don't care how ridiculous the band has become over the years (more so than we could've ever imagined, surprisingly)—The Art of Drowning is still a great punk rock record and it always sounds best in late October.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Borrowed Being

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Just look at those impermeable faces, those sweeping moves, those flowing clothes....


...This race no longer exists. Its extinct. In this video for S.O.S. Band's "Borrowed Love," we see the race at the moment of dusk. They are in the ruins, at the end of the sands of time. All here are soon to become shades like that lady in the distance. But they do not care. They are impeccable; they are impermeable.


We can no longer make R&B that has this kind detachment, control, elegance. Black elegance can never be retrieved; it can only recede. "The pain of too much pleasure..."

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Weezer - "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"

Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:33 PM

I stopped caring about taking Weezer seriously years ago. But their new song, "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is far less annoying than "Beverly Hills" or "Pork and Beans." And the video is isn't bad either. I mean, they get punished for all their sins! They're getting shot with arrows, getting their hands cut off, getting hit by a truck... it's cute.

What do you think? Hate them more? Hate them less? Never hated them at all?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Curious Mystery - "Black Sand"

Posted by Eric Grandy on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:13 AM

Local narco-Americana act the Curious Mystery have a new video for their song "Black Sand" from their K Records debut, Rotting Slowly:


The video, like the song, starts off slow and dreamy and then starts to toss and turn, a little more nightmarish and agitated. Like much of their stuff, this sounds kind of like Beach House or maybe Mazzy Star, with Shana Cleveland and Nicolas Gonzalez's vocal harmonies jumped up into higher, harder gear by Faustine B. Hudson's more aggressive drumming.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Pezzner and Lusine Take the Train

Posted by Eric Grandy on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:16 PM

For Charles, some video of local producers Pezzner and Lusine sampling the sounds of the light rail (and is that Freeway Park in there as well?):

Via XLR8R (ignore the ads).

Deru's "Peanut Butter & Patience"

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:08 PM

This track from Deru's excellent Say Goodbye To Useless (originally scheduled to come out this year, but now slated for a 2/23/10 street date on Mush Records; you have over four months to save up for it) has received an exquisite video treatment by Howie Shia for PPF House (Shia and Pasquale LaMontagna animate it).

Say Goodbye To Useless abounds with beautiful, lush futuristic funk that's as alluring as a city made out of gold chrome. If you cane fellow hyper-brilliant Los Angelanos Nosaj Thing, Daedelus, and Flying Lotus (or if you just have epicurean taste in electronic music), you will want to carve out some prime headspace for Deru.

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