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Friday, May 25, 2012
Video / 206 Fatal Lucciauno's "Big Bro," Star Spazzin's "From the Block"
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Two new local rap clips from Central District-minded Fatal and Starr:
The title "Big Bro" is actually kinda misleading: the song's all about the femme fatales that Fatal has on his team—Biggie called them "murda mamis." A rose by any other name would still pop your fucking top off, so if you play in those streets, keep to their good side. This is in fact Fatal's first actual video for a song of his, and it looks great, capturing well the menace that can at times surround him. Plus a Prometheus Brown cameo for your daily requirement of town business.
Starr's been around for a minute if you didn't know—he's been variously known as Shawn Starr, YungStarr, Spazzavelli, Choppavelli—I first peeped him on an unreleased D.Black track in 2007, and he's stayed at it ever since. His verses are bare bones and real: "working at the Papa Murphy's didn't deserve me"—but the stirring cloud-rap production is what really struck me about it. Hard raps and heady, hazy beats just go so well together—and immediately recognizable in this video is of course Fatal Lucciauno, who I would love to hear over some emotive production exactly like this.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Video / 206 New Witch Gardens Video!
Posted by Bree McKenna on Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:00 AM
I love the new Witch Gardens video for "Aunt Shae/Mean Colleen"...it kind of reminds me of the Supergrass intro to Clueless, except the local punk foursome indulges in occult activities that wouldn't have made the cut for Cher and Dionne's Noxzema commercial. Trading So-Cal's mall culture for Washington's hills and craggy beaches, the song sets a Henry's Dress/Heavenly-esque twee soundtrack to an adventure short that finds them magically frolicking and picking up members of their urban coven along the way (feat. cameos by members of M Women and Stephanie!) The video was directed by Bobby McHugh and the song is from their record R-I-P, which came out 4/20 on Waterwing Records.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Video Ouija Boards and Grave Babies "Fuck Off"
Posted by Kelly O on Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:05 AM
This new video, directed by Jordan Utley, for "Fuck Off" from their new Gothdammit EP is très spooky! It's got me wanting to get my Ouija Board out of the closet again. Problem is, last time I used my Ouija board, several weird and awful things happened, including a car accident and a housefire.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Video Dyme Def - "Let It Be"
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Back in 2006, Dyme Def's Space Music shook up the local hiphop with their energetic three-man offense and BeanOne's smacking, golden-era-gone-futurist tracks like "Clap Clap" and "I Ain't No"—but six years later, the song that seems to have become the most in-demand from that album is Fearce Villain's autobiographical solo joint—the one titled after the beat's well-known source material. As Fearce and Bean push their FRCxBNE project and their YUK line and team, the time seemed right for the two to tap local director The Note for this long-overdue video treatment.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Video 3 Chi Girls
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:37 PM
If you haven't peeped, nihilistic teenage Chicago rappers are all the rage. Chief Keef, King Louie, Lil's Durk and Reese are all on smash right now. The ladies are getting theirs right now too, making similarly ratchet rap—which I suppose the world needs to balance out the coming tide of suburbanite Claire's clerks rapping about Bud Light Lime.
Katie Got Bandz is a lady hitta, meaning she's bout that life. This is a sweet song about her needing a dreadlocked young man in her life who's just as down to murder people as she is. Is that Lil Durk in the video? He does fit the description.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Video Av Young Blaze - "Feeding My Flame"
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:13 PM
JonJon and Av Young Blaze's finest work together yet. Av has been self-consciously joking that this joint is "emo grunge trap" but he might be onto something. Even his new look, the gold slugs (fangs?) and longer hair kind of recalls Cage's rebirth circa Hell's Winter, an emo benchmark in rap if there ever was one. Av growls out the hook from "Come As You Are" and I'm not mad in the least; even though I haate when rappers come to town and try to rap over "Teen Spirit", I love that local rappers are not too cool to invoke Nirvana as an influence, especially when it's somebody whose material (and personal history) is as dark as Av's.
??!! / Video Alpine Party Rock with Thee Oh Sees
Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:23 PM
- In the Red
- Not pictured: Lars Finberg
If musician Mick Collins hipped me to the new Death documentary trailer via Twitter, author Colson Whitehead (John Henry Days, Zone One) has done the same with the new Thee Oh Sees video. Tweets Whitehead, "Been using Thee Oh Sees' 'Chem-Farmer' as get-to-work music lately. Now there's a video..." That rolling double-drummer groove makes me wanna get to work, too (and yes, I fixed Whitehead's grammar; I'm nitpicky like that). Check out the video below.
Video Lemmy and Phil "the Animal" Taylor Destroy a Hotel Room and Put a French Guy in a Headlock
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM
That is all.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Video Summer Jam: Mr. Greenweedz "Beat The Devil"
Posted by Derek Erdman on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Holy whoa, I was just hipped to this infectious track from Chicago rapper Mr. Greenweedz. The video is an homage to the 1988 classic film They Live. I'm putting this one on every mix I make for the next six months, FOR SURE.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Song / Video / #1 Fan Azealia Banks's "Jumanji"
Posted by Anna Minard on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:46 PM
I think Line Out may have "slept," as the kids say, on the new Azealia Banks track, "Jumanji," which popped up on the intertubes at the end of last week. Go listen! Azealia Banks is so so so so so much fun! More great than this new one, actually, and one I've been thinking about lately because of our lovely weather and the video's perfect summeriness, is her older song "L8R." You will probably get parts of it stuck in your head. I hope, for your sake, they're parts that are okay to accidentally sing in a grocery store, as opposed to the particularly raunchy awesomeness that will get you weird looks. Enjoy!
Monday, May 14, 2012
Video / Film On Musical Perpetual-Motion Machines
Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:16 AM
- A Stable Sound
- Cut Chemist
The first time I heard Cut Chemist's new single, "Outro (Revisited),"* I resisted it, because it sounded too much like Rage Against the Machine or one of those rap-metal meet-and-greets from the 1990s, like Anthrax and Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" revamp—or the entirety of the Judgment Night soundtrack.
In other words, it didn't sound bad so much as dated—I enjoyed that 1991 Anthrax/PE tour—but I've listened a few more times, and it's grown on me. The Corey Brandenstein-directed video below sealed the deal. Not because it's the greatest thing I've ever seen, but because I love clips and films in which the front person or protagonist never stops moving. (Yes, I like Running Man! Who doesn't?) In this case, emcee Blackbird straps on some stylin' kicks, and gets to it.
*The press notes don't mention it, but the original "Outro" appears on Blackbird's Bird's Eye View.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Video Katie Kate: "Uh...No"
Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Well there are a few recongizable Seattle chaps in this one, directed by Stephen Gray. Who is that giant muppet playing with the drum brushes? Surely he is not the child of Animal. OC Notes continues to be coolest cat at whatever set he's on. "My girlies be leavin'/But we rollin' through Dick's, man/Cause I can haz cheeseburger and you can haz a nice evenin'"
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Video Two Can Win: Danny Brown Vs. Dilla, Oddisee Vs. Marvin Gaye
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Two Motown-centric videos for your Thursday's benefit:
I've grown kind of allergic to posthumous Dilla rapper remixes, and Danny Brown has admitted he never got to meet the almighty James Yancey, but there's no denying that the two are a natural fit on "Jay Dee's Revenge." Not to guess what the dearly departed would think (I hate when people do that) but Dilla always loved rappers that spit like Brown: raw, thorough, not giving a fuck, and repping the motherucking D.
This jewel landed in my inbox yesterday: DMV genius Oddisee remixing a ’60's classic from Dilla's neighbor, the greatest of all fucking time, Marvin Pentz Gay Jr:
This poppy number gets lent a new, burning gravitas, the kind Marvin wouldn't be known for til some years after this, Marvin's second huge hit, first slid off the Hitsville assembly line. Oddisee throws a most adept verse on it too, there ain't nothing peculiar about that.
Post's title refers to this, of course.
Band / Love / Video So Many Dynamos - "Matter of Fact"
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:20 AM
My favorite palindrome, So Many Dynamos, have announced that not only are they releasing a new EP next month, but they plan on releasing a full-length, Safe With Sound, later this fall. Finally! They haven't released an album since 2009's Loud Wars.
To satiate us until the new music comes June 26th, the band also released this video for the song "Matter of Fact":
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Video I Got Kitty Pryde*
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:24 PM
This video from Kitty Pryde proves that the ranks of the coy teen-girl cloud rap chamber—previously consisting solely by OFWGKTA satellite member Kilo Kish, who's now working on her debut album with The Internet—are growing. This track, "Okay Cupid," is produced by haze-maker Beautiful Lou, maker of ASAP Rocky's "Trilla". I figure since it's a young white girl in a cool shirt rapping about her crushes (she likes Danny Brown, apparently) and drinking shitty beer (Bud Light Lime in her lyrics, PBR in the video) that some of y'all might care.
*(crass use of Weezer lyric purely to make bespectacled Seattle h-words tune in)
Monday, May 7, 2012
Video / 206 New Videos From Katie Kate & Steezie Nasa
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:11 PM
Filmed at FRED Wildlife Refuge by Stephan Gray, featuring appearances by Metal Chocolates, Radjaw, Buffalo Madonna and Trent "Golden Grain" Moorman (peace to OFS). Good shit, with an effective monochrome—plus there's dogs on chains and 40 ounce tippin', like a Naughty By Nature video! 'Unabashedly Filthy' being her goal, Katie calls the shots; on this past 5th of May I witnessed her conscript three awkward young males from a Bellingham crowd to be her backup dancers. Also, I know she will not hear me on this but she so needs to make a clip for the jammin'-ass "Bodyout Princess".
When Steezie AKA P. Steez reps the "eastside," he's not talking about the bum-ass burbs some of y'all are secretly from (J/K J/K), he's referring to "East Seattle", a newer hood designation courtesy of certain local sets; to me, this is just as viable a DIY rezoning as all you shameful gentrifying scumfucks who live on 21st and tell people that you live on Capitol Hill. Steez is, in his own words, "influenced by the bullshit", and as such, this video ends with him getting revenge, much like his clip for "Maintain". This joint also features a machete-wielding Nacho Picasso. (Directed by Harry Clean, and shouts to Officials Vintage.)
RIP / Video Beastie Boys Perform "The New Style" On A Freakin' Boat
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM
...on the unaired 3rd season of Chappelle's Show. (It was released by the show's co-createor Neal Brennan as a tribute to MCA.) Wow, when they go under the bridge...and all the fly skimmers ('party people' be damned) feel the beat...DROP? Perfection. H/T to Questo for this one.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Video "New" Video for the Gossip's "Perfect World"
Posted by Megan Seling on Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Okay, so it's not NEW new... it's been up for a few weeks. But it's new to me! Because I am bad at the internet:
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Video WTF? Video of the Month: Arca - "Ass Swung Low"
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Arca’s Stretch 1 EP conflates cloud rap, illbient, and Robitussin™ triphop into a lethargically oneiric soundtrack for psychotropic nocturnal travel. Arca pitches the vocals either way down or way up, adding another level of WTF? to the proceedings. One of the highlights, “DOEP”—the slowest and lowest sex jam I've heard in ages— also seems to sample something off Jon Hassell’s Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics—always a winning move. The whole EP is suffused in an aura of eerie sexiness and it all seems very effortless constructed and nonchalantly sublime. You can download it here.
But the clip for “Ass Swung Low” may be one of the creepiest of 2012. It reminds me of Chris Cunningham’s grotesque, misshapen visages in his Aphex Twin videos. Kids, sick oh sick.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
New Strong Killings Double Video (Directed by Clyde Peterson)
Posted by Megan Seling at 2:41 PM in Video
"Hot Problems" Ain't Goth Nothing On "Goth Problems"
Posted by Kelly O at 12:46 PM in Video
Monday, April 30, 2012
Bring on the Rabbitheads!
Posted by Kathy Fennessy at 1:55 PM in ??!! / Video / #1 Fan
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Rainbow Lorikeet - "Abell 2667" and Fractures
Posted by Dave Segal at 9:57 AM in Album / Video
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Niobe's "Walk the Walk!"
Posted by Kathy Fennessy at 4:25 PM in New Releases / BSE (TW) / Video
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Cats Rule...in Orbital's New Video
Posted by Kathy Fennessy at 11:02 AM in New Releases / Video
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Ty Segall, White Fence, and the Animated Egg
Posted by Kathy Fennessy at 9:32 AM in Video
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Shut the Fuck Up and Watch these Radio Birdman Videos...
Posted by James Burns at 12:28 PM in Video
What Song Will Save Your Life Someday?
Posted by Kelly O at 11:05 AM in Song / Video
Monday, April 9, 2012
Mr. Little Jeans: "Runaway"
Posted by Kathy Fennessy at 9:26 AM in New Releases / Video
Friday, April 6, 2012
Headz and Wallets Better Be Ready: The World's First Shoppable Music Video
Posted by Charles Mudede at 1:25 PM in Video
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