How can I stop obsessing over Dead Man’s Bones when they keep producing such fantasticness?! I love this perfectly nightmarish video for Dead Hearts. It takes a bit to get going but the creepy wishbone is totally worth it.
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Karen O is having an incredible year. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s latest album, It’s Blitz! is one of the best albums of 2009, in my opinion. As if that’s not enough, Karen O is the voice and energy behind the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. It’s fantastic! I love that they opted for the genuine, unpolished voices of untrained children.
Here’s a cool clip of the making of the soundtrack. The movie is due out tomorrow!
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Tagged Karen O and the kids, movie, Music, Soundtrack, Where the Wild Things Are
Some sweet jams I’ve been loving…
Local Natives – World News
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Port O’Brien – High Without the Hope 3
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Le Loup – Beach Town
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Hello Seahorse! – Siberia
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The Raveonettes –Suicide
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Tagged Beach Town, Hello Seahorse!, High Without the Hope 3, Le Loup, Local Natives, Music, Port O'Brien, Siberia, Suicide, Sun Hands, The Raveonettes
Hockey – Too Fake
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The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea
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Wild Beasts – This is Our Lot
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A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Close Chorus
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The Crocodiles – Young Drugs
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Tagged A Sunny Day in Glasgow, ASDIG, Close Chorus, Crocodiles, Hockey, Music, The Horrors, This is Our Lot, Too Fake, Wild Beasts, Young Drugs
I’m loving Fuck Button’s new song “Surf Solar”. This video’s pretty awesome too. Although with such a sweet track name, I was kinda hoping for unicorns surfing on the sun or something of the sort. I suppose whirling penguins layered on a city of lights is a close second.
Holy Hannah! Sunny Day Real Estate have reunited and are stopping in SLC on their reunion tour. They’ll be here Sunday, Sept 20th at the Murray Theater. God, I love them.
I spent last night perched on a grassy hill, drinking wine and listening to the Avett Brothers. As always, they provided fantastic folk melodies and incredible doses of punk-level energy. How a person can sing, play guitar or banjo and stomp on a kick drum all at the same time, at differing tempos, is beyond me. More talent exists in those two brothers than in my entire bloodline.
And as if I needed proof, today I stumbled across Scott Avett’s art work and its pretty damn impressive. Some guys have it all..
The Fighter
Mi Mi
Self Portrait
Some shiz that I’ve been digging…
Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers – Devils in Boston
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The Almighty Defenders – Cone of Light
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The Generationals – Angry Charlie
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The Papercuts – Future Primitive
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Wavves – Mickey Mouse
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Anyone who knows me knows that I’m gah gah over only one actor… Ryan Gosling. Or as Kelly calls him (to tease me) – The Delightful Ryan Gosling. Apparently The Delightful doesn’t know when enough awesome is enough. For the past few years he’s been working on a music project, called Dead Man’s Bones ,with a buddy, Zach Shields. They create spooky old-time music and employ the clattering voices and hands of children from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music (ages 5-17). You can listen to their new song “My Body’s a Zombie for You”, via Pitchfork. The song is great. I’ve already listened to it 3 times. I can’t wait for their first album, due October 6th.
Here are some favorite songs over the past few weeks.
The Antlers – Two
http://www.mediafire.com/?w4qzmtuzdwl
Motel Motel – Coffee
http://www.mediafire.com/?2aqznitznmm
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Screaming Females – Skull
http://www.mediafire.com/?lyemttjzwme
Matt and Kim -Good Ol’ Fashion Nightmare
http://www.mediafire.com/?mjg5gnjkzyn
Birdengine – Heads Off Dogs
http://www.mediafire.com/?mimyohmxmdm
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Tagged Birdengine, Coffee, Good Ol Fashion Nightmare, Heads Off Dogs, Matt and Kim, Motel Motel, Music, Screaming Females, Skull, The Antlers, Two
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