Sigur Ros are still making beautiful music. Also, they still like videos with naked people.
il gato - “On Feathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)”
This is why I love Arcade Fire. The crowd sings. Like loud! And for a long time!
I saw the “Funeral” tour at the Great American Music Hall and this happened. They left the stage singing these happy “ooohs” and ‘Voila!’, the crowd does an awesomely respectable version for over a minute. Power to the people! I bow down Arcade Fire.
Wanted to put She & Him’s cover of “I Put a Spell on You” from Conan which was bold and powerful, but TBS wants a 30 second commercial before it so we have this with Zooey Deschanel & Joseph Gordon-Levitt (such a great actor. See “Brick” and his Saturday Night Live episode). It is a Cinemash of “Sid & Nancy”, the intense film about Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
I like it.
Local Natives “Gorilla Manor” is one of my favorite albums of the year and all of their videos have this amazing way of making their lives look so much fun. It almost becomes a commercial for moving to LA to become an artist the same way Girls videos make you want to bum around in San Francisco for a couple weeks.
St. Vincent & Andrew Bird
I see so much music every day that I just watch and love and am changed by. Then that moment happens and I have to move on. I was just realizing that I don’t share those and that I should.
So here goes. Hope you love ‘em as much as I do.