Someone posted on the youtube page below this video calling it “lousy.” Liz thinks you’re crazy.
Pitchfork.tv debuted this video yesterday. One of the best songs of the year from one of the best albums, The Walkmen’s interesting silent horror video (featuring Nosferatu?) fits this echoed, vintaged track to perfection. Hamilton Leithauser scratches his way through this, and I want to believe that it’s gonna be a good year.
I first heard this somewhat raunchy new Common track a couple of months ago, and I liked it. “Announcement” off of Common’s upcoming album, Invincible Summer, is produced by The Neptunes and features Pharrell in his fly BBC Ice cream. Yum.
Kanye West is on a roll with this video thing, what with getting shoveled to death by a hot chick and doing a bunch of other weird stuff in the other versions of “Flashing Lights.” He also seems to have a thing for animation, puppets, and spaceships. While it’s been pointed out that you can’t Graduate if you dropped out of school, Kanye finally gets to the podium to get his degree in the new video for “Good Morning.” Kanye’s concept discography will continue with Goodass Job, which he confirmed would be the title of his 4th album before Late Registration was released.
This video is adorable. There I said it. If you haven’t noticed, my Kanyeroks.
T-Pain never bought me my drank (even though I heard him say he would about a billion times last summer), but the new video for the single, “I Can’t Believe It,” is making me feel a little better. Lil Wayne’s part on this track is a kinda strange (there he is again). In fact, the track itself is kinda strange. The video, however, is actually quite good.
T-Pain’s third full length, Thr33 Ringz, is due October 28 on Nappy Boy.
You made a cool record, you have cool black and white videos, and you’re riding cool bikes. I get it, you’re cool. BTW: New video for No Age’s “Goat Hurt” off their Dead Plane EP (released last year), and according to the band’s official blog, “is also available shortly on a limited edition 10″ that we will have at our next show at the F YEAH FEST in LA.”
What about those bikes?
This song has been on regular rotation on my iPod for what feels like the entire summer. It was released as a single download at the end of July, and the video is stupid fun (due in part to the fact that Legend and Andre are two of the best humans on Earth). “Green Light,” the latest single by Grammy winning, piano playing badass John Legend was produced by Andre 3000 and features Mr. Benjamin style-freein’ (free stylin’). “Sometimes you gotta step out from behind that piano and let ‘em what’s goin’ on.
Even Stevie Wonder got down sometimes.”
Legend’s third album, Evolver, is due October 28 on G.O.O.D.
Above is the new single off of Estelle’s breakthrough album, Shine. I love this song. Cee-Lo isn’t in the video, which I find a bit strange (he sings lead on the second verse), and I swore that that was Danger Mouse at the boards, but I don’t think it is…
I hope Gnarls Barkley comes to my party Friday. I always invite him via Facebook, but he is a constant no show.
Filed under: New Videos | Tags: Ode to J. Smith, Something Anything, Travis
Travis has always been one of those bands that I go back to and say “I don’t listen to this enough.” While I do fancy the mellow, gushy pop that they’ve been up to of late, I also enjoy the return of their heavier sound, more prominent on their first two records. The first single, “Something Anything,” rocks so hard that guitarist Andy Dunlop is literally “huge” when he rips the solo, and is simply exhausted afterward.
The album, Ode to J. Smith, was recorded in just 2 weeks this past winter and is due September 29 in the UK on the band’s own label, Red Telephone Box.
So I know everyone is already so over Santogold, thanks to the making an actual album and being in a Converse commercial, but My Poproks and her poproks and I am not over her at all.
…one of the best songs on the record, the video for “Lights Out”
I am a bit late on this, but hadtopost.
Kanye West joins the Olympics…err, Unified Games. Iheartnewbridge.
Above is the new video for “Being Here,” the single off of The Stills’ upcoming third album, Oceans Will Rise. The Stills have gotten progressively more radio friendly since their debut, 2003’s Logic Will Break Your Heart, which featured dark, 80’s brit-pop inspired guitar ballads. “Being Here” is a good, power pop rock track that may graduate the band to some popularity.
Above is the new video for Conor Oberst’s “Souled Out,” the first single off of his self titled ’solo’ record. It was directed by Alan Tanner, who is a guitarist for Saddle Creek band Maria Taylor. This is growing on me like whoa.
See Becky? I got it!
Duffy has a pretty strange morning after in the video for Rockferry’s fourth single, “Stepping Stone.” Sorry about that Duffy. And it also looks like she goes out that night and cheats on the guy. But it’s OK because this song is amazing.
I really enjoyed Damian Marley’s last album, the Grammy award winning, Welcome to Jamrock. “One Loaf of Bread” is featured on the 2007 album Gang War Rhythm, a compilation album of different dancehall and reggae artists, and is the lead off track. The imagery in the new video – and the entire idea of this song – is pretty haunting…
“Don’t let the pressures of the system get upon your head/poor people there is something for you.”
Thanks VS.
Coldplay, as I have said, will never ever tone it down ever again. Above are the two new music videos for “Viva La Vida,” the first of which was directed by Hype Williams and features the Death and All His Friends soldier outfits that I kinda love. Not too crazy about the video itself, but the second (directed by Anton Corbijn, who did some video for a song called “Heart Shaped Box” and some movie about a dude in a band called Joy Division) is a bit more like it.
I don’t really see what’s not to love. Top Album of 2008 status still intact. Haters: Bring it.
So, if you read the Skinnerblog (Mike Skinner’s myspace bloggy), you already know a lot about this song and video. If not, here’s a recap. Mike, A.K.A. The Streets, decided to film a video of himself walking from London to the south of France for the video to “The Escapist” (this included many rules, like no changing of dirty t-shirts). The song was actually written for a film of the same name, but was rejected in favor of Coldplay’s version (the second half of “Death and All His Friends” on their new album).
That brings us to today’s post, which included the completed video that made its world premier last night on BBC 4. Skinner’s forth record, Everything is Borrowed, will be released in the UK on September 15. You can download the track for free here.
Excellent.
Above is the new video for “Disperse,” (directed by Rik Cordero), the lastest single off of Consquence’s debut album Don’t Quit Your Day Job. (released last year on Kanye’s G.O.O.D. label). The track was produced by Koolade (Ghostface Killah, Talbi Kweli). I’m trying to figure out who’s not in this video. You’ve got Chad Hugo eating mac and cheese? Lupe Fiasco dancing in a hoodie? Oh, and Pharrell and Kanye and some other people being cool.
There is a definite possibility of me liking the upcoming Amanda Palmer solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer (Ben Folds produced solo debut due out 9/16 on Roadrunner), more than any Dresden Dolls release. More than a lot of things.
Amanda’s ongoing video releases are in promotion of the new record, and have so far included the above, “Astronaut,” “Ampersand,” and a short intro video (Part 1, obviously). Wiki confirms that videos have also been/will also be shot for “The Point of it All”, “Strength Through Music,” “Guitar Hero,” and “Leeds United” as part of the promotion.
I think it’s safe to say that Chromeo make good video. The latest single off of 2007’s Fancy Footwork kind of annoyed me the first time around…and maybe even the second time. This video, however, has changed that a lot. I never thought the 80’s would come back quite like this, but, apparently, I was wrong.
