New Releases we suggest you hear…
East Cameron Folkcore – Sound and Fury
Happy Record Store Day 04-16-2011
The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
Brand New Video from The Decemberists.
Whats going on this week??
The Hague / Monday 4/11/11 / Ash St. Saloon
The Naked and Famous / Tuesday 4/12/11 / Wonder Ballroom
Deftones / Friday 4/15/11 / Crystal Ballroom
Mos Def / Saturday 4/16/11 / Roseland Theater
Sharon Van Etten where did you come from?
New Beastie Boys Album out May 3rd!
Smith Westerns premieres short film, Die With Your Chin Up!
Towards the end of the recording sessions for Dye It Blonde, Smith Westerns invited director Ray Concepcion to join them in the studio to document the final stages of the recording process. Die With Your Chin Up is the resulting short film, a snapshot of a band on the brink something big.
New Typhoon Video: “The Honest Truth”
“I could end up having a job I hate, in southern California—which I also hate. Or, I could have a job I hate in Oregon, which I love.” Portland music video director Matthew Thomas Ross came to this realization in 2004, only six months into film school, and just one year out of high school. His school turned out not to be what it was advertised as (which would become the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed by students just one year later). But more than that, the job prospects after finishing seemed creatively unfulfilling, and not worth suffering the geography.
So Ross, a Eugene native, packed up and moved to Portland. Three days a week, he is a server at Stepping Stone Cafe in NW (a job he is quick to add that he doesn’t hate), so he can spend the other four working on film-related projects. His latest project is his third video for Typhoon, “The Honest Truth”, taken from their EP, A New Kind of House, released last month. The video makes use of the easy chemistry between the band’s many members, and contrasts it with lead singer Kyle Morton menacingly wielding a baseball bat. Also, though he’s usually content to stay behind the camera, the band convinced Ross to make a cameo appearance in the video’s last remaining seconds.
Typhoon – The Honest Truth from Matthew Ross on Vimeo.
BLACK LIPS RELEASE NEW VIDEO TO KICK OFF THEIR US TOUR
NEW BRIAN BUTLER-DIRECTED “MODERN ART” VIDEO PREMIERED YESTERDAY, TOUR BEGINS TODAY IN CARRBORO
Gearing up for what amounts to nearly three solid months of touring (full dates
below), Atlanta’s “flower punk” progenitors Black Lips yesterday released a mind
warping new video for Arabia Mountain track “Modern Art” via Pitchfork. The song
marks the first publicly available taste of the nine album cuts (of 16 total) produced
by top 40 pop mastermind Mark Ronson, and features some of the long murmured about new instrumentation that resulted from the collaboration, including a rare pitch-perfect performance on singing saw.
The 2 minute blast of visual psychedelia comes courtesy of Brian Butler, friend and protégé of celebrated arthouse director and Manson family documentarian Kenneth Anger. Butler’s clip offers a solid nod to his primary field of expertise, the occult, transpiring in the dark, other-worldly interior of New Orleans’s Saturn Bar, lined with the anachronistic paintings of Michael Frolich, and featuring a co-starring cast that includes a human skull, a squid, and a rooster.