This Onion news brief hit a little too close to home for me. I've never really felt picked on by The Onion until now, although I suppose it was inevitable that this day would eventually come. See for yourself.
-dw
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Video Grab Bag
Enjoy some videos, free of charge. You're welcome.
Here's one of the (sadly few) highlights from this past Sunday's 'Tim and Eric' featuring Will Forte of 'SNL.' Though silly, I do agree with his point about dogs being raw and living.
Fleet Foxes perform "Blue Ridge Mountains" on 'The Late Show' last night (8/5). I love how Dave brings the album out with him when he greets the band afterward. Whether or not this is brought on by Dave's old age and forgetfulness, or from his newly acquired love for the band, it's a beautiful moment - one that I can't say I've witnessed before.
I finally finished my summer project of making another trek through season 2 of 'LOST' (yeah, I can't believe it took me this long, either) and I stumbled upon this feature in the extras that I somehow initially missed. Why can't we get 'LOST' promos like this in America?
Few can pull off a worth-while Radiohead cover, but it appears Gnarls Barkley were up to the challenge. Known for dressing in costume when they perform, I guess Cee-lo was going for the 'Kid Rock' look?
Here's one of the (sadly few) highlights from this past Sunday's 'Tim and Eric' featuring Will Forte of 'SNL.' Though silly, I do agree with his point about dogs being raw and living.
Fleet Foxes perform "Blue Ridge Mountains" on 'The Late Show' last night (8/5). I love how Dave brings the album out with him when he greets the band afterward. Whether or not this is brought on by Dave's old age and forgetfulness, or from his newly acquired love for the band, it's a beautiful moment - one that I can't say I've witnessed before.
I finally finished my summer project of making another trek through season 2 of 'LOST' (yeah, I can't believe it took me this long, either) and I stumbled upon this feature in the extras that I somehow initially missed. Why can't we get 'LOST' promos like this in America?
Few can pull off a worth-while Radiohead cover, but it appears Gnarls Barkley were up to the challenge. Known for dressing in costume when they perform, I guess Cee-lo was going for the 'Kid Rock' look?
Monday, August 4, 2008
Best Tracks of '08 (so far)
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Sure, technically we are 59% of our way through 2008 so doing a 'halfway' check-in of the year's best tracks seems tardy. I'm going to argue the month of January, though 31 days, ultimately equates to roughly 8 or 9 days in the music blogosphere time-table, so I'm much closer to the 50% mark in reality. Anyways, here are my personal highlights:
Adele - "Chasing Pavements'
Beck - "Walls"
The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
Brendan Canning - "Hit The Wall"
Coldplay - "42"
Cold War Kids - "Something Is Not Right With Me"
Death Cab For Cutie - "Cath..."
DeVotchKa - "The Clockwise Witness"
The Dodos - "Fools"
Estelle - "American Boy (ft. Kanye West)"
Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"
French Kicks - "Said So What"
Frightened Rabbit - "Good Arms Vs. Bad Arms"
Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?"
Jamie Lidell - "Another Day"
M83 - "Graveyard Girl"
Masses With Masses - "Morning, Morning"
Mates of State - "Get Better"
MGMT - "Electric Feel"
My Morning Jacket - "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 1"
Mystery Jets - "Young Love"
Neon Neon - "Dream Girls"
No Age - "Eraser"
The Notwist - "Good Lies"
REM - "Supernatural Superserious"
The Radio Dept. - "Freddie and the Trojan Horse"
Santogold - "Lights Out"
Sigur Ros - "Gobbledigook"
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Glue Girls"
The Streets - "The Escapist"
Tokyo Police Club - "Centennial"
Vampire Weekend - "M79"
The Walkmen - "In The New Year"
The Whigs - "Right Hand On My Heart"
Wolf Parade - "Soldier's Grin"
-dw
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Robert Smith is Better Than Ezra
Vampire Weekend have a new video for their fan-favorite and Graceland-tripping "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa." They've done John Hughes proud. Check it:
And, yes, I agree. That is the most clever post title you've ever seen. I should just retire now. If you don't get it, you're clearly no friend of mine. Oh, and Peter Gabriel, too.
-dw
And, yes, I agree. That is the most clever post title you've ever seen. I should just retire now. If you don't get it, you're clearly no friend of mine. Oh, and Peter Gabriel, too.
-dw
Plagiarists = Non-Winners (and Crazytown?)
Well, we didn't end up winning the Hennessy Presents: Spin "Hot Pursuit" contest. Bummer. Luckily one of the few other halfway decent acts won, so a congratulations is order for the Atlanta band Rantings of Eva. We had an exciting run while the competition lasted, although, as mentioned earlier, the majority of the band wasn't even aware of the Pursuit's existence until the final round. I guess we'll just have to find another magazine/alcoholic beverage music competition to join. I'm looking to see if Patrón and Highlights have any sort of partnership at this point.
Though losing, one of the more giddiness-inducing moments was knowing that celebrity judges would actually be listening to our music and being forced to consider what they heard. Earlier this week the judges posted comments regarding the various entrants, and here's what the panel said about us, and more specifically, our song "Church":
Butch Walker, producer and former Marvelous 3 lead singer
"its a bold name. you gotta reallllllllllly be original to pull off the name without sounding pretentious. but pretention is so hot right now... pretention....not crazy about the song selections... there's only one to hear!!! i hate to make a fair judgment based on one song, but the song is definitely interesting. the production is adventurous and i appreciate where they are going with it. i just want to hear more to make sure it's not that thing like when Crazytown put out that record and the only good song was the one with the chili peppers sample. ok... bad example of a band.. but whatever. it's a good song. i am talking about the song by Plagiarists... not the come my lady come come my lady one...."
Peter Moren, of Peter Bjorn and John fame
"I love the Television-guitars on their song "Church." There is a weird mix of styles here and an angularity which I really enjoy. The glockenspiel-riff mixed with the guitar is nice; good bass and vocals too. Modern rock without being boring. Also went to their My Space to check out their other songs and they hold up and also add some other flavors. Especially the way they arrange the guitars are impressive. Like the pretty lo-fi sound. They should NOT go and record expensive and become Death Cab For Cutie mark 2."
Amanda Palmer, of Dresden Dolls fame
"this reminds me of cutting class & taking off in a borrowed car with the windows down, speeding through mostly-empty roads in september when the weather is crisper than summer and you're on your way to meet someone for tea at an old bookstore."
and the not so ecstatic...
Doug Brod, Spin magazine Editor-in-Chief
"This is all very well done, but aside from the compelling guitar solo, it doesn’t sound particularly distinctive me. Good luck."
Yes, the editor-in-chief from Spin did make that glaring grammatical error in his comment towards us (found on our profile, he luckily corrected himself for his Comments page posting). I guess either our music completely flustered him or he's been making a lot of Facebook wall posts lately.
Comedian Michael Showalter was a judge as well, but he was probably too busy off making a sandwich somewhere to post his comments. Oh well.
-dw
Though losing, one of the more giddiness-inducing moments was knowing that celebrity judges would actually be listening to our music and being forced to consider what they heard. Earlier this week the judges posted comments regarding the various entrants, and here's what the panel said about us, and more specifically, our song "Church":
Butch Walker, producer and former Marvelous 3 lead singer
"its a bold name. you gotta reallllllllllly be original to pull off the name without sounding pretentious. but pretention is so hot right now... pretention....not crazy about the song selections... there's only one to hear!!! i hate to make a fair judgment based on one song, but the song is definitely interesting. the production is adventurous and i appreciate where they are going with it. i just want to hear more to make sure it's not that thing like when Crazytown put out that record and the only good song was the one with the chili peppers sample. ok... bad example of a band.. but whatever. it's a good song. i am talking about the song by Plagiarists... not the come my lady come come my lady one...."
Peter Moren, of Peter Bjorn and John fame
"I love the Television-guitars on their song "Church." There is a weird mix of styles here and an angularity which I really enjoy. The glockenspiel-riff mixed with the guitar is nice; good bass and vocals too. Modern rock without being boring. Also went to their My Space to check out their other songs and they hold up and also add some other flavors. Especially the way they arrange the guitars are impressive. Like the pretty lo-fi sound. They should NOT go and record expensive and become Death Cab For Cutie mark 2."
Amanda Palmer, of Dresden Dolls fame
"this reminds me of cutting class & taking off in a borrowed car with the windows down, speeding through mostly-empty roads in september when the weather is crisper than summer and you're on your way to meet someone for tea at an old bookstore."
and the not so ecstatic...
Doug Brod, Spin magazine Editor-in-Chief
"This is all very well done, but aside from the compelling guitar solo, it doesn’t sound particularly distinctive me. Good luck."
Yes, the editor-in-chief from Spin did make that glaring grammatical error in his comment towards us (found on our profile, he luckily corrected himself for his Comments page posting). I guess either our music completely flustered him or he's been making a lot of Facebook wall posts lately.
Comedian Michael Showalter was a judge as well, but he was probably too busy off making a sandwich somewhere to post his comments. Oh well.
-dw
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Hey, let's take a look at the Kings of Leon website...whaa? Free download? Why...thank you, Kings of Leon, you really do appreciate my patronage!
Being an enormous fan of Kings of Leon, I have now listened to this song on repeat for what could be construed as an embarrassingly long time. Kings of Leon's forthcoming album Only by the Night is due out September 23rd. Mark it on your calendars, and then check out their addicting new song Crawl! (Repeat if necessary)
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New Chemical Brothers Video
Being a fan of The Chemical Brothers since early middle school, I always get excited when something new pops of from them, even if it's not so hot. Hey, we all know nostalgia is often more powerful than actual quality. The duo has a new collection of singles coming out soon entitled Brotherhood as well as an all-caps awesome video for new single "Midnight Madness." This video is absolutely mesmerizing and although it will most likely haunt me while I sleep, it's preferable to my reoccurring nightmares brought on by this. Ugh. Check it:
-dw
-dw
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Culture of Me Shout-Out (Part III)
Yesterday the fine folks at The Culture of Me posted a third plug for our music and, seriously, these guys could not be more generous towards us (or maybe they could...). Check their write-up on "Wooden Horses" here, and if you missed their features on "Church" and/or "Pockets," click here and/or here, respectively.
-dw
Monday, July 28, 2008
Who you calling 'turkey'?
Season 3 of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! premiered last night on the Cartoon Network and the duo wasted no time in reintroducing Channel 5's charmingly inept Steve Brule. Check it:
Metro Magazine feature
The August issue of Metro Magazine has highlighted Literal Scene as their 'CD of the Month' saying:
"The sophomore release from this quintet of recent St. Olaf grads combines twitchy guitars, lissome xylophone and keyboard fills, and big-riffed choruses to create an enticing blend of highly accessible indie-rock."
Pretty cool. The issue is on newsstands now and the piece can be seen here as well. Hey, we like Dosh and Dance Band, too!
-dw
"The sophomore release from this quintet of recent St. Olaf grads combines twitchy guitars, lissome xylophone and keyboard fills, and big-riffed choruses to create an enticing blend of highly accessible indie-rock."
Pretty cool. The issue is on newsstands now and the piece can be seen here as well. Hey, we like Dosh and Dance Band, too!
-dw
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