Akron/Family, live at UCLA, now for your enjoyment. (I’m gradually posting all of my collegiate low-res concert videos to Vimeo and then, obviously, here, so keep an eye on this space for more.)
Akron/Family – “I’ll Be On The Water”: mp3
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Five years ago tomorrow, Jon Brion played a rare set at Amoeba Music in honor of his soundtrack for I Heart Huckabees — the last time Jon released a set, even a small one, of new vocal recordings. Here are my freshly Vimeo’d videos from the show (including his Tom Waits-plays-”Creep” cover), posted with the hope that someone will send this to Jon and remind him to put out another album, please. After the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Premiere! I finally joined the rest of the cool kids on Vimeo (verdict: rad) and now that we’re in hi-def visually, if not sonically, here’s a gem of a jam: a new live track from Ravens & Chimes. Frontman Asher Lack tells me this song, “Clarissa Explains It All” — yes, after your favorite ’90s Nickelodeon show — is going to be a bit faster when it arrives as the b-side of this fall’s “Hearts of Palm” single, but it’s pretty high energy here. The Rawkblog Band to Watch has half of their sophomore disc tracked and hopes to tour before knocking out the rest, so we’re looking toward 2010 at this point. No rush, fellas.
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I have a few YouTube videos I’ve been sitting on for a minute. Of Montreal doing Neil might be the best, all 71 seconds of it.
A darker take on the song that’s become “Flaming Home,” which I blogged on yesterday.
I’ve never been much of a punk dude, so the Bamboozle Left fest this weekend was a pretty eye-opening experience all around. I don’t think anybody rocked harder than these dudes.
All photos by David Greenwald
Roland Pemberton III is a profoundly engrossing performer, an exemplary rapper, and a straight-up great dude. “Whatever, tell it to your blog,” he advised us after the show. So here we are. More photos after the jump; hear him covering Weezer’s “Pink Triangle” here. Read the rest of this entry »
