Little Wings + Feist "Look At What The Light Did Now"

Lots of people know the behind the scenes and creative process of Feist DVD is around, but Look At What The Light Did Now...

Feist and Little Wings (AKA Kyle Field) singing in a hidden beach canyon <3

The Streets "Trust Me"

This song appeard on the 15th of April of last year (2009)and its a part of the new LP project called "Computers and Blues" also the last he will do under the name of The Streets (hope not the last one at all). The thing is that after some Twitter activity he has posted video vlogs, poems, and now the video of this song that is not only listening great but looking great in the video.

Everyone that love The Strees miss not listening to new material and the new website started a countdown of what probably is the day he will say goodbye to The Streets name and have a new LP coming out, I don't really know. But while we wait for the next steps of Mike Skinner's projects we can enjoy hes old music and his new videos. In this post I'll let for all of you to enjoy the "Trust Me" video and a powerfull piece of Urban Poetry like only he can do it called ***something to hide*** that starts with a powerfull line

"Everyone has something to hide if they don't there's something wrong".

Hope You enjoy.

Miami Horror - Holidays

Summer started in the south and Miami Horror is celebrating with a new music video for the song Holidays :-)

Its kind of Zoiberg inspired character chillin with a pretty girl in a car and the beach.

Enjoy!

Holidays from Miami Horror on Vimeo.

Diamond Rings - Special Affections

I came across this band with a review of TND and I saw it before lots of times but the cover art was so gay that I imagined (wrongly) that it would be a bad LP. My wrong! this is something like Joy Division wanting to make an honest Pop thing...and the results are more than you could ever hoped for it to be. I really enjoyed it and I leave you one video and the soundcloud so you can stream it :-) (I love FREE streaming <3)



Diamond Rings - Special Affections by SecretCityRecords

Kanye West "Runaway"

For this video Kanye west overdid it, not because of the art and photography, but because the songs were cut off and not well blendend to the image. But nontheless, the intention of the video is well done and musicaly i give two thumbs up, specialy for the last song in the video that is a work between Kanye and Bon Iver that I haven't heard before until today and it blew my mind!

There i let the clean version of the song video. I hope you enjoy ;-)

The National "Terrible Love"

Also new video of The National...today has been a good video day :-)

Enjoy!

Local Natives "Who Knows Who Cares"

This has been one of my favourite songs of the year and finaly has a video...hope you enjoy!

Google's "It Gets Better"

For a while the "It Gets Better" campaign that tries to stop young GLBTT of killing themselves by showing people that survive to see that in time life gets better. This is a beautiful thing to do, because it doesn’t matter if you are against it or in favor; it doesn't even matter if you fight for social rights and equality for the GLBTT group; this is just a fact of life that when things are very fucked up and there's no way that you could be worst then life gets better.

This message is not only about pro-gay rights or even about pro-gay youth, is about life. While de suicide in GLBTT youth is growing, the world is not only losing one gay life, but also a mother is losing a child, a brother is losing a playing buddy, a class room is losing a joke and a country is losing a possibly productive citizen.

The message is simple, "Don't do it...Life gets better", I'll show right now the Google campaign, but there are many others...

Thank you Google, because this gives hope to those who are losing it, and also thank you for giving jobs to GLBTT that are out and proud. I'm sure that with Google on the project the campaign will reach more people...I would like to watch the same campaign in underdeveloped countries and other languages, but this is a cool start.

Liars "Scissor "

Liars have made this video to demonstrate that in the end the rock will always win...So stop trying!

Enjoy!

Liars "Scissor" from A Bruntel on Vimeo.

Paradigm Change In Education

Previously I've talked about technology and multitasking children and as an educator I've always known that the model of education must benefit the progress and changes in life and must be an education of its time. This said, I've been talking with some people to see how technology and change can be brought or even taken in consideration to reform education in Venezuela benefiting the changes of the world, how can a student in this countries can become competent in the world, and for this the question on how can the Venezuelan education can form part of the world.

In Venezuela the revolution must lead to modernize and dynamize the education to a much versatile approach to reality. If we are already excluded of the economic system because we are third world and most recently because we have an Ape as president that wants to implement XIX century ideas into the already old fashioned institutions its more than time that we start taking education to a much more interesting and fun approach on reality.

The children don't want and don't need to be told about the historical prejudice against developed countries and the importance of closing their mentalities to a one squared socialistic (almost communist) view of politics and power and institutions. Maybe I'm against the institutions as they are, and more against on what the revolution is taking them, but if we are going to change it must be to a much 21 st. century mentality. We have the meads...so let's go for it.

Here I leave for you a video I found that talks a little about exactly what I've been fighting for in schools and university since I've been inside of the system, and an interesting approach on how the educational paradigm should change. So I hope you enjoy.

If Lance Armstrong Had Two Balls

I made this playlist thinking in this...

Hope you enjoy :-)

To All The Unbelievers Out There

Lately I've had a few people saying to me "is Fiona Apple really making a new record? Don't play with my feelings like that!", and if there was some sort of doubt here we have eccentric Fiona and her animal print gloves talking about her relationship with music and how this was what she was supposed to be doing in life. This is a sort of reference to her upcoming album and I hope that the music playing on the back could be one track? Well I hope so.

Fiona seems to be quite socially awkward to still be making unique and amazing music for all the misunderstood people out there, but I don’t know why I have the feeling that this time around she is a lot less troubled and won’t be so violent on her lyrics like she was in the past. Still I’m waiting anxiously for this album and also sure of the greatness it will have, I really hope it will be her best, because I think there’s still much more Fiona that we might not know.

To do list

Next time I go to a rural place with a Pond I'll remember to do this:



Loved the song Cool Summer song...shame is not summer anymore hehe.

How To Dress Well

How To Dress Weell is the lo-fi home made project of a dude called Tom Krell. He has some early R&B vibe from the 80's and 90's with very lo-fi recordings that sometimes saturate, truly representing what a living room and a basement can sound, but what today I'm going to post about him is a very personal track for a very personal feeling. The song is a cover of R. Kelly's song I wish, and with less anger and less beat the lyrics of the song really shine through and reveal the amazing songwriting and how amazingly well done is this cover made. In his blog Krell refered to it so I'll quote and leave it there.

i lost my best friend and i sang this song for him. this was a really beautiful and sad experience for me – the video is the only take of the song, the first time i've ever played it, culling the lyrics from memory and singing from my soul with and for my boy.

i hope if you've lost someone you love you know that this shit is from the bottom of the heart.

love,
htdw

HOW TO DRESS WELL "WAKING UP TO LIFE SOMETIMES SEEMS WORSE" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Things I can't hardly wait

For sure we can say that 2010 is an amazing music year, but for some reason I want 2011 to come because this year has been awesome and there is too many good music going around...the thing is that all though that we have awesome music this year, 2010 is letting that good old known feeling that amazing musicians I've been waiting to give to the world new material will do so in 2011 and that alone is very exciting!

2011 will give us new Cat Power, Wilco, Fiona Apple, and Radiohead albums are on the way! AWESOME!

Video / Art

Chris Cunningham always takes an interesting turn on his videos, commercial spots, and basically everything he puts a video camera into. Nobody doubts that Cunningham is a real modern artist, watching visual creations done for people like Björk or Aphex Twin, and he’s experience goes not only on the music videos but on commercial spots and diverse installations and short films such as ELECTROMA made for Daft Punk or Rubber Johnny for Aphex Twin. He also has done publicity spots like Flora Perfum for Gucci and my personal favorite Mental Welth for PlayStation.

Now he comes back with a video installation he made for MoMA taking a 10 minute remix of New York Is Killing Me from Gil Scott-Heron’s new LP “I’m New Here”. Gil Scott-Heron is a poet and baritone singer, and there’s something about he’s writing and he’s voice that takes you places. Also the visual experience of Cunningham makes this installation in MoMA a thing worth trying. Consists in images of NYC, very minimalistic for usual Cunningham taste, but in the end a collage of multi directional images produce a sort of vertigo that goes amazing with Gil lyrics and the whole vibe…I really hope you enjoy this one.

You can grab de video on http://chriscunningham.com/

Some words on Chromeo

Maybe some people don’t like Chromeo, they look at them as too hipsters, too electro, too retro, whatever. I must say that I’ve had a crush on this band since it came out, and in the new LP “Business Casual” they demonstrate that Chromeo will always be Chromeo. This doesn’t mean that the new LP is a repetition of previews ones, actually, musically it’s maybe the less electro, they come to say that they are educated geeks that can compose really good music with the early sounds of 70’s and 80’s disco, hip hop, and electro but still represent this times. Another classy note on this LP is that all songs were written in piano, thing that the Yours Truly session leaves no doubt for the world to see.

I really don’t care what everyone says about Chromeo, they haven’t had a single down for me and they hit all my buttons right, and yes…the new LP is just FANTASTIC, so get it, and get it NOW!

Enjoy!

Yourstru.ly Presents: Chromeo "Don't Walk Away" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Music and Hair

Some people don't like it...but when it comes to musicians we all love the beards, could be the 3 day beard or the years on working beard, either way, when it comes to musicians, a little hair going on its always irresistible. So I decided to make this post for all of you to enjoy.

Maps & Atlases - Solid Ground from FatCat Records on Vimeo.

Kings Of Leon - Radioactive (album Come Around Sundown) from szymen on Vimeo.

The Tallest Man on Earth from bob6y on Vimeo.