The National

I got this e-mail and I loved it:

Hi Everyone!

We're very excited that the release date for the Expanded Edition of High Violet has finally arrived! The expanded edition has eight new studio tracks, b-sides and live recordings. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpdadGCiBWA for a presentation that we received from Matt's brother Tom Berninger explaining the expanded edition and Violet Friday.

Speaking of Violet Friday, on November 26 the High Violet Expanded Edition will be available for $7.99 at participating indie record stores in the US. For a list of retailers, visit http://www.highviolet.com/violetfriday If you do visit your local participating record store on Friday, check in via Foursquare while in the store to receive a download of the Expanded Edition version of Terrible Love.

We're also excited to announce that we've added a show in Tokyo on March 17th and a show in Aarhus on February 26th. You can find links for tickets to the shows here: http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php.

Finally, we couldn't be more delighted that our good friend Sharon Van Etten will be playing with us at our February & March European shows and that The Middle East will be performing with us in Sydney and Melbourne.

Happy Thanksgiving and we hope to see you soon!

Dawn

And loved the video ;-)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Round & Round"

And for another interesting video today, I give you the Ariel Pink's Round & Round video filmed by Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips front man) with his iPhone.

Enjoy!

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round & Round from Delo Creative on Vimeo.

Active Child "I'm In Your Church At Night"

Here is yet another new video of yet another one of my favorite bands of the year Active Child and the song "I'm in your church at night". An interestinc chef take on the genesis hahaha!

Enjoy!

Sufjan Stevens "Too Much"

Here you have the stop motion "lots of going on" strange new video of Sufjan Stevens. He's one of my favorite artists of all time and this song is pretty standard of him, but really, you should check out the rest of his work.

Röyksopp's Short Film

That Go | Röyksopp 'Senior' from Rokkit on Vimeo.

Love the 80's looking girls and the mixture of comedy, horror, drama portraying an Ironic piece of art.

Two thumbs up for Röyksopp.

James Yuill "Rusty Nails"

I'm a huge Apparat fan since I discovered him in 2005; I've followed his solo projects and his collaborations with a lot of artists. In 2009 he teamed up with Modeselektor and together they were Moderat. They have albums and a DVD with amazing visuals and music, the most famous song of this group is a song called Rusty Nails, also the video is really amazing:

Moderat "Rusty Nails" from Pfadfinderei on Vimeo.

Another great artist is James Yuill. He has a good knowledge of electronic music and he mixes that with his acoustic guitar. The result is great songs. The point of this post is for you to hear a cover of Moderat's Rusty Nails made by this other amazing artist James Yuill. Hope you enjoy :-)

James Yuill - Rusty Nails by James Yuill

My Time Travel Weekend

This weekend I time traveled back to the age when the only technology available was printed books. The Illustration, and pulled a finger to Kant ;-)

This happened because in this perfect third world country the rain made impossible to get out of my home because the subway closed and the traffic jams were too heavy for anyone to go anyway (that was Saturday). Then on Sunday I woke up and there was no light service or water service or gas service. So I couldn't use my T.V. or computer, I couldn't go out because of the traffic jams and the lack of subway, it rained good part of the day and I couldn't cook anything so all I ate was fruit and bread...

That was my time travel weekend :-)

Arcade Fire "The Suburbs"

Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = The Suburbs

Black Prairie "Red Rocking Chair"

There's always a good thing in listening to KCRW's radio show, earlier on this blog one of that good things was Fistful Of Mercy, but now I came across with “The Decemberist” side project of Jenny Conlee (vocals, accordian), Nate Query (bass, cello) and Chris Funk (vocals, bazouki, dobro, weissenborn) together with fellow Portland musicians Annalisa Tornfelt (vocals, fiddle) and Jon Neufeld (guitar, vocals). The Decemberist are a well known band on the indie scene, but this sort of traditional performed so purely is not so usual. Hipster indie people tend to run away from this bluegrassy sound, but maybe because I spend two years of my childhood in Oklahoma I developed a taste for country and bluegrass like music.

This is no Ammylou Harris, it has an experimental edge, and its a mix of a lot of traditional and folk sounds from around the world; it has very distinctive European sounds, a little bit of tango, a little bit of waltz and a lot of northern American traditional music as well. Very instrumental but very pretty, if people are interested in having a bit more of maybe not so common music in their collection this is a band I can strongly recommend ;-)

The LP is "Feast Of The Hunters' Moon" and the song tagged is "Red Rocking Chair".

Enjoy!

So...

Yeah...I had a birthday...and this was not my birthday cake...

Bummer :-(

Happy Birthday To Me!

Kids Kids Kids

I love kids, and I often do this sort of internet experiments showing them viral internet youtube videos to see how they react; thats why I not only enjoy the fact that people are doing a youtube viral with kids reactions about viral youtube videos, but also because kids are brilliant...they really are, and this ones chosen buy this guys are also adorable.

Hail to those who make internet a kids tool that is adult friendly (and not the other way around)

Enjoy!

Chromeo "Hot Mess"

Chromeo are not astrangers in this blog and it's well known by everyone that knows me not only that they represent an eternal music crush in me and they can't go wrong in my book.

This time around I'm here to show you the last video, that is also the first song of the latest album, and what a way to start!

This video is a sexy awkward loving story in a police department. Not in a police academy kind of way, but just as good and funny...Enjoy this Hot Mess ;-)

The Tallest Man On Earth "Love Is All"

Well I walk upon the river like it's easier than land
Evil's in my pocket and your will is in my hand
Oh, your will is in my hand

And I'll throw it in the current that I stand upon so still
Love is all, from what I've heard, but my heart's learned to kill
Oh, mine has learned to kill

Oh, I said I could rise
From the harness of our goals
Here come the tears
But like always, I let them go
Just let them go

And now spikes will keep on falling from the heavens to the floor
The future was our skin and now we don't dream anymore
No, we don't dream anymore

Like a house made from spider webs and the clouds rolling in
I bet this mighty river's both my savior and my sin
Oh, my savior and my sin

Oh, I said I could rise
From the harness of our goals
Here come the tears
But like always, I let them go
Just let them go

Well I walk upon the river like it's easier than land
Evil's in my pocket and your strength is in my hand
Your strength is in my hand

And I'll throw you in the current that I stand upon so still
Love is all, from what I've heard, but my heart's learned to kill
Oh, mine has learned to kill

Oh, I said I could rise
From the harness of our goals
Here come the tears
But like always, I let them go
Just let them go



<3

Sesame Street Know Best...

In this world of technology Sesame Street know that software creators think of everything to create a new App. A lot of parodies have been made about Iphone in almost every show, but to have fun with technology in a kids show is very "of out time" and that's what I call smart television. To all the kid shows that make music and are "from our time" Seasame Street knows "There's An App For That" <3