Longboat’s Igor Keller is, of course, a genius. This became clear last May when I beheld Beyond the Moon, a nifty song, video and nostalgia trinket of the 1960s space race. Keller’s talents also shine through his blog, Hideous Belltown, a first person blog of cosmpolitan stories and button-cute squirrel photos wherein he invites readers …
Video: Soldier and Dog Reunite
Macklemore X Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us Feat. Ray Dalton by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Tori Amos – Carry (Official Video) by kary82 This is the first video released from her upcoming (Sept. 20) release, Night of the Hunters.
Portugal’s psych-pop group The Gift will release a new work, Explode, September 27th. To introduce themselves to the US prior to the album’s release, here is a new video for “Race Is Long” filmed in New York with acclaimed director TONE. In addition, the band is releasing an MP3 for Race is Long and Made …
VHS or Beta “Breaking Bones” from Graham Hill on Vimeo.
From the Metro website: “Visitors to Cooper Mountain Nature Park enjoy the 3.5 miles of trails that wind through the natural area, but one little gal calling the park home this summer prefers the pond.” It’s a snake. See the video below or click here.
http://youtu.be/9zJCgUu5mtE In this video Spanish Police are using fists and nightsticks on a girl and a photographer. The photographer has blogged about his experiences here. En este video de la policía española está usando los puños y porras de una niña y un fotógrafo. El fotógrafo tiene blog sobre sus experiencias aquí.
Full story is here.
Rubblebucket has released a new remix of Down in the Yards off their recent disc, Omega La La. You may download it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8CtHL1zQQ
Grace Jones is preparing to release Hurricane, a new album of original material and her first US release in 22 years, September 6. In the meantime, here’s an mp3 off the dub bonus disc of the album: Grace Jones – Well Well Well Dub by GraceJones
MP3 is available here.
At 8AM on a bus in Jersey City, one man solos with Katy Perry’s California Girls:
This is one of the most popular vids in the US, and probably the world, today: http://youtu.be/z7ItSe4Q-gw and here’s the real video: According to Wikipedia: “Girls’ Generation (Korean: 소녀시대, Hanja/Kanji: 少女時代; Sonyeo Sidae, Shōjo Jidai) is a nine-member South Korean girl group formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2007. The nine members are: Taeyeon (Leader), Jessica, …
Really, reallly good – I never really “got” Cookie Monster until I saw this…
Chapter Five April brought the much-needed Easter holiday. Aimee went home for the entire two weeks. Keith met me at noon and we feasted on crepes and tea before taking a walk in Regents Park. Spring was everywhere. The cherry trees were in bloom and the bare branches of other trees had light green buds …
http://youtu.be/Y2hkp12fwb0 The early years of Lollapalooza were a stentorian, sensual, bacchanalian, coming out party for Pacific Northwest music and zeitgeist. Isolated by geography and a lack of relevance to the LA-New York pop culture axis, Portland and Seattle developed extreme expressions of solidarity with the burgeoning alternative movement: Grunge music, outrageously eccentric sexual personae, slackerdom …