Dragon Chasers, Aren't We All

This song is off Wax Tailor's In The Mood For Life, almost a year old but the video is new, and features Charlotte Savary. My guess is PeterP will approve of their creative vision for the movie. It's also a day late, but happy birthday Ralph.

Mercer & Mouse meet Hall & Oates

Broken Bells put out this really good video quite a few months back featuring Christina Hendricks of Mad Men fame, who by the way is also frequently featured in my dreams.



But just this month, thanks to the push made by filmmaker and friend of the band Matt McCormick, Broken Bells has put out a second video for the song featuring James Mercer's mouth sitting proudly on Daryl Hall's face. Here's the unlikely hybrid of Broken Bells' The Ghost Inside and Hall & Oates' Private Eyes.

A singer specialising in chansons

A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" (male) or "chanteuse" (female); a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier. Elou Elan does Nordic Chanson Pop and hails from Copenhagen. Album coming soon, but currently unsigned...maybe Last Choice should start a record label.

Find more artists like elou elan at Myspace Music

Spike does it again

For all the hoopla about Arcade Fire's last video (which was very cool, and we talked about it here), there's something to be said about a video that tells a story and tells it well. Spike Jonze is a genius, and when he gets together with people of this caliber it just shows that much more. This video was actually filmed in Austin, all though I can't recognize anything...

Enjoy Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, through a Jonze lense:

Also, just because we're talking about Spike Jonze, here is my favorite video of his. He made it for his wifey Karen O. This is Y Control by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Skinny Legs and All

"This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter"
— Tom Robbins

Aussie band the Jezabels put out this video for their song Mace Spray last week. They have been around for a while and are big down under. I think they are great.


This remix of their song Disco Biscuit Love is fun and danceable with a splash of tragic glitter, and reminds me of an old friend of mine.

The Jezabels - Disco Biscuit Love (Dept. remix) by deptdot

Nancy Whang shits robots

Last time we saw LCD Soundsystem's Nancy Whang in a video she was being molested by a pack of crazy pandas in "Drunk Girls." Now she has teamed up with Ireland native Marcus Lambkin, better known as Shit Robot, to leave hipster-colored doppelgangers all over Brooklyn.

Great vid and great song. Here is Shit Robot (Feat. Nany Whang) with "Take 'Em Up"

Musical Paleontology

Watching the Harry Nilsson documentary last night (which was great by the way), I discovered a direct ancestor to Cee Lo's Fuck You.
Check it out:
harry nilsson - you're breaking my heart

Have you got a girl or are you lookin for men? I'm like no and no, so why you wanna know?

A new guy from the UK, Ghostpoet, electronic/hip hoppy stuff. The EP is here, full length coming soon, oh and bonus/nostalgia points to whoever can identify the sample in Love Confusion (Technically Wolf already won, but I'll open it up to everyone else for round 2). Actually I think there's an even more obscure/non-Hip Hop sample that's here too, so Wolf you're back in the game.

http://ghostpoet.bandcamp.com

Don't hate on my Ray-Bans

We haven't had a dance party in a while, so hopefully this post will inspire us to get our dancing on soon. I heard that Barbarella moved to a bigger place... maybe we should explore?

Couple of A-Track diddies for you, first for those of you with Ray-Ban Vision:



Second for those of you with Rave Ambitions:

Nobody's gonna save my life

except maybe Mark Ronson and the Business Intl.

Somebody to Love Me- Mark Ronson
Featuring Boy George and Miike Snow


Also:

Pastel Group

I like these chilled out Boston folks (oxymoron?). They have a free EP you could download if you were to desire such a thing.
http://tiny.cc/mi4zx
This picture has nothing to do with the band, but is called Pastel Group and I like it.

Pastel Group's "Opinions And Thoughts" by clicky clicky music blog

I still love Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin

Their first album "Broom" is still one of my favorite cd's of the last decade. And all though I have not heard their new album from start to finish yet, the first single makes me very, very optimistic.

This is Sink/Let it Sway from Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin, their new album is titled "Let it Sway."

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And they're coming to the Mohawk on November 22 for a very cheap $10... I love Austin.

Second to Last Choice

I know everyone has been anxiously waiting for the October collection of Last Choices.

Here's the end bit of the link. Same deal as last month.

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Havana Cultura

Continuing the Gilles Peterson thread, he discovered this Cuban jazz vocalist along with a host of other talent during a couple of trips to Havana last year. Danay Suarez has an EP coming soon.

Records NOT Recordings

Gilles Peterson's 6th installment of music that we're all going to like. It's out now, but here's the taster.

Brownswood Bubblers Six // Teaser by Brownswood

Massive Classics

Teenager in the 90s, I hated 'Around the World' when it hit radio. I just wasn't ready for electronic music,  in a time when bands like Nirvana and RATM had given angsty teens everything they needed. But then, of course, I was victim of that trojan horse called OK Computer (1997). Motherfuckers took alt-rock kids and convinced them that electronic sounds were ok. That's how I was primed for Mezzanine (1998). As a little pushover project of a person, there was no way I was not obsessing with that album. It completely fucked me up. When Mezzanine came out, it forced me to go back to Blue Lines (1991) and everything from then on (Portishead, Tricky, Bjork, etc). Even worse, Mezzanine was my gateway drug into harder electronic music. Daft Punk's Homework, Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole, The Prodigy's Fat of The Land, all have a special place in my heart thanks to Massive Attack (and all of them are 1997 releases, fucking awesome year).

End of stroll down memory lane.

Here's a cool video from Massive Attack's Atlas Air (off of Heligoland - a meh album):

Massive Attack-Atlas Air-directed by Edouard Salier from edouard salier on Vimeo.

Stuck in Singer Songwriter Hell

Ralph aka Bob Jovi and I attended Troika Music Festival in Durham NC this past Saturday and as the title suggests we were quagmired by singer song writers. Although we placated ourselves through ever increasing vitriolic judgment calls, the music eventually made a turn for the better. As the night progressed and the cheap vodka, food coloring, and sugar built up in our blood this duet of chick rock saved the day.

Cassis Orange is from Chapel Hill, played a very danceable live show complete with cute flaunting flautist.



Pink Flag, chick punk, killer drummer, best _____ ever

Depressing Song for a Depressing Time

After the ass-whooping we received at the polls this past Tuesday, I've been listening to a lot of depressing songs. How appropriate that Cocorosie just released the video for their song Gallows.

Because misery loves company, here it goes so you can cry with me:

COCOROSIE - GALLOWS (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Emma Freeman on Vimeo.

Glamccordion

An entirely inappropriate follow-up to peterparkour's post, as this fluffy little song clocks in at 2:30. So be it, I like it.