By Jed
1) Shadow Shadow Shade has a new video from their non-album track "Maybe I Could Love". The video footage comes from an animated short called "The Comb."
2) Here's a new live performance for the Beehive from Judson and Mary: "When Will the Paths Be Straight Again?"
3) Have you been on facebook in the last week? Is so, you've probably seen OK Go's new video for "Needing/Getting". OK Go are easily dismissible as gimmicky (except to the extent that they've embraced that they have openly embraced that identity), but I won't dismiss them: I think they consistently put out extremely creative videos, with songs that are catchy enough. Besides (said the hipster), I saw them way back in 2001 opening for They Might Be Giants, BEFORE they even purported to be cool (I've got an old desktop computer from college in a closet somewhere with an OK Go sticker on it). In this one, most of the percussion in the song is performed by driving a Chevy through a bunch of stuff, including walls of pianos and guitars (apparently it was also shown during or around the Super Bowl).
4) Here's a new video promoting the fact that the Happy Hollows are recording a new album. Click here to listen to Sarah Negahdari's recent appearance on Podcast Shmodcast:
5) La Mirada's Lovely Bad Things recently performed a set for the Tony and Gabe, famous for featuring life performance videos of up and coming bands. This live version of "I Just Want You to Go Away" was performed in the band's practice space, known to them as "The Lovely Bad Pad."
Lovely Bad Things - I Just Want You To Go Away from Tony and Gabe on Vimeo.
6) I may have mentioned at some point that Of Monsters and Men are the next Icelandic band likely to make it big. Last weekend I heard them playing during dinner at a Santa Monica bar, and an Icelandic friend of mine told me he heard them recently playing in a cab in South America. Are they big already? Here is the very new music video for their smash hit (that we keep seeming to hear outside of Iceland) "Little Talks" (which you'll probably like if you haven't heard it yet):
7) And if you haven't had enough of Icelandic music, here is Icelandic composer (and member of Kraftwerk-like Apparat Organ Quartet and hard rock group HAM) Jóhann Jóhannsson performing a classical piece live on KCRW yesterday. He'll be playing at the Masonic Lodge of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery tomorrow. I'll be there.
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