Video Free Silver Lake: Seasons, Burial at Sea, Airborne Toxic Event, Pizza, Papercranes, Amanda Jo Williams, Houses

By Jed

1) It's been a long time since  Tony and Gabe have put up anything new on their live video performance hosting site. Which is a shame, considering I have so much enjoyed their previous postings (Walking Sleep, Big Whup, etc.)  The good news is that Tony and Gabe are back, with two new songs from Seasons' upcoming EP Autumn, performed live at  Pehrspace. See below for the very psychedelic "Lazy Bones" and click here for "Of Our Discontent".  

Seasons - Lazy Bones from Tony and Gabe on Vimeo.

2) Burial At Sea (Formerly Temporary Thing) video "Heartless Lover" appears to tell the story of a man in love with a mannequin, who drives said "cold, heartless lover" to the desert (it appears to be Joshua Tree), which lover comes to life (it at least reveals an expressioned face). The next morning, he finds that the mannequin has lost its facial expressions and (I think) abandons it out there. But then when he's driving back home, it looks like the mannequin is back in his truck. I don't totally get it, but it's visually a kick to look at, and a really pretty song on top of it. Directed by Jimmy Thompson and coloring by Pete Shanel. Check out at 0:41 where he stops to pee on the side of the road.

Burial at Sea "Heartless Lover" from Brainbow on Vimeo.

3) Back in October, I wrote a sappily positive review of the Airborne Toxic Event's performance at London's The Social.  A great show it was, but Monday's sold out spot at the Satellite, kicking off their Origin's tour (sold out shows at five L.A. venues to promote the new album All at Once: Satellite, Troubadour, El Rey, Henry Fonda, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre) outdid it by a margin. One of the best shows I've seen at Spaceland (as Mikel insisted on calling it throughout the show) in a while (and exceptional opening set by Walking Sleep. For the last 10 weeks, TATE has been releasing a live video of one of the songs off their new album (released yesterday), and I've been featuring most of them. This last week's was "Half of Something Else," shot at the Santa Monica Pier and featuring the Calder Quartet.

4) WATCH THIS NEW VIDEO FROM PIZZA!

5) Papercranes is the musical incarnation of actrees Rain Phoenix, which released a sophomore album Let's Make Babies in the Woods in January, but has a new video for one of the tracks thereon, "Sea Red". The video for "Sea Red" consists mostly of writhing, semi-clad bodies, but I'd still say it's semi-safe for work. As long as you don't work in a kindergarten or church. Supposedly, all of the songs were recorded without "rest or retakes".  Good idea?

6) Neu-country singer (is this a genre?) Amanda Jo Williams is back with a new video for "Sick and Dying". Despite the title, it's an upbeat song, and pretty much features AJW and her ragtag band of followers rocking out in a small room. There's a side story I think involving a lady in a hat.

7) I don't really have a tie-in for boyfriend/girlfriend electronic band Houses' video for "Reds" but I'm featuring it anyway because I think it is so cool. Filmed for under 200 bucks in a 2 car garage, it's all ice sculptures (made with clay molds) lit by Christmas lights. At around 3:00 when everything starts to melt is particularly awesome.  

HOUSES "REDS" (DIR. LAMAR+NIK) from Houses on Vimeo.

That's it. Talk to you next week. Email me at RFSLJed at gmail dot com with video stuff for me to post.