In honor of David Lamb, of Brown Bird, taken much too soon by leukemia.
According to their Facebook there will be a celebration of David’s life on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Details:
Location: Columbus Theatre in Providence, RI
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Performing: Joe Fletcher, Death Vessel, Alec K Redfearn and Last Good Tooth.
Time: Doors will open at 7:30pm, and the event will start at 8:30.
This is the video for Arctic Shark, from Held in Splendor by Quilt. I’m not quite sure if I’m missing their visual metaphor scheme or if there just isn’t one, but it has been a long day and a long week and now it’s raining, so I’m totally willing to chill out in their sunny, warm-looking picnic area while they sing a sweet comfortable song and parade random objects past me.
![Quilt - Arctic Shark [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/J87zzOt940E/0.jpg)
By request, from April, in honor of her birthday: The Wind-Up Birds, with their new video for The Gristle, from Poor Music, due out May 26, 2014.
Though honestly I would have posted it left to my own devices because you just have to love a video that stars two veggie sausages.
Tim Lee 3 have been at every Couch by CouchWest since 2011, and they get more awesome every year. Here they are with an original tune called Shut Up & Kiss Me, which is for that person drives you around the twist but you love them anyway.
I have only just recently learned about Twang Darkly, but I was still super excited when they showed up at Couch by CouchWest to share their trippy take on mountain music with the world.
Here they are with Spot for the Dragon, from Modal Creatures:
Fé always has the best video locations. This one, for 50/50, which is half of their latest release, due out April 14, was shot at the Camber Sands in on the Sussex coast, in England. The majestic windswept headlands are the perfect background for a song that is about learning to think expansively about romance.
Also majestic: Leo’s beard.
http://youtu.be/PGFJ1EzskmY
Darlings, it is FRIDAY NIGHT JAM TIME. Today we are pouring ourselves a beverage, jamming our haterblockers on our faces (indoors) and dancing around our kitchens and living rooms to Arty Party by Vuvuvultures.
Attending the party they are singing about here would probably be super-tedious; on the other hand, running away from it – with them, of course – would probably be something I would do just because I know it would end in a good story.
If you are planning to be in Italy in early April or attending the Adam Ant show in London in the middle of the month, you can see them live!
2nd April – 110 Café-Mercoledi Rock City, Perugia, Italy
3rd April – Combo Social Club, Florence, Italy
4th April – PnBox – Pordenone, Italy
5th April – Covo Club – Bologna, Italy
19th April – Hammermith Apollo, London supporting Adam Ant
Electric Feet, by 28 Boulevard, of Cambridge, England, contains just the right mixture of fuzz, aggressive guitars and pop bounce; also excellent are the visuals on this video. Though some of them veer sharply into “unintentional hilarity” territory aka “I may have made a tiny yeeeek! noise when the silhouettes were filled with their faces.”
Electric Feet is from Sunclouds, due out April 7, 2014, though you can listen to additional excerpts at their Soundcloud page.
Rosanne Cash & The Thread, backstage at Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina, with A Feather’s Not A Bird, from her new record The River & The Thread, or: the CXCW set I wasn’t quite sure was real until I clicked play.
And here, for anyone who might need it, is a little music video pep-talk: Keep On Keeping On, by Travie McCoy (Gym Class Heroes) featuring Brendon Urie (Panic! at the Disco). I am thoroughly biased by generalized affection for them both, but the video is sweet and beautifully lit and so charming I didn’t even really care that the wings bb!Travis sprouts at the end don’t really look like swan wings.
In fact the only quibble I have is that the backflip(s) that happened behind the scenes didn’t make it into the final product.
![Travie McCoy: Keep On Keeping On ft. Brendon Urie [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4QDECwqKE0g/0.jpg)
