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Video: The Rest, Who Knows

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Here is the video for Who Knows from, SEESAW, by The Rest. The third in their ongoing series, it features science, the world’s most maddening Rorschach test cards, some super-freaky drawings, 3-D printing, birds, and explosions, roughly in that order.

If you watch it with the sound off it still makes perfect sense as a movie, which makes it one of my very favorite kinds of music videos.

 

The Rest - Who Knows

 

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Video: Jonathan Coulton, First of May

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One of my favorite Jonathan Coulton songs. Still not safe for work, but now with bonus ASL translation!
 

First of May (ASL) LIVE with Jonathan Coulton - Dallas May 2009

 
The signs are provided by Stephen Torrence and friends; if you’d like a closer look at the signs, you can have that here:
 
Jonathan Coulton - First of May - ASL Song

 

 

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Salt Petal: Sea Monster

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Salt Petal are: Autumn Harrison (Vocals/Accordeon), Rodrigo Gonzalez (Guitar), Hiroo Nakano (Drums), Jesse Herrera (Bass), and Dayna Richards (Trumpet). They are currently from Los Angeles, but have roots in Argentina.

Their music is an effervescent combination of languages – English, Spanish and Portuguese – and styles, including Argentinian folk, Brazilian tropicalia, Cumbia (big brass band sound) and rock and roll.

Sea Monster is their second record, and it is a lush, expansive collection of tunes. It’s hard to pick particular favorites because I’m really fond of the whole thing, but highlights include Por la Luna, Darkest Hours and Es Dificil.

Here they are with their first single, Songs I Used to Love:

Salt Petal - "Songs I Used To Love"

 
 

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Video: Rob Zombie, Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown

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There’s a lot going on here – hippie!Zombie, zombie!Zombie, breakdancing skeleton, various kinds of freaky ballerinas – and it is ALL AWESOME.

The song is Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown, from his new record Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor due out at the end of the month.

Metal Hammer has a tracklist and from the looks of things we are in for a SUPER FREAKY TIME. I’m excited, y’all.

I also have a bunch of questions, like, has there been an apocalypse, and is the radio a communications tool or a framing device or both, and is Supertown like Bartertown or what, but, I suppose all of these things will be answered in time.

Meanwhile, I’ll enjoy the video.

 

Rob Zombie - Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown

 

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Video: TimLee3, Devil’s Rope

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Watch out, baby girl, preacher man is coming for you and it isn’t loving he has on his mind:
 

Tim Lee 3 "Devil's Rope" (Official Music Video)

 
There is more where that came from; Devil ‘s Rope is the title track of TimLee3‘s new record, which is some A++ swampy, bluesy rock and roll. Devil’s Rope has been stuck in my head for a week now, but I’m also fond of Signal, Cut-Rate Divorce and Judging You.
 

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Video: The Almighty Rhombus, She Didn’t Want Me

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Some thoughts while watching the video for She Didn’t Want Me, from the new self-titled EP by The Almighty Rhombus:

1. How awesome is “The Almighty Rhombus” just as a band name? SUPER AWESOME. A++ use of geometry in band-naming.

2. These dudes and ladies are SERIOUSLY committed to grilling out. (They are my kind of people. Snow on the ground is no reason to skip the cooking with fire.)

3. Ooooh, golden retrievers in shirts gamboling in the snow! Those dogs are having just the best time.

4. Loving Mr. Too Metal For Sleeves and his mad snowboarding skillz.

5. This song is fun, too!

 

The Almighty Rhombus, She Didn't Want Me (Official Video)

 

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Gary Lightbody and The Assembly, This Is All That I Ask of You

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Long ago in a galaxy not THAT far away – i.e. 1999-2000 – I worked in tech PR1 and pitched people as speakers for TED talks2. That was when TED talks were only given in one place! Now they are everywhere!

This is an excerpt from a TED talk given by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol at Stormont Parliament in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The subject of his presentation was the way the music scene in the region has flourished during the last fifteen years of peace.3

To illustrate his point he gathered up several musicians – David C. Clements, SOAK, Silhouette and the Wonder Villains – to write and perform a song.

If you like it you can buy it, and all of the proceeds will go to the Northern Ireland Music Therapy Trust.

 

This is all that I ask of you: Gary Lightbody and the Assembly at TEDxStormont

 

1 This was when the internet still kind of had training wheels and we were trying to convince print journalists to write about websites.
2 TED was “invitation only” then; my job was to demonstrate why clients ought to be invited.
3 The power of his observations are in their simplicity. For example: “There are so many gigs now. When I first started going to gigs in Northern Ireland, there weren’t that many. Especially from international acts. But now every international act comes to Belfast. And they come here as an essential part of their European tour.”

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Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country Stars: Heart in a Mason Jar

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Heart In A Mason Jar is the new record from Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers) and his band The Dead County Stars. They play both kinds, country AND western.

The record is full of things I like, including some honky-tonk swing:
 

 

A variety of melancholy slow jams:
 

 
A sobering, bittersweet love song for a hallucination:
 

 
And a dollop of full-tilt bluegrass:
 

 
And if you need a live performance to sway you, here they are at Ashland Coffee and Tea with Bang Bang:
 

Bang Bang-Alex Culbreth&Dead Country Stars@AC&T 2012

 
They are touring just about all over creation in the next couple of months; go out and see them if they’re stopping near you!

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Video: Judas Priest, Living After Midnight

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Same band (well, mostly, there was a change of drummers), same song, thirty years apart. I couldn’t decide which one filled me with more joy, so I’m posting both of them.

I love the spandex AND the crowd singing AND the drummer-cam AND that they are all covered in silver spikes AND that my foot automatically starts tapping and I cannot help but sing along AND basically this is just to say, I love you, Judas Priest.
 

Judas Priest - Living After Midnight

 
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight (Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Arena)

 
p.s. The YouTube recommendations I get from watching these videos are also tremendously entertaining. More on that later though!

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Video: Crawl Babies, Black Hole Mary

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This song is from Crawl Babies‘ newest record Death Dance, due out at the end of March.

I love this video, and this song, but, having had the chance to listen to the whole record, I also have to tell you it is amazing. A veritable garden of (sometimes puzzling) delights that oscillates gently between Twin Peaks-flavored dreaminess and country-rock swagger.

On the subject of puzzling delights, back to the video at hand. It takes a subtle but distinctive turn for the freaky about halfway through, and becomes an accurate visual representation of what happens when people get left alone in their own heads for too long.

 

Crawl Babies- Black Hole Mary (Official Music Video)

 

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