Tuesday, August 31, 2010

SOTD: "Society" - Eddie Vedder w/ Johnny Depp

This is from the Voices For Justice rally this past weekend in Little Rock....

Monday, August 30, 2010

SOTD: "Quarry Hymns" - Land of Talk

NYC Area Concerts week of 8/30

9/1 Lou Barlow, Wye Oak @ Mercury Lounge
9/2 Built to Spill @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise aboard the Temptress
9/3 Iggy and The Stooges, Sleep, Mudhoney, The Scientists @ Kutshers Country Club
9/4 Sonic Youth, Explosions in the Sky, The Breeders, Fuck Buttons, Tortoise, The Books, Avi Buffalo @ Kutsher Country Club
9/4 Lou Barlow, Wye Oak @ Maxwell's
9/4 The Chemical Brothers @ Electric Zoo
9/5 Brian Jonestown Massacre, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Raekwon, Girls, Fucked Up, Dungen, Wooden Shjips, The Black Angels, Vivian Girls @ Kutshers Country Club

Friday, August 27, 2010

SOTD: "Fistful of Mercy" - Fistful of Mercy

This one's from a new "supergroup" called Fistful of Mercy: Ben Harper, Joseph Arthur and Dhani Harrison. Really cool song....

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

SOTD: "The Trap" - Vincent Minor

The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez

This is definitely something I'd like to check out........



Here's an excerpt from the email I received:

"Swedish musician José González is the subject of a new documentary called The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González, which is now starting to be shown at festivals throughout Europe. It is a beautiful, sly and radically intimate documentary about the life and mind of musician José González. The 74-minute film was directed by Mikel Cee Karisson and Fredrik Egerstrand and produced by Erik Hemmendorff for Plattform Produktion (Karisson has made videos for González as well as Fever Ray, among others). Using video diary, surveillance camera, concert footage, tour documentation and animation, directors Karlsson and Egerstrand have given form to something as elusive as the creative process of one of Sweden's finest - and most secretive - musicians.

In the film we follow González through scenes shot during work on his second album, In Our Nature. Through a diary, based on personal voice recordings, we follow his everyday reflections from thoughts on a photon's path from the sun to our eyes to Darwinism to the struggle to write songs. Exploring universal themes such as loneliness, boredom and isolation, The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of José González gives us insight into one person's attempt to manage and understand his own existence. It was shot over a three-year period on location in Sweden, Japan, Singapore, United States, South Africa, England, Chile and Argentina.

Director Karisson says: "There is something absurd, fascinating and beautiful in our attempts to find meaning in our existence. With The Extraordinary ordinary life of José González, we wanted to give form to the personal artistic process. How personal reflection and everyday fragments of life shapes our input and output."

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Carl Broemel (MMJ) Videos

Here's a few videos from Carl Broemel (guitarrist for My Morning Jacket). These tracks will be on his new solo album, "All Birds Say". Enjoy!

Carl Broemel "Questions" from Tugboat Productions on Vimeo.



Carl Broemel "Enough" from Tugboat Productions on Vimeo.



Carl Broemel "Carried Away" from Tugboat Productions on Vimeo.