The Lodge spend a few days in the Canadian wilderness burying a few dead bodies in tall foliage
Vancouver, BC 5-piece, Mohawk Lodge like to rock out woodsman-style. Their second album, Wildfires, was released yesterday and features cameos by Dan Boeckner (Wold Parade) and Paul Bunyon.
Wear ‘Em Out [mp3]
Volcano, I’m Still Excited!! sing unconventional, catchy pop songs and perform high-energy live shows with sweatbands and aerobic work-outs. Check out their vid for “In Green”.
The Hello Experiment: A group of blindfolded sculptors attempt to form Lionel Richie’s sweet head out of clay. Just like the Hello music vid only f’ed up.
Rolling Stone: McDonald’s and Burger King are trying to enter the music industry. Burger King to offer DRM-free tracks of Robbie Williams, Corinne Bailey Rae and Iron Maiden (?). Apparently that freaky King with the giant head also likes to wake up to an eclectic taste in music.
Elvis Perkins is an amazing live performer, and this live vid is no exception.
Rating: 8.5
A few months back this curious CD quietly came out on Psy-Harmonics, an Australian music label that primarily releases electronic and ambient music. The group, Mimesis, is the seed of Melbourne based producer Simon Polinski who is responsible for the core of the music, which is synthesizers and programming. He enlists a few other musicians for further accompaniment and The Church’s Steve Kilbey provides all of the vocals with his unique voice that catapults this album and seals the recording with a shaman’s touch. Art Imitating Life, in short, is a well nigh eighty minute, six song collection of dark and turbulent electronic ecstasy. The release is not electronic in any kind of traditional sense though as the songs also feature a fair amount of organic instruments and live instrumentation that are skillfully scattered all over the place among the tracks.
Billboard.com: More news on the next installments of R. Kells’ Trapped in the Closet – “The new round of Trapped videos finds Kelly portraying an old man named Randolph, complete with a pot belly and a fake white beard that nearly falls off mid-scene…”
R. Kells nude mannequin (sans fake beard or merkin) probably won’t be as popular as Jane Birkin Nude
kanyewest.com: New “Can’t Tell Me Nothin'” (Zach Galifianakis version) vid posted. Zach and Will Oldham get down with some tractors and Amish kids.
NME headline of the week: Coldplay: ‘Our new album has Hispanic theme.’ However, Chris Martin explains there will be no maracas or castanets. I hope it sounds like Cinco de Michael.
Drowned in Sound: The Cribs think all bands (except for two or three) are complete and total rubbish. They aren’t naming names, but that is OK because they all have really great hair.
New albums out this week:
The Bishop Allen – The Broken String “Rain” [mp3]
Tiny Vipers – Hands Across the Void “On This Side” [mp3]
Robbers on High Street – Grand Animals “Crown Victoria” [mp3]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – The Is Is “Rockers to Swallow” (live) [mp3]
If you haven’t yet checked out Flight of the Conchords, then maybe your time has come. Business time live vid is a good place to start.