July 23, 2008
Things move fast like too fast on the Internet, and OK, we sometimes (always) have a hand in that. This time, though, an artist pushed things along at a pace all her own, and there was no way we could keep up: The day we left for Fork Fest, Karen O unveiled her new solo project Native Korean Rock. The night we got back, NKR played its first shows. While we never stood a chance to actually check it for ourselves, Miss Modern Age was there at Union Pool on Monday night and set the scene like so:
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The Internet got its first listen to "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" when ?uestlove leaked it (as much as you can call sharing a good friend's track with permission a "leak") to YouTube. It was no simple, static-image YouTube stream, though; Ahmir made a show of both his lip syncing ability (i.e. he knew the words) and the breadth of his video filter color palette (i.e. he knew iMovie). Today's is a more official sort of video, though, which Friday Night Lights fans will realize when they say "oh shit there's Smash's girlfriend" (actress Aasha Davis, who played crazy Waverly), Lonely Island fans will realize when they say "holy crap there's Jorma," and everyone else will realize when the heart in the middle of the table starts singing like a bloody, California Raisin Cee-Lo.
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Tags: Cee-Lo | Danger Mouse | Gnarls Barkley | Jorma Taccone
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Gruff just scored his second Mercury Prize shortlisting, for his electro-oriented album with Boom Bip as Neon Neon (the first was for Super Furry Animals' Rings Around The World in 2001). So it's a nice time for this decadent combo-vid for the glitzy pop of "I Told Her On Alderaan" and the powered by Spank Rock, stripper friendly "Trick For Treat." Gruff steers clear of the video shoot, and maybe that's for the best -- it's nothing but lapdances, bras, and other nearly NSFWisms, and keeping a family friendly face is truly the gift that keeps giving.
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We last saw Kim and Kelley last splashing around at McCarren Pool, which is great because they hardly turn up at all in the split-screened clip for Mountain Battles' "Walk It Off." Instead it's the year's second vid focusing on a day in the life of a bike messenger. Unlike Nada Surf's "Whose Authority" it features no old Nickelodeon stars, but it too stars a determined package deliverer, staying with his addressee even when he turns out to be totally parcelphobic. So much for waiting for the message all night.
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Man Man recently did a five-song "Take Away Show" for La Blogothèque. A few are labeled as "warm-ups" -- the fragments should be recognizable to fans of the band ("Warmup 2 - The Deal" = "Doo Right," etc.). Each of these bits is enjoyable in its own way (there's a Metallica cover in Warmup 3), but the most sustained clip is the epic epilogue, "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera," where Honus talks about a broken heart (the dude she married has a mustache) and that the show must go on. And it does: They turn the city into their drum set. As far as the explanation for all of this Parisian vagabond rock, I can't make out all the French, but the words "Tom Waits" are in there somewhere. Whatever the case, it's definitely more spacious than when they recently crammed into the Black Cab.
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Here we are again at the water's edge, though this time the splashes are not only psychedelic, they also involve crotch-level crystal balls (see Sam Jayne to the right), dayglo hula dancers, and dudes in drag and bad tans. There are also a lot of smiles. Way too many annoying smiles. So many. And so it goes with Love As Laughter's Daniel Perez-directed video for Holy single "All Parts Of Me." It's a decent song, so maybe watch it with your eyes closed over here. These are not fall colors. If you want to take another Holy dip, "Crosseyed Beautiufl Youngunz" is streaming at MySpace.
Holy is out now via Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace.
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The new of Montreal record release is on the horizon (10/7), Grizzly Bear is finally playing Letterman, and those sound like great reasons for a party. If you're around the East Village tonight, come over to Hi Fi from 10PM-12:30AM and join us and the Polyvinyl folks in an exclusive listening experience: for the first and only time pre-release, of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping LP will be played publicly in its entirety. (Officially, that is -- DJing a party in a park with a leaked copy doesn't count.) After we've been sufficiently oM'd, all eyes will be on the Hi Fi screens to watch Grizzly Bear debut their new song "Two Weeks" at the Ed Sullivan Theatre (tonight featuring Doveman on piano).
Note: No members of of Monty or Grizzly Bear will be there (Kevin & Co. are in Athens, and the Grizz are going back upstate to record). But the drinks will be cheap ($3 on Brooklyn Beers 'til midnight) and we'll tip 'em back and be nerds together in their honor. Flyer with full details below.
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Tags: David Letterman | Grizzly Bear | of Montreal
The XYZ Affair found their way onto our radar with a slime-filled Nickelodeon-packed "All My Friends" video. The Brooklyn band's new Trials EP includes standout "Evening Life," a song that caught our attention before its video clip was even completed. This week's Drop featured the T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Minor Threat-referencing anthem. You can take a listen to it here. We asked frontman Alex Feder about the song's depiction of the poetry of youth culture. He went in depth, so we weren't able to print all of his "Evening Life" thoughts in the Drop, but check it out in full now:
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