Heath Ledger, just before his death, shot this music video for “King Rat”, one of the singles included in the last “Modest Mouse” record entitled “ No one’s first and you’re next”.
Modest Mouse, now at their sixth release, is probably one of the most famous and well-recognized indie-rock bands in the US. Another good record, this time with a special signature gifting us with a provocative music video.
The video premiered in August 2009:
I dig once, and I find nothing.
I dig again, and I find something interesting.
I continue digging and I finally come across something worth it. I take possession of the record. I listen to it, feeling satisfied.
There are times instead, when I find something that I consider special. Something that makes me feel happy. I can go to sleep with a big smile on my face. Today, I probably found what I was looking for the last three nights, while I am in the middle of mid-term exams and should probably research something regarding my two hundred papers. But hey! it doesn’t matter! I got what I wanted. Something special.
And if I don't share it, I can't fully enjoy it.
Ramona Falls!
I have listen to the record without even knowing who they were, without reading any review, cause I don't want them to influence my judgment. Just my ears and a couple of cold beers. 1st track brilliant, 2nd also…who are these guys??
After I finished to listen twice to all the record, I have decided that it was the right time to google them. Ramona Falls is the project of Brent Knopf, the mastermind of the indie band “Menomena”, together with the collaboration of more than 35 Portland-area indie musicians. And it's a beautiful piece of work.
I honestly don't want to bore you with my mental masturbation regarding the music sounds and how great this album is. There is enough stuff like this on the web, and tonight I don't fell the need to add anything more.
Just take a break. Stop. Listen to the music, let it flow…it’s a beautiful album. After “Devotion” by Beach House, it's probably the record I am currently enjoying the most. It makes me want to dig again and again.
Hope you're enjoying it out there
More music at: http://www.myspace.com/ramonafalls (listen to Bellyfulla!)
Local Natives, a new indie band from California, are set to release their first full-length record. In the coming week, they’ll be promoting the new songs in New York with five concerts in three days.
“Airplane”, possibly their first single, will definitely be on their list:
More music at: http://www.myspace.com/localnatives
I'm just back from the Dodos concert. If you live in Boston, it's a shame that you weren’t there. If you live somewhere else, hope they’ll visit you soon (http://www.myspace.com/thedodos)
What can I say? The kids “still” rock. Their rhythm is still unceasing, engaging, original and powerful. I see a bright future ahead of them.
First thing, the band is a close-knit. Meric Long, the lead-singer and guitar player of the band, does a great job both as a singer and as a guitarist. He manages to keep the overall sound united and energetic. Perhaps, he lacks a bit of the charisma and the typical characteristics of the classic rock front-leader. But he is young and he will learn the tricks. Meanwhile, he strums the acoustic guitars with passion and energy.
Undoubtedly, The strength of the band, especially live, is on the way they approach their instrumental music. Their main characteristic is their wildly percussive style. Logan Kroeber is the pulsing heart of the band; he plays the drums whit such energy and intensity, to make the real difference in the band. A good song becomes excellent, in the moment in which Kroeber is free to lead the songs. He opens the way to a wind of chaos made of perpetual games of rolling drums, instantaneous breaks, screams and sweat. The group’s riffs and rolls are then supported and given substance by the other percussionist of the band, Keaton Snyder. The more, the better.
Let’s hope they will not forget what makes them more original. If ever, embrace chaos, don’t leave it behind.
I hope you'll enjoy some of the moments of the concert through the below videos. The quality is not excellent, but I did the best I could, standing for more than an hour on top of a broken TV! Did I break it?
"The higher the volume the happier your brain gets..."
I can't agree more.
Adding to Antonio's previous post on AC, my thought goes to any listener out there, who caught in a state of hallucination, is mumbling upon some of the unusual, but excellent, sounds presented.
I started to listen to AC directly from their latest album, after I stumble on their first new single "My Girls" (from Merriweather Post Pavilion - 2009).
Besides being an amazing video, I think that it's also an excellent and perhaps easier track for a first-time approach.
It might prove to be a good path for a more courageous AC experience, hopefully ending in full bloom.
Let me know what you think.
It was more or less a year ago, when I first listened to the Australian band Cut Copy.
Now, I don’t usually listen to a lot of electronic/dance music, but I do find myself digging into it from time to time.
I remember going smoothly through their new album, “In Ghost Colours”, thinking: “Yeah, kind of nice, but it’s just modern-pop grabbing from the ‘80s”.
Scrolling down fast on my i-pod, I ignored Cut Copy and started to enjoy more “sophisticated” listening (perhaps some ‘70s prog.), almost ashamed of having such a record on my illustrious i-pod (!). I apparently thought that this one was going to be my one and only Cut Copy-experience. An experience that could have only been repeated, involuntarily, in some out of fashion club, within the aftermath of five vodka red bull drunk in plastic cups.
I was so damn wrong!
On my way home, I suddenly started to hear their rhythm back in my head.
Their electropop was haunting me. Their easy-listening tunes, their perpetual bass and naive choirs were calling me. While sitting in the train, I started to stamp the ground with my feet at the sound of their synthesizer. I thought: “are you kidding me?"
Some minutes later, they were peremptorily on my i-pod. Since then, their music has open my way to quite a few Saturday nights.
Cut Copy are nothing more than what they seem at first glance: easy listening synth-pop, 15teen extremely catchy tunes with an innate spirit to have fun and party, with striped socks on, until dawn. There is not a lot to reflect upon, no ostentations. Don't think about it, just put their music on.
That’s why I think – in a way - that their work is honestly brilliant. This record, will put anyone in good spirit for a night unconsciously wondering around bars & clubs. It once managed to save my ass in Mexico, cheering me up after being staged by a useless stingray; therefore, I am sure they'll turn your next night out too!
An extract from their 2008 release – “ In Ghosts Colours”
More info & music: http://www.myspace.com/cutcopy
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