I’m looking forward to an official release of this. It sounds as if the mp3 below was ripped from the video, so it has the sound effects. They feel right in the video, but less so in the audio track.
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Via The Awl.
UPDATE 7/29: See? Marina Diamandis likes her too. We think alike.
Could not handle @LanaDelRey’s beauty tonight. She is 1 of the true beauty queens. Listen to her music. Love u, gf.
Austra is a band from Toronto that owes much to Siouxsie and the Banshees. I think you will like it.
Austra – Lose It
Picture taken by Leah Lin at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The show was amazing.
Sleigh Bells – A/B Machines
Pulp – Common People
The Grates played an an amazing show at Brooklyn Bowl last night. I took some photos with this Sony CyberShot Leah is lending me, but I haven’t quite figured it out yet. Flash or no flash? There was this one part where Patience rode someone’s shoulders out into the crowd and it was a great moment but dark. The only shots I got were when I overlapped with someone else’s flash. Anyway you can see at Flickr.
The Grates: Inside Outside
Mind-blowing Rube Goldberg machine video from Ok Go.
Update aaaand then there’s also this equally-mind-blowing version:
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
Ok Go – This Too Shall Pass
I think this is a pretty good review of Marina & the Diamonds’ debut album: it notes the Dresden Dolls influence (particularly evident in this song) and makes the following observation:
But it’s her taste for the bleeding obvious which, ultimately, holds her back from greatness. … It’s this kind of route-one thinking which reins in The Family Jewels … the song about being an outsider is called “The Outsider”. The song about being rootless is called “Rootless.” The song about feeling numb is called… OK, you’re ahead of me.
Indeed! (And that’s another similarity with Amanda Palmer.) But there’s something wonderfully, obscenely uncensored about this obviousness. Like the video for her single Hollywood. Because yep! There can be no doubt from the look on her face that she, Marina Diamandis, is indeed obsessed with the mess that is America.
I hope she’s looking forward to her upcoming dates in NYC. We are very much looking forward to seeing her.
Marina & the Diamonds – Are You Satisfied?
I had just started to get into Jay Reatard’s music when I heard he’d passed away. He was the best thing I discovered in my recent project to listen to all the albums on Pitchfork’s Best 200 Albums of the 2000s.
Jay Reatard – My Shadow
Yeah so I’m pretty excited for the May Day Joy Formidable show at the Mercury lounge. Tickets are still available as of now (so get some).
Also if you don’t have the album yet, you can buy it here.
The Joy Formidable – The Last Drop
I’ve been listening to The Joy Formidable since mid-December, and even went to this excellent show at Union Hall in mid-Jan, but then I got so distracted with my trip to Colombia that I didn’t post anything about them.
Until now that is! They’re really great and you need to listen to them all the time starting right now! You can buy their record here.
Also they’re playing in NYC again on Saturday 5/1. They sound really great live. Get tickets and meet me there!
The Joy Formidable – Whirring
