This song is good! The album, apparently, not so good. Pitchfork wraps up their review by saying: “still, if they get so excited about the mundane details of travel (‘paaaaaaaaayed the bus faaaaaaaare!’), then maybe touring outside of New York will give them more material as worthy as ‘Hey Now Now’.”
The Cloud Room – Hey Now Now
French Kicks – So Far We Are
French Kicks – Cloche
Regina Spektor – On The Radio (via The Late Greats)
There are a lot of things I like about this song, but if you look at the end of the lyrics you can see this part with where she says ‘on the radio (uh-oh!)’ and that’s definitely my favorite part.
Geez Louise! Good news from the Favourite Sons: they’ve signed to Vice Records and have a record due on September 12!
Also, You Ain’t No Picasso has some live recordings of a recent KEXP-sponsored event in Soho.
I love this song (by plusorminus)!
That’s a lyric in this cool remix of the Strokes’ Ask Me Anything done by a friend of a friend.
The Sad Song from Fredo Viola on Vimeo.
This is a lovely, classic video that perfectly fits the song composition. My understanding is that he made it himself using a crappy cell phone camera. What he achieves here is remarkable.
Fredo Viola – The Sad Song
Metric is one of my favorites. Like top five. Check this video for ‘The List’ from their last album. Also check their site.
UPDATE 7/1: I was just swinging through, updating links on a Saturday night (like you do), and noticed that they’ve posted a/the video for Poster of a Girl! It’s taking forever to download so you will have to be your own critic.
Teaching the Indie Kids posts a pretty cool Calla track today (yesterday, really): Swagger. I have to say, I’m not such a Calla fan as yet. I saw them open for the French Kicks and they were pretty blah. But it was a late show.
Update: the picture above, which used to be Stryper because I thought that was funny, is back to being Calla.
Watch the new video by Palomar for their upcoming album. It provides an important illustrated history of the band. Also be sure to listen to
Knockout from their last album. Sadly, it cuts off. But then there you are. I’m not saying anything.
