Beautiful, transcendent show at Mercury Lounge last night. Opening band was The Dig, who were great and are having a record release party at Mercury in early June.
They also played a new song, Popinjay, video is below. I've already posted too much TJF so here's a link to get the song on Amazon.
Continuing with the theme of South African rappers, here's a video for Zef Side (Beat Boy) from Die Antwoord. It's interesting to me that in both this and the Jack Parow video previously they emphasize poverty as much as US rappers emphasize wealth.
It's been a meteoric rise to internet fame for them since Xeni Jardin first posted about them in February. Now they have a record deal with Interscope and Neill Blomkamp has agreed to direct their next video.
Hopefully their success won't detract from their striking recession-bling look. And Yo-landi's haircut.
Also this taxi-jam video is pretty fierce.
No mp3s yet, but you can listen to their whole album at dieantwoord.com.
Ah the magic of YouTube. I don't know what he's saying (Afrikaans?) but I like it.
The Onion News Network covers the hotly-anticipated new 'cross-over' bestseller, Green Man, Blue Cat.
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
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
Here are two YouTube videos that I was amazed by this week:
Ok Go guitarist Andy Ross has a solo act called Secret Dakota Ring. Very cute video! Don't worry, it has a happy ending.
Friend and commenter Scats has made a brilliant video with exclusive footage of Sarah Palin's acceptance speech.
UPDATE 9/29: Matt Taibbi's take on the same speech: It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
Thank you, Captain Obvious, for posting an excellent August Mix, which I am reposting here as a single 83M ZIP.
Here's a track from that mix that I like. Cool name, right? I don't know anything about them, except that they're from Australia and their site is impossible.
The Curse of Company - All the Mines
