Video: Arctic Monkeys – “My Propeller”
Alex Turner is feeling aeronautically randy in the latest Arctic Monkeys single. “Coax me out, my love / And have a spin of my propeller.” Psst, I don’t think he’s talking about an actual propeller—I think he’s talking about his dingaling.
Video: Karen Elson – “Stolen Roses” (Live Acoustic)
Mrs. Jack White sits down in front of her fireplace for a live, acoustic rendition of the b-side to her first single, out now on Third Man.
Freddy Fortune is back with a new band and a new 7-inch slab of vinyl, recorded in glorious mono. The United Space League‘s “You Told Me A Lie” b/w “Water Under The Bridge” is available now from Bellyache Records. You can stream some songs on MySpace, but Freddy warns us, “Don’t let the crappy sound of a watered down MP3 on myspace fool you—the sonics on this vinyl 45 are hot.”
The United Space League: MySpace, Facebook.
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Video: She & Him – “In The Sun”
I don’t think it would be possible for Zooey Deschanel to be more adorable than she is in this video for the first single from Volume 2, due March 23 on Merge. I mean, come on. You better treat her nice, Gibbard—that’s all I’m sayin’…
Video: Clem Snide – “Walmart Parking Lot”
Clem Snide is back, but Pete Fitzpatrick is out of the band. The Meat of Life is out now on 429 Records. I haven’t had time to fully digest it yet, but on first listen it sounds good. Eef Barzelay is a consistently solid songwriter.
Clem Snide: iTunes, Amazon, Insound, wiki
Via Magnet.
Facing the same issues as OK Go regarding embedding videos, the official YouTube version of this song is unavailable for embedding but we got this version from a “friend” in the know.
Video: Gorillaz – “Stylo” (ft. Mos Def & Bobby Womack)
From the album Plastic Beach, streaming now on NPR and available in the USA on March 9.
Video: Saturday Night Live – “We Are the World 3”
Quincy Jones accepts responsibility and admits that the road to hell is paved with good intentions…
Recently the music world came together to release “We Are the World 2,” a song to raise awareness of the Haiti earthquake disaster. Sadly, the song itself was a disaster. While the original “We are the World” brought together stars like Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Tina Turner, this new version was a sloppy mess of half-famous brandos like Bizzy Bone and Nipsey Hussle. It was bad. But we will heal, as we always do, through song. That’s why I’ve assembled another group of musicians for “We Are the World 3: Raising Awareness of the ‘We Are the World 2’ Disaster.”
Watch the original(s) below…
Video: Karen Elson – “The Ghost Who Walks” (Live Acoustic)
According to Entertainment Weekly, Jack White has produced an album by his wife, Karen Elson. The video above is the title track, and it’s due this summer. Man, Third Man Studios in Nashville is seeing a lot of action!
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
The bio sheet that came with the advance copy of Shearwater‘s latest opus The Golden Archipelago recommends that the reviewer listen to the new album “more than once.” Since the band’s last two efforts—2006’s Palo Santos and 2008’s Rook—were slow burners too, I fully understand that Shearwater’s meticulous blend of multi-instrumental arrangements and Jonathan Meiburg’s sweeping vocals may take time to fully unravel. But for me, the repeated listens here will come from pure enjoyment, and to decide which one of these acknowledged trilogy pieces should be considered as the band’s greatest moment.
The surprise here isn’t that The Golden Archipelago continues the greatness of Shearwater’s last two efforts, but that Meiburg has managed to deliver such wonderfully consistent splendor in a relatively short amount of time. At each turn of these past five years, he seems to have spearheaded albums of such impressive scope that one couldn’t help but wonder, “How will he be able to top this?”
