DOM - "Living in America"

DOM kicks ass. They're like punkish glo-fi turned up to 11. They have an EP out called Sun Bronzed Greek Gods right now, but I can't wait for them to put together a full album.

Beastie Boys vs. Daft Punk - "Intergalactic Rock"

This is the best mashup I've heard in a long time. I always thought that "Robot Rock" was not one of Daft Punk's best songs, but the mashup makes it 10x better. Download link is in the description of the video on YouTube. Also, Girl Talk sucks.

Monster Bobby - "I Heard You Moved Away"

This guy is the guitarist from The Pipettes. He sort of sounds like Los Campesinos!

The Bodines - "Therese" [Old Music]

This is a song on NME's amazing and essential C86 compilation, which shows you what indie music was like 24 years ago. Download it from where you usually download things like this.

ECC - "Bloody Bells"

The Fall - "Bury"

They're all old now.

Karen Elson - "The Ghost Who Walks"

Maybe Pearl Jam Doesn't Suck

Pearl Jam plays this song that I hear on the radio sometimes with the dude from Band of Horses.

Band of Horses is great live by the way. They cover Yo La Tengo.

Sexy ABC's and 123's

The weekend's over and I thought I'd share this gem with you.

Video: Surfer Blood - "Swim"

Woot.

Nerds Remake Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon on NES

First The Flaming Lips, now these guys.
http://rainwarrior.thenoos.net/music/moon8.html

This is incredible. Really. It's sounds a lot better than you think it would. Geek out.

New LCD Soundsystem - "Drunk Girls"

This leak a while ago. Now it's a video.

The Next Big Thing: Wilbur Sargunaraj - "Love Marriage"

Remember Tapes 'n Tapes?

I found this on YouTube. I feel like I'm posting too much YouTube and not enough content that's not YouTube. I'll try to improve guys. I promise.

Music-related Videos from YouTube with less than 50,000 Views that I Think are Cool

My Bloody Valentine Interviews




Jens Lekman - "Maple Leaves" Live


Animal Collective - "Cuckoo" Live


Gang of Four - "Damaged Goods" Live

The Beach Boys are the new Velvet Underground

Whenever something they like gets even mildly popular, everyone either deny ever liking it or will insist that they liked it before everyone else did.

This leads to hipsters' constant appreciation of things no one cares about, like The Beach Boys.

No one under the age of 60 cares about The Beach Boys, so now hipsters are starting to not only listen to The Beach Boys, but also start bands that rip off The Beach Boys, like how Animal Collective has vocal harmonies and Vampire Weekend has embraced California.




If you want to sound like a music expert, say your favorite album of all time is Pet Sounds. Trust me on this one, people will be asking you to recommend music to them for years.

Fleet Foxes dude ripping off the Beach Boys' look.

This is a band that I found out about via Gorilla vs. Bear that blatantly rips off The Beach Boys.

I Just Feel Like Posting a Bad Brains Video

New Joanna Newsom - "81"

Have One on Me is gonna be 3 CDs. Hell yeah!

RJD2 - "Let There Be Horns"

The Rural Alberta Advantage - "In the Summertime" (A History Lesson*)

This is a story. A story of indie rock's recent history. A story that no one else is going to tell you about. They'll insist that they don't want to talk about how they used to listen to The Rapture, but the truth is that they weren't actually listening to The Rapture because they weren't that cool.

Once upon a time, it was 2003. Before that it was 2002 and before that it was 2001. We were all in high school then and blogs and Pitchfork weren't as important as they would become. Emo was an acceptable genre. It was a simpler time.

Indie rock was really seen as a kind of emo-ish thing. Listening to Bright Eyes was still acceptable. Arcade Fire hadn't happened yet. Postal Service was a pretty cool buzzband in the single-oriented time.

There was a record label called Saddle Creek. It was like how Merge or Domino is now. All the cool buzzbands were on Saddle Creek: Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Faint, Azure Ray.

Saddle Creek was located in Omaha, Nebraska. I know this may seem hard to believe, but Omaha was seen almost the same way Brooklyn is now. It's crazy. A stupid little town in the middle of nowhere! What were we thinking?

The Rural Alberta Advantage are a band on Saddle Creek, which apparently still exists. (Hmm, Tokyo Police Club seems to be on Saddle Creek too. The More You Know.*)



I posted "In the Summertime" because it's the only song that they have a video of on YouTube. It's funny how things work out that way.

They got some free mp3s on their website here.

I think "Don't Haunt This Place" is probably their best song. The rest of Hometowns is great too, so don't hesitate to buy the album. The dudes have gotta pay their rent.