ARTIST: Radiohead
TRACK: "House of Cards"
ALBUM: In Rainbows
LABEL: ATO / Maple Music / XL Recordings
NOTES: This video is your typical Radiohead craziness... made with 3D plotting technology. If you're a total video-tech nerd, "Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR were used to capture the 3D images" for this video.
BONUS:If you're bummed about YouTube's quality, you can watch a slightly better quality version of the video HERE.
ARTIST: Bloc Party
TRACK: "Mercury"
ALBUM: Mercury Single
DIRECTOR: Ace Norton
LABEL: Atlantic Records
"The Hard Sell" is DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist making music history by performing their set using eight turntables, two guitar loop pedals, and ONLY original 45rmp 7" vinyl singles. It's complex, rare, and legit, and the video below will be of further explanation.
Expect mash-ups, rap mixes with fiddle music, doo-wop mixed with new wave, and everything in between. There are only a handful of lives dates left for "The Hard Sell" tour, so clear up your iCals and be there...
"The Hard Sell" Tour Dates:
16-Jul-2008 - Washington, DC 9:30 Club
17-Jul-2008 - Brooklyn, NY McCarren Park Pool
18-Jul-2008 - Atlantic City, NJ HOB
19-Jul-2008 - Mariaville, NY Indian Lookout Country Club
25-Jul-2008 - Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
26-Jul-2008 - Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
27-Jul-2008 - Pemberton, BC Pemberton Festival Site
ARTIST: FREE BLOOD
TRACK: "THE ROYAL FAMILY"
LABEL: ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME/RONG MUSIC
NOTES: Directed by Elizabeth Seklir & Sonja Kroop. Free Blood are from Brooklyn. Free Blood are amazing! This video is amazing! We are pooping are badical pants!
ARTIST: WALLPAPER
TRACK: "T REX"
LABEL: Eenie Meenie Records
NOTES: Directed by Andre Hyland / bLoNd cHiLi. "T REX" is the first single from Oakland's WALLPAPER released April 29th on Eenie Meenie Records. Catch WALLPAPER in Las Vegas August 10th at The Beatles Revolution Lounge in the Mirage Hotel & Casino with Badical Beats artist AFGHAN RAIDERS.
ARTIST: Hercules and Love Affair
TRACK: "You Belong"
ALBUM: Hercules and Love Affair
LABEL: EMI / DFA
FUN FACTOIDS: 1) The lead singer Nomi is rumored to be transgender. 2) The next single entitled "You Belong", from the band's critically acclaimed self-titled debut, will be released on July 7th, 2008. 3) The band is from Brooklyn, NYC, which is the coolest place on earth. FACT.
Not too long ago, Badical Beats was all over the Sunny Day Sets Fire Brainless EP and Stranger Remix EP, which included remixes of the single "Stranger" by CSS, XXXChange of Spank Rock, The Cool Kids, and Mad Decent/Diplo. And now, just a couple months later, Sunny Day Sets Fire is back with their debut full lenght LP from IAMSOUND called Summer Palace (out now on iTunes; In stores July 8th). If you're down with the music in the vein of The Beach Boys, The Flaming Lips, Architecture in Helsinki, and Of Montreal, then you'll be down with SDSF.
Also, in conjunction with the new LP, the band has worked with 10 different directors to release a new video for each track on the album. All 10 videos will be released one by one on a weekly basis, and can be seen through the VIDEO widget below. Also, check out the FREE MP3 download of their single "Stranger" just below.
VIDEO: From Sunny Day Sets Fire's Summer Palace LP:
ARTIST: Muscles
TRACK: "The Lake"
LABEL: Modular Records
NTOES: Directed by Jaron Albertin. "The Lake" is Muscles' new single, which will be released digitally / physically in July. The single will also have remixes by Kid Kenobi, White Williams, and Jokers of the Scene.
ARTIST: Holy Fuck
TRACK: "Super Inuit"
ALBUM: Holy Fuck LP
LABEL: Young Turks / XL Recordings
ARTIST: Crystal Castles
ALBUM: Crystal Castles
TRACK: "Courtship Dating"
LABEL: Lies Records / Last Gang Records
NOTES: This is hands down the BEST CC song to date.
ARTIST: MGMT
TRACK: "Electric Feel"
ALBUM: Oracular Spectacular
LABEL: Columbia Records
ARTIST: Hercules and Love Affair
TRACKS: "Blind", "Classique #2", and "Hercules' Theme"
VENUE: Studio B - Brooklyn, NY - 5/17/2008
LABEL: EMI / DFA
NOTE: Hercules and Love Affair playing an amazing set for the hometown kids in Brooklyn. Big ups to RCRD LBL for the find on this one!
Hercules and Love Affair - "Blind"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Classique #2"
Hercules and Love Affair - "Hercules' Theme"
If you haven't spent anytime on Pitchfork.tv yet, then I highly suggest you go there and zone out on some of the coolest high quality interviews, music videos, live performances, and other random greatness the site has to offer. Take this video for example... Father GZA (of Wu-Tang Clan) and son Kareem (Kareem Justice, the up-and-coming hip hop impresario) take the Pitchfork crew through a day in the life of one of the greatest MCs to live. Watch the duo travel the streets of New York City, make a pit stop in the chop-shop, chow at an underground pizza joint, and kick backstage at the show. The shogun assassin also talks about adventures in fatherhood and Kareem's early hip-hop days.
ARTIST: Yelle
LABEL: Source Etc. / EMI
NOTES: Interview with the French electro-pop artist Yelle on Public Access Media
ARTIST: JUSTICE
TRACK: "Stress"
ALBUM: †
LABEL: Ed Banger Records
DIRECTOR: Romain Gavras
Those crazy talented Bloody Beetroots have pushed the talent knob to the limit once again with a new remix of a song by the The Kills dubbed "Cheap and Cheerful". The Kills are out on a big US Tour right now, promoting the March 2008 release of their album, Midnight Boom. In addition to the mp3 download of the remix below, we thought we would throw in the music video for the original track. So without futher ado, please enjoy two and a half minutes of cheap and cheerful pleasure.
ARTIST: Radiohead
TRACK: "House of Cards" (Live on Conan O' Brien)
ALBUM: In Rainbows
NOTES: Recorded from a studio in London for the Conan O' Brien show on April 23, 2008, in order to help promote environmental friendliness.
Thanks to the tip from BIGSTEREO, we got our hands on the video for the new VAN SHE track "Strangers" from V, their debut full length album from Modular Records. The full length is a follow up to their brilliant EP, and is set to release in August of 2008. If you're not familiar with the greatness of VAN SHE, then don't be fooled by the fact that they're opening for The Bravery on their next tour. These guys are super talented as a band and equally talented as remix artists. Get your hands on a FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD of their new tech remix of "Cat And The Eye" and see for yourself.
ARTIST: Mates of State
TRACK: "Get Better"
ALBUM: Re-Arrange Us
LABEL: Barsuk Records
DIRECTOR: Steve Choo
