We're Up All Night To Get Lucky

Low :: Just Make It Stop
Pure beauty from Low:



Daft Punk ::
The May 21st album release could not come soon enough...


David Guetta :: Play Hard
There is so much coolness going on here that by the time fireworks start shooting out of those boots, well, never has something so strange been so expected!



Keaton Henson :: Lying To You
Great tune, longest legs ever, interesting jacket adornment...
(also: Keaton's contender for saddest-video-ever)


and it's...
Gonna Be Alright ::

Words Are Useless Here

New favorite band... CHVRCHES! Hard to spell, easy to love. The Glasgow electrosynth band has about five songs to their name so... NEXT. BIG. THING!

How's it supposed to feel?

Good Song...

they're doing it wrong:

this cunted circus never ends

the best song from the past 10 years...

Arab Strap :: The Shy Retirer

I lost my social skills a while ago
but now I feel them coming back.
My eyes were rolling when we met
and now they are preparing for attack.
I want to fall in love tonight
and form the perfect unbreakable bond.

You can be my teenage Jenny Agutter,
swimming naked in a pond.
You know I’m always moaning
but you jump-start my serotonin.
But how do you know you’ve ever really loved?





The song gets the censored treatment here but... Aiden plays with toys, fillets a fish, shows off judo skills, throws darts dangerously ::

Or Is He More In To Young Girls With Dyed Black Hair?

Retro-Friday:

Woman lip synch's to The Knife's Pass This On in front of an odd collection of on-lookers in what looks like a Soviet Russia clubhouse. An intrigued guy joins in. What's with Soviet Russia these days? All those oddball youtube videos and car crashes.

"Woman" should have quotes around it.

The Knife
Deep Cuts
2003











Now I get it... the main dancing guy is Olof, one half of The Knife (though he looks about 16 here). The woman giving the "I'm in love with your brother" singing she-male the stink eye is his sister Karin, the other half of the Swedish brother-sister act.

In Which James Gets Arrested At The End

Getting my non-electronic on... it's Yo La Tengo's excellent and under-stated new song "I'll Be Around". The video features a tortilla soup recipe. It is not everyday a video features a tortilla soup recipe. Then the big guy from the band gets picked up by the cops. Spoiler alert. Oh, and Georgia needs a hair brush.

Alright, soft, subtle music time's over - back to electronicness... The Knife have finally come up with new material not from an opera and there's lots to look forward to with their new album due in April. Song's good but 10 minutes in length - come on... who has 10 minutes anymore? The video is long, strange and even a little too Swedish for me so no embed here.

I think I may have found the long sought after new identity for this site - commenting on new music I have no intention of sharing. Enjoy!






All I need when I die is someone to bluntly say "I can see my friend no more, he's gone for good". You Say Party's drummer died a few years back from a brain hemorrhage and now they've sung just that. I don't care if sadly uplifting's not a real thing - this is sadly uplifting:

Your Silent Face

Retro Soothing Friday (sound formed in a vacuum):

The sign that leads the way 
The path we can not take 
You've caught me at a bad time 
So why don't you piss off

New Order
Power, Corruption and Lies
1983

Old Man, What Now?

Morrissey in 2013.
ugh...

That Place That We Both Loved A Lot

Californian Jason Lytle feeling sad in his isolated Montana home as he gingerly hammers out new single "Somewhere There's a Someone", a natural update to 2009's appropriately named "Good Chord Song for L.P. 2". Now we all feel sad. But it's a good kind of sad. Pure elegance:

That's Okay, I Was Bored Anyway

New Music Roundup!

James meets Clap Your Hands Say Yeah with Light Heat's dreamy "And The Birds"...

Foxygen channel Belle and Sebastian...

Chairlift do a Japanese version of "I Belong In Your Arms", unable to translate song title...

Free Energy :: Girls Want Rock... everything I despise all wrapped up in one neat bow-adorned video package. And yet I can't turn away.

The end is nigh...


Dan Deacon goes on tour in a school bus. Plays whacked out tune. Takes many photos...

Have zero interest in Dinosaur Jr. but this video of a husband, a wife and the subwoofers that may or may not come between them is awesome...

This is Your Baptism

Almost time to start looking forward, but first... the most listened to and one of the best songs of the past three years...



And... the even more effective non-vocal version set to scenes of a freakish family... reloaded from 2010 here.

Girl You Know You've Got To Watch Your Health

Major congrats to Claire Boucher - she had a mountain of my pent-up snobbish opinion to wade through to get in the top 5. And that's not the 24 year old female part... she's from Vancouver!

Grimes turns her back on sporting events, seems to enjoy locker rooms...


Grimes 'Oblivion' from Somesuch & Co. on Vimeo.

Hot Chip :: How Do You Do?

Despite the green screen overuse, ill-advised wardrobe, stock Calgary Stampede footage (hate Calgary) and the fact members of Hot Chip are butt ugly... this video kinda works (perhaps the skateboarder saves it).

And anyway, this is the No. freakin 1 song on the only charts that matter!!

But Who Am I To Judge A Man's Heart By His Yacht Wear?

I dunno, this song seems a bit five years ago but still its got a darn infectious chorus and I like those CAKE-like talk-singy verses.

Other than that, and that it's No. 22 (!!), and that the video is stupid, I don't know who WHY? are or what this guy's yammering on about (dude gets nasty graphic near the end)...

Diplo :: Set It Off

I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find this video equally mesmerizing if those were aged rodeo clowns gyrating on that infinite space pole. 
I would find...

Some snare drum n' electronica goodness from Diplo (Major Lazer). Song No. 10 from last year...

Drinking the Kool Aid

Jason Lytle's "Your Final Setting Sun": No. 6 in the top 50 (No. 1 in your hearts baby)...

"That light you see's the setting sun
I know you seen a few friend
but tonight is gonna be your final one"



Wardrobe courtesy The Polyphonic Spree!

The One AM Radio

No. 8 on the top 50!



Starring Christina Hendricks' husband.

When We'd Breathe In Common Air

1992: Back when shoegazing wasn't such a dirty word.

Lush: number one among the ethereal dream pop bands (yeah, there was more than one!). been dead for 16 years now.

"Nothing Natural": One of the best from the best of 90's compilation currently swirling around in my head.

Miki and Emma - big-ass lipstick. connected by the ear apparently...

It Would Help To Seek Comfort In Destiny

No. 7 on the Top 50!


Too slow perhaps. Here's the pop perfection version:

Impregnable Question by Dirty Projectors