Have you ever gone to see a band that refused to play their “old stuff”? It can be frustrating, especially if it was the “old stuff” that you came to hear. Fortunately, They Might Be Giants have never been that kind of band. They’ve always been good at mixing the old stuff with the new…
A slow jam of the ‘Chip & Dale’s Rescue Rangers’ theme from Postmodern Jukebox
Our friends at Postmodern Jukebox have done it again. I’m sure that this is the way that Disney really wanted the 90s cartoon theme to sound, originally. I’ve also included the 1930’s jazz style cover of Wham’s “Careless Whisper” because it’s fun and because if you clicked on the link for this, you’re either bored,…
Video: the Talking Heads live in Syracuse 1978 (full concert)
The wonderful folks at Open Culture have tracked down yet another vintage Talking Heads performance. It’s not clear what venue this was captured at but it really doesn’t matter. The fact that videos like this exist at all, from an era 30 years before people carried iPhones, is a minor miracle. Here’s David Byrne &…
Check out the aboriginal “powwow step” of A Tribe Called Red
This post is, primarily, for readers outside of Canada. For the last two years Ottawa, Ontario’s A Tribe Called Red has been gaining steam by doing the “impossible” – getting young people in clubs to dance to aboriginal folk songs, some of which are thousands of years old. They’ve taken traditional native powwow songs, and…
New Pussy Riot video “Putin Will Teach You How to Love” shot in Sochi
If arresting and imprisoning Pussy Riot was meant to intimidate them it, evidently, didn’t work. Members of the band were in Sochi this week where they were attacked, literally whipped and temporarily detained by security forces. From that experience they have put together a new music video “Putin Will Teach You How to Love“. Like…
Remembering Devo’s Bob Casale with Video
According to Rolling Stone, Devo’s Bob Casale has died of sudden heart failure at 61. Already I’ve seen several headlines that mention “Whip It”, which was Devo’s best known song, but hardly their best work. Devo is, without a doubt, one of the most influential bands of the late 20th century. Starting in 1973 they…
Check Out Alejandra Ribera’s New Video “I Want”
I got a nice surprise in my email today. I’d never heard of Alejandra Ribera before but the Montreal singer songwriter has a lovely voice. I hate to use the cliche but ‘smoky’ is the only word that really fits. According to Ken at Killbeat, The video was “woven together with footage from a group…
The Last Sex Pistols Show [video]
It’s not perfect, particularly in the beginning but I’m still glad someone shot this. It is the very last performance by the Sex Pistols at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in January of 1978. It was at the end of that year that Winterland itself met with the wrecking ball and, of course just over a…
New Video from Dating Myself Starring and Directed By Luvia Petersen of Continuum
Dating Myself (Facebook), featuring Laurda (guitar/vocals), Jessi✰ (bass) and Jen6 (drums), originally formed in 1995 during the heyday of west coast grudge. For their latest video ‘Amnesia’ the band has teamed up with Luvia Petersen and Omari Newton from the Showcase sci-fi drama Continuum. In addition to starring in the video, Petersen also co-directed it…
Arcade Fire Responds to Album Leak with a Better Album Leak
Arcade Fire’s 4th Album ‘Reflector’ isn’t officially out until October 28 but, as most highly anticipated albums do, it leaked. Arcade Fire appear to have been ready for that eventuality though (either that or they worked very hard and very quickly to respond). The band released the full album on a YouTube video, complete with…