Here’s what’s up on this Thursday evening: ‣ Brooklyn’s Bear In Heaven, their new album “I Love You, It’s Cool” out this week, bring their icy electro-pop to the Echo, with Blouse and Doldrums opening. Above is Bear in Heaven’s video for “Reflection of You.” ‣ Strong local lineup at the Airliner, where the Dead […]
New York City’s Morningwood had its 3 minutes, 55 seconds of fame in 2005-06 with “Nth Degree,” an oh-so-silly but very, very catchy single that should have its author, bassist Pedro Yanowitz, cashing checks well into the next decade. Some minor hoorahs followed, but nothing that spelled huge success for the band or its wispy-voiced […]
Christopher J. Ewing’s video for the Judson McKinney song “Meet Me in the Morning” reminds me of a bad dream I once had – only instead of colored plastic guns, bearded would-be musicians were pointed fake plastic guitars at me. The song, off Judson’s late-2011 release “Drink the Wine,” seems innocent enough, but between firing […]
White Arrows’ new Marshall Vernet-directed music video has a kaleidoscopic filter, and it’s a great illustration of what you hear in the new batch of songs on their “Fireworks of the Sea” EP (which just dropped this week on Votiv music). The clip also presents a mood that isn’t too far off from what fans […]
Things for 4/4: ‣ Montreal folkies the Barr Brothers – that’s a video of their performance at an Austin bicycle shop during SXSW, above, which included Andrew Barr playing percussion on a bike – swing back through town behind their self-titled debut album. They play the Hotel Cafe on a night that also fetures Ry […]
The video for “Blood For Poppies” – the first single of Garbage’s comeback album “Not Your Kind of People” (due May 15) – was shot in Los Angeles by filmmaker and fashion photographer Matt Irwin. They said they were going for surrealism with this one. At least they picked the right city. ||| Live: Garbage plays […]
It’s easier to make sense of what Delta Spirit’s third album is all about – tried-and-true themes of love and longing – than it is to figure how director Abteen Bagheri’s video exactly correlates to the single “California.” The protagonist’s secret-to-her-parents life probably rings familiar to the disenfranchised, but how that ties in to a […]
Norwegian songstress Ane Brun is known for her sophisticated takes on alternative folk, which can range from ethereal ballads to rambunctious stomps. It’s taken a while for Brun to release a follow-up to 2008’s “Sketches,” but the first two singles from “It All Starts With One” already tell us that time was not wasted. The […]
At first you wonder what an angry, frustrated old man is doing in a video for Vanaprasta‘s feel-good pop-rock tune “Self-Indulgent Feeling,” but when 1:11 mark hits (nice timing considering this band’s obsession with numbers) the dour protagonist takes a jolly turn – certainly not the last mood change in the story. Directors Scott Beck […]
Thursday’s things: ‣ The Warped Tour Kickoff Party goes off a Club Nokia, with performances from Dead Sara, Falling in Reverse, Matt Toka and two surprise guests (Warped Tour veterans). ‣ NYC-based singer-songwriter Jay Brannan brings the sharp songs on his sophomoe album “Rob Me Blind” (out this week) to the Hotel Cafe. That’s his […]
