What a trio, right? All three are playing at Altar Bar next Thursday (July 1st) – starting at 6:30. Check out some of my favorite tracks from all of them.
Click to watch the video for my favorite Neon Trees song "In the Next Room"
Click to check out Paper Tongues "Ride to California" video
and last is Civil Twilight's "Letters to the Sky"
Last month I posted about Setting Sun and their new album Fantasurreal. I also posted a link in March to their video for “Driving.”
WELL, they’ve released a new video for “Make You Feel” and have announced tour dates including one here!!! Hooray!!!
Click to watch the new video for "Make You Feel"
Setting Sun is touring with Quitzow, another band who share four band members between them and Setting Sun. Kinda cool, huh?
Click to watch Quitzow's video for "Cherry Blossom"
Setting Sun + Quitzow Summer Tour Dates:
7/15 Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy (All Ages)
7/16 Washington, DC @ TBA
7/17 Greenville, NC @ Tipsy Teapot (All Ages)
7/18 Chapel Hill, NC @ TBA
7/21 Columbus, GA @ Soho (All Ages)
7/22 Atlanta, GA @ Wonderoot (All Ages)
7/24 Memphis, TN @ Murphy’s
7/25 Little Rock, AK @ Rev Room
7/27 Norman, OK @ The Deli
7/28 Amarillo, TX @ The 806 (All Ages)
7/29 El Paso, TX @ Zenmeister
7/30 Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture (All Ages)
7/31 Phoenix, AZ @ The Dressing Room
8/2 Los Angeles, CA @ Viper Room
8/3 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
8/4 Eugene, OR @ Muse Lounge
8/5 Portland, OR @ The Woods
8/6 Seattle, WA @ The Comet
8/7 Monroe, WA @ Eddies Trackside
8/9 Boise, ID @ The Bouquet
8/10 Salt Lake City, UT @ TBA
8/11 Denver, CO @ TBA
8/12 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
8/13 Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
8/14 Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Music Joint
8/15 Indianapolis, IN @ Melody Inn
8/16 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
8/17 New York, NY @ TBA
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Macy Gray has just released a new soccer-themed video for “Beauty in the World” to celebrate the World Cup. The video, directed by Giuliano Bekor, features models hitting the turf in the Los Angeles Coliseum, where they exhibit some pretty fancy footwork, all in high heels and tight skirts. At first, it’s really cheesy…but it gets somewhat better. Besides, I’m sure it’ll be a hit with all the male football fans.
Click to watch the video
Macy Gray’s new album The Sell Out will be out next week, and she’ll be on making some TV appearances:
June 22 – “Good Morning America”
June 23 – “The View”
June 23 – “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
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Click to watch the video for "The Mama Papa"
I can’t get enough of Plants and Animals “The Mama Papa”
Disclaimer: Be prepared to have this stuck in your head!
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Despite his fear of flying, R. Kelly boarded a plane to South Africa to perform at the 2010 FIFA World Cup kick-off ceremonies. The Pied Piper has penned “Sign of a Victory,” an inspirational song that’s been declared the official anthem for the World Cup, featuring Africa’s Soweto Spiritual Singers.
Click to watch the video coverage of R. Kelly’s performance
Click above to watch Shakira’s performance of “Waka Waka” at the Kick-off concert!
Click above to watch K’Naan’s performance of “Waving Flag”
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First of all, by going to their site you’re immediately hit with a video and if you type in your email address you can get a free mp3 of “It Will All End In Tears” sent to your inbox.
Awwwwweeeeesssssssooooooooommmmmeeeeeee.
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I touched on the subject of Free Energy and their video a couple times. I had also posted a blast informing you guys that the audition was at Urban Outfitters in Philly. Well, Pitchfork conducted an interview with the director of the video for “Bang Pop,” Josh Nussbaum.
Here’s a short excerpt, but click here for the entire article (and to watch the video).
Pitchfork: This is obviously a super fun video. Was it fun to make? Or was it hard to wrangle all those people to look like they were having fun?
JN: I kept promising myself that I was going to have fun making the video. This was the mantra that I would repeat every morning. By nighttime, I needed to remind myself that I should be having fun with it. It was a huge challenge. The casting was left until two or three days before the shoot. At a certain point, I just had to put the casting into God’s hands. We shot on the week of the ash cloud, so I lost a couple key members of my crew, and I ended up taking a lot of that responsibility on myself. The creative process of making the video was incredibly fun, but my personal expectations that are so high that I’m constantly having to remind myself to have a good time.
Pitchfork: Why are there so many bubbles in the video?
JN: The bubbles were a momentary inspiration in my first meeting with the production designer. I was just trying to intimidate him by creating an impossible list of requests. I probably said, “Oh, and of course there’s gotta be bubbles the whole time”. So I was very pleased when I showed up and there were bubbles the whole time.
Pitchfork: In the hallway scene, Evan Wells, the band’s bass player, is doing all these wheelchair tricks. How many times did he fall down?
JN: Evan is just really good. In fact, he didn’t fall once. Half of my directions in that scene were to him because he was at the front of the scene. I really wanted him to fall; I thought that would be great for the video. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. He did give it his all, he just didn’t fall. The wheelchair was supposed to have fireworks shooting off it, but there were a lot of small to large pyrotechnics– as well as all sorts of nudity and drug references– that were at some point slated for the script, but fell by the wayside.
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Free Energy debuted their new video for “Bang Pop” just the other day on Myspace.
Photo Credit: Ann-Sophie Fjelloe-Jensen
Click on the picture to go check it out!
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We haven’t heard from them in 3 years, but The Chemical Brothers are back with an awesome new song, “Swoon.”
Their new album, Further, comes out June 8th!
TRACKLISTING
1. snow
2. escape velocity
3. another world
4. dissolve
5. horse power
6. swoon
7. k+d+b
8. wonders of the deep
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