Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby proclaim Yo Gabba Gabba to be the Greatest kids’ show in the world. Here’s another video (that amazingly hasn’t been removed by Viacom) with Jimmy Eat World, a green screen and a bunch of — don’t mess! — flying dogs and cats:
Holy shit, how did I miss this? The Roots performed on Nick Jr. for Yo Gabba Gabba! last year. I laughed for five minutes straight when watching this video — they took it down from YouTube but I managed to find one on Lifelounge. The Ting Tings went on too (on a different episode), but [...]
I quite like this album. It’s in stores tomorrow (16 February) in the UK and on Tuesday in the US. Take a listen to the single I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris:
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Mute Math are one of my favourite bands — they’re actually on my list of bands I must see before I die, so that counts for something. Roy-Mitchell Cardenas, bassist of the band (and who happens to be really good at it) actually has a blog with a lot of stuff from behind the scenes. [...]
Postbox will be launching their EP on Saturday the 21st of February at *Scape, accompanied by For This Cycle, Lunar Node and Lazy Susan. Now, I like Postbox and For This Cycle, so I’m going to call Leo and see if he’s free to go catch them:
http://myspace.com/postboxband
http://myspace.com/forthiscycle
West Grand Boulevard will be playing a late night [...]
This was shot five years ago — I ran across it when I was looking at old photos. I don’t remember shooting it and I don’t remember where in school it was shot.
Hm.
I felt for sure last night
At once we said goodbye
No one else will know these lonely dreams
No one else will know that part of me
I’m still driving away
And I’m sorry every day
I won’t always love these selfish things
I won’t always live not stopping
It was my turn to decide
I knew this was our time
No one else [...]
Her voice is so much more powerful when she sings live.
So iTunes was on Party Shuffle today (as usual) and Joseph Arthur’s Glass Pipe was playing when I noticed it sounded similar to MGMT’s Time to Pretend. It’s got a different feel, but still… Here’s Glass Pipe for you, from And The Thieves Are Gone (2004):
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And if you’re not [...]
Stars was good. Not Death Cab for Cutie awesome (sorry Stace!), but it was good. Torq climbed out and over rows of seats and stood in the middle of the crowd and sang to everyone during Calendar Girl — I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone perform with as much emotion as him. The Esplanade [...]
So Michael Hosking of Midas Promotions got name-dropped in today’s Life! Entertainment power list. There have been a few disagreements with the way he (or his company) handles things with regard to security and local acts (ref. [1] 88db Review, para. 4 and [2] The Straits Times, Aug 5 2008) — the Straits Times article [...]
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If you like Kavinsky, you’ll like this Terrestrial Super Receiver remix of a Ladyhawke track. It’s pretty chill.
Does anybody remember Ivy’s Vendetta? They dropped off the music radar for something like a year or so. I liked their recordings (very radio friendly; I’m surprised they haven’t gotten more airplay) but their live performances always left something to be desired in terms of sound… either that, or the sound engineer at the Esplanade [...]
We jammed for the first time in a really long while. Felt really good. If you didn’t read a few posts down; we’re playing on Saturday evening at SP — come down if you can, or let me know if you want tickets. They’re $12 a pop.
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Broken Social Scene [...]
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Mondotek — Alive (PH Electro Mix Radio Edit)
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Well, I guess I’m feeling part of the disillusionment & disappointment that come with age. But in any case, since I have the right to be selfish and materialistic for a day I’ll post my wishlist here:
Digidesign Mbox 2 audio interface
Yamaha HS80M [...]