Speaking of Malajube, I am excited for the upcoming Daytrotter Session that has been scheduled for April 25 (they’ve got the Silent Years up this week). For now, though, the band’s got a new video for “Etienne d’Aout”, directed by NuFilms. It’s not on You Tube yet, but it’s about a man who wakes up in a burning battlefield with an arrow in his leg. It’s from the era we now recklessly call the Lord of the Rings era. The man finds a dead friend and it’s all hilariously melodramatic.
Download Colleen (via Puddlegum, from Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP)
Photo: shannon mcclean
A lot of us who buy vinyl paid about $21 for 5 Joanna Newsom songs, but that’s because the record was a double disc deal and each song averaged at 13 minutes. InSound is selling the three-track 12″ Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band for $13.99 + shipping. Other Music’s got a slightly better deal at $10.99 (+ shipping if you buy online). We’ll have to head to the physical store and investigage the worthiness of this purchase. Speaking of Other Music, it has just fully launched its digital store.
In the meantime, the Sound Fix Records website has been down for a few days now. That must be investigaged too.
#45 Andrew Bird
This time La Blogotheque has taken Andrew Bird to Montmartre. Quite a few bystanders in these take-away shows (what fun!), and lots of yellow sky and silhouettes. First one is “Weather Systems” and second “Spare-Ohs”.
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I was happy to find this Malajube video of fabulous quality this morning. Though the original recording is two years old it seems to have made its You Tube debut yesterday.
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Also, Malajube thinks the Montreal hype is “bullshit” created by the media (video interview after the jumper):
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I’m really digging the moves. Directed by French animator Michel Ocelot.
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Download “I Love a Computer” (from Mega)
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This song is old, but I only heard it this week. And I stole this photo from YACHT’s flickr. I couldn’t find any from the Rhizome benefit at Hiro Ballroom. Who went, I’d like to know. Also: Friday!
Feist strikes again. 1st NYC show sold out. New tickets presale here.
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There has rarely been so much elegance in a girl in bright red tights breezing her fingers through the guitar, stomping her foot on her kick pad, singing about murder and whimsical, indecisive fancies about marrying John. Talking about a sweet boy who came up to her after a show, asking if the song was about killing her actual baby. Saying yes with a straight face. Humming at a distance from the mic, sounding gorgeous all the time, shaking her guitar, switching between mics, one clean one dirty, and making us understand immediately why these switches are fantastically crucial. Annie Clark, who goes by the name St. Vincent, played an outstanding one-woman show at Mercury Lounge. Don’t miss her at Union Hall. Link to full show review will be posted later.
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Get ‘em from Ticketmaster.
Photo: Leslie K
I have to say I’m not entirely sure how I feel about the promotion that goes around Feist’s solo work, especially The Reminder. They make her out to be too precious. Someone told me this morning he thought she sounded like Cat Power, and I said: no! no! no! He said the stuff he’d heard on her website were all mellow. Which brings me back to my recent point that Broken Social Scene shows off her voice much better than her own work. In truth, Feist is a tap-dancing, rapping, silly-clothes-wearing punk that hangs with maniacs like Gonzalez and Peaches.
Download “Komad” (from Star Destroyer)
Star Destroyer comes out April 24th, and the band will play two dates w/ Frog Eyes (May 18, 19) in New York. Until then, a full stream of the album.
