From the guys at People Food, who brought you PaxilBack, here’s This is Why I’m Hot (Literal Version), which is fitting for this absurd run of heat we’re going through in Phoenix.
Category Archives: video
‘How do I turn your music on here?’
Oh, man. This is awesome. (Courtesy of DJ Z-Trip’s Web site.)
Be sure to check out the latest download from Z-Trip, live at the Get Back from Las Vegas.
Bo, you don’t know Diddley
Good to see Bo Diddley on the mend after a stroke on Sunday.
Who remembers this commercial?
El-P: Flyentology video
In my attempts to cover all things El-P, here’s the video for Flyentology, an animated representation of the sci-fi paranoia embedded on I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (buy that album already).
“Let’s tip Al mad money”
As mentioned in the previous post – the quasi-review of John Vanderslice’s performance at Modified – JV was jonesing for cheese pizza. Through the miracle of YouTube, the Exact Moment of Pizza Delivery can be viewed by all.
I must admit, I felt kind of sorry for the delivery guy, Al, an older gentelman who surely didn’t expect to walk into a room of younger folks – then onto the stage – in a scene that must have felt a tad patronizing. But the guy did walk out with a grip of cash.
(Thanks to the anonymous commenter from previous post for the link.)
Also YouTubed was the outdoor singing by JV and St. Vincent of Nikki Oh Nikki to conclude the show:
Showered and blue-blazered
Paid Dues Festival: Aug. 10
Holy hip-hop lineup … the Paid Dues Festival is hitting Mesa Amphitheatre on Aug. 10. It starts at 1:30 p.m., which poses one small problem: It’ll probably be about 115 degrees. But it’s hard to deny the lineup:
• Felt
• Atmosphere
• Sage Francis
• Living Legends
• Brother Ali
• Mr. Lif
• Zion I and Grouch
• Cage
Tickets ($35) on sale Friday via Ticketmaster.
In honor, here’s a video of Felt’s Early Morning Tony featuring art by former Phoenix homeboy Jim Mahfood.
Sage Francis: making of Got Up This Morning
Nevermind what I said. We saw both Sunset Rubdown and Tapes ‘n Tapes. It was fantastic. More on that later. In the meantime, I’m too drained for an in-depth post. So here’s a making-of “webisode” for Sage Francis’ Got Up This Morning video.
Remember: Sage hits the Clubhouse in Tempe on June 12. Sah-weet.
Related:
Sage Francis: Human the Death Dance.
The National: Start a War teaser
I’ve been fortunate enough to spend a good couple weeks already with the National’s Boxer, due out May 22 on Beggars. It’s too early to say if it’s better/worse/same as Alligator (a favorite two years ago). In fact, it’s probably shallow/unfair to even try to compare the two. For now, the major thing that sticks out about Boxer, to me, is its tempered approach, very few of the vocal swells we heard on Alligator, like on Abel or Mr. November (awesome songs both).
In any event, director Vincent Moon has filmed a documentary titled A Skin, A Night about the band, and it has its own little place on the Interweb. So here’s some teaser action for Start a War, a song we saw the National perform at last year’s Pitchfork Festival.
Aqueduct: Living a Lie video
Yep. Still am enjoying Aqueduct’s Or Give Me Death, in case you were wondering. I also enjoy that his MySpace page informs us that his influences include Dr. Dre and Geto Boys. (I’m always looking for the hip-hop angle.)
Anyway, I finally sat down for two minutes and 54 seconds to check out his video for Living a Lie, directed by Charles Spano. This song, in particular, seems to reflect the bittersweet tone of the album – the post-breakup avalanche of anger, regret, resent. The initial theme for the video, according to Spano, is “the microcosm of revolution and apocalypse in suburbia.” OK, that’s deep. But also, he talks of “bittersweet feelings at the fleeting nature of things.” Certainly, you could apply that to love and relationships, as David Terry’s words might suggest: “I just can’t get it / I keep on forgetting / How the last two years / of my life have been wasted.”
I love the concept of this video – it either represents a purging or piling up of emotions. I’d assume the former, because there seems to be a liberating sense to these people unloading unwanted or little-used items. Then there’s the whole tossing gasoline on the pile, so that’s a pretty good hint.
Buy Or Give Me Death.