Well, that didn’t take long. There’s already a video for the first single from Elbow’s forthcoming record, The Seldom Seen Kid, that I posted about (with mp3) the other day.
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Jimmy Eat World: Always Be (video)
If you come here regularly, then you already know I’m a fan of Jimmy Eat World, hometown pride aside. (I’ve already shared my feelings on the haters.)
Anyway, here’s the group’s new video for Always Be, the second single off the album Chase This Light. Looks like the Museum of Natural History, in which case I already prefer this video to the last time I saw the museum as a backdrop.
You can find the video for the first single, Big Casino, right here.
MESH: Hipsters Are the New Jocks
I stumbled across this hilarious bit of parody-meets-social commentary while listening to a mix that DJ Z-Trip put together for a radio station and posted for download.
When I heard the chorus – “hipsters are the new jocks / it don’t take much to realize that” – I had to have it.
This is what I know: The track is by an artist/graf writer called MESH from Brooklyn. And what better city from which to derive inspiration for a hipster-hating anthem. (As MESH says on his YouTube page, Williamsburg is hipster capital.)
The video (below) adds a nice visual twist of the knife, too. Check the beginning when Mesh asks a guy and a girl for a smug look, and the girl says she doesn’t want to do it: “Am I hitting too close to home?” Asymmetrical haircuts, skinny jeans, ironic mustaches. Ooooh, I can feel my blood pressure rise. You can win a game of hipster bingo just watching the video.
And is it just me or does Mesh sound a little like Shock G from Digital Underground?
MESH | Hipsters Are the New Jocks
Incoming: RJD2, April 7 in Tempe
Stateside Presents, in conjunction with Universatile Music, is bringing back RJD2 for an April 7 show at the Clubhouse in Tempe. Buy tickets ($14 advance, $15 day of show) here.
I missed RJ the last time he came through on a solo tour but caught him with Blueprint for Soul Position’s tour a couple years ago in support of Things Go Better With RJ and Al.
- RJD2 | Get It (via Beggars Group)
Check out a side-by-side rendering of two versions for the video for Work it Out, off RJ’s sorta-maligned The Third Hand.
On the topic of Soul Position, Blueprint says through his MySpace blog that he’s going to release an EP in February on Weightless Recordings. I recorded an interview with Blueprint at the Paid Dues Festival and will try to get some audio of that up soon. He had some interesting things to say in defense of The Third Hand.
If you didn’t like the fact that RJD2 took up singing for that album, the instrumental version is available on eMusic.
Related:
10 questions (via e-mail) with RJD2.
Travis: New Amsterdam (video)
You’d think with how much I’ve been posting on Travis that I’d be stalking the band. I’m not, really. But I did track down this new video for New Amsterdam on the band’s YouTube page.
Like the Selfish Jean video, this one follows a similar theme of tracking the words through visuals/cards (a la Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues).
The video was directed by artist Gary Rough.
Related:
Travis, Marquee Theatre, 11/25/07.
Travis: Selfish Jean video.
Travis: My Eyes video.
Travis: Closer video.
Mike Doughty: 27 Jennifers (video)
I chatted a couple months ago about Mike Doughty’s new record, Golden Delicious, which is due out Feb. 19.
Doughty has released the album’s first video, for the song 27 Jennifers. It’s decidedly low budget – Doughty shot it himself – and looks like it might have been filmed using night-vision goggles. True to form, Doughty rounded up 27 girls named Jennifer for the shoot … and his bass player, Scrap Livingston. Check out pictures of the video shoot at Doughty’s blog.
TONIGHT: We’re probably gonna check out the Dan Deacon show at Modified. Our pal Ryan from Muzzle of Bees is in town because he and his girlfriend ran in this marathon on Sunday. (Don’t you feel lazy now?)
Having searched the results, I can tell you Ryan finished in just over four hours. I’ll buy him a nice cold beer tonight as a reward.
Phat Kat: Cold Steel (video)
I’ve been diggin’ Phat Kat’s Carte Blanche (available at eMusic) since I came across it last spring.
Here’s the video for the lead single, Cold Steel, which was produced by Phat Kat’s fellow Detroit son J-Dilla. I love that this video is in black and white, which seems to add to the gritty nature of the song.
Low: Murderer on the Current (video)
Until the other night, I had no idea that Minnesota Public Radio’s the Current had a YouTube page. Glad I stumbled upon it while poking around YouTube because here’s a great video of Low performing Murderer during a studio session last March.
The song was one of my favorites for 2007.
Radar Bros.: When Cold Air Goes to Sleep (video)
Jan. 29 is a day I am eagerly anticipating. That’s when the Radar Bros. release their new record Auditorium on Merge Records. But, you know, I might have mentioned that once or twice or thrice before.
To whet the appetite, here’s the first video from the album for the song When Cold Air Goes to Sleep. Seriously: Radar Bros. as Kiss? And what’s with this … this … up-tempo stuff? I like it. Anyway, the video was directed by Bradley Beesley, the man responsible for, among other things, the great Fearless Freaks documentary on the Flaming Lips.
Also, bassist Senon Williams has possibly overtaken Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell for best indie-rock beard.
Lastly, here’s a new track, Warm Rising Sun.
New Calexico: Absent Afternoon
I feel like I should have something heavy and important to say with this first post of 2008. But I don’t. So, on with the show.
Thanks to tucsonscene.com, we have some audio AND visual proof of new material from one of Tucson’s finest, Calexico. The band just played at the Temple of Music and Arts in Tucson for a benefit show, and Tucson Scene – as its name might imply – was there to videotape the proceedings. The site kindly added seven video clips to its YouTube page from the show, including one of a new track called Absent Afternoon. Judging by this song, I’m more than excited about a possible Calexico album in ’08.
Remember, you can download an acoustic version of Calexico’s All Systems Red via City Slang right here.