You know, Baby Dayliner’s Critics Pass Away (Brassland) is one of my favorite albums of the year. It’s not like anything you’ll hear this year, and maybe next. A friend at Brassland tells me Baby Dayliner, who has a loyal following in New York, will be heading out on dates with Mobius Band, including opening spots for the National’s West Coast swing.

Check out the video for Silent Places, directed by Daniel Bloomberg. And peep the cameo by Adrian Grenier of Entourage fame (or is that of Drive Me Crazy fame?).

Related:
10 questions with Baby Dayliner.
Pics from Baby Dayliner opening for the National.

Here’s the video for the first single from the forthcoming Silversun Pickups LP Carnavas (due out July 25 on Dangerbird Records). Directed by Philip Andelman, the video isn’t an over-the-top production, but it more grabs attention with a striking use of color (or lack thereof). It’s shot in this somewhat blurred black and white until about midway when the instruments and players are infused with random bright colors. The final minute or so gets all flashy and dizzy, matching pace with the song’s excited finish.

Meanwhile, check out Silversun’s newly redesigned Web site.

(Thanks to Ben, who helped a brother out with some coding on the video embedding. Also, visit Ben to view the video for Gnarls Barkley’s Smiley Faces.)

UPDATE: The embedded video was making for slow page loads. But, you can check out the video here.

Related:
Silversun Pickups Well Thought Out Twinkles (mp3)

So, did everyone have their fill of burgers, hot dogs and Twilight Zone marathon? Oh, man. I love the Twilight Zone. Favorite episode? Probably this one.

But that’s beside the point. We had some grillin’ and booze and even Mr. Marathonpacks was in the hizzouse. He’s out here, helping his super-cool girlfriend settle in for her move. Two days of 100-plus-degree weather probably made them both wonder what they were thinking. But we had plenty of this and this. Despite what you’ve heard on the Information Superhighway, Eric is about the nicest guy you’ll meet. He also plays a mean frisbee.

Anyway, we had some friends over and, somehow, the conversation turned to one of my favorite comedians, Louis C.K. I have yet to watch his HBO show Lucky Louie, but I’m setting the Tivo today. I did find this interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show somewhat, um, hilarious. … Sorry, music to come later today:

If you’ve come here with any regularity, you might have noticed me talk about the Radar Bros. before. Yeah, I really dig them. Like, um, a lot. I know Brian is into them, too. But I can’t figure out why they don’t get more blog love. Oh well.

Their Falling Leaf Pages was one of my favorite albums of 2005, and I stumbled across the video for Papillon. It’s directed by bassist Senon Williams. I love how the fast-forward-like movement of the video sort of balances the steady tempo of the song. It also has this home video feel: kinda grainy and jumpy.

Related:

Favorite albums of 2005.
Revisiting the Radar Bros.

We here at So Much Silence have been working hard to get LA’s Division Day out to Phoenix to share a bill with sourceVictoria. We think we’re getting closer. That said, we’ve been in touch quite a bit with DD drummer Kevin Lenhart, who sent along the link for the group’s new video for Hurricane, off the band’s recently released Beartrap Island.

Directed by Chris Levitus (who directed The Big Switch video for Radiohead), the Hurricane video “was shot for practically nothing last August in two days, using a camera and film yoinked from the set of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel,” Lenhart says.

Ha! “Yoinked.” I’m going to work that word into my everyday vocabulary. In the meantime, the video … and, oh, buy Beartrap Island.

Today’s post title is inspired by the great Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands, where Saturday is actually for covers, a great feature for the weekends, when not too many folks are posting.

Combined with the fact that I’ve yet to really explore the world of music videos on this site (mostly because a couple of my peeps already do that quite skillfully), I’m going to attempt to make Saturdays a day for videos. I’ve got some old VHS tapes that need transferring to digital format, so hopefully this will inspire me to do that.

Videos certainly take a certain amount of patience and concentration. More than that, though, watching videos is mostly a stationary exercise, unless, of course, you own a video iPod (which I do not). That’s probably part of the reason I’ve neglected posting videos on this site. Listening to music, as opposed to watching it, allows for a certain amount of multitasking. Videos pretty much require your undivided attention. Me, I’m an antsy person. I like to move, even if I’m not really going anywhere in particular. Ben, Eric and, more recently, Chad have grabbed my attention by posting videos. So … why not give it a shot?

Anyway, today’s selection is for The Raconteurs’ Steady, As She Goes, and although I don’t quite have the credentials to pass a critical eye on video direction, this is a grainy, motion-sickness-inducing piece of visual art. Love the song, but seriously, pass the Dramamine.

More disconcerting: What’s with the top hat Brendan Benson is wearing?

Here’s the QuickTime link for the video.