A transmission from the deep south.
Just posted Exorcist, a new track from our power-duo project called Gentlemen, for your listening pleasure. Shake your ass.
The more plays (and votes) the Gentlemen get this month, the better the chance they’ll receive funding in the November round of theaudience, to help them to make more great tunes.
“This Time” — a Poor Fool’s Cocktail made up of one part unrequited longing, two parts denial and a light dusting of hope for good measure.
Catchy as all get out. Only a matter of time before this ends up on a Wes Anderson soundtrack.
The new video for “No Way” from the debut album Passive Me, Aggressive You by The Naked And Famous. Directed by Campbell Hooper and Joel Kefali for Special Problems. These guys can do no wrong.
Fleet Foxes covering Whitney’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”. Update: turns out that’s not them singing after all. (via Fleet Foxes Sing)
“Paper Money” by Gentlemen (featuring Scaffold author Mike Harding). “Guaranteed to make your girl, and your cheque, bounce.”
“Grown Ocean” by Fleet Foxes, from the cheerfully titled new album Helplessness Blues, out May 3rd. (via Darren Wood)
I think we were all thinking, ‘Man, I wish something new would happen. I wish someone would take a chance.’ And whenever I say that, I always go, ‘Why don’t we? Why don’t we be the ones to do something, to take a chance or whatever?’
— Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips. (via Frank Chimero)
In honour of a spectacular live show in Auckland last evening, here’s “Lakes of Canada” performed on a rooftop by Sufjan Stevens, from La Blogotheque’s Take Away Show #50.
Written and designed by Matthew Buchanan. Colophon. Please give credit. Email me.
