Awkward arm movements meant to echo the girl groups of the early 1960s? Check. Black and white cinematography meant to echo the television shows of the early 1960s? Check. Sensing a pattern?
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August 17, 2010
NPR is hosting a full stream of Ra Ra Riot‘s sophomore album The Orchard, which drops August 24 via Barsuk Records. The music video for the album’s first single, Boy, also found it’s way online this week. Check it out at MTV (yes, they still sometimes show music videos). August 12, 2010
Starring The Office‘s Rainn Wilson. Make sure to check out our interview with Ferraby in which we discuss his sophomore album, The Jack of Hearts, which was released on August 3. August 5, 2010
Okay, can we officially declare Janelle Monae as Artist of the Year? In the age of the Lady Gaga Music Video (the bigger and more outrageous, the better), it takes some serious guts to put out something as deceptively simple as this (not to mention as physically and emotionally naked). If Janelle does not win all the Grammys I will burn a randomly chosen city to the ground (probably not Dresden though… Those guys deserve a break). July 14, 2010
About a month ago we mentioned that Converse was bringing rapper Kid Cudi, Bethany Cosentino (lead singer of Best Coast), and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij together for another entry in their “Three Artists, One Song” campaign (previously responsible for “My Drive-Thru”). Since then, the single, called “All Summer”, was released as a free download on the Converse site. We now have a nice little video to accompany it: July 9, 2010
This is definitely my favorite song off the duo’s slightly underwhelming sophomore album Volume 2, and the video is appropriately retro and melancholy. Is it just me, or is this an homage to German expressionism a la The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? (It’s just me.) [EDIT: The youtube vid was taken down by the user, so head over to P4k to watch it.] June 15, 2010
June 9, 2010
I have yet to buy their album, I Will Be, but perhaps this has convinced me. I suppose that is the point of music videos… [Via Stereogum] |
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