YouTube cruising: Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb: I'm actually posting this video to keep it close to hand. Brings back memories (the video dates from 1995) from the time I sat through all the rubbish on MTV just to discover, from time to time, a golden nugget like this one. Since we have YouTube, obviously, MTV has lost all relevance, sitting there orphaned and deserted at the very long end of our television channel numbers. May it rot in hell with its infamous 5 minute commercial breaks, every 5 minutes.Not d...
Sons & Daughters - Gilt Complex: Not the Australian soap, but an excellent band with a great record . Gilt Complex isn't even by far the best song on the album. Go discover it! ...
Yeasayer performs 2080: looking forward to the Brussels concert: Enjoy Yeasayer , a great new band, performing their song 2080 from debut album All Hour Cymbals live on Conan O'Brien's 30 Rock Tour. Yeasayer is coming to Brussels next wednesday and we've got tickets :-) Unfortunately, the concert is sold out. More videos here . In my view, 2008 has been a great musical year so far. Besides Yeasayer ...
The iPod-DJ made me listen to #6: Ptolemy - Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92)Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)Get Me Off - Basement Jaxx (Rooty)I see a darkness - Bonnie prince billy (I see a darkness)Eternity - Daan (Victory)What's a girl to do - Bat For Lashes (Fur and Gold)Matchbook Seeks Maniac - Deerhoof (Friend Opportunity)Idealistic - Digitalism (Idealism)Building Steam with a Grain of Salt - DJ Shadow (Endtroducing...)Everyday - The Field (F...
Restless Natives: back to the 80s: For me, YouTube is the new MTV. Whenever I have some time to kill, I set out to find and watch interesting music videos. A few days ago I stumbled upon this clip from 'Restless Natives', a Scottish film from 1985 I remembered from my youth. The film is quite funny and follows the adventures of two young men robbing tourist coaches in the highlands, disguised as a clown and a wolf-man. Because they're such nice guys, they become lo...
The iPod-DJ made me listen to #5: Let The Bells Ring - Nick Cave (Abattoir Blues)The Information - Beck (The Information)Hurt - Johnny Cash (American IV: The Man Comes Around)Deep Forbidden Lake - Neil Young (Decade)Flushed Chest - Joan As Police Woman (Real Life)Holes - Mercury Rev (Deserter's Songs)The Devil is in the Details - Boards of Canada (Geogaddi)Gideon - My Morning Jacket (Z)Easily - Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication)Thirteen - Elliott Smith (New Moo...
The iPod-DJ made me listen to #4: Love Burns - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (B.R.M.C)The Good Ones - The Kills (No Wow)From The Ritz To The Rubble - Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am, ...)Clap Hands - Beck (Guerolito)Not Ready Yet - Eels (Beautiful Freak)Station Approach - Elbow (Leaders of the Free World)Deus Ibi Est - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan (Ballad of the Broken Seas)If You Could Read My Mind - Johnny Cash (American V)Lover - Lilium (Short Stories)I ...
The iPod-DJ made me listen to #3: DFA / Hot Chip - Just Like We (Breakdown) (DFA Remixes: Chapter 1)Pavement - Cut Your Hair (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)Feist - The Limit To Your Love (The Reminder)Elbow - Snooks (Progress Report) (Cast of Thousands)Leftfield & Roots Manuva - Dusted (Rhythm And Stealth)The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D. (At War With The Mystics)Madvillain - Shadows Of Tommorow (Madvillainy)Ellen Allien & Apparat - Way Out (Orchestra Of Bubbles)Goldfrapp -...
The iPod-DJ made me listen to #2: Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God (Employment)The Zutons - It's The Little Things We Do (Tired Of Hanging Around)Zita Swoon - She = Like Meeting Jesus (Live At The Jet Studio Brussels)Wilco - Handshake Drugs (Kicking Television / Live in Chicago)Tom Waits - Long Way Home (Orphans: Bawlers)Thom Yorke - Black Swan (The Eraser)The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (The Stone Roses)Sandy Dillon - Mailbox (Sandy Dillon in East Overshoe)The Arcade Fire...
The iPod-DJ made me listen to #1: Joan as Police Woman - I Defy (Real Life)The Shins - Phantom Limb (Wincing the Night Away)Kings of Leon - On Call (Because of the Times)The Baptist Generals - Diminished (No Silver/ No Gold)DJ Shadow - Fixed Income (The Private Press)Magnus - Assault on Magnus (The body gave you everything)Of Montreal - Cato As A Pun (Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer)Porno for Pyros - Cursed Female (Porno for Pyros)Sparklehorse - Mountains (Dreamt Fo...
My library is selling its long tail: Last Saturday, like almost every week-end, my son Kai and I went to the local library. As always we tried to score five new children's books, a goal we somehow always manage to attain :-) And when there's time and attention span left, I get to choose some books and cd's as well. That fortunately being the case, I noticed that the music department was selling part of its collection. Not junk, but truly magnificent stuff. Apparently, the...
On the Last.fm Viacom acquisition rumours: I’m not feeling particularly well today, and in part it has to do with the rumours concerning a possible acquisition of Last.fm by Viacom . Viacom is a large media group which assets include MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures and Paramount Home Entertainment. For some time now, this company seems eager to get a new media success story under its wings. Last year there was the ...