I love Robyn and here is another excuse to post about her. A co-worker mentioned the ridiculous dancing and get-up of the actual video to Call Your Girlfriend is only matched by Taran Killam’s re-enactment of it in a tiny SNL office at 4am in the morning. Watch the original or the side-by-side below:
If you want to hear new music from Julian Casablancas, then cut out 11 minutes of your life for this noisy, impressionistic sprawl:
Another song was played off of the album the other day on BBC, if you want to listen to that too.
Neil was telling me how he finds some great music via motion-graphic highlight reels. So after watching his amazing reel (which you should definitely watch) and watching a few more myself, I found this one, via the blog From Up North, which lead me to this awesome song, Black and White by the Parquet Courts:
Looking for something to listen to, Spotify “suggested” I listen to The Lone Ranger soundtrack, which actually includes great acts like Grace Potter, Sara Watkins, Lucinda Williams, the Aggrolites. It also includes a new song by Shane Macgowan. Remember when you listened to Shane Macgowan and the Popes and realized how Shane’s voice has taken to sounding more of an old sloppy drunk, but it kind of worked with the songs? Well I think we passed the point of it working with the songs. You decide:
If you are thinking he is doing that on purpose or don’t think it is that bad (or if you think the song sounds familiar), compare it to this:
Was going to originally post this great metal song/video from a band called Red Fang, but then I saw this video. If we had a 5k video budget when we were younger, maybe we would have done this instead of trying to take out a road block and almost killing ourselves: