Fads can be fun.

why am I sorta taken in by all this neo-garage-surf?

Are these bands capitalizing on a fascination with a classicly American ethos on the part of Europe and places that absorb their culture from everywhere else like North Brooklyn? Is that what's happening?

What is all this irresistible nonsense actually being referred to anyway?


I actually think i like like Beach Fossils.

This Week In Lo-Fi Vol. 1: Overmodulated Bass

Reminds me of riding around Topeka in a friend's $3,000 mazda with a $600 "system" that included a box made in shop class, bassing the shit out of Sonic Drive-In as we cruised through the parking lot.

here's what Sleigh Bells look like live (any similarity to The Kills is purely coincidental).

This video was produced and uploaded to Youtube by ABCNews during CMJ. There are already butt loads of sources for live music on the web in a myriad of different formats that range in quality from Shitty to Clever. If mainstream media starts putting this kind of music content out there, in a few years will live music be to the internet what Dunkin Donuts is to Boston? Would there be any downside to this instance of oversaturation? There's probably some fluky explanation for this particular video but it's great to see ABC just setting the content free: barely branding the video, and not trying to assign some newsy authority to the coverage....just a video of a rock band. I support.

It's Interactive

Partnering with CurrentTV, Common solicited viewer created music vid's for this collaboration with Cee-Lo. If you don't care about the web 2.0-ness, it's still a good song.

Lady Gaga meets Annie Leibovitz

some behind the scenes action I edited for Vogue. Anything with Lady Gaga is sort of interesting to me right now. She's cagey, i am trying to know more. digging through this footage provided a taste of some unguarded moments but also betrayed somewhat a hyper media awareness/flirtatiousness.

The footage was shot by Annie Leibovitz's sister, Barbara, who is a documentary film maker in her own right.

History's Greatest Feats of Strength vol. I

You got miles of hipster cred, totally.

saddy boy, girl music that everybody likes.

MozBurgers

The Dan Ryan gang do a funny video


another Mike O'Gorman vehicle, this time for old pals Black20

Inspiration is the mother of Biting Steez

Scandanavians pretending to be Americans from the 1970s...or is that the 1980s? (check out this myspace photo*). But I'm so down with the multiple split screens that I'm going to be spending all day tomorrow playing with that steez.

The Sweet Serenades - Mona Lee from Leon Records on Vimeo.

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Balance, balance.

Are you obsessed with observing your online self, sort of in the same way an omnipotent being might view your non-Matrix waking life? Well, it takes one to know one, J. Tillman (Fleet Foxes drummer, going solo)!

Watch how a real man does it.

Leave it to a satirical newspaper to figure out how to successfully translate the voice of a print brand to an online video experience that actually enhances the presence of said brand.

Ominous Music Heard Throughout U.S. Sends Nation Into Panic
Most everyone else in the sickly, bed-ridden print world "attempting" to do the same is pretty much just showing up, and rightly having their asses handed to them.