Very clever video "movie" by Steel Train, featuring their song Turnpike Ghost, from their eponymous debut CD. Join them on the set of Up Late with Al Scalzo!
A recent meme took the 'nets by storm, with a Justin Bieber song slowed down 800%. Now, I don't care how "good" it might sound, or how much an improvement over the original it may be, but it'll be a cold day in Hell before I post anything by Justin Beiber, no matter how mixed it may be.
But here's a variation on that theme that really sounds good - sci-fi classics slowed down 800%. Great electronica results!
Another one from one of my favorite CDs of 2010, Steve Mason's Boys Outside. This is a live version of Am I Just A Man, one of my favorite cuts from a long list of great songs on this CD.
This book looks interesting - Start and Run Your Own Record Label, Third Edition: Winning Marketing Strategies for Today's Music Industry. Maybe a Vehement Flame record label is in the cards? Ha, I doubt it!
Everywhere I Go is a song from Lissie's debut full length album, Catching A Tiger, which is a solid collection of folk/rock/pop songs powered by Lissie's unique, powerful vocals. Here she is live in a duet with Ellie Goulding:
No, not a song, but a full album worth of visceral images from Robert Rodriquez, whose Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi, Desperado, and Once Upon A Time In Mexico) is truly a ballet of violence. Machete looks to be equally outrageous:
Indulge me a bit for some more of The New Pornographers, would you? This is a nice little interview by ABC of AC Newman and his niece, Kathryn Calder on TNP past, present and future. Thanks to The Music Slut for the video pointer:
Sweet little song you can download yourself. This is Jenny and Johnny's Scissor Runner, which you can find on their home page http://jennyandjohnnymusic.com :
Yesterday's song reminded me how much I love Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares, an especially good sound to program by. Don't understand a word, but it sure is purty :)
Funky song with a funky video from the psycho pop group Loyal Divide. This is Vision Vision, and you can pick it and all their other songs up for free on their bandcamp site here.
Interesting little web site that does a sort of mashup using Google Maps and some concert info. Type in an artist and it shows you all the upcoming concerts on a map. It also helpfully lists some YouTube music videos with that artist. Nice concept, needs more features (of course!).
Should, of course, have a Tweet This button for the artist you are looking at
But it also needs an easy way to share a particular link for the artist search