Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is at it again. Instead of his normal fake-blood charades (see above photo), he has decided to draw up the real deal and (quite literally) huck it on some canvas. Check the video below.
El Guincho is at it again. Watch the new mindfuck video for “Bombay” here. NSFW, as always.
TFW hasn’t gone anywhere; much the contrary. Fall tour season is upon us, and solid albums have been hitting our shuffle playlists pretty hard. Check back soon for a more streamlined, incoherent footwork. And also check a cut off of Deerhunter’s new album Halcyon Digest below.
MRD
500 pages long. Jimmy Page’s new $685 coffee table book will be published on September 27th via Genesis Publications in a limited-edition 2000 print run. This is Page’s first go at writing anything autobiographical–be it simply extended captions, it seems–and will be coveted by dudes with flying-v guitars everywhere. The book will most likely read like a Ken Burns PBS biopic. Save your money and watch > $685 worth of Jimmy listening to Link Wray’s “Rumble” in the 2008 documentary, It Might Get Loud.
Check that scene, probably the only piece of the movie worth watching, below.
…the first youtube comment is priceless: “Jimmy Page playing air guitar is better than most people playing actual guitar!”
[Reporting by TFW Contributor: Adrian Kennedy]
Grouplove
Grouplove is the kind of band that makes you greedy. They’re so good that you’ll demand more than their stingy five song EP on iTunes. And after seeing one of their shows, you’ll want to re-listen to the rest of the songs they played as soon as you’ve left.
Vocalists Christian Zucconi and Hannah Hooper met in New York two years ago. Acting simply on her sense that they shared a connection, Hooper invited Zucconi with to Crete where she had an art residency. While there, they met LA natives Ryan Rabin, the drummer, Andrew Wesson, the guitarist, and Londoner Sean Gadd, the bassist. They immediately bonded and began to play music together. After the residency ended, the members disbanded, but kept in touch and reunited in LA about a year ago to record what became their EP. That session instigated a move. Hooper, Zucconi, and Gadd, officially a US citizen as of a few months ago, relocated to Los Angeles to start writing more music and playing local shows.
When you hear them play, you quickly understand why their following is so fervent. Their music, with song titles like: “Love Will Save Your Soul”, is a joyous celebration of life. Grouplove’s live shows are an extension of their musical energy: raucous, vibrant, and fun. It makes perfect sense that they would live here in Los Angeles as their music mirrors the weather: it’s sunny and meant to be played with the windows down.
Grouplove will be touring the US throughout the fall. Check their Myspace for dates and locations. Also watch “Love Will Save Your Soul” from the August 30th show below.
Matt & Kim: always adorable
If you haven’t yet read so on every other internet music website, Matt & Kim will be officially releasing tomorrow the first single off of their upcoming album Sidwalks.
“Cameras” will surely be sampled by various artists, and Matt now claims that the band “no longer writes songs, [they] write anythems”. Well put. Head over to 107.7’s website to stream the single now. Their fall tour is also heading to a town near you.
“No explenation… no mix of words, music or memory could touch the sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world… Whatever it meant.”
The Extraordinaries
[Reporting by TFW Contributor: Jon Applebaum]
Songs by The Extraordinaries seem so familiar, as if I had grown up singing them all along. It’s sort of like if the Beatles and Wiggles got together and produced a live stage act. Their music is fantastically catchy, and the stage show itself is something to behold.
A couple weeks ago when interviewing Craig Van Hise, from Virtual Virgin, he told me about the incredible show that the Extraordinaries put on at a local sports bar. Well, they were back at it on 8/13/10 at Johnny Brenda’s. Decked out in pajamas, the band took the stage and proceeded to roll out sleeping bags and hunker down on pillows hand-sown by the members of the Armchairs, who are also signed to Punk Rock Payroll.
The venue was pitch black; only the flash of the cameras would reveal the details of the stage set up. Soon Jay Purdy woke up, stretched, and began to strum his swordfish painted acoustic guitar. Slowly, he picked up speed to wake up the rest of the members. Reluctant, as if their mothers were waking them up for school, they each rose up off the floor and began to play. Later in the show, it was great to see the swordfish on display as old sailor songs swam out of the acoustic guitar.
Jay Purdy and his swordfish guitar
View more pictures from The Extraordinaries @ Jon Applebaum’s Flickr.
File this one under WTF. A trailer is out now for Joaquin Phoenix’s new “documentary” I’m Still Here, that looks half Sophia Coppola half Borat. None-the-less, what will probably turn out as more of a mocumentary than advertised, this flick looks promising. Well that explains all of the Joaquin Phoenix nonsense we heard about for a month straight, a while back, and never heard about again. Watch the trailer first, then what I assume will be the climax of the movie.
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