Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Mr. Irish Bastard

Friday, April 25th, 2014

While I was poking around iTunes listening to covers of “Road to Nowhere,” I stumbled across this:

If you like Flogging Molly or The Dropkick Murphys, you’ll recognize the Celtic folk punk sound of Mr. Irish Bastard.

Would you believe they hail from Münster, Germany?

Like other bands of their ilk, drinking seems to play a big role in their music:

I should really put up one video that’s an actual video:


I liked the sound so much that I picked up their first album, St. Mary’s School of Drinking for a mere $4.83 off iTunes.

They’ve also done a complete album cover of Never Mind the Bollocks, but I think I prefer their original work.

Obviously, I should have put this up for St. Patrick’s Day…

Shoegazer Sunday: Spokraket’s “Just Go Spit Out Another Lie”

Sunday, April 20th, 2014

Danish band Spokraket offers garage band psychedelic surf rock married to Here Come the Warm Jets-era Brain Eno, offering plenty of distorted guitars and end up sounding like a low-fi version of Black Tambourine. “Just Go Spit Out Another Lie” is pretty much a steady state Shoegaze song: Like the riff and groove? Just wait around and there will be plenty more of it coming down the pike…

And here’s an earlier live version of it, when it was called “(Drifting Away In) Solitary Dreams”

Another Insane Lego Ball Machine

Friday, April 18th, 2014

A while back I featured this Lego ball machine from Japan.

Well, this one (also from Japan) is twice as insane.

It may even be from the same guy.

(Hat tip: Lou Anders‘ Facebook page.)

Trailer for Cold in July

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

Here’s the official trailer for Cold in July, the film based on the Joe R. Lansdale novel starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnston.

I hear Joe himself is pleased with it, and his daughter Kasey has a song on the soundtrack.

Pretty promising.

Shoegazer Sunday: Lights That Change’s “Beautiful Soul”

Sunday, April 13th, 2014

Lights That Change is a neo-Shoegaze band out of the UK. With “Beautiful Soul” they offer up a bright, gauzy, floating slab of prettiness with some great female vocals.

Sadly, it seems that vocalist Lisa VonH has already split with the band.

Mike Judge Has A New TV Show: Silicon Valley

Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

The creator of Office Space, Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill has a new (live action) TV show on HBO called Silicon Valley.

The first episode is up free:

I’ve seen about half of it. It’s reasonably funny, but some of the geek characters are a bit too cliched…

File Under: Technical Proficiency

Monday, April 7th, 2014

Given that 2Cellos‘s first video here already nearly 15,000,000 million hits, there’s a good chance that you’ve already seen the bad boys of Croatian classical music cover AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck.” If not, you’re in for a treat:

But only about half a million have seen their equally impressive (if less showy) cover of U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name.”

Swell Documentary on the Making of Paul Simon’s Graceland

Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Dwight’s linking of this piece on accordions got me listening to my favorite album featuring accordions, Paul Simon’s Graceland, one of the all time great albums. I was vaguely aware that a 25th Anniversary edition had come out, and poking around online I find that a documentary on the album had come out last year, all of which is available online.

If you like the album, ths documentary is well worth your time.

Shoegazer Sunday: Center of the Sun’s “Home”

Sunday, March 30th, 2014

There’s still some Sunday left, so here’s Center of the Sun again with “Home”.

Hayajan Covers Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” in Arabic

Monday, March 24th, 2014

It’s taking me some time to catalog those signed Jack Vance book and do my taxes, so here’s a musical oddity: a Jordanian band covering Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” in Arabic. Enjoy!