For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Norway’s Rancho Relaxo with “Stars.”
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Shoegazer Sunday: Rancho Relaxo’s “Stars”
Sunday, February 14th, 2016Phenomenal Remix of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”
Friday, February 12th, 2016Trent Reznor has been offering the individual tracks of his music for other people to remix for a while now. I stumbled across this truly awesome Andrej Prebanda remix of “Hurt” on YouTube:
Yeah, I like the Johnny Cash version as well.
Shoegazer Sunday: Vidulgi OoyoO’s “Infinity”
Sunday, February 7th, 2016Korean psychgazer band Vidulgi OoyoO’s “Infinity” is one of those songs that starts slow and keeps building on the same basic groove, a bit like Lemon’s Chair, though Vidulgi OoyoO has a harder and faster edge.
(Hat tip: Primal Music Blog.)
Sunday Shoegazer: Blackstone Rngrs’ “Frozen Echo”
Sunday, January 24th, 2016For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Austin’s own Blackstone Rngrs (yes, they spell it that way), another Saint Marie Records band, with “Frozen Echo,” another entry in the “Hey, we have no video budget, so how many digital effects can we cram in” sweepstakes.
Korean Girls Try American BBQ
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016Here’s the sort of cross-cultural appreciation I can get behind:
A tad long, but worth watching. Especially since they save the brisket and pork ribs until the end…
Interview With Spinal Tap Manager Ian Faith
Sunday, January 17th, 2016Here’s a modestly amusing link for a cold Sunday morning, a video interview with Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith on faking his own death, why “Big Bottom” is better than “Stonehenge,” and who he could make a lot of money off of were they to die.
Keep you expectations modest…
Alan Rickman, RIP
Thursday, January 14th, 2016British actor Alan Rickman has died at age 69.
I’ve never seen the Harry Potter films, and while I enjoyed him as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and the Metatron in Dogma, my favorite of his roles was Galaxy Quest, as a British stage actor trapped into pretending he was an alien by the beliefs of other aliens.
Alas, he shall not be avenged by Grabthar’s Hammer…
Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend
Thursday, December 17th, 2015Via Dwight comes word of this year’s additions to the National Film Registry. In addition to a bunch of “Hey, that wasn’t in there already?” selections The Shawshank Redemption, Ghostbusters, etc.), there is the usual list of obscure early films, one of which is “Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend,” based on the Winsor McCay comic of the same name.
Naturally it’s on YouTube:
It features the sort of in-camera special effects Georges Méliès did better (and quicker). Welsh Rarebit, by the way, is a sort of cheese-on-toast dish (though given how quickly our fiend is quaffing potent potables, I don’t think the rarebit had that much to do with his dreams…).
Also included in this year’s selections: “Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze” from 1894, the earliest copyrighted motion picture footage in America, and which I now present to you in its entirety:
Shoegazer Sunday: The Secret Machines’ “Nowhere Again”
Sunday, December 13th, 2015Honestly, this is more of a mainstream rock track than shoegaze. The connection here is that the Secret Machines was the main band the late Benjamin Curtis was in before School of Seven Bells.
Fresh Snow’s “Proper Burial”
Sunday, December 6th, 2015For your Sunday dose of Shoegaze, here’s Fresh Snow‘s “Proper Burial” with a retro, Hammond B3-tinged sound and a vaguely surreal/creepy video.