The Very Best Music Video In The World, Ever (Not Safe For Work)
March 17, 2010
This is Reggie Watts promoting his upcoming Comedy Central gig and the upcoming release of his new DVD, Why Sh#t So Crazy. The track is called “F@ck Sh#t Stack”. WARNING: this is definitely NSFW or even remotely intended for people running a deficit of humour. If we get a single letter of complaint over it, it’ll go straight to the shredder with the pieces subsequently burned. Enjoy, warned though you be (found via TheDailyWhat).
On The Scout Ipod: Seer Believer By Norway’s “The White Birch”
August 21, 2009
The White Birch | Seer Believer | SOURCE
The White Birch believes in music that is made like diamonds putting time and endurance into the pressing of mountains of coal into intensely focused drops of honest nature, and then polishing it with handicraft and love into a human expression of beauty to produce something that will last.
Those kooky Norwegians with their white hair. The baby, toddler, boy, teen, man shown growing up on camera is lead singer Ola Fløttum. Dig it.
Soundtrack For Summer No.43: The Sea And The Cake, “Weekend”
May 16, 2009
Today was a sunny one, seven hours of which were spent on the beach with my kids by our house. That’s seven hours without responsibility. The kind enjoyed by default by my children, and the kind I can hardly remember. This video for Weekend by The Sea and Cake helps…
On The Scout Ipod Today: “Brand of Skin” by Folk Implosion
April 25, 2009
I first got in to this Sebadoh offshoot when I was about 21 years old, so about 15 years ago (jeez). It was at the end of a five year long Dinosaur Jr. fetish. I remember my big brother recommending that I buy their CD at Lyle’s Place in Victoria. $18.99 was a lot of money to me back then, but I listened to it on the bus home (in my Sony discman – that’s right) and recognised Dinosaur Jr’s Lou Barlow instantly. I knew I’d found a new favourite band. Read more
Soundtrack #92: West Coast
December 7, 2008
Coconut Records | West Coast
Artist, professional skateboarder, legend Mark Gonzales rips a long board around his own show in Germany wearing some sort of Hawaiian space fencing unitard. The band is awesome, fronted by Jason Schwartzman, the dude from Rushmore.
Soundtrack #90: Bon Iver In Paris
November 17, 2008
Bon Iver doing “Skinny Love” with wineheaded crowd participation. Shot in a Paris apartment, circa I was I knew when ’cause I would have been there.
Five Songs For November
November 8, 2008
This list comes from my dear friend Jen Meyer who wants you all to go out and listen to some great music. Jen works at local independent record label 604 Records Inc., and the affiliated management company Simkin Artist Management.
1. Yeasayer (as seen above) “Tight Rope”
Somewhere between eastern and western, synths and tambourines, choir harmonies and world rhythms, this band reminds me of something that TV on the Radio might listen to themselves. Then, just to throw me, they put out this video.
2. Girls “Lust For Life”
Girls, the San Francisco-based duo of Chet JR White and Holy Shit’s Christopher Owens, sounds like the soundtrack for a hipster first date, or hipsters riding their bikes through Strathcona, or hipsters looking bored in their skinny jeans, or…well…you get it. It’s good. And you can’t get it in CD format yet. Which means hipsters will love it. Because it’s unavailable and obscure.
3. Tim Fite “Big Mistake”
Fite brings together a country infused hybrid of folk and hip hop for one of the most unique and insta-favorite sounds I’ve heard all year long…sounds like slide guitar, chime, drums, banjo, bass, pedal steel, piano and mandolins with the best lyrics I’ve heard…well…all year long.
4. Kings Of Leon “I Want You”
Anyone who has read a music magazine in the last two years knows who this band is. This song is possibly one of the sexiest things I have ever heard. “I Want You” is to their newest album “Only By The Night” what “Milk” was to “Aha Shake Heartbreak”.
5. 16mm “Lula”
One of Vancouver’s own, this band is one of the many reasons I love working where I do. The music is hook-filled, very danceable, and completely fun, 16mm is pop at its best. But cool pop. Not the lame cheesy midriff bearing kind. Pop that dyes its hair black and might wear Cheap Mondays. 16mm opened for The Secret Machines at Richards On Richards last night.
