Peep it - a totally sweet animated video for a blippy electronic club piece:
Ghislain Poirier - Hit & Red (official) from departement on Vimeo.
“Hit and Red” comes from Montreal musician Ghislain Poirier who seems to specialize in bumpin’ beets.
Category Archives: Music
Hit and Red
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Watchmen: Trailer
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Holy sweet MERCY, stop what you’re doing and go watch the trailer for Watchmen RIGHT NOW.
Exit Music for Chopin
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Jack Conte’s version of Radiohead’s Exit Music (For a Film) is not only a superb example of a cover, but a very clever arrangement as well which is available for download.
(via Shaun Inman)
Big Ideas (Don’t get any)
Friday, June 6, 2008
This is probably one of the most clever song covers I’ve seen. Old electronics used to play “Nude” from Radiohead:
Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
(via kottke)
Woe is Weezer
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Today Weezer released their third self-titled album (the so-called “Red Album”). I decided it’d be quicker, considering my busy after-work errand schedule, to simply hit the 30-second samples on iTunes.
Yup. They still suck hard. Probably harder, in fact.
Steven Hyden over at The A.V. Club sums it up for is:
The breathtakingly stupid Weezer [...]
Beck + Danger Mouse = Awesome Sauce?
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
So a little further prodding provided me with a bit more detail on Beck’s next release. It seems that:
1. The new album may (or may not?) be called Modern Guilt, and may (or may not?) release in June.
2. Danger Mouse (the non-singing half of Gnarles Barkley) may be responsible for much of the delicious [...]
Sweet Mother of Mighty Music!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
As if I didn’t already love The A.V. Club, I just read happy news on their site about upcoming albums from two musical acts which I dig.
Apparently Sigur Ros is dropping a new album on June 24th, and - this one really has me pumped - BECK is expected to release a new album [...]
Vitamin Records
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
On this past weekend’s episode of This American Life (the radio program) I caught two string quartet arrangements of some Led Zeppelin music - “Stairway to Heaven” and “Dazed and Confused” - so, naturally, I had to find out who performed the songs.
It turns out to be a group called The Vitamin String Quartet, which [...]
Pork and Beans and Everything Else
Friday, May 23, 2008
Okay, so Weezer has fallen out of my favor because of everything they’ve spewed from the Green Album forward, but this video is actually pretty sweet - a sort-of YouTube retrospective of the last several years:
(via Adam and Jeremy)
