Obviously I’m not the first person to post about this video but since I don’t read all the hip indie sites, I didn’t know about this video until my brother showed it to me. Some dude took a Pinback song (“From Nothing to Nowhere”) and overlaid on top of one of the most memorable scenes from the ’80s film The Breakfast Club. It works surprisingly well.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgAaqmqemJQ[/youtube]
3 songs I couldn’t stop listening to this weekend.
Idlewild – “When I Argue I See Shapes”
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=LGJ6bU2BPi8[/youtube]
Hum – “Stars” (ah, the power of advertising … a few seconds of this song are in the new Cadillac commercial)
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rfbn3ieVUYU[/youtube]
LeAnn Rimes – “Nothing Better to Do”
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=xhQHkPSHZRw[/youtube]
It’s nice to see artistic vision in videos, something that in a music videoless MTV is hard to come by these days. From Scout Niblett’s forthcoming release, ‘This Fool Can Die Now’, featuring a cameo by Skeletor Will Oldham, here’s a really cool, if somewhat odd, video for “Kiss”.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9cwz12wKD0[/youtube]
And if you dig the Southern Gothic song, well, why dontcha download it and throw it on ye olde iPod?
MP3: “Kiss”Â
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=mjCfWollL3s[/youtube]
Now that he’s quit singing for Riders on the Storm (aka The Doors), Ian Astbury has resurrected The Cult along with guitarist Billy Duffy and the band’s new CD, ‘Born into This’, hits store shelves today. It’s a nice time for a comeback and the new CD certainly doesn’t soil the band’s legacy but fans of The Cult pre-‘Sonic Temple’ probably shouldn’t bother with the new one. If you’re on the fence, visit the band’s website where you can preview tracks from ‘Born into This’.
A full-fledged tour starts later this month and is sponsored by (ready for this?) …. Jagermeister.
10/17/07 – Pala Casino – San Diego, CA
10/19/07 – House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV
10/20/07 – Ventura Theatre – Ventura, CA
10/21/07 – Celebrity Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
10/23/07 – Warehouse Live – Houston, TX
10/25/07 – Palladium Ballroom – Dallas, TX
10/26/07 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
10/27/07 – Community America Ballpark – Kansas City, KS
10/29/07 – House of Blues – New Orleans, LA
10/30/07 – Jannus Landing – St. Petersburg, FL
10/31/07 – Revolution – Ft. Lauderdale, FL
11/1/07 – House of Blues – Orlando, FL
11/3/07 – The Plex – Charleston, SC
11/4/07 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
11/8/07 – Keswick Theater – Glenside, PA
11/9/07 – Hammerstein Ballroom – New York, NY
11/10/07 – Hampton Beach Casino – Hampton Beach, NH
11/12/07 – Ram’s Head Live – Baltimore, MD
11/14/07 – Town Ballroom – Buffalo, NY
11/16/07 – Murat Egyptian Room – Indianapolis, IN
11/17/07 – Bogart’s – Cincinatti, OH
11/18/07 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
11/21/07 – House of Blues – Cleveland, OH
11/23/07 – Orbit Room – Grand Rapids, MI
11/24/07 – House of Blues – Chicago, IL
11/25/07 – House of Blues – Chicago, IL
11/29/07 – The Pageant – St. Louis, MO
11/30/07 – Myth – Minneapolis, MN
12/1/07 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
12/3/07 – The Fillmore – Denver, CO
12/7/07 – The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
How about a little 1987 Cult? Hard to believe this was 20 years ago!
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=joR59Izl_Zw[/youtube]
Years ago when I was interviewing Lauri Kranz she told me about seeing Tim Keegan perform at SXSW and said that if she ever had the opportunity to collaborate with the artist of her choice, it would be Mr. Keegan. I wasn’t familiar with him at the time but after some digging around discovered that Tim had worked with the likes of Robyn Hitchcock and The Blue Aeroplanes and, at the time (this was probably around 2000), was fully engaged in his own project, Departure Lounge.
All the Departure Lounge CDs are available used on Amazon.com at very reasonable prices so I’d definitely suggest picking up the whole catalog if you’re into bands like Mercury Rev (later period), The Pernice Brothers, Galaxie 500/Luna. If you’re looking for a single CD choice, I’m partial to ‘Out of Here’ but only because it was my introduction to Keegan and his work.
Check out this awesome cover of Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” (it’s in RealMedia format; I haven’t been able to find an MP3 of it), available on the “What You Have is Good” single.
I recently discovered that Keegan put out a solo album earlier this year called ‘Foreign Domestic’ (available as an import through Amazon) and I’m burning up iTunes credit right now downloading it! The songs I’ve heard on MySpace are similar to the stuff Keegan did with the Departure Lounge, as you might expect.
Here’s a video from the new album for the gorgeous track “On a Good Day”.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=2YTPUSABPaY[/youtube]