The Eternal Children by David Kleijwegt

It's not new, but I havn't seen it before. It's the documentary 'The Eternal Children' by David Kleijwegt (2006) for viewing on YouTube. You should really see this.

It'a an unique and interesting documentary about the the freak-folk artist such Antony & The Johnstons, CocoRosie, Vashti Bunyan, Devendra Banhart and so on. These folks are so individual and different. It's ever-interessting to listen to the Casady twins tell about their unusual childhood on the outside of what we perceive as a normal society or hear Devendra talk about the voice of his heart and about his dual mind.

Well, admitted, Devendra is a bit too much for me at times, so much form, but respect to him anyways for making music that are full of wellmeant feeling. The documentary is about that generation of musicians which share a common spirituality and certain lyrical understanding of the world. As a review puts it: it's people ‘with their eyes wde-open’, but not naive, but with hope; a young generation that shifts away from the rage and depression of early 90s.

C.S Lewis once said: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - This is a good quote for this beautiful little documentary. As well for all the rest of us.

All six parts below!

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Beastie Boys - Three MC's and One DJ

Ol' skool sunday with Beastie Boys Ghostbuster-dj-style

New Wilco song. New Wilco album

It is 'good news day' here at Indie Laundry. First, the exhilarating prospect of a 10-BluRay release from Neil Young. And now I bring you a brand new tune by our beloved Wilco - 'One Wing', live from Lollapolooza a fortnight ago. First impression: a quiet song. I can't say it knocked my socks off but just when it started to seem a tiny bit boring it accelerates into a stunning guitar-driven jam. Judging from the various live versions of the song, they are still working on its final form - or at least the form which will go on the forthcoming album due out in spring 2009.

Neil Young - Innovation & Music - JavaOne 2008 - Blu-ray

Neil Young rattles on... Always innovative and having a blast doing it. I can't wait for Neil Young Archives Vol 1 to come out on Blu-Ray... a 10 disc set with high resolution 24 bit/ 192 kHz audio. Then I'll promise myself, that my PS3 finally will be used for something more than just FIFA!


Neil Young Archives Vol 1...a 10 disc set coming on Blu-ray Disc

The many forms of Jason Molina - Magnolia Electric Co.

I have never really gotten around to explore the music of Jason Molina - until last week... and that can only be desribed as a case of better late than never! This guy is a rock-solid songwriter and an enjoyable, soulful singer. Fans of the cheerful country rock of The Jayhawks should definitely take notice. Neil Young and Will Oldham also spring to mind when listening.

For the past ten years, Molina has crafted music of consistently high quality but - to some confusion - under several names. Most important is Songs: Ohia - mainly low-key, introspective band. In 2003, he turned to a more country rocking style which he marked by changing the band name (and some members) to Magnolia Electric Co. - which also was the name of the last Songs: Ohia album... Confused?

Last year, Magnolia Electric Co. released 'Sojourner', a wonderful wooden box containing 4 CDs and 1 documentary DVD. The four CDs count three abums and one EP and they consist partly of new material and rearranged versions of formerly released songs, including 'Don't fade on me' and 'Hammer down'.

Magnolia Electric Co. - Don't fade on me

Magnolia Electric Co. - Hammer down

Magnolia Electric Co. - The dark don't hide it (live)

Gutter Twins for black nights!

I have just moved to the country. Outhere it's dark. Very dark! So is the excellent album from Gutter Twins with Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli. Saw them last night at Voxhall i Aarhus. So impressed with the energy and the combination of Dulli's high and Lanegans hell-deep voice. Check out this brilliant version of the best song from their album. It kicks ass. To be played LOUD.

Elastica - retro findings

While having a few minuts I took a timewarp back to the mid-90's and revisited my old room back at my parents house. It was a mess. A drumkit, magazines and cd's. And sometimes Elastica. It was rocking, sexy music, lots of hooks and just enough punk to stay interesting.

Even though evil tongues will know that Justine Frischmann's then-boyfriend Damon Albarn was the actual mastermind behind the band's first album, it's nontheless a brilliant rocking album to listen to again. (Listen to the beginning of Connection - it's really Blur-like, isn't?) Anyways it's appealing, teasy and edgy.

An interview with Justine Frischmann from The Guardian, 2002.

Elastica - Connection

Elastica - Waking Up

Elastica - Human

La Vida No Loca - Coldplay analyzed by

We write about music we love and The New Yorker writes about music as a study of interest. And they've just done a great piece on Coldplay with a squirt of subtle sarcasm. Is Coldplay warm milk or just quietly dependable?

Listen to this:

For the band’s second album, Martin started singing in free-floating slogans. “Am I part of the cure? Or am I part of the disease?” is a line from “Clocks,” perhaps the group’s loveliest song. The music evokes the song’s name, revolving around three circling and falling piano arpeggios. The payoff comes when Martin stretches out the words “you are” in a falsetto sung over the piano figure. You are what? Go figure, and I haven’t the slightest idea what is going on with the “tides” and the “clocks” in the lyrics. Doesn’t matter. “Clocks” is a big-budget “Ooh!” with lots of pretty lights—it works. At the end of the song, Martin repeatedly sings, “Home, home, where I wanted to go.” There’s the only part you need take note of—an essentially conservative sentiment, and probably a comfort zone for a guy who grew up thinking he wasn’t particularly cool and lost his virginity at the age of twenty-two.

I was all for Parachute back then, but this band is just so vague. As Pitchfork puts it: "A grandma-friendly, Radiohead-normalizing, disarmingly polite rock band led by a man who sounds like he's still yearning for puberty"

Cut Copy synth mp3

Due to a sunny day this entry might not contain linkage for quality music! Well, at least I havn't made up my mind about Cut Copy, but they score points for being from Australia and making me think about old days in '95 when I was backpacking the dusty outback listening to Silverchair, Los Del Rio, Savage Garden, Shaggy and Fugees. What a mess!

Cut Copy does synthpop/rock and samples the sounds from the 80's and 90's very well. The band is signed to the record label Modular Recordings, home of Wolfmother, The Presets and New Young Pony Club.

I don't really know about this synth-wave thingy. It can be really corny, but sometimes I'm just up for dirty bass-lines and 80's synth. I'm liking 'Hearts on Fire' (Youtube below). It’s kind of schizophrenic yet somehow still cohesive.

You can catch Cut Copy 080808 in Lille Vega, Copenhagen.

By the way: back then we drove a Ford Falcon, 1972, 6 cylinder, 3.0 l. It was punished for 15.000 km. Best concert we saw was Silverchair and Primus live in Brisbane. Worst experience: car broke down at gasstation 250 km south of Alice Springs. Best Experience: Captain Cooks backpacker in Cairns. Best price: Jug of beer 5 au$.

Hearts On Fire (Midnight Juggernauts Remix)

Dr. Do-owww-ohhhh-oggg Fate mp3

The oddballs in Dr. Dog has a new album - FATE - out in a few days time. I've took it for a spin and will do it again.

Dr. Dog is one of these D.I.Y bands using lo-fi recording techniques and has a complete I-don't-care attitude towards current trends. It's all very pop 60's in it's sounds and sounds quite a bit like the Beatles. So if you like The Fab Four (of course you do) then this is recommended. It's quite charming. Also check out their nice MySpace-enviroment.

Dr Dog - The Ark

Dr Dog - The Old Days

Dr Dog - Hang on (from Almost Famous soundtrack)

Dot matrix Radiohead + Google + Laser

Radiohead + Google + data visualization + lasers. Radiohead and Google release the source code for the amazing "House of Cards" video. Including a short documentary on how it was made and a license that allows remixing.

"House of Cards" was "filmed" using lasers insted of cameras. No lights either. Just data.

Radiohead and their technical team continues to impress me with their innovative shit... I obey your work of art. Timeless.

You can view the video, watch a short documentary about how it was made, interact with the video in 3D, download some of the data, and download an iGoogle theme and gadget - all at http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Radiohead - House of Cards

Roskilde flashbacks....!

It's now four days since we came back from an almost perfect Roskilde Festival 2008. I've been trying to find out what I've been doing through four wild days, that seems to fly away when your in the middle of it. Proudly I can say, that I saw all bands on my guide to Roskilde except one. But I saw even more bands. But one thing that I missed this year was the big surprise. The newcomer that I didn't now before. Maybe because of the great number of really good bands I allready knew. But all in all a great festival - perfect weather, perfect camp and the never missing Roskilde spirit. Here's my favorite concerts this year:

1. Neil Young
Without doubt one of the greatest concerts of my life. A perfect balance between a setting sun, feeling, wildness, experience and a man that looked like he meent it, when saying that Roskilde is his favorite festival.

2. Band of Horses
Perfect festival-feeling at 4 in the afternoon.

3. Yeasayer
Very late, very drunk - but great all in all experience!!

Unfortunately sound fucked up some concerts this year. It allmost killed Bonnie Prince Billy, before he got the sound and feeling right and saved the concert. And hyped danish rockers from Spleen United showed at 2 in the morning how you shouldn't handle a sound-breakdown. ("I gonne go backstage and have a beer????!!")

Besides that we shaked our bootie at huge Solomon Burke's soul-greatest-hits-extravaganza, drank cool drinks at Radiohead and almost fainted in the big Chemical Brothers lightshow. What more can you want?!

See you in 2009!!

The energy of the essential - Cohen in Copenhagen

Most of the Indie Laundry-boys attends Roskilde Festival right now. Jealous? Absolutly, but I hope they enjoy it fully - the rock, the sun, and that terrible first morning beer that makes the rest of the day worth while. Instead I'll attend and hopefully enjoy a great concert with a master of folk rock. I'm of course refering to Mr. Leonard Cohen. 'Cause tonight his well-reviewed world tour will hit down town Copenhagen, after another superb performance at Glastonbury.

"Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in." Have beauty ever been served and told with such a simple, but tightful elegance? It might explain why Mr. Leonard Cohen's songs resonantes beyond time. But then again, that would be a horrific simplification of his art. Instead, go see him and get the feeling of why this man's work shouldn't be explained with humble words

Last minute guide to Roskilde

7 hours from now I'm gonna take my backpack and walk to the train. Then it´s my 13th Roskilde Festival in 15 years. And I'm lookin forward as it was my first time. I've said goodnight to my kids and are again looking through this years excellent program. Only a few times before the odds have been so good as this year. Perfect weather. Great program. Brilliant plan. The best camp. So if the whisky and warm beers doesn't get my all confused - heres my tips for a perfect festival:
Thursday:
1930 - MGMT - Odeon
2200 - Radiohead - Orange
Friday:
1600 - Band of Horses - Arena
1930 - Kings of Leon - Orange
2100 - Mogwai - Arena
2230 - Grinderman - Orange
0100 - Yeasayer - Pavilion
0200 - Spleen United - Arena
Saturday:
1830 - Joan as Police Woman - Odeon
2130 - Neil Young - Orange (notice he's got 3 hours!!)
0200 - Black Mountain - Arena
Sunday:
1800 - Cat Power - Odeon
2015 - Bonnie Prince Billy - Odeon

It can't go wrong!!
Have a great festival - and look forward to the Indielaundry festival-review!

Reys de Roskilde #2! Radiohead!

SMS from icelandic girlneighbours in camp: "Your camp is fine. We take good care of it, yes. No worries.". We are relieved.

Today I read a bunch of of reviews from Glastonbury on some of the bands visiting Roskilde. And on a Radiohead-gig in Manchester saturday.

Bands from Glastonbury coming to Roskilde:

Radiohead: 5 out of 6 (Manchester Evening News)
MGMT: 6 out of 10 (The Guardian)
Jay-Z: 9 out of 10 (The Guardian)
Hot Chip: 9 out of 10 (The Guardian)
The Ting Tings: 8 out of 10 (The Guardian)