A Hot Chip bag and some selfmade rumours

Week is already busy and my mind is still on monday. But it's tuesday. And it's busy. And soon it's wedensday and suddenly our life is over. Or wait, it's soon weekend.

To slow us all a bit down, drowse and relax, I've - for once - tried to be on time with a new release. Hot Chip is soon out with a new spinner on DFA/Astralwerks. It's called Made in the Dark.

I'm looking quite forward to hear what the electro-soul of the new Hot Chip album will bring us this time. Since The Warning they've been busy in my iPod and even though I love Coming on Strong as well, the style and momentum found on The Warning is the style I want from these dudes. The laidback attitude carefully designed for those crosscountry busrides, your headphones and the dark spots on the dancefloor.

So far my ears tell me the new album will mix the two poles between the kitchy and yet affecting lyrics and of course have both the deeper quirky ambient sound and the groove to get your head nodding.

My ears also tell my that these guys will join Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Van Halen and The Decemberists this year at the Roskilde Festival. Just guessing, but I'll bet ya!

Hot Chip - Made in the dark

Hot Chip - In the Privacy of Our Love

Over and Over (From The Warning)

Cave's coming to town!

The coolest man in the world will play in KB-hallen in Copenhagen on the 19th of may. See you there?

Indie Laundry goes jazz with Dave Brubeck Take Five

Sometimes it's just not time for rock or indie. These are the jazztimes. And for some snack-minutes I've felt it. And learned a bit about Dave Brubeck - the shang-chi of the jazzpiano.
Check out this 1961 recording of Take Five. The alt-sax is Paul Desmond and the drummer is Joe Morello. He is brilliant. Behold the moment around the 1:45 mark. Such subtle restraint, and then some serious speed to top things off. Just what you need for these small jazztime moments.

New song from Sun Kil Moon

One of my absolute favorite singer-songwriters is Mark Kozelek. He has released breathtakingly beautiful and melancolic music for the past 15 years. Whether he has used his own name, Red House Painters or now Sun Kil Moon (appearently named after a Korean boxer) the quality has always been top-notch.

Kozelek's voice is world class and his usually simple arrangements on his blue acoustic guitar cuts right into the core of the songs - his own or in stunning covers of e.g. AC/DC (sic!) -with gorgeous results.

April will bring a new Sun Kil Moon release fittingly called 'April'. The reports have revealed that no other than Bonnie 'Prince' Billy joins in a couple of tracks. Very prmising, indeed!!

Do not miss the great first taster 'Moorestown' from the album.

Spacy Twins

Ok, I admit this post is more than a bit unusual. Yes, Its downright strange. Normally, I certainly don't care much for tv shows like 'American Idol' but I must confess I saw the Danish version, X Factor, this Friday. And I don't regret it because of one single, extremely strange experience.

Enter two - well, lets just say odd - twins in identical clothes looking completely baffled and behaving weird. But then they start to sing and... well, I'm speechless. Its not great in a trational way but not bad either. It defies description, really. I think this will devide our readers but you can't be unaffected by this machine-like high-pitched duet. Very monotone yet cool - or..? I really can't describe it better than the judge Thomas Blachman who was absolutely nuts about it. "This is not the new thing. This is never than that" & "You remind us that we in the end are nothing but aliens hanging in outer space without a clue of anything", he said in awe.

Judge for yourself. I'm sure that the twins won't go far in the contest - they are simply too weird. And I can go back to not caring for the show...

Tom Waits nanny Jesca Hoops really rocks

There's no guarantee that babysitting Tom Waits offspring will land you rising fame and fortune, but singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop managed to do both.
After trying out her record Kismet, released in the autumn, I much say I'm damn impressed 'bout this girl.

Jesca Hoop is not in for girly indiepop you can dance to. Her way is quirky off-beat guitar-vocal stuff with evershifting rythms and complex figures. She really demands to be listened to, but the challenge is always rewarding and enchanting and maybe just a bit to emotional for me at times. But it's unconventional and honest, so it's hard not to be compelled by it.

After five years of babysitting at the Tom Waits mansion her employer finally decided he loved Jesca Hoops songs and forwarded them to a dj he knows. Since then lots of airplay with the single below - Seed of Wonder - in hometown Santa Monica colliding with her record release last year.

For musical references I'll mention "The New Weird Americans", Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Faun Fables and also Bonnie Prince Billy. Her style is also cabaret, hiphop, blues and ordinary folk. So homage to names like Edith Piaff, Judy Garland, The Roots, PJ Harvey and The Police would also be appropriate.

Jesca Hoops - Seed of Wonder

Jesca Hoop - Enemy

Jesca Hoop MySpace

Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place video

There's no doubt that we here at the office thinks that Radiohead is ace. I havn't seen this first video off the In Rainbows album before now, but I'm still amazed about how this band can make a great artconcept with webcams strapped to a bikehelmet. And of course one of the best songs from the album. So sorry for another YouTube-video.

Radiohead - Jigsaw falling into places

Noah and the whale - a cheerful video

So this is the new year? Well, I definetly feel better. At least than yesterday. But not being all upbeat yet I might as well just post something cheerful, creative and worth 04:02 of your time. It's Noah and the Whale.

BTW: Our site has undergone one of its biggest developments in the past year: it now has a 'post this entry to your Facebook' under each posting. Amazing? Well, we don't know.

Indie Laundry wishes you a happy new year

Here at the laundry-office, we would like to salute our readers and wish everyone a happy new year. We didn't really get that many new readers in 2007, but we don't care. There are still quite a lot of you every day and as long as someone findes something inspiritional we kind of overachieved!

We will see you next year with more groundbreaking stories. Hopefully we will be able to break the news that Led Zeppelin and Van Halen will guest the legendary Roskilde Festival. If anyone has enquieries, please feel free to contact us via the link provided in the right bar.

Enjoy the video below. It's fun pop-up book puppetry.

Vintage concerts live stream, zeppelin, black sabbath, byrds, beach boys

Wolfgangs Vault is the kind of shop you can visit and browse and feel entertained in without ever leaving a dime at the counter. Wolfgangs Vault sell all kinds of rock music memorabilia (soo cool tshirts), but the way interesting part in their business is free and it features the complete archives of legendary rock impressario Bill Graham, whose headliners included Johnny Cash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Janis Joplin, Aerosmith, Jefferson Airplane, AC/DC and Phish.

Today I've heard an evil liveconcert with Black Sabbath from Pittsburgh Civic Arena dated back to september 2. 1978. They have Neil Young concerts, Byrds stuff, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin from Fillmore East and bunch of other totally vintage-style concerts. The flash-based player is way cool, allowing you to play only tracks, view bandinfo, post to friends etc. Just sign up for free and get in. It's the link of the last week this year, I'd say.

Wolfgangs Vault - live vintage concerts

Fabchannel - live concerts from Amsterdam

Led Zeppelin - Black Dog Live in Long Beach (1975)

Get The Blow! Mp3

As always we bring you late news from the edges of the alternative pop world. This time we are late telling you about The Blow aka the two girls Khaela Maricich and teammember Jona Bechtolt. To me these two are a perfect pair and their record Paper Television is just plain addictive. It's minimal indie pop and of the intelligent lo-fi drumbeat kind. Even more than icelander Hafdis Huld in which this duo reminds me.

Just check out the song Parentheses below - it's a absolutely gorgeous song set in a supermarket and helps its lovesick protagonist through the store, with a heartbreaking verse: "If something in the deli aisle/ Makes you cry/ You know I'll put my arm around you/ And I'll walk you outside." Better late than never, right?

The Blow - Parentheses

Malcom Middleton capturing the essens of christmas - a christmas single

I game for getting this the number one christmas hit. So merry christmas!

An as an extra christmas bonus, it should be mentioned, that as a celebration (?) of the closing of the Arab Strap website, Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton is offering a free download of a previously unreleased song. Again, merry something. To all good night (mp3)

The Moby Quotient

The Moby Quotient determines the degree to which artists besmirch their reputations when they lend their music to hawk products or companies.

The equation factors in the artist, how "underground" they are, the social character of the company, and how wealthy the artist is. Interesting! (via snarkmarket)

Not Top 11 Music Videos of 2007

This is not a top 11 list of best music videos of 2007, but these I've stumpled upon in the past year. And I like. There are many more, but here is a serving with different stuff; there's consistent popsongs here, freaky stuff with nice lightning and videodirection, a truely amazing Arcade Fire song about exploiting children (Joe Simpson) and just plain good music. Enjoy.

Of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse


Tim Williams - Novel


The Shins - Phantom Limb


Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton - Our Hell


The Little Ones - Ordinary Song


Trentemøller - Moan


Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues


Radiohead - Ceremony (New Order)


LCD Soundsystem - All my friends



Feist - 1 2 3 4


Blonde Redhead - Top Ranking

Database of a Country Christmas and Johnny Cash

It's soon Christmas and there's nothing like some music for the season. I found the website of Joe Sixpack, which is part e-zine, music guide and wacky carnival mirror for his overstuffed, overly musical brain. I don't really know about the design of the website, but this dude has heard a lot of music. All his knowledge is put in a database and presented on his site.
So if you want to be inspired for the season or just want to know more about hick music, alt. country, bluegrass, hillbilly fillies, western swing or are curios on country gospel, you have just found yourself an ever-expanding source of reviews.
Below some YouTube from some old Johnny Cash holiday shows. Enjoy. It's a bit corny, but what...

Johnny Cash Christmas Show '77 - Cash, Orbison, Perkins, Lee


Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash 10th anniversary Christmas