Red House Painters - Michael

The king is dead. May he rest in peace.

Roskilde warm-up part 1

The Indielaundry crew are warming up to this years Roskilde Festival. The line-up this year has been discussed a lot between the crew and we more or less agree, that among the headliners the quality is very low this year. Too mainstream, too much old news, too much rap and metal. But fortunately the smaller venues at Roskilde always has great (the greatest) shows. So this year it's the smaller and still unknown bands who we rely on here at Indielaundry. Personally I only have a few must-see's - two of them are Lucinda Williams and M. Ward. Both artists who cooperate alot with other artists - and each other. On the new M. Ward album theres a duet with the two artists, and I hope Roskilde are up for arranging this duet on stage - it could be magic. Heres a few live-goodies - that realy shows what we are up for. (Just hope Jim James shows up as well!)

Kitty Daisy & Lewis 'Going Up The Country'

Niblett and Bonnie Prince Billy makes the angels sing

I think this speaks for itself....

I think this speaks for itself....

Foreign Born - Vacationing People

Foreign Born are out of LA debuting in 2005 with On The Wing Now. Now they have their second disc on their way. The guys are at SXSW these days showcasing their stuff together with Grizzly Bear, amongst others.
Their album Person to Person should be out around june and since I havn't found it leaked yet, I just enjoyed the appetizer from their label, well-renowned label Secretly Canadian.

Anywhoooo I find Vacationing People (see below) a very fine little popgem.

Foreign Born - Vacationing People

This is Foreign Born doing LOve, Love, Love by Mr. Sir. Lord. Leonard Cohen. Further below the master himself.

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar - sunday badassness

I never put my eyes on 'Star Guitar' while on acid. And maybe there is no real need to, because this video is just so unbelievable clever made by Michel Gondry.

What has been done to most of the objects in the background is the fascinating thing about this direction. Most of the objects represents a sound played in the song. For example in the beginning every clap in the song is represented by a house passing by. The timing is so badass. Visionary stuff.

If you're into Michel Gondry then you should definetly also check out the trailer for his new collab. movie TOKYO! An omnibus tale examining the nature of one unforgettable city as its shaped by the disparate people who live, work (and run amok) inside an enormous, constantly evolving, densely populated Japanese megalopolis.

Crazy Horses - The Osmonds

This is friday stuff and pretty eerie! SO many details in this Crazy Horse video by The Osmonds!. And it's not pretty!

Wayne looks uncannily like Jimmy Page - Yardbirds - era. I like the energy they put in it, but the dance is rubbish. The words I'm thinking about now is 'hysteria' and '...for God sakes - relax!'.

But here you have it.

Tom Waits: Take Me Home

While being busy at work I just had to take a break. Often these moments leads to some kind of severe procrastination, but today I hit a gem quite fast on my way into the web while on this little break.

This song is Take Me Home by Tom Waits from french tv in 1982, performed on a show called "Reportage". The song is from the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola movie One from the Heart. The album, and I quote sources on this: "...is constructed as a dialog between lovers in a fitful emotional spiral, Waits raspy growl is the perfect counterpoint to Gayle's own gutsy, surprisingly bluesy diva turns"

I'm not familiar with this album, but I know that Take Me Home is a very sweet and emotional song. It kind of just punches you Bruce Lee-way in the heart. At least a very good way to spend only 2 small minutes.

Are you goodbye?

Yes I am! New brilliant video and song from upcoming Bonnie Prince Billy album.

Grizzly Bear - While you wait for the other

I'm just sooo into Twitter at the moment. So well, when Edward Droste of Grizzly Bear tweets about the new album being leaked, I just had to check it out.

While these DIY we-live-in-solitude-in-the-woods-bands like Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear (and a lot of others in lumberjack shirts) back each other up big time, this album should be huge. Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold has already called it “the album of the 00s.' - If I really was a teenager - i'm not (courtesy of me) - i'd be stupidly exited when someone like Robin Pecknold said stuff like that. Instead I'm just a tiny bit exited, because I really dug Yellow House, which is a beautiful creative album. AND I've just heard 'Ready, Able' from the new album which is just pure bliss - i love it already.

Rumours are that new album Veckatimest, which should officially should release in three month time, is insanely good. But hey, we'll wait and check it out by then. Or find it on a torrent. Wha'eva. Now we are a part of the hype.

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Vintage alt. country by Olsen and Louris

This genre keeps thrilling me. Oh no, theres nothing new here, but this is performed to perfection. Mark Olsen and Gary Louris from The Jayhawks is back together and it is great stuff. (And another band I would like to se on a small stage at this years Roskilde Festival)

Bicycle

Röyksopp -Happy Up Here

Official video for the first single from 'Junior' album by Röyksopp. This is Happy Up Here'! Directed by Reuben Sutherland.

This tune just makes me very happy and video is kinda cool too. Röyksopp are just the best at electro music in Scandinavia.

More Roskilde suggestions!

Hey bookers at Roskilde - how about a stealing some gigs at Primavera Sound Festival in Spain??!!
A Certain Ratio A-Trak Alela Diane Andrew Bird Angelo Spencer Aphex Twin Ariel Pink Art Brut Bat For Lashes Black Lips Bloc Party Bowerbirds Carsick Cars Chad VanGaalen Crystal Antlers Crystal Stilts Cuzo Damien Jurado Dan Deacon Ensemble Deerhunter Dj Mehdi Ebony Bones El-P Extra Life Extraperlo Fucked Up Gang Gang Dance Ghostface Killah Girl Talk Girls Jarvis Cocker Jason Lytle Jay Reatard Joe Crepúsculo y Los Destructores Joe Henry John Maus Karl Blau Kimya Dawson Kitty, Daisy and Lewis Lemonade Lightning Bolt Magik Markers Magnolia Electric Co. Mahjongg Marnie Stern Michael Mayer Michael Nyman My Bloody Valentine Oneida Phoenix Plants & Animals Ponytail Rosvita Shearwater Shellac Simian Mobile Disco Skatebård Sleepy Sun Sonic Youth Spectrum Spiritualized Squarepusher Sunn O))) The Bad Plus The Bug The Drones The Extraordinaires The Jayhawks The Jesus Lizard The Lions Constellation The Mae Shi The New Year The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart The Secret Society The Soft Pack The Tallest Man On Earth The Vaselines Throwing Muses Uffie Veracruz Vivian Girls Wavves Women Wooden Shjips Yo La Tengo Zombie Zombie ...

Are you going?????

Three walrusses - the classic, the acceptable and the really funny

'I Am The Walrus' is probably that song where The Beatles most succesfully blended their (i.e. Lennon's) surrealistic explorations into an orthodox, almost mainstream-ish rock song. It is not like 'A day in a Life' where the 'freaky' bits are isolated towards the end, or 'Tomorrow never knows' which hardly qualifies as a mainstream or standard rock song. And obviously, 'Revolution nr. 9' is just way way too much. I'd prefer Barney Gumble's version instead.

The lyrics in 'I Am The Walrus' are heavy stuff inspired by Lennon's LSD trips and his general feeling of disillusion. In september´67 The Summer of Love is over (at least for Lennon), their manager Brian Epstein was dead and the police were faring aggressively, arresting friends like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones (being MBE's The Beatles were immune of such unpleasanties). But in all its aggresive disillusion, the song has a undeniably bad-ass groove that is as catchy as anything.

We all know the original The Beatles version, and you probably also know Oasis' version who for extended periods has used the song as a show closer. If you think Oasis remains too close to the original, then dig the version by Jim Carrey! That man can sing! Hands down. There is lots of great ideas in his approach to the song, even if some of them are highly unorthodox. What a character...

 

UPDATE: We were notified about Bono's performance on I Am The Walrus in the movie Across The Universe... Jim Carrey beats this:

What the fuck, Roskilde?!

I am deeply worried about the Roskilde Festival 2009 line-up. Coldplay, Down, Madness, Satyricon, Slipknot, etc. What the FUCK? I have a lot of respect for the big group of metal-fans at Roskilde every year and think it's fine that they get their share of the programme - I guess the drink the most beers - so they deserve it! But what worries me the most is that Roskilde has promissed more pop and hip-hop. Fine fine. But where the hell are the indie and the alternative country? What about rock? Hopefully I'm just paranoid, because there is stille about 100 bands to be announced and normally the bookers at Roskilde knows their shit. And thats why we keep coming back at Indielaundry despite our age, kids, wifes etc. So let there from here come some good and realistic advice: My Morning Jacket, M. Ward, BRMC, The Black Keys, Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley, Gutter Twins, Beirut, Fleet Foxes, Okkervil River, Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes, Mellemblond, Tv on the Radio, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Megapuss/Devendra Banhart and of course Neil Young again. Come oooooooonnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!
Here's a very unfocused but quite well sounding clip from last years historical Neil Young concert at Orange Stage: