As reported by MTV News, the new Vampire Weekend video takes a turn for the decidedly goth. We do love Ezra's 80s man-bangs in the first half. We still do not feel any desire to go to a preppy 80s beach party.
As reported by MTV News, the new Vampire Weekend video takes a turn for the decidedly goth. We do love Ezra's 80s man-bangs in the first half. We still do not feel any desire to go to a preppy 80s beach party.
Posted 7/31/08 1:08 pm ET by subterranean in Band Footage, Live Performance, New Music
Bored at work today? Us too. Here's a toy - go remix Death Cab's "Cath" video using a bunch of random other footage and make your own new video. Our "Cath (the Live Lovelorn Remix)" is a real heartbreaker.
Some of the crazy wet looking live footage in there is from that rained out concert at McCarren Park in Brooklyn earlier this summer.
Posted 7/31/08 11:02 am ET by subterranean in New Music
You may have noticed several Sunny Day Sets Fire videos debuting all over the Internets for the past month or so. The band actually created videos for 9 tracks on their new album, each by different directors/artists. It's rather the perfect mash up/all over the place sort of presentation from this highly international band (members hail from Italy, the UK, Canada, and China).
If this video doesn't gobsmack you good news: there are eight more out there for you to explore!
At first glance we were like, "my damn this track is so Interpol-y" but then a heated debate started where our office-mate extolled the Echo & the Bunnymen-esque properties of the guitar part and the initial shots of the band. Then we read the press release and were like, "wait they in some way think this sounds like Depeche Mode what?"
At any rate, this band White Lies is a new addition to Geffen Records and quite an interesting one for them to pick up in our opinion. It doesn't really fit in with the rest of their roster (aside from The Cure maybe, alongside whom they are on Fiction Records in the UK which is part of the Universal Music Group worldwide, who own Geffen in the U.S. and we think the circle may be complete) and this initial visual doesn't exactly scream mainstream accessibility at us. Perhaps they're going to be groomed into a Killers like mold?
The Teenagers: you're gonna like it, you're gonna love it.
Is it possible to watch this video and not bust out in laughter?
Posted 7/30/08 12:10 pm ET by subterranean in Live Performance, Vintage
We've been deep diving in the archives, dear blog readers, and today we're pulling a good one out for you.
Please enjoy the Pixies doing "Planet of Sound" from their 1991 appearance.
We'll have lots of interview clips coming up from 120 Minutes and Indie Outing plus a few more live performances to come.
If we had to tell you what it took to get this video on our website you wouldn't even believe us. Let's just say it involved the words "isolated" and "crotch shot"; the disdane of French video editors; a mistake at iTunes and some last minute begging/bitching.
At any rate, here it is! The new M83 video for "Kim and Jessie"! It's got a very "Napoleon Dynamite" vibe to it and features synchronized roller skating, synchronized making out and other assorted synchronized awesomeness.
Call us behind the times but we finally watched the Sigur Ros performance documentary Heima last night on Free Movies On Demand, courtesy of Sundance. It came out around this time last year, we believe. It can be summed up by saying: breath-takingly beautiful. We've never wanted to go to Iceland more (if only the exchange rate weren't murder).
Posted 7/29/08 11:20 am ET by subterranean in New Music
Everything about this band - from the way they spell their name to the way they dress to the wanna-be The Edge guitar part to the faux Fellini look of their video makes us feel stabby.
We just wanted to make it clear where we stood.
Let's Monday morning quarterback this thing, y'all. Watch this Saturday's Subterranean on MTV.com if you missed the show plus a bonus playlist chosen by our beloved Ross Dupliss, who kindly encoded every episode of Subterranean that the lawyers would let him before he left us. Major hearts for that, major laughs at the theme of his playlist being "female fronted pop" and including so many guilty pleasure tracks.
Next weekend on Subterranean we're thinking of doing an odds 'n ends show of videos we've been meaning to play but haven't gotten around to yet (no, that will not include The Liars drumsnotdead but it would if we could). What do you think about that and what would you like to see in an odds 'n ends show?
We can tell you for sure that this Caribou video will be in there.
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