The Brooklyn Botanic Garden created an impressive timelapse of the famed Cherry Walk from over 3,000 photos. It’s peak bloom people so get out there before the weekend rain washes them away.
The refrain of “There’s no escape from this circling place” on The Notwist’s new track “Where in This World” can be taken many different ways. It can be looked at as the daily routine of life that many of us endure that at times may feel like being stuck on the tumble cycle in the dryer. The soothing orchestral compositions merged with gentle electronic beats and Markus Archer’s innocent uttered vocals on “Where in This World” provide relief from the sometimes cyclical routine of everyday life. Of course there are other interpretations of the lyric as director Markus Wambsganss shows in his video for the track where a young couple that builds a flying apparatus to escape their humble abode. Failed attempts, cold cans of beans, and frustrations don’t prevent this couple from reaching for the sky.
“Where in This World” appears on The Devil, You + Me, which is out via City Slang in Europe in late May and Domino in North America in early June.
As a kid, I was way into dinosaurs, always fascinated by the exhibits of their bones at museums and would be constantly reading about them in books and encyclopedias (the Wikipedia of yesteryear). And who can forget “Land of the Lost” let alone the blockbuster hit “Jurassic Park?” Shit, I’m still into the prehistoric beasts to this day, I can’t lie, I get pretty hype for those Discovery Channel specials like “Walking With Dinosaurs” and “When Dinosaurs Roamed America.”
HEALTH brings back sounds of the Cretaceous with their single “Triceratops” from their self-titled debut long player. The LA quartet dips into the primordial soup, crafting sonic assaults of rumbling guitar lines, massive electronically produced locust-like buzzes, shrieks, thundering drums, squalls of noise, crashing symbols, along with Cro-Magnon chants and screams (yeah, I know part this doesn’t jive with the prehistoric timeline). The Saul Levitz directed video for “Triceratops” shows band members intensely performing the track live in front of a small audience for Dublab’s “VisionVersion Project.” The audio accompanying the video is also the live version and not the album recording of the song.
HEALTH brings the noise to New York City next Wednesday for FRICTION with Crystal Castles, Team Robespierre, and Apache Beat. Grab the album version of “Triceratops” below.
[MP3]: HEALTH ”Triceratops”
Health, Lovepump United; 2008
Shopping carts. Who would ever think that a shopping cart could mean more than just that, a shopping cart? They’re simply designed to gather and transport groceries, housing goods, etc. But, seeing this video of Beach House‘s “Heart of Chambers” from their excellent sophomore effort, Devotion, reminds me of a lot more than going to the market.
Devotion (buy) is out now on Carpark.
[MP3]: Beach House ”Heart of Chambers”
Devotion, Carpark; 2008
Oh brother, here we go again. another cop flips on a 14-yr old kid for “talking back” to him (basically calling him ‘dude’) and throws the kid to the ground. I just can’t believe how angry this man is at a bunch of kids. He’s a city (Baltimore) cop for christ’s sake! the officer is currently being suspended WITH pay.
The video for “88th Precinct” by FRICTION alums Team Robespierre documents one of the band’s infamous live performances at Brooklyn’s Chicken Hut. Directed by Allen Cordell (Dan Deacon), the video opens with a caped man running along the Nassau Ave. subway platform, which is followed by tripped-out backgrounds of swirling colors and dolls with their heads lit on fire. The rest of the video shows sweaty crowd shots along with shots of the band during their live performance of “88th Precinct.” Psychedelic.
“88th Precinct” is the first single from Team Robespierre’s debut, Everything’s Perfect, out now on Impose. The band celebrates the release of the album on February 1st at Death By Audio.
MGMT‘s fantastic debut full-length Oracular Spectacular came out this week. “Kids” (this is an early version) is my favorite jam off the album. Plus
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