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Phoenix – 1901

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:30:30 +0000

Going to see Phoenix at the Hollywood Bowl later this year. Kind of excited about that. Here’s their performance from this year’s Bonnaroo.

The Bewitched Hands on the Top of Our Heads – Work

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:07:27 +0000

They’re going to be at SXSW.

WORK from TheBewitchedHands on Vimeo.

Hockey – Work

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:58:49 +0000

Koudlam – See You All

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:35:38 +0000

Part of Cyprien Gaillard’s film, Desniansky Raion: Massive street fight between two hooligan gangs in St. Petersburg, Russia. Awesome!

Eight Legs – These Grey Days

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:52:14 +0000

I still have this in regular rotation. Soundtrack from Dior Homme A/W 06-07 runway show.

it’s a brilliant and funny video.

Link: Eight Legs

Shearwater – Rooks

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:29:38 +0000

It’s a year old or so, but for these past few days, I’ve had this song on repeat. It’s a melancholic track.
Quite enchanting. Great Voice. If I could sing, I’d have this song in my arsenal.

Lyrics:

When the rooks were laid in piles
by the sides of the road,
crashing into the aerials,
tangled in the laundry lines.
And, gathered in a field, they were burned
in a feathering pyre,
with their cold, black eyes.

When the swallows fell from the eaves,
and the gulls from the spires,
and starlings, in the millions,
would feed on the ground where they lie,
the ambulance men said,
“There’s nowhere to flee for your life,”
so we stayed inside,
and we’ll sleep until the world of man is paralyzed.”

Oh, the falconer awakes
to the sound of the bells.
Overhead, and southbound,
they’re leaving his life.
And each empty cage just rings
in his heart like a bell,
underneath these cold stars,
In this trembling light.
And he cries,
“Amen, let their kingdom come tonight.
Let this dream be realized.”

Link: Shearwater

Dappled Cities – The Price

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:51:27 +0000

Lyrics:

If eyes were bone and toes were gold we’d have somebody new
But ears stick out and eyes remain cause everyone’s the same
They’re beautiful, in one is all

The heroes of the world we left have never been the same
They look to us, out to our quest and see themselves remain
They’re losing us, in one is all

Something should be holding us back
Something should be weighing us down
Somehow we’re the casters of kin and bone
By now we could be standing our ground
But don’t take you eyes away don’t take take take your eyes away
All as one
(it’s) the price we pay to look the other way
When I’m right here beside you

The eyes of bone the toes of gold the shape of something new
But here we’re near the eyes of age
And everyone’s the same
They’re beautiful in one is all

Something should be holding us back
Something should be weighing us down
Somehow we’re the casters of kin and bone
By now we could be standing our ground
But don’t take you eyes away don’t take take take your eyes away
All as one
(it’s) The price we pay to look the other way
When I’m right here beside you

Something should be holding us back!