Watch your head and watch the ground…

Digging this song from Tegan and Sara. I love the bald guy on keys just feeling it at 1:03 in. 

Download: Tegan and Sara - My Number

Also, this:

And, finally, exhibit A why a trip to trusty old Supercuts is necessary:

 

Thurrrrrrrrrsday

 

Thursday mashup

- My Morning Jacket’s new single is fantastic. Looking forward to the album. Read Stereogum’s Premature Evaluation, and download “Evil Urges” here.

- The Caucus is suspicious of Abercrombie & Fitch’s influence over Barack Obama’s campaign.  

- 15 things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else ever has or will. My favorite:

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”

- For the lazy Quagmire: introducing the Cocktail Shake-o-matic

- Interesting article on the role of the car in rural China. Love the intro about the farmer’s sons getting girlfriends because they have a car.

- If you were like me and weren’t allowed to watch Ninja Turtles as a kid, you probably watched The Lawrence Welk Show, what with the bubbles and the big band and the singing, etc. Sadly, Joe Feeney died earlier this month.

[image of Kurt Vonnegut thanks to the AV Club, or wherever they got it from. Maybe this dead writers images thing really is becoming a thing]

New Portishead

Only one week until Portishead releases their much anticipated studio album next Monday on the 28th.  After a little over 10 years since their last release, this album looks as though it will be as dark and melancholy as ever.

Check out these videos taken from their appearance on Jools Holland:

Some downloads here. (My favorite thus far is “Small,” give it a listen!)

Le Loup: Get ready

With comparisons to The Arcade Fire and an excellent album title (The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly), D.C.-based Le Loup is making waves in the indie rock channels.

The seven-piece outfit is currently on tour, and had they not taken the stage at the not-safe-for-work hour of 11:15 this past Wednesday, I would have been at T.T. the Bears cheering them on. I love the cacophony of instruments and the mash-up of vocals at the end of this clip:

mp3 Le Loup - We Are Gods! We Are Wolves!

[photo credit: Jalepeno]

matt pond PA: at my college’s bar

So I’ve learned from Fro that one of my long-standing favorite bands (diehard through their various lineups and equipment thefts), matt pond PA, will appear at McPhail’s - my college’s on-campus bar. Now I’m not sure what this says about either my school or matt pond, but I wish the best to both. I’ll be in attendance:

matt pond PA
McPhails - Providence College
Saturday, January 28
8 p.m.

Check out this multi-angle deliciousness from a show in Detroit last year:

And some tunes for the Friday morning crew:

matt pond PA - Closest (Look Out)
John Vanderslice - Numbered Lithograph
Destroyer -  Priest’s Knees