And so, the end is here. Or near. Of the year. Clear? For some bands, the end came a little earlier than 31st December, however. And here, courtesy of Stereogum, is an Oscars-style run through those acts who called it a day in 2008. Farewell, “Wolfmother”.
[via The Daily Swarm]
Video, Where Have I Heard That Song Before?
Terribly misleading, this little collaboration between Kickers and Chromeo. I just gave it a look having been sent it by Brandish editor Isabelle and immediately hit the Kickers website to try and splank some money on a pair of helicopter boots. Nothing. THEY DO NOT EVEN EXIST.
Harrumph. Once you get over that disappointment you’re able to appreciate that this is quite a cool little clip, with other Kickers turning into cute wittle monsters and stuff. Plus, it has something relatively new from Chromeo, in the shape of a CSS remix of “Fancy Footwork”. Since Chromeo appear to dragging their own Kickers when it comes to MAKING A NEW FLIPPING ALBUM, this will have to do for the time being.
Check out the full clip after the click.
Did you witness the Spaghetti Cat phenomenon earlier this year? During a daytime TV show on Fox, an inexplicable cutaway to a surprised-looking cat sat at a table with a plate of spaghetti sent people with nothing better to do certain sections of the internetosphere into a frenzy of bewilderment and LOLZ.
It transpired that the cutaway was Fox’s way of avoiding showing inappropriate material, but that hasn’t prevented Spaghetti Cat becoming a meme all over the web. Well, it’s a cat, right? Teh internetz *hearts* cats.
Now, inevitably, someone’s written a song to Spaghetti Cat and made a video to go with it that sees SC photoshopped into various unlikely scenarios (he/she looks right at home on Inside The Actor’s Studio, mind you).
See the original clip and the ode to Spaghetti Cat after the jump.
If you fancy an alternative list of Christmas tunes there’s quite a good one from the improbable but rather impressive location of The Dallas Observer.
The Top Ten Most Erotic Christmas Songs sounds like a challenging list to put together, and so it proves - “Mr Hanky The Christmas Poo”? “The hottest song ever, if you’re a fecalphiliac,” they say. Good job they qualified that.
I took a shine to this list because it introduced me to Clarence Carter’s terrifically wrong “Backdoor Santa”, which features oo-er lyrics such as “I ain’t like Old Saint Nick, he don’t come but once a year.” You can listen to that at the top of this post.
Head to The Dallas Observer’s DC9 At Night to see the rest of the list.
This is a video of a man called Teletext Alex (probably not his real name) singing Slade’s “Merry Christmas Everybody” on Radio Five Live, with the usual lyrics replaced by the names of footballers.
Why? I do not know. But the overall effect is a bit like hearing the song sung in Klingon. Which, to my mind, is an improvement. And I’m not even a Trekkie.
[via Off The Post]
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You can tell when pop star types are busy, because when their new video comes out they are nowhere to be seen.
Bloc Party would have looked just darling scampering through the enchanted forest you’ll find in their new video for “One Month Off”. Having said that you can’t blame them for giving it a miss when you consider that it seems to hide tanks and evil lazer-shooting camerabots ‘neath its verdant verges.
Oh, and they shoot the shit out of Little Miss Muffet, Hansel And Gretel and Humpty Dumpty. For no reason. Merry Christmas from Bloc Party.
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[via Gizmodo]
You might be surprised how well “If I Were A Free Fallin’ Boy” works. You might not be. It is the work of a man by the name of DJ Earworm who, wouldn’t you know it, turned out to be a DJ! It’s amazing how many people named DJ then do actually follow that career path. There’s DJ Otzi, DJ Sammy… and others.
This is an interesting idea:
There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? …well we hadn’t so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two.
That’s what the folk at Bandstand Busking have to say about their website. Most of the acts on there I’ve never heard of, but they do have The Wave Pictures and Of Montreal, no less.
Check out that Of Montreal song with the title that goes “something something something curse” after the jump.
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