The Whitney Houston funeral goes down in New Jersey; The Grammy Awards went on with host LL Cool J and a performance from Jennifer Hudson alongside 6 Grammy Awards for Adele, including Album of the Year for 21. Bon Iver won the Best Alternative Album and Best New Arist awards and Foo Fighters and Skrillex also won awards. Damian Abraham of the band Fucked Up was the (Julie McCoy) cruise director for the Bruise Cruise Festival, which includes King Kahn and the Shrines, Fucked Up and The Soft Pack. Plus new album releases for the upcoming week and tours. | VIDEO
Sleigh Bells were the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, with Maya Rudolph as the host. They performed the songs “Comeback Kid” and “End of the Line.” | VIDEO
Another installment in the fine interview series from Dirty Laundry TV ... this time Karrie K interviews San Diego indie-rock / post-rock band The Black Heart Procession. They talk about how to hustle in making music, Touch & Go, and working with Lee Scratch Perry. | VIDEO
The new video for ‘Something In Between’ from Porcelain Raft, which is part of the 'Unless You Speak From Your Heart' EP due for release on Feb. 21st via Secretly Canadian. | VIDEO
A new phase of Dirty Laundry TV interviews ... an interview done in a laundromat in Los Angeles by Dirty Laundry TV and host Karrie K., this interview is with Brooklyn band Caveman. They talk about past bands, opening for Blue Oyster Cult and playing all of 12 shows at the CMJ Marathon last year. | VIDEO
If you're into Cults (which is totally a double entendre ... who doesn't want to join a good cult?), check out their new video for the song 'You Know What I Mean.' | VIDEO
The new Lee Ranaldo video from his new album, Between the Times & the Tides. In classic Lee Ranaldo/Sonic Youth style, it's all about New York with a lot of footage of of the city. | VIDEO
Watch Mountain Goats perform the Leonard Cohen song “The Smokey Life” as part of a series of videos called Old Ideas With New Friends, for the upcoming release of Old Idea by Leonard Cohen. | VIDEO
All hail the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of music! Now you can pay respects the ruling monarch of modern music, Frank Black (a.k.a. the Grand Duke) and his wife, Violet Clark (the Grand Duchess) with their new album Let the People Speak. | VIDEO
The new video for the song “Runaway” off of the album Feel the Sound, out now on Merge Records. You can also stream the whole album for a limited time. | VIDEO
The new Neon Indian video for the song "Fallout" from the album Era Extraña. It has a little bit of Tron meets Speedracer feel to it, combined with a parody of cheesy 80's production values and more adult-oriented content (can you imagine her in Speedracer?). | VIDEO
Jack White, Adele, Primavera Sound Festival, Best Coast, Soul Train creator Don Cornelius, Sonic Youth collaborator Mike Kelly, The Happy Mondays, Shabazz Palaces, Spiritualized, & Mogwai. | VIDEO
The first taste of the new M. Ward album, part his upcoming A Wasteland Companion release due out on Apr 10. The video is for the song "The First Time I Ran Away," an animated story in three parts. High-art props. | VIDEO
Watch Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers) perform the Leonard Cohen song "Paper Thin Hotel" as part of a series of videos called Old Ideas With New Friends. | VIDEO
The ongoing saga of De La Soul as First Serve, or at least 2/3 of De La Soul. Plug 1 and Plug 2 build on their original offering of music and the first installment: the 'Mrs Whitter' skit that launched what looks like a series of web videos (or the favored/hated term "webisode!") around First Serve. Check out the new video. | VIDEO
The Kills have a new video for the song 'The Last Goodbye, directed by Samantha Morton. The song is due for release a single in early February and is the first music video done by Samantha Morton. | VIDEO
American Idol judge Steven Tyler andthe National Anthem at AFC Championship, rumors of Madonna, Nicki Minaj & M.I.A. at the Superbowl halftime after they’re on Madonna's M.D.N.A., new Lana Del Rey album Born to Die leaked early , the new Perfume Genius video for the song Hood was taken down by Google and YouTube, Disney launched a new Mickey Mouse T-shirt that looked like Joy Division Unknown Pleasures album, Disney pulled the shirt. There’s more in the video ...
Wilco made an appearance on Conan last night, there are two videos of Wilco performing both “Whole Love” and “Dawned on Me.” for Team Coco and the Conan O' Brien crowd. | VIDEO
Influences playing out here: Cabaret Voltaire, Can, Liars, Magazine, Autechre, and Public Image Limited, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and even Nine Inch Nails.| VIDEO
We get our first taste of the Grinderman 2 RMX album with the Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) remix of the song “Bellringer Blues.” Fuzzed out bliss meets grainy, low-tech digital camera shots that are one part static fuzz analog tv and one part modern day digital video clips edited together as short-attention span viewing.
Wilco is releasing an iTunes session on Tuesday, which includes the band performing the song "Cruel To Be Kind" with Nick Lowe. The iTunes Session includes 8 songs from the recent album The Whole Love, and was recorded at Wilco's loft in Chicago. Check out a video of the band recording the song.
The new Matthew Dear video for “In The Middle (I Met You There)” features vocals by by Jonny Pierce of The Drums and was directed by Morgan Beringer. The video is a great piece of moving art ... seriously, I want to project this on my wall and make it moving wallpaper in my home. | VIDEO
The Big Pink release their new album Future This this week, a fresh set of track for the electro-rock / shoegaze inspired band from London. Check out some of the new songs in action on their spankin' new 4AD Session.
Folk singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten will release her new album Tramp on Feb. 7 on Jagjaguwar Records, her third album and anticipated by fans of acts like The National and Bon Iver.
Amp up your morning! Peo de Pitte and the video for the song "Who Do You Love" is enough to make the bombastic Tobbacco and Black Moth Super Rainbow look timid in their approach. | VIDEO
Surfer Blood appeared on Jimmy Fallon last night to perform the song "Miranda" off of their EP Tarot Classics, which was released last October via Kanine Records. | VIDEO
Check out the Plastikman visuals that surrounded the Plastikman Arkives tour, with surreal imagery that's both organic and synthetic. And repetitious. And free-willed. The Plastikman tracks featured here are “Mind Encode,” “Lost,” and “Disconnect.” | VIDEO
In the video , Bassnectar talks about many of the different electronic genres like Broken Beat (Trip Hop, Dancehall, Breakbeat, Drum and Bass, Dubstep) and Steady Beat (House, Trance, Techno, Dub). The whole thing is set to a graphic representation of the words -- super cool.
Flaming Lips went all out on their cover of Dark Side of the Moon in it's entirety in both the release of an album and shows, could the same be said for their new cover of "I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles? | VIDEO
Guided by Voices were on David Letterman last night, performing the song “The Unsinkable Fats Domino” off their new album Let's Go Eat the Factory. | VIDEO
Ease your way into the first week of 2012 with the Plump DJs video for Gobstopper. It's filled with breakbeats and electro sounds, all set with visuals of high frame rate slow motion vignettes. You know, explosions and fires and stuff ... | VIDEO
Gauntlet Hair is back with a new video for the song “Top Bunk,” a spacey and echoey song that builds past Gauntlet Hair songs for a new experience: the Schwarzenegger film. | VIDEO
The 2011 Grammys are almost upon us ... here's a run down of the 5 Grammy nominees in the Best Long Form Music Video: Foo Fighters, The Kings of Leon, A Tribe Called Quest, TV On the Radio and Beyoncé.
The new Arcade Fire video(s) for "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" come in three varieties -- 2 traditional video and one interactive. Or as Arcade Fire and director Vincent Morisset call it, "interactive" and "traditional." | VIDEO
With The Roots being the houseband for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, it's natural for Jimmy Fallon to tap the band to preview material from their new album undun, which was released this week. Watch them play two songs from the newly released album undun with special guests. | VIDEO
Music news for the week that was. Underworld, Coldplay, Guided by Voices, Sleigbells, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The National, Jonsi and The Smiths. | VIDEO
The Black Keys were on Colbert Report last night. They joked about both being part of the "Grammy Club" during the interview before going on to play the song “Lonely Boy.” | VIDEO
After a months of anticipation, we finally get to hear more music from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movie. This time its a free six song EP from the film soundtrack. | MP3 | VIDEO
Online Music TV Channel Dirty Laundry co-hosted a show at the Cake Shop in NYC at this Fall's CMJ Music Marathon with San Diego's Garage / Psych band Tropical Popsicle. Teresa Guy interviewed the band and you can also watch two songs from the Cake Shop show. | VIDEO
Iron & Wine played The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, to perform the song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth,” a song from the The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 soundtrack. | VIDEO
Exacting on the combination of both dream pop and indie pop to create sonic waves, the band creates a soundtrack for a film in your head, conjuring the epic "cinematic" tag while still backing up the claim. | VIDEO
The new Kate Bush album 50 Words for Snow is out now, and “Mistraldespair” is the first video to arrive from the album. It's never to early for snow. | VIDEO
M83 was the musical guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, performing the song single "Midnight City" off of the album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. | VIDEO
The latest Roots video off of their upcoming undun album, this time with the track “Sleep,” which features the vocals of Aaron Livingston, who we also know from work with RJD2 as Icebird. | VIDEO
Sean Pecknold is the brother of Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes, so it's no surprise that got his brother's band to soundtrack this film titled “The Shrine / An Argument” (wouldn't you?). The music is from the Fleet Foxes album Helplessness Blues. | VIDEO
New York's garage/dubstep act Sepalcure have new release with “Pencil Pimp,” which sees members Praveen Sharma and Travis Stewart back together after a focus on solo outings.
The LAST SONIC YOUTH SHOW ever? That might be a bit over the top and premature at this point, but a great show filled with classics nonetheless. Check out the full show.
Tim Fite is so ahead of his time. The indie rock / hip hop provocateur showed up on Wall Street to stage a one-man protest against the system ... a year ago. That's so ironically indie rock - he was down with #occupy before it was cool to be down with the #occupy movement.
Moby's got a new video, all decked out in the super-clean Moby visual settings ... check out how everything is hyper-clean, symmetrical well compositioned and futuristic.
The new Black Keys video for "Lonely Boy" continues their past vibe for El Camino, with an off the cuff, direct approach to bringing the music to life. The "Lonely Boy" video shows a dude lip-synching and doing a simple dance to the song for three minutes in a plain-looking office. Still, it's hard not to like the song after watching the video. | VIDEO
Tim "Sole" Holland has created a new video titled "I Think I'm Ben Bernanke" complete with all of the relevant issues of the #Occupy Wall Street movement.
This one needs be experienced LOUD, and it's worth seeing through to the end of the song. New Speedway are from Philadelphia, and bring the sonic delight of My Blood Valentine mixed with a wall of sound guitar onslaught. If your walls aren't shaking when you play this, you're not playing it loud enough.
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