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An exciting recent find, I found this band in the wee hours of the morning during an overnighter working on the dissertation. I was listening to an archived October 2 interview with xkcd cartoonist Randall Munroe carried out last fall at Skeptically Speaking by Desiree Schnell. At the end of the file with their interview, The [...]
Archive for the ‘Music Videos’ Category
291. The Burning Hell
March 17th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Comedy, Hilarious, Indie Music, Music, Music Videos, Parody, Satire, Videos 
Tags: "Everything You Believe Is A Lie", Claymation, Dinosaurs, Magnetic Fields, The Burning Hell, xkcd 
No Comments »292. Harry Nilsson
March 16th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Harry Nilsson is sort of a cross between John Lennon and Bob Dylan in my mind, I fell in love with his brilliant song “Don’t Forget Me” through the brilliant Neko Case’s version—but more on her in the late autumn. I’m also, embarrassingly enough, a sucker for the film “You’ve Got Mail”, so I opted [...]
Posted in Film, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Everybody's Talkin'", "One", "You've Got Mail", Don't Forget Me, Harry Nilsson, Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks No Comments »293. Nick Lowe
March 15th, 2010 Daniel Fincke They didn’t call him the Jesus of Cool for nothing. Or, at least he didn’t call himself that without providing some evidence: Your Thoughts?
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Get Their Zeppelin On For New Song
March 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A few weeks ago Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers revealed they would be releasing a new album called Mojo this spring. Somewhat amazingly, this fulfilled the final of three major projects that Tom Petty had listed wanting to do four years ago. At the time I was skeptical he would actually put together a reunion [...]
297. Fleet Foxes
March 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke An atmospheric-bluegrass-folk-Beachboyharmony kind of bandwhose debut album is best listened to straight through so that it can wash over you. The first song below is my favorite of theirs and the second is another really good one put to a claymation video, so heads up to fans of claymation. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "He Doesn't Know Why", "White Winter Hymnal", Fleet Foxes No Comments »299. The Hold Steady
March 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The 21st Century ’70s Springsteen, Craig Finn writes songs that are anthemic, evocative, and rich with narrative and emotional detail and perceptiveness. If his talk-singing didn’t become a slog so often, his band would rank much higher. This song always makes me smile though: Your Thoughts?
300. Joseph Arthur
March 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The list of my top 366 favorite bands now becomes a list of the top 300 with Joseph Arthur: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "In The Sun", History, Joseph Arthur No Comments »302. Jay Reatard
March 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Easily one of the most prolific and promising punk rockers of the young century until his tragic and untimely death earlier this year: Your Thoughts?
307. Will Smith/DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
March 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke So, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince are a childhood favorite and “Men In Black” was essentially the song of the summer in 1997 as, dancing and singing along to it, I cleaned theaters playing the film Men In Black for weeks on end. I rarely listen to either musical incarnation of Will Smith [...]
St. Vincent Performing Dig A Pony
December 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Something hot for a cold night in December: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Dig A Pony", St. Vincent, The Beatles No Comments »Bob Dylan’s Video For “Must Be Santa”
November 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So now here’s a video for a song from Bob’s delightfully wacky new Christmas CD, Christmas In The Heart. It’s a shame that the video is for the most unlistenable song on the whole CD (“Must Be Santa”) but it’s nonetheless a charmingly daffy and surreal watch so I figured I’d mention it. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bob Dylan, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Christmas In The Heart", "Must Be Santa" No Comments »Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
November 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A little Nick Cave for the beginning of the weekend… Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Dig Lazarus Dig, Live Music, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds No Comments »Matt And Kim In Times Square
November 11th, 2009 Daniel Fincke There’s gotta be some story behind how they made this video… Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Lessons Learned", Matt and Kim No Comments »Stunning Sand Animation
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This real-time Ukrainian sand animator, Kseniya Simonva has to be seen to be believed. I’ve never seen anything like it. She essentially tells us a story by drawing each step of its progression at a time in real time transforming the same sand into the next portion of the story. It’s truly, truly extraordinary: Once you’ve [...]
2 Musicians Play One Guitar
November 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke This is the most amazingly worthwhile gimmick ever. Who knew that four hands on one guitar could make such great music? The details from the youtube information bar: The 2009 Brazilian Music Institute in Gainesville, Florida featuring CECILIA SIQUEIRA (Uruguay) and FERNANDO LIMA (Brasil) – Duo Siqueira Lima -http://www.duosiqueiralima.com.br/eng… performing Tico Tico no Fuba (Zequinha [...]
Posted in Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: Cecilia Siqueira, Duo Siqueira Lima, Fernando Lima, Novelties, Tico Tico no Fuba, Zequinha de Abreu No Comments »Let’s Hear It For New York!
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Oh how I love this glorious city. I would live here my whole life if I could. Below is a beautifully shot video and achingly catchy anthem from two real New Yorkers. Several times in the last week I’ve watched it over and over consecutively. My favorite thing about it is how authentically New York [...]
Posted in Bob Dylan, Music, Music Reviews, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Empire State Of Mind", Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, New York, Rap No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Taylor Swift’s Saturday Night Live Monologue Song: “Monologue (lalalala)”
November 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So on Saturday night, Taylor Swift went on SNL and performed a really funny song. (The video used to be in this post before NBC took it down from YouTube.) I was really impressed with her comic delivery in numerous respects. She really squeezes all the comedic juice out of a fairly by-the-numbers bit of [...]
Posted in About This Blog, Comedy, Hilarious, Music, Music Videos, TV, Videos Tags: Kanye West, Lost Highway, Monologue Song (lalalala), Saturday Night Live, Taylor Swift No Comments »Sixpence None The Richer’s “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Profiling the fantastic Fiona Apple version of “Across The Universe” and the new Taken By Trees spin on Animal Collective got me thinking about another of my favorite covers by a woman singer, Leigh Nash’s exquisite performance of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” with her band Sixpence None The Richer. Please forgive a Christmas [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "You're A Mean One, Dr. Seuss, Mr. Grinch", Sixpence None The Richer No Comments »Fiona Apple’s “Across The Universe”
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke I may be prejudiced in that I first discovered this song through her performance, rather than through either John Lennon’s own or through any other cover it, but as far as I go Fiona’s sultry husky voice languidly mumbling in a flowing, laconic, melodically and ironically complacent way is what the song was written for. [...]
Posted in Arts, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Across the Universe", "Pleasantville", Beatles, Covers, Covers Better Than Originals, Fiona Apple, John Lennon No Comments »Animal Collective’s “My Girls” and Taken By Trees’ Cover “My Boys”
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A really good song first tripped out in Animal Collective experimentation and then stripped down in Taken By Trees’ more elemental (but barely less buoyant) version. For cover lovers, this is a wonderful contrast worth exploring: You can get Animal Collective’s album here and Taken By Trees’ here. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "My Boys", "My Girls", Animal Collective, Covers, Taken By Trees No Comments »Lisa Hannigan Sings Personal Jesus
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From October 30, 2009 at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota comes this great live concert footage of Lisa Hannigan’s exhilaratingly arranged and performed cover that’s making the biggest splash during her current shows opening for David Gray: I so want this live performance to show up in a .WAV file and then for it [...]
Posted in Jesus, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Personal Jesus", Concert Footage, Depeche Mode, Lisa Hannigan, Live Music, Orpheum Theater No Comments »Grizzly Bear’s Wacky New Video
November 6th, 2009 Daniel Fincke So Grizzly Bear’s newest album Veckatimist is all the rage in the indie music world (and has been since long before it was officially released). I haven’t yet given it much of a chance outside listening to a few tracks because I never got into their previous album. Nonetheless, I’m a sucker for claymation and [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Uncategorized, Videos Tags: "Ready, Able", Allison Shulnik, Grizzly Bear, Veckatimist No Comments »Jessica Lea Mayfield’s “Bible Days”
November 3rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’m always scouring for great women singer-songwriters, here is my latest find, the twenty year old Jessica Lea Mayfield: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Bible, God, Indie Music, Jesus, Music Videos, Religion, Videos Tags: "Bible Days", Acoustic, Biblical Atrocities, Blasphemy, Bluegrass, Folk, Indie Acoustic, Jessica Lea Mayfield No Comments »St. Vincent’s Marrow Video
November 1st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Annie Clark’s singing is ethereally and unnaturally deliberate in a way that sucks passion out of her vocals and replaces it with a creepy ironic distance and “more-knowing-than-thou” feeling. Slowing down her delivery of otherwise immediate lyrics in order to enunciate them with an ominously remote quality, her songs always strikes me as in turns [...]
Posted in Indie Music, Indie Rock, Music, Music Videos, Videos Tags: "Marrow", Corey Creasey, St. Vincent No Comments »
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