Green Day Perform New-Ish Song “Cigarettes And Valentines” Live
Billie Joe Armstrong and the gang dropped two awesome bits of pleasure for Green Day fans during their tour stop in Denver, Colorado this week: one, that they’re recording a live album (sweet!), and two, the Bay Area rockers debuted a never-heard-before song, “Cigarettes And Valentines.” Watch the live video below!
Green Day – “Cigarettes And Valentines”
“Cigarettes And Valentines” isn’t exactly new, although you may have never heard it before. In the summer of 2003, the band recorded 20 songs for a follow-up LP to 2002’s compilation album Shenanigans, to be titled Cigarettes And Valentines. The master recordings, however, were mysteriously stolen from the studio.
Instead of starting from scratch, Green Day made American Idiot instead. So I guess you can’t be too upset that they didn’t record Cigarettes tunes. Especially now that it looks like the band is ready to release the songs off the lost album, even if it’s just performing them in concert or slapping them on their live album.
Restless People – “Don’t Back Down”
When we first wrote about the Tanlines/Professor Murder hybrid (and BTW) Restless People there was mention of their bio’s Gorilla Biscuits and Operation Ivy nods — amid the less jarring references to General Public, DJ Cleo, Phil Collins, Maximum Joy, Nelly Furtado — and how despite the scene veterans’ buoyant Brooklyn 2010 sound, you had to admit there’s an old-school “positive/keep it real Schreifels/Civ” NYHC thing happening via the lyrics in songs like “Days Of Our Lives” and “Don’t Back Down.” Here’s the latter:
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Breakbot “Penelope Pitstop” directed by Sophie Lévy unofficial & uncensored music video
sofilms, 31. August 2010, 19:22
Band : Breakbot
Title : Penelope Pitstop
Directed by : Sophie Levy
Produced by : SOFILMS
shot for the D.U.M. “Edges” compilation’s track entitled “Penelope Pitstop”, performed by Breakbot (Because Music).
D.U.M. for Diesel:U:Music
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John Grant’s Chicken Bones by Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond
Following their remarkable video for Marz, Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond interpret their second song from John Grant’s brilliant, highly confessional solo debut album Queen Of Denmark – featuring the singer himself, in a superhero costume, experiencing humiliation and emotional turmoil along the way.
Like the music, there’s a dark emotional undercurrent here, and like Marz, a stark collision of reality and fantasy. Adding the contribution of John Grant himself – and making it was actually a traumatic experience for him – it’s another extraordinary work, confirming a very special kind of chemistry between the singer and the directors.
John Grant
Chicken Bones (Bella Union)
Directors: Ewan Jones Morris and Casey Raymond
http://www.vimeo.com/13592167
Beautiful & Somehow Fitting by Boy On The Roof (Dir: Berlin&McCool)
BandM, 31. August 2010, 14:24
A very low budget music video for South-London based band Boy On The Roof.
A very low budget music video for South-London based band Boy On The Roof.
Beautiful & Somehow Fitting by Boy On The Roof from ChrisMcCool on Vimeo.
Album review: Jenny & Johnny’s ‘I’m Having Fun Now’
The heterosexual working couple may be replacing the band of brothers as the primary unit of the 21st century rock group. In Arcade Fire, Sleigh Bells and the Dirty Projectors, a balanced blend of male and female sensibilities creates the kind of buzz once caused by all the boy energy of classic rock. Relatively balanced, that is: In most groups built around such units, the man remains the primary creative force (at least on the surface). As in most workplaces, in pop music women have made significant but limited gains.
Jenny & Johnny represent a different situation. In this couple, the woman is the powerhouse and the man, though forceful in his own ways, rises to her challenges. Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice have been creatively and romantically involved for half a decade; the lady, one of indie's most successful thinking beauties, is the bigger star. Maybe that's why this project, though lighthearted, has some of the prickliness of a real day-to-day relationship. The title may be "We're Having Fun Now," but there's room for wisecracks, bitterness and worry amid the lovey-dovey stuff.
"I'm Having Fun Now" distinguishes itself from Lewis and Rice's solo efforts, or hers with band-on-hiatus Rilo Kiley, by going for a very specific tone. The fuzzy but bright production by the duo, with help from old friends Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes) and Pierre de Reeder (Rilo Kiley), has been compared to classic AM radio fare but is really closer to the jangle pop of the 1980s — bands like the Three O'Clock and Opal in L.A., Let's Active out of North Carolina, and the Chills from New Zealand. It's prettier than what today's shoegaze revivalists do, but still a little jarring and tart.
Merging voices and exchanging lines, Lewis and Rice don't duet so much as banter. Some, like "Switchblade," are directed at the kinds of shifty characters a musical couple might encounter in Hollywood. Others tackle the relationship theme in language that's highly literate and never over-sugared.
What other pop couple would dream of being together forever in a New Yorker cartoon? That's just how urbane and aware Lewis and Rice can be, working out their power dynamic with the "record" switch on.
The War On Drugs – “Comin’ Through”
The War On Drugs will release the follow-up to 2008’s Wagonwheel Blues this October. “Comin’ Through,” the first sample from the album, is covered with limber guitar hooks. Have a listen:
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