Romain Gavras really freaked us all out when he directed MIA’s last music video starring a red-headicide. With “Bad Girls” he keeps us on the edge of our office chairs with some pretty insane car stunts. How do you get a car on 2 wheels?! M.I.A. is tough as nails.
See you on Monday for your Monday Mini Mixtape.
M.I.A, Bad Girls from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.
Our Artist Ambassador and buddies Guards just released a SoulTrain inspired, cameo-packed new music video for their single “Do It Again.” Don’t think we didn’t notice you, Austin (Lesands) and Robby (SD legend). Great work guys, we love it!
In 2010 Yours Truly filmed the debut performance Middle Brother and Mountain Man for us at our annual Holiday Benefit show at The Troubadour. The combo of three frontmen (Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit and John McCauley of Deer Tick) plus the three lovely ladies from Mountain Man made for an untouchable performance.
Yours Truly & Invisible Children Present: Middle Brother & Mountain Man from Yours Truly on Vimeo.
Ivan & Alyosha played the Invisible Children Holiday Benefit show this last year and blew everybody’s mind. Not only are their songs phenomenal, but they’re some of the nicest guys we’ve had the chance to work with. Come to think of it.. we get to work with a TON of nice people. !
They’re making a new album and if you pledge to the album you can get signed vinyl, a Capella tracks, backstage passes or even private shows. 10% of all money they raise over their goal will go to Invisible Children.
Go here to support the making of this album:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/ivanandalyosha
Our good friends at The Voice Project are working to raise awareness about the conflict in Central Africa by encouraging amazing artists to cover songs by other amazing artists.
Their latest installment features a very sincere rendition of Dawes’ “Million Dollar Bill” by Cillie Barnes. I think I could listen to this song 100 times over, flip the tape, and listen to it 100 times more without growing tired of it. Enjoy.
SoKo is a French singer and actress who has been readying her debut album since 2007, when the buzz began about her softly volatile song “I’ll Kill Her.“ This month, SoKo finally will release her first LP I Thought I Was An Alien featuring this track.
Co-directed by SoKo and Matthew Gray Gubler, the nerdy one off Criminal Minds, the video for “First Love Never Die” is adorably melancholic. That’s the best description I can do, and I think after viewing the clip – it suffices.
VHS or Beta and SD locals Hyena were the featured artists last night at Soundcheck, a once a month night of fun that we do with the Hard Rock Hotel and FILTER Magazine in downtown San Diego.
Our insanely talented designer Chadwick Gantes jumped in the crowd and dance battled his way to the front to grab these beautiful photos.
We still have a few handscreened posters from our pals at Aloha Sunday. Shoot Lauren an email if you want to grab one for a $20 donation.
Poster design by Brandon Reeves.
Within a few months’ time, Lana Del Rey went from viral sensation, to SNL musical guest, to favorite punching bag of “music journalists” – all before her debut album dropped. This week, Lana’s first LP Born To Die is released internationally – and it is already topping the charts in eleven countries. “Shoutout to my haters, sorry that you couldn’t phase me.”
I, and a lot of people from the office, became obsessed with Lana over the fall when the “Video Games” clip blew up online. We’ve been eagerly awaiting this album, and it doesn’t disappoint. There isn’t anyone else out there right now doing what Lana does.
You need to listen to Born To Die. I’ll give you some tracks to start out with. If you like them, you can go from there. Choose your own adventure.
VITAL TRACKS: “Without You” // “Off To The Races” // “This Is What Makes Us Girls” // “Million Dollar Man”
To preface this video in any other way besides with what Leslie Feist wrote on her Facebook would be silly.
So, here it is:
This video captures glimpses of something human, we get a peek inside something real between people – could be loss, longing and love. A lot of things which is about being a human being….
It is told in a way where it opens up more aspects than it concludes.
Maybe something we can’t grasp, but it points at it or touches it and
leaves us with different kinds of emotions.You could think about the video like a song or a poem, and different
people will connect to different things- and those connections might
be different from time to time when they watch it.
It’s the second video off last year’s impeccable Metals. Emotions abound.
I was reminded this weekend of a pretty amazing quote about music:
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard travelling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.” – Woodie Guthrie
I don’t have Woodie’s talent to write songs, but I’m out to find the songs that help people connect and make you feel. The goal of these mixes is to help get you through the week. I connect emotionally to songs and am such a sharer, so this is an amazing platform to share tunes that mean so much to me. So whether the songs help you sit with an emotion, or inspire you to get out of your chair and dance to forget your problems for just a second… hopefully you feel connected to a community that is inspiring you.
So support these artists so that they can continue making wonderful songs for us to share.
Grab the mix here or by clicking on the image above.
We’re working on setting up a Spotify account for these mixes so prepare to subscribe next monday.
-Kenny
