The 38th season of “Austin City Limits” keeps adding high-flying guests. After Radiohead, Bon Iver, Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples comes The Shins and Dr. Dog. Both bands were featured on the fourth episode of the season, recorded in March at Austin’s Moody Theater and broadcast last Saturday. To the right of these lines, you can check out the setlist for the concert The Shins gave.
"Hope's Soliloquy" is one of the cuts that you will find on "Stones And Woods", the mysterious Anstam’s latest album for 50 Weapons, available since last Friday. It is also the first to have a video made for it, in this case entirely digital, although in shades of sepia and grey, as if it were an old roll of photographic film.
of Montreal bring out the beast they have inside for the video to “Sails, Hermaphroditic”. As you will be able to see below, anything goes in this improvised American football match, from biting to hitting with sticks. Although everyone knows that music and sex always calm down wild animals…
On 24th September, Grizzly Bear played at the New York Radio City Music Hall. Now, part of that gig is out on video. Among the songs performed are "Sleeping Ute", "Ready, Able", "Two Weeks", "Yet Again" and "While You Wait For The Others". You can see and enjoy them all below. Something to ease the pain if you're not able to actually go and see them live.
The Sea And Cake have debuted a video for "Harps", one of the songs on their recent album "Runner" (Thrill Jockey, 2012). The director, Jay Buim, follows two teenagers with a recording device, documenting every sound they fancy, from a deflating balloon to breaking waves by the coast.
With “Mars”, the debut from his solo project Sinkane, already on the street, Ahmeb Gallab goes back to promoting it with a video recorded in the midst of a revolution. Shot using an intense red filter, the afro-funk echoes of “Runnin’” make all the sense in the world when you see the images.
Football (soccer for Americans) and techno go hand in hand in the video for “Riquelme”. It's no secret that Lukid is a big football fan. There's a picture of Zinedine Zidane on his Twitter page, and on his new album, the brilliant “Lonely At The Top”, there's room for this track dedicated to Argentinian footballer Juan Román Riquelme. To accompany the tune, Luke Blair and his brother Sam compiled images of the genius player and edited them in such a way that it looks like the midfielder dribbles to the rhythm of the song.
As we told you a few days ago, Steve Hauschildt from Emeralds already has his new solo full-length ready. We’ll have to wait until 12th November for the arrival of “Sequitur”, but we can already enjoy the geometric video that Sabrina Ratté has made for “Interconnected”, the first cut from the album. We’ve left it for you here.