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Fat City Reprise - Long Gone 2008-12-08 09:00:00 Fat City Reprise - Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.Here's another clip like the one from Big Phony that was made with a bunch of photo stills and put together into one big long animated sequence. Although this clip directed by Cesar Kuriyama is technically better than the one by Charles Yi, there's something really creepy with the underage (or maybe she's just really skinny) girl and the s
JS909 Drum Machine 2008-12-06 18:47:56 Here's a fun little drum machine I found via Nylvi that's written in Java script. It has a very simple interface and it's quick and fun to put together some beats.Click here to have a go. Read more:Machine
Does it offend you, yeah? - Attack of the 60 ft Lesbian Octopus 2008-12-05 09:10:04 With a track title like that, how can you not be partial to the song? Does it offend you, yeah? is a UK electro rock band that recently opened for NIN during their 2008 North American tour. Not afraid of including the synthesizer into their tracks, Does it offend you, yeah? has a nice eightie's synth and electric rock guitar driven sound that doesn't take itself too seriously.To be honest, I used
Magic Dirt 2008-12-04 09:00:01 One of Australia's most enduring bands with indie roots, Magic
Dirt from Geelong has been around since 1992 and were a cult favourite of the alternative scene. Magic Dirt made the switch from their original dark brooding sound to a more accessible poppy sound post nineties with their third album, "What are Rockstars doing Today?". Triple J hammered the album's single "Dirty Jeans" and the band fou
19 - あの紙ヒコーキくもり空わって (Ano Kamihikoki Kumori-zora Watte) 2008-12-03 17:03:52 19, pronounced juuku, was an insanely popular acoustic pop duo around the millennium in Japan, and this track from their "Ongaku" album is probably their most famous. This song holds special memories for me. When I was a assistant teacher at a junior high school in Nagano, a band I formed with a bunch of year 10 students covered this song, including the harmonica solo near the end, at their gradua
The Invisible Cities - Regret 2008-12-02 09:00:02 If Aimee Mann and Angie Hart were put into a blender and the result was able to be reconstituted into a living breathing human being, that person's voice would probably sound like lead vocalist, Sadie Contini's. Sadie's voice is both bold and intimate, emotive yet never shy, even in the louder, more rock orientated pieces the band has come up with over the years.Sadie's just one part of the magic Read more:Cities
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Gurrumul Yunupingu - Djarimirri 2008-12-01 09:00:02 Inspirational. No other words come to my mind when I think of Gurrumul Yunupingu. Born blind and hailing from Australia's North East Arnhemland (it's in the very northern part of the bit that looks like a flat iron, not the pointy part that's called Far North Queensland), Gurrumul sings in his native Yolgnu language, and what beautiful singing it is. At this year's ARIAs, also known as the Austral
Texas - Say What You Want 2008-11-29 18:35:17 Along with Aztec Camera and Fairground Attraction, Texas
was another great band to come out of Scotland in the eighties. They had a big hit with "I don't want a lover" off their debut album in 1989 but it wasn't until 1997 that the track they would be most remembered for, "Say what you want" was released and became an instant hit with vocalist's Sharleen Spiteri's achy, longing voice the main engi
Save the Net, Save the World 2008-11-27 20:20:43 For Australians, you may or may not know about the somewhat misguided plan by the government to force ISPs to use a government endorsed filter to filter out bad stuff. This is all fine and well except the implementation of it isn't particularly well thought and certainly not thought out by somebody with any experience with the modern internet."Testing has already begun on systems that will slow ou Read more:World
Aztec Camera - Good Morning Britain 2008-11-27 09:00:00 Aztec Camera
was an eighties New Wave band from Scotland that really only consisted of one guy, Roddy Frame. "Morning
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" was a single released on their fourth album "Stray" in 1990 and was a collaboration with Roddy's personal hero, Mick Jones from The Clash. Despite being overtly political and exclusively about the U.K., it's inspirational message of hope and tolerance resounded great Read more:Aztec
Oleg Chubykin - The Tourist 2008-11-22 18:52:57 Oleg Chubykin - "The Tourist" ("The Tourist" , 2007) from Chubykin on Vimeo.Here's some interesting Russian Pop I found the other day. I have no idea what the guy is singing about but it sounds pretty good and the clip, made from old postcards of Vladivostok is the coolest thing since fairy bread. I'm kind of partial to Vladivostok since I used to live a few hundred kilometres and one direct fligh
Far East Movement's New album streamed live this Tuesday 2008-11-22 07:26:09 Far East Movement, an Asian flavoured hip hop outfit from Los Angeles has just put the wrap on their new album "Animal". To celebrate the album's launch, they're going to be playing all the new tracks this Tuesday
November 25th at 9pm PST in a streaming broadcast on their site, www.fareastmovement.com. Far East Movement are possibly one of the best independent hip hop acts there is, just have a li
Jose Amnesia & Karen Overton - Your Loving Arms (Jose Amnesia sunrise mix) 2008-11-20 10:13:11 Let's get one thing out of the way first. Karen
Overton's vocals do not, in any way, hold a candle to Billie Ray Martin's. She does a great job but she's no Billie Ray. There's absolutely no point in comparing them, Karen's an understudy, Billie Ray, a diva. If one was to judge this 2008 update on the 1994 classic based solely on the criteria of the vocals, the original would win, hands down, in e Read more:Amnesia
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