This song isn’t new. But we’ve never posted it before and why not now??? Close-up on the pores and unkempt face hairs and teeth of a guy singing a garage rock song, drinking from a bottle, maybe about to leak blood from his lips, maybe not. It’s a natural song with a natural face. The [...]

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This Youtube Mixtape celebrates what Thanksgiving is truly all about: Food. Consume as an appetizer. —Daiana Feuer (Click the video above to launch the playlist or check out the individual tracks below!) TRACKLIST: “Turkey Lurkey Time” from the musical Promises Promises The Coon Creek Girls “How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?” Mika Miko “Turkey Sandwich” [...]

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Click above to launch the playlist for Buraka Som Sistema’s edition of It’s All For You, Tube “This is probably the most random playlist ever from a band. In a way it kind of represents us and the weird melting pot that Buraka is. We’ve played these videos enormous amount of times (except “November Rain”) [...]

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Warning, this video is N.S.F.LUNCH. Unless watching people chew with their mouths open makes you happy—as demonstrated by Doña Nicha, this two brother + 1 cousin +1 neighbor family band grown in Southern California. “Sandwishes” is two swishy guitars and a swoony melody of swirled together words that guide us through a minute and a [...]

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Earlier this week we rallied Manhattan Murder Mystery to take advantage of the publicly available instruments in the brothers Os Gemeos’ installation and rock out the Art in the Streets exhibit at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary, downtown. Below you’ll find video taken by Amy Darling of them playing “Parking Lot.”

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Today, Ariana Delawari premiered her (self-directed) video for “Be Gone Taliban” on IFC. Armed with a bandolier of butterflies instead of bullets, Delawari shows her toughness, her passion, her grace and dance skills, and still looks darn cute and lovable. This video should have come with ceramic figurines of her in the orange and her [...]

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I thought “There Is No Light” was a wild, exciting song when I heard it in 2009. When it happened to shuffle back into my life during a 2011 exercise routine, I came to appreciate its hypnotic encouragement on another level. My exercise routine is a form of one-person porch soccer that I began after [...]

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All those poor stuffed animals burning alive sets a fun tone for the song “Monk” by Mini Mansions.  Tonight, Mini Mansions is playing its first show “in a while” according to the band, and it’s free, at Central Social Aid And Pleasure Club, a cool venue with a mysterious name.

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This psychedelic MASH UP features some crazy bits from the songs “Sick & Dying” by Amanda Jo Williams and “Sleep Tonight” by Jeffertitti’s Nile. I showed it to someone this morning and they said, “This makes me want to barf…in a good way.” Thanks! Jeffertitti’s Nile and Amanda Jo Williams are playing Pappy & Harriet’s [...]

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The Mayfly Dance is Caan Hamlet, Lani Ware, Mikel Farber, and Tony Peluso, but they were briefly known as The Cervine Furs. They were also a folk band for most of ’09 and ’10, before things took a psychedelic turn. Hamlet (who toured with Devendra Banhart before moving to L.A. from London) and Ware are [...]

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