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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Adam Goldberg and his sister Celeste (who looks remarkably like Adam, though the beard is silkier) are the founders and principal members of the Goldberg Sisters. Recently they managed to capture a live demo recording of “The Difference Between” on tape and wanted us to be the first to share it with the world!

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This skateboard video created by Eli Stonberg is dreamy, simultaneously fragmented and well-matched to the song “Pure” by San Francisco’s Blackbird Blackbird. It was filmed “on a rare rainy day in L.A.” with six tiny cameras attached to the body of skater Aryeh Kraus and three more cameras filming him from afar. Think about this [...]

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If you get goosebumps from watching puppets without changing facial expressions get their hearts broken, then you know you are looking at a fine piece of music video art. Yelena Zhelezov’s concept for this video matches Henry Wolfe’s gentle delivery like a 5 o clock shadow on a guilty boy with puppy eyes. DANG! —Daiana [...]

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What can we assume about video maker, performance artist Jillian Mayer from her Youtube page? She has a morbid fascination with death. She does psychedelic face paint for children. She likes jogging outside. She’s an arrrtist from Florida.

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Freddy Ruppert of Former Ghosts sings into a beer bottle for Italy’s Casa Del Mirto on the song “Just Promise.” This song passes the house code safety inspection but cuts some corners that make it really delightful. It builds, it breaks, as it should, but something about the materials is fresh and sustainable. Freddy is [...]

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