I Like Whatever's On the Radio

How is everybody not freaking out over how great Boyz is? It's a great song, has such amazing dancing in the video. The freshest thing all year. Saw it two months ago, but assumed we were waiting to freak out until the album came out. Well now it's leaked, so I'm officially freaking out. This song, video... everything is amazing.

Also: there is a YouTube thing going on where people are dancing like crazy to this song and making little videos. And they're all great.

Labels: art, boyz, choreography, dance, design, fresh, graphic, jamaica, m.i.a., mia, music, song, video

just wait for it.

Labels: craft, daft punk, dance, design, diy, graphic, hands, music, video, words

YACHT on a Yacht - "Coming To Get You" from judesays on Vimeo

Labels: art, boat, music, oregon, pdx, portland, teamyacht, video, yacht

• Stereogum has a great review of Bjork's Coachella set
  

  Björk hit the stage with a heart-patterned, scarf-slung headdress and a rainbow-Hawaiian-cavewoman getup, bouncing and wailing through "Earth Intruders."

• this YouTube user has videos of Bjork's SNL songs, and Coachella stuff
  
• iTunes UK accidentally had Volta available for a little while, two weeks early. but if you didn't catch that, there's Hype Machine , Isohunt, and waiting.
  

Labels: art, bjork, coachella, concert, live, music, performance, review, video

"I happen to think I'm a lot of fun."

notes

• directed by Samuel smells-like-teen-spirit Bayer
• "written by Nick Cassavetes." lollin.
  
• there's a lot of talking in the beginning
• they hang out at one of those big clubs up in the hills with the fire hula hoops dancers where you can go up and sing if you feel like it
• there's swearing
  
• karmic car crash (for cheatin')
  

Related: the equally ambitious, Rush, Rush, starring Keanu Reeves (as not-James Dean), and Paula Abdul:


notes

• there's a lot of talking in the beginning
  
• karmic car crash (for slashin' tires)
  

Labels: art, cinema, drama, film, justin timberlake, movie, music, paula abdul, pop, production, samuel bayer, scarlett johansson, video

More info? Final Fantasy is pretty much one guy, Owen Pallett. He also plays in the very popular band, Arcade Fire.

Labels: art, concert, final fantasy, indie, live, music, owen pallett, performance, pop, rock, video

The Danielson Documentary made appearances at a few special events earlier this year.
But it looks like it has a somewhat expanded release now. Lucky you, if you missed it! Very highly recommended.

New York City- Cinema Village: December 15-21
Chicago- Siskel Center: December 10, 14
Austin- Alamo Downtown: December 11, 20, 28 and January 2
Seattle's- NW Film Forum: December 15-21
San Francisco- Red Vic: January 25-27
Bloomington- Cinemat: first two weeks of December
Portland (OR)- NW Film Center: third week of January
Los Angeles, Toronto, Boston, and Washington, DC: sometime
(thanks Pitchfork!)

movie trailer:

Labels: danielson, danielson famile, danielson family, documentary, indie, movie, music, rock

Madonna's last 3 concert specials were shown on HBO, a pay cable-tv channel. But her new Confessions Tour concert special will be shown on NBC., a broadcast tv station. This is first showing of an entire Madonna concert on free tv in the United States.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
8pm/7pm Central
NBC

thanks madonnalicious, for the tip!

Labels: art, concert, dance, design, live, madonna, music, nbc, performance, pop

The new Gwen Stefani video for Wind It Up came out last week.



It has a sample from The Sound of Music's Lonely Goatherd.
Do you remember how that goes?
It goes like this:



Gwen actually previewed this song during her 2005 Harajuku Lovers tour. It sounded a little different back then:



It seems like there's more brass now. Here's a new live performance.
If the Von Trapps were this "colorful," they never coulda escaped the Nazis.
(live performance on UK talk show Jonathan Ross, November 10, 2006).


Popworld performance. UK music show. Date of performance unknown, but sometime near November 10, 2006.



The Von Trapp family in full effect. Better dancing than Wind It Up.


a long, long way to run!

Labels: dance, design, gwen stefani, live, music, musical, performance, sound of music, video