Yeasayer - Ambling Alp Site

Check out the site for Yeasayer's new single Ambling Alp.
Pretty cool video idea. Yeasayer

Woodstock

This performance is insane, in particular the drum solo by Michael Shrieve. Wow!

The Books

The Books will be playing the John Curtin on the 14th and 15th January. Come!

http://www.johncurtinhotel.com/
http://www.thebooksmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thebooksmusicpage

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

The new Yeasayer video for Ambling alp, for their upcoming second LP "Odd Blood" is deliciously strange, not to sure of the song as yet, we saw these guys play at the Guggenheim in NY recently and there direction has changed a lot since "All Hour Cymbals" but I am still hopeful.
Oh and please check out the guys that directed the clip Radical Friend, their website is the best....ever.

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston has spent the last 20 or so years exposing his heartrending tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps, and existential torment to an ever-growing international cult audience. Initiates, including a healthy number of discerning musicians and critics, have hailed him as an American original in the style of bluesman Robert Johnson and country legend Hank Williams. A number of artists -- among them the Dead Milkmen, Yo La Tengo, the Velvet Underground's songs. And he as collaborated with the likes of Jad Fair (a founding member of Half Japanese, who've also done Daniel's songs), the Butthole Surfers, Bongwater/Shimmydisc guru Kramer, and members of Sonic Youth. Daniel gained his widest public exposure to date when, at the 1992 MTV Music Awards, Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain (who constantly touted Daniel in interviews) wore a Johnston T-shirt.

Daniel Johnston will be playing the St Jeromes Laneway Festival
Watch the film "The Devil and Daniel Johnston"
www.hihowareyou.com

Kirin J. Callinan

Gangsta Gumby

Hilarious

So I'm sure everyone has seen the trailer for Fully Flared which is amazing.. it's great that the Lakai guys don't mind poking fun at themselves.

Nike SB

Lauren Dukoff - Family

For many years, Lauren Dukoff has been photographing close friend and musician Devendra Banhart and an extended, loose-knit international family of artists who share inspiration variously from folk, Tropicalia, and each other, as well as a range of other musical influences. FAMILY is a collection of Dukoff's striking portraits and candid images of Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Bat for Lashes, Feathers, Espers, Vetiver, Bert Jansch, Vashti Bunyan, and many others individually and together, in performance and more private spaces.

The book features a soundtrack with artists such as: Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Kevin Barker, Ruthann Friedman & Vashti Bunyan. To find out more and purchase the book click here

Devendra Banhart has also released some tour dates in anticipation of his new album coming out later this year.

Uganda Skateboard Union

New Wave

There is no such thing as New Wave from luze duze on Vimeo.

Peter Sarstedt

Love this song, love his mustache, love his style, love this clip, love Peter Sarstedt

Helvetets Port - Lightning Rod Avenger

Ive heard these guys get called a cross between Iron Maiden and Backstreet Boys....good mix.

Dead Meadow -Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People

Terence McKenna- Eros and Eschaton

A friend recently gave me about 10 hours of Terence McKenna audio, i was somewhat familiar with his work, but these lectures delve a lot deeper into a gamut of issues from metamorphosis to his theory of Novelty.This is an extract from one of his lectures.

Bike Messengers in New York

Time-Lapse of Massive Change on Earth

Urbanization of Dubai
Nothing says environmental exploitation like building your own palm tree-shaped archipelago. Dubai, of the United Arab Emirates, has dredged sand from the sea floor to build hundreds of artificial islands along its coast, hoping to attract wealthy tourists. Many projects have been put on hold since the global credit crunch hit the region.


Clearing the Amazon
Over the past three decades, the state of Rondônia in western Brazil cleared almost 35 percent of its rainforest. According to NASA’s website, the pattern of deforestation is common in the Amazon. People build roads, then clear some of the land for small farms. After a few years, the land erodes and becomes depleted. The farmers, suffering from low crop yields, convert the land for cattle, then clear more forest for crops, and so on until large cattle holders buy the land.

Via WIRED

Epicly Later'd

Check out Jason Dill's, Epicly Later'd on VBS if you haven't already, for the inner workings of Pro Skaters.

Wood

WOOD from mc bess on Vimeo.

Beautiful stuff by Simon and McBess. Via Changethethought