“Treme” Gets Its First Trailer

So, as usual, the job has been insane this month, and has kept me away from here for a week and a half.  But, upon seeing this spot, the first trailer for HBO’s upcoming series Treme,  I have come running back. My reaction?  Oh.  Hell.  Yes.  I can’t even put into words how stoked I [...]

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Tegan & Sara “Alligator”

If you’ve read this blog, it’s probably not news to you that I really enjoyed Tegan & Sara’s last album Sainthood (though I recently was with a lady friend who accused me of being girly for liking it). All of the songs were such tightly spun pop-masterpieces that any one of them easily could have [...]

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Vampire Weekend “Giving Up the Gun”

Oh, the rambunctious Vampire Weekend kids, just always getting into shenanigans (I feel like I may have misused shenanigans there).  Here is the latest video (courtesy of Spinner) to come from their awesome album Contra, and you may notice that it features some unconventional personalities like the RZA (aka Bobby Digital) and Jake Gyllenhaal.  The [...]

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GEEKING OUT: Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass”

Okay, so speaking of trade paperbacks that are coming out…  If you went to some place that happens to sell comic books today, you probably saw the hardcover for Mark Millar’s much-ballyhooed Kick-Ass prominently displayed on the shelves.  The book, which in full disclosure I have never read a single frame of, has become something [...]

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Lissie “In Sleep”

I realized when looking back over my year-end lists somewhat recently, that there was one particularly glaring oversight on my part.  That, of course, was that I left Lissie’s fabulous EP Why You Runnin’ off of my “best EPs of 2009″ list.  Her brand of spirited country-rock proved to make for one of my very [...]

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Phenomenal Handclap Band “Baby”

I’m a bit late on the repost of this video (via Stereogum) for Phenomenal Handclap Band’s latest video for the song “Baby”.  Now the group really started to garner some serious attention and quietly build up a pretty sizable fan-base last year, so I’m expecting to see some pretty big things out of them in [...]

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The Antlers “Bear”

Is there a band that has been more wonderfully depressing than the Antlers?  Don’t get me wrong, I love me a track that’s uplifting and fun to dance to, but there’s something to be said for a band that can skillfully drag you right down into the doldrums.  ”Bear” is actually one of the more [...]

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St. Vincent “Laughing With a Mouth of Blood”

Annie Clark really made her mark on the musical world last year with the release of Actor, and as we cross into the second month of 2010, she’s still continuing to get some mileage out of it.  On this latest video, this one for the song “Laughing With a Mouth of Blood,” she’s getting a [...]

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Massive Attack “Splitting the Atom”

A new Massive Attack video is always a great way to start off the day, that’s what I’ve always said (okay, not really, but that doesn’t make it any less true).  The UK trip-hop band that’s nothing short of biblical in the world of music is back at it, this time with a bare-bones song [...]

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“The A-Team” Trailer

So I’m probably the very last person in the world to put this trailer up (it dropped last week, and was kind of a big deal), but I’m going to post the new trailer for the upcoming “A-Team” movie anyway.  Now, I never watched the show, and don’t really have even the slightest of nostalgic [...]

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