I have not been writing much on this blog. There are several reasons for that. One, lately I amLOOK MUSIC VIDEOS!

Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races

The new AiH album is OK. But it’s not nearly as good as In Case We Die. This song is damn catchy though!

Art Brut - Direct Hit

The new album is fantastic.

Chromatics - In The City

Saw them last night at Holocene. Good times.

The Explorers Club - Last Kiss

Poor video of a live performance. Get the mp3 instead.

Paul Haig - Running Away

In Flagranti - Just Gazing

Some of you might be familiar with the footage in this non-official video. It works pretty well for the song.

Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

Justice is so hott right now yes? At any rate, † is a pretty good album. (Also, they’ve got me listening to a Britney Spears song.)

The Knife - Marble House


This is not exactly a new song. I have already linked to We Share Our Mother’s Health from the same album when I first started embedding video to cover the complete lack of writing on this blog. But I have been listening to this song (and the Rex The Dog Remix) A LOT lately, at least once per day.

Spoon - Don’t You Evah

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is good. But you already knew that.

May was a pretty busy month, so I don’t have many music videos to share…

Betty Davis - He Was a Big Freak

The fan made video slideshow is NSFW.

Spirit of the West - Home For a Rest

A certain Wil Clouser suggested that I should put this video up. So go grab a beer and enjoy.

The last time Arcade Fire was in Portland, they played at a fairly small venue, and they weren’t even the headliner. (It was kinda sad because most people left after Arcade Fire played their set. Same thing happened when Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! was at the WOW Hall supporting The National. Damn you concert promoters with shitty popularity radars!)

This time they sold out the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in a day or so. There were a surprising number of older people in the audience. They’ve got wide appeal, bitches!

And the show was fucking amazing.

(Blurry photos coming at ya!)

Electrelane doing their thing.

I serendipitously listened to a few Electrelane songs in the days before the concert. And while they were a little better live, it was still pretty meh. But the world do need more girl bands. And girl race car drivers. And girl engineers. And girl film writers and directors. And …

I think this was during “Haïti”. Or could’ve been “In The Backseat”.

It was kinda weird seeing Régine smiling and dancing during (a rather rocking) “Haïti”, in the same way that it was weird to see The Decemberists cracking jokes during songs about star-crossed lovers, revenge, and war.

“Intervention”. But Win didn’t smash his guitar at the end, like he did on SNL.

They played about an equal number number of songs from their two albums, which is great. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t use the helmets during “Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)” — they were on the stage and all!

The ladies.

If there’s anything hotter than a violinist in a black dress dancing to Arcade Fire, I haven’t seen it.

Closing with “Wake Up”. Let’s thank Joe, who took the picture, for excluding Régine!

In addition to filling up the stage with gear and people, they also had some nice visuals with projections, lights, and whatnot.