Perlabra!

Dan Deacon: Live at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple

My work is done for tonight. Must...get...zzzzzz's. Before I go, I leave you with one last post for today — a Dan Deacon lullaby. Goodnight!

(There's 1 more where that came from here.)

New Beirut video "La Llorona"

I am so excited about Beirut's 2/17 release of March Of The Zapotec. It looks like it will be packaged together with another EP, Holland, which includes five solo Condon home recordings under his "Realpeople" moniker (both EP's will be available on vinyl, yay!)

Even more excitement — their new video is amazing. According to Stereogum: Zach Condon headed to Oaxaca, Mexicao -- the weaver village of Teotitlan del Valle to be exact -- and hooked up with the 19-piece Jimenez Band band, who helped him get the sounds he needed for his March Of The Zapotec EP. Condon plans to release some short films documenting the experience, but in the Owen Cook-animated video for standout "La Llorna" he stayed home and wrote a narrative about a little dog, a mourner, the band, a Mexican graveyard, and a puddle of tears (or, well, rain). It helps to know that "La Llorona"'s "the weeping woman" in Spanish and relates to a legend about a woman who killed her children then herself after she was rejected by a man. She spends her time as a weeping ghost, wandering in search of the kids.

I can't tell you how much I adore this!

Blitzen Trapper: Furr

Sweet Blitzen Trapper video from their 2008 Sub Pop release, Furr.

Did you know?

This was posted on my Facebook page a while back but I have just stumbled upon it again and want to share here. It's a pretty fascinating video on the progression of information technology and full of interesting factoids.

N.A.S.A. [ft. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip]: "Money"

LCD Soundsystem: "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"

It's a new day

First off, I take back my music-snobbery remarks I made years ago that will.i.am is a sellout; I can't get enough of this video. Secondly, this makes me grin from ear to ear and I think I should watch this every morning when I wake up to help start my day.

Thanks John for the tip!

November 4th and Starbucks

I don't do Starbucks in New Orleans but I'll admit, this is nicely done (and I never pass up free coffee!)

New Matt & Kim Video - "Daylight"

Another great new video from Matt & Kim. I'm such a sucker for their freakishly unstoppable giddiness.

Deerhoof: "Chandelier Searchlight"

[via Pitchfork] Kind of a Day of the Dead feel to Clyde Petersen-directed animation for Offend Maggie's "Chandelier Searchlight". There's some robot dude, lots of bones, skies filled with crows, and other assorted harbingers of doom.