Music Video Of The Day

music video of the day: "Office Sluts" by Odonis Odonis

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Hazy summer come at me already. I'm so ready to dive in.
The dude Dean Tzeno directed this puppy. Such a splash.
Odonis Odonis are gonna be on tour this April with Ice Balloons. Check em out...

04/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
04/13 Allston, MA @ O’Brien’s Pub
04/14 Philadelphia, PA @ Black Box
04/15 Raleigh NC @ Neptune’s Parlour
04/16 Athens, GA @ Caldonia
04/17 Atlanta, GA @ 529
04/19 New Orleans @ LA, Saturn Bar
04/20 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
04/21 Dallas, TX @ Three Links
04/22 Memphis, TN @ Murphy’s
04/23 Nashville, TN @ The Stone Fox
04/24 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
04/25 Detroit, MI @ PJ’s Lager House

There both bad ass and totally chill 2014 LP Hard Boiled, Soft Boiled is out now on Buzz Records.
Here's a photo I took of them at Iceland Airwaves 2014. Good dudes.

music video of the day: "REALiTi" by Grimes

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New Grimes track. Kate Bush 2.0 vibes. Grimes explains the track...

This song was never finished. its a demo from ~ the lost album ~, recorded early 2013. i lost the ableton file, so its not mixed or mastered. i tried to doctor the mp3 into a listenable state, but it was poorly recorded in the first place and never meant to be heard by anyone, so its a bit of a mess haha.

Well bless this mess then. It is exactly what I needed. Gonna try and stay calm in times of chaos and float away to realiti now.

music video of the day: "I Love Our World" by Ramona Lisa

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Caroline Polacheck is the stunning voice you probs recognize from Chairlift. She also has her own solo project called Ramona Lisa, in which she often paints a second set of eyes on her face and I want to steal that look. Last year she released her self-produced album Arcadia and today the Piano Versions is out via Terrible Records. As the title implies, it's an EP of piano versions of Ramona Lisa songs. Check out "Walking in The Cemetery" below. 

music video of the day: "A Message" by Kelela

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This girl. This song. The vibe. My god. Intense and raw and sexy and smooth all at once.

On Arca, Kelela says:

I met Alejandro [Arca] on a boat in August of 2012. We sought one another out across a dance floor and within 5 minutes agreed to meet each other as soon as possible to collaborate. I had one song released to my name and had just heard one of his mixes, but we knew we’d found something in one another. We spent the next three days, 14 hours a day talking about our artistic visions and how it intersected with our personal lives, making songs that reflected that while dancing around the room to let it all out. About 5 or 6 demos were born out of these three days.

“A Message” is one of the demos that came from those sessions and it speaks to the despair that I was experiencing at the time. The initial version of the song spilled out of us in about 25 minutes. Since then, it’s been like a sculpture that I’ve come to and refined over time, adding a lyric here, refining a melody there, adding a bridge, etc. It’s a process that is now finally complete with its release and I’m so happy that I finally get to share it with all of you.

Here's a photo from when I met Kelela outside a club in Chicago after Pitchfork Fest 2014. I asked to take her picture and she said "only if you're in it" cus she's a bad ass. She looks so chill. Meanwhile, my QT wink face didn't turn out as good as I thought it would. I like that we have matching nails though. 

music video of the day: "Fletcher" by Bry Webb

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The video was directed by Nadia Tan who has the following to say about its origins...

 I have always been fascinated with photographing strangers, especially the unremarkable people - the older generation tending to their gardens and sitting on their porches, the labourers who become a part of the landscape - the people who form the backbone of our world, yet often go unseen.

To me, Bry Webb sings about these people in his songs, there is a longing for a simpler time and a simpler world; he sings about people who work with their hands and who wake and sleep with the rising and setting of the sun.

A few years ago, I discovered some of the postwar housing communities in Ontario and became enamoured with the simple beauty of these boxy white clapboard bungalows. I thought this would be the perfect setting for the video for Fletcher. Our cinematographer Greg Biskup and I traveled to some of the these communities and captured a series of portraits of strangers going about their everyday lives.

Super stunning stuff if you ask me.