Grizzly Bear - Granny Dinner

I just discovered this video of the song "Granny Dinner" by one of my favorite groups, Grizzly Bear. Enjoy.

Broadcast and The Focus Group - I See, So I See So

This is the second video in a series from this partnership. I can't get enough!

Broadcast and the Focus Group - Witch Cults

Broadcast has become one of my favorite bands as of late, and this single is one of their best. It is off their new album with visual artist and musician The Focus Group.

Though Brilliantly Sunny... Mix no. 1

On the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/ Lotus Plaza blog ( http://deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com/ ) they have been posting "Micro Mixes" for a while. I've decided to start doing my own equivalent. This is the first installment. I apologize for having the track list be out of order, my computer insisted on putting the artists in alphabetical order before formatting it into a .zip file. If anyone knows how to remedy this for future mixes, that would be awesome. To download, just click on the image above. Any who, here is the correct track list, in order:

1. Cavalry Scars - Deerhunter
2. Winter Now - Broadcast
3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones Cover) - Cat Power
4. So Real - Jeff Buckley
5. Hazelton - Justin Vernon
6. Chelsea Hotel No. 2 - Leonard Cohen
7. William, It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
8. Pedestal - Portishead
9. Raid - Madvillain
10.Out On The Weekend - Neil Young
11. Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom

Yeasayer - 'Ambling Alp'

Yeasayer's first album, All Hour Cymbals, was one of my favorite records of 2007. If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend it. This is the video for their new single 'Ambling Alp'. I love the song, and the visual style of the video is really great.

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

Ever since I saw this band with Atlas Sound this has been one of my favorite records. Their sound is very unique and I don't know exactly how to describe it so you'll just have to listen for yourself.
My favorite tracks are:
I Found The F, Black Cat, and Corporeal

J. Tillman at Modified Arts 11-30-2009

What Laura Says Thinks And Feels is a pretty awful name, but the music was pretty good. The one thing that I didn't like about them was the white-soul-beat-boxing thing the singer was doing. I didn't get it. They were, however, the best local AZ band I have seen to date.

I don't think the audience knew what to do with Pearly Gates Music; admittedly, neither did I. It was a one man acoustic set by Zach Tillman, Josh Tillman's younger brother, which consisted of mostly chorusless ramblings about herpes, Jesus, and gender disambiguation. The first song was shit in my opinion--it had no intrest for me at all, but as his set moved on I found myself liking it more and more. The last song sold me though. I bought his five song EP in the hopes that there is something on it as good as that song, and I believe it is on there, so win!

J. Tillman was great! The whole band did a great job. Josh just has such a powerful and moving voice! To be honest I don't even know what else to say about it, it was great! At the end of the set he asked if anyone had any requests, but no one did. I found myself trying to think of some of my favorite songs of his, but he had played all of the ones that I really wanted to hear, and that's a good thing! Great show!

Photos from the show courtesy of Shawn at Electricmustache.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/electricmustache/sets/72157622914472596/