Who Threw That Ham at Me???

Oh helllll yes!!! Nothing better to cure a somewhat sickly me than a great new dance courtesy of the always awesome Fred Schneider!! DISCO GARBAGE CAN!!!! My newest and most favourite dance move!!!



I just found out about The Superions last week thanks to my darling Rockstar. They already have an awesome EP out on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records and have just released a very non-traditional Christmas album called "Destination Christmas!" on Fanatic Records!
I MUST HAVE!!!

iamamiwhoami LIVE in concert!!!!!

WOW! iamamiwhoami - To Whom It May Concern

Twin Sister

Lovely little band Twin Sister and their super neon magical colour beauty video for one of the best pop songs of the year! I want to live here...or at least eat candy & dance for a few minutes here...



The sweet "Color Your Life" EP was released earlier this year on Infinite Best while the "All Around and Away We Go" 7-inch single sees the light of day next Monday on Domino.

You must also check out their song "Meet the Frownies"! It is so so good and available for free download!!

Long Live The Legendary Pink Dots

After seeing a completely gorgeous set by The Legendary Pink Dots last night, I just had to post this beautiful song from their BRILLIANT new album "Seconds Late for the Brighton Line" (out now on ROIR).



Just as the opening band closed their set last night...
"LONG LIVE THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS!"

CLICK ME

YES IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a Cuchi-Cuchi kind of evening...

My Heart Is a Drummer

This video has simply made my week!! The cuteness is so overwhelmingly wonderful and happy and magical and ahhhhhh. Just saw Allo Darlin' at The Echo on Monday night and they put on a sweet short opening set. Elizabeth signed the setlist that I made Rocky nick from the stage, and just like her name, she really is a Darling...
Their self-titled debut album is out now on the excellent indie label Fortuna Pop! and it is definitely one of the best releases so far in 2010!! And here's the awesome aforementioned setlist!!

Die!

The ultimate bitter song with one of the bestest lines ever: "your girlfriend looks like shit and I know you're aware of it". YES!!! This song is featured on my recently released "Swedish POP Volumes 1 + 2", which has yet to be made available to the general public. Maybe I'll share it here in the near future...until then, dance to South Ambulance with your tambourine!!!

Röyksopp - I Wanna Know

I guess they've played this live for some time, but to me this is a GREAT new song from Röyksopp with guest vocals from the AWESOME Anneli Drecker!!

 

 **Updated in 2022 to fix broken song link**

FLL - The Esplanade

FLL is a Swedish band led by Fredrik Forell and they have recently released a lovely lovely video. I now need blocks of colour on my walls to go with my 7" singles! After Craft Night last night, this video is really striking a chord! =)

Acapella

I just saw this video for the first time at bowling Monday night (thank goodness for music and videos from the FUN league!) Absolutely fantastique!! "Before you, my whole life was acapella"!!! New Kelis is the best Kelis!!

Pearl Fiction - Insomnia

Pearl Fiction's new single "Insomnia" (available at the icky iTunes ... not even the fact that it's Swedish iTunes can save it!) has a lovely corresponding video!! I love the dancing girl in her New Order tank top...I will dance with her tonight in my state of anti-insomnia! I do also quite love Pearl's ace flagmanship!
If my Zeigeist was born in the 80's, this is what they would surely sound like! I love the little ELO, rock opera chorus!
His debut album is due early 2011 (I've now read March).
Enjoy...

Come on, Let's Go

Simply one of the greatest songs of all time! Also, a long time personal anthem.

Regina

Finnish synthpop perfection...
Nice trippy, sometimes freaky video. I particularly love the little egg man popping out of the band members' mouths...



I highly recommend ALL of their albums, especially their most shimmery debut "Katso maisemaa". I mean, how can you go wrong with a cover like this:

Let's get juxtaposed...

I remember discovering this song on a VHS video compilation I got from my old job after college. It had Massive Attack's "Teardrop" on there too! 

Still an awesome song, always an awesome message. Thank you Super Furry Animals! 

Enjoy and love...

"It's easy when you know how 

To get along without Biff! Bang! Pow! 

And if I see that you're fed up 

I'll stop and give you a leg up 

 Over-priced unreal estate, surreal estate 

The highest price they've hit to date 

Creating new divides and tension 

You've got to tolerate 

All those people that you hate 

I'm not in love with you 

But I won't hold that against you 

You've got to tolerate 

Some of those people that you hate 

I'm not in love with you 

But I won't hold that against you 

This is a tale of two situations 

Mutual appreciation 

Away from narrow preconception 

Avoiding conflict hypertension 

Non-phobic word aerobic 

This was my domain 

'Til someone stole my name 

You've got to tolerate 

All those people that you hate 

I'm not in love with you 

But I won't hold that against you 

You've got to tolerate 

Some of those people that you hate 

I'm not in love with you 

But I won't hold that against you 

Let's get juxtaposed, juxtaposed 

Just suppose I'm juxtaposed with you 

(I wanna get juxtaposed with you) 

(I wanna get juxtaposed with you) 

(I wanna get juxtaposed with you)

(I wanna get juxtaposed with you) 

You've got to tolerate 

All those people that you hate 

I'm not in love with you

But I won't hold that against you 

You've got to tolerate 

Some of those people that you hate 

I'm not in love with you 

But I won't hold that against you 

Let's get juxtaposed"

Klaus & Kinski - Forma, sentido y realidad

Very weird and very awesome and beautiful new video from one of 2010's best releases (and definitely the best Spanish release), Klaus & Kinski's "Tierra, trágalos". Enjoy!



You can buy the album directly from the lovely Spanish label Jabalina or be very lucky and find it at Amoeba!!

Komeda - It's Alright Baby

One of my favourite pop songs ever, with one of my favourite lyrics ever: "...but sure that love existed long before the first word was pronounced."

Come back Komeda!!



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Theoretical Girl

In honor of the beloved "Divided" being released on vinyl this month via Soft Power Recordings, I present you with a flurry of Theoretical Girl videos! AWESOMENESS!!!!






Oh, what the hell...and a Cut-Out Theoretical Girl picture!!







Love.

Dakar & Grinser - Stay With Me

On the way to work the other day, this song popped up on random and I still obsessed about this certain lyric I could never quite catch. Well now, thanks to youtube and the original mix (which I'd never heard), I finally got it! I love this song! Dakar and Grinser are a German duo of DJs (I believe) and they obviously make very interesting videos...

 

 

iamamiwhoami - y

iamamiwhoami! "y"! As per usual, AMAZING!

Darren Hanlon - All These Things

*CUTE OVERLOAD ALERT* Darren Hanlon is Australian. He writes precious folk-pop (for the most part) ditties. He has a handful of albums. His new album "I Will Love You at All" is set for release this week in his homeland (via Flippin Yeah Industries), and due out stateside in September (via Yep Roc).

He's quite the clever fellow, with plenty of wordplay to keep your mind aflutter. I've seen him open for The Magnetic Fields a couple times and even playing by himself, he's quite the pleasure. His first video off the album for the superb little duet "All These Things" is sheer bliss. I have not seen a video this cute or heartwarming in a very long time. I love everything about it, the song, the scenery, the super cute girl, the sentiment, etc etc etc. Behold the preciousness...

We Are the World - Fight Song

I do quite love creepy, demented videos especially when the music is so sinister like pretty much all of We Are the World's music. As the song reaches climax, the video shows some great, wild energy!!

Their debut album "Clay Stones" was released on Manimal Vinyl back in April. Pretty good stuff.

 

Paisley and Charlie

English duo Paisley and Charlie make such nice sophisticated pop music, very Saint Etienne if I do say so myself (and which I will likely get shot for saying, but whatever...lighten up people)! They have a more pop-pop bent with their original band Detox Cute & The Beauty Junkies but I must say I do quite prefer the smooth sounds of Paisley and Charlie. They have self-released two EPs already and both are gorgeous, "Bedsit Songs One" & "Bedsit Songs Two", which are both available for purchase directly from the band here. 

Here are a couple nice videos for you. 

First, "Stone Lions" takes me back to the early Saint Etienne videos...I especially love her hopscotch over those yummy vinyls! Scrumptious!

This second video weaves their song "My Secret Life" with a partial cover of Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy" together perfectly!

The Bronson Brothers

The Bronson Brothers are a delicious new band from Silkeborg, Denmark. Rather dark pop, I'll say in the vein of Echo & The Bunnymen. Their album "The Melody Bronson" (released February 2010) is full of hits and I suggest you check it out! I share with you their video for one of the album highlights "Mirror Mirror". Great song and great video...The moment in this video that starts at 2:18 is so perfectly done and really makes the video transcend! Enjoy!

Katsen - Where Nobody Can Find Us

One of my Top 10 Songs of 2009, I just had to share because it's still perfect!



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