Music Videos
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Music Videos Check out this video from The Dangerous Idiots
This video for The Dangerous Idiots' "Can I Get a Role Model" is a finalist for the 2012 Arkansas International Music Video Competition. The contest has categories for international and Arkansas videos, and the showcase — May 31 at Stickyz — will include live performances as well as screenings of videos from both categories as part of this year's Little Rock Film Festival.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Music Videos Check out Piph's new video
From Epiphany's recently released "Such is Life" album, check out the video for "Untouchable."
I dig the sparse spookiness of the production on this track. After the jump, give a listen to a remix featuring Arkansas Bo, Marion Write, Jarren Benton and SeanFresh. If you wanna see him live, Epiphany's gonna be in Jackson, Miss. tonight and has some other out-of-town dates coming up, as well as shows at Cornerstone Pub and Revolution next month.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Music Videos / Contests Arkansas music video competition extends deadline
OK, all you musicians and filmmakers, the Arkansas International Music Video Competition and Showcase has recently extended the deadline for this year's competition to April 20.
There are categories for international and Arkansas videos, and the showcase — May 31 at Stickyz — will include live performances as well as screenings of videos from both categories as part of this year's Little Rock Film Festival.
To qualify for the Arkansas award, either the band or the filmmaker must be from the Natural State.
The full press release is included after the jump.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Music Videos Check out this brand-new Kris Allen video
Arkansas's American Idol Kris Allen has a new video out for his song "Vision of Love," and he's asking us all one thing: "When a heart breaks and the world shakes, will we stand for the vision of love?"
In the video, Kris is busy writing a song in a loft apartment, while outside some mean dudes are bullying Tilda Swinton, and down the street a teenage girl feels like she's not pretty and cool enough to hang out with this group of other teenage girls, who seem like they're pretty cool.
For a minute there, during the first chorus especially, all seems lost. Everyone is all super frustrated with their situations and Kris is asking us — demanding of us — "When a tear falls, and the fear crawls, will we stand for the vision of love?"
But everything works out in the video: Kris writes an effortlessly catchy pop song about standing for the vision of love, one of the bullies has a guilty conscience and he gets the other bullies to back off of Tilda and the teenage girl figures out that she's really beautiful after all and goes and makes friends with the cool girls.
Anyways, here's the video:
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Music Videos Check out this Trusty video
Here's a blast from the past for a lot of you longtime Little Rock punkers. From the 1995 album "Goodbye Dr. Fate," Trusty's "A Modest Proposal."
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Music Videos Hypnotic video collages from Lenny Bryan (Ho-Hum)
These have been floating around Facebook for a little while, but I just caught 'em today: Video collages from Lenny Bryan, lead vocalist of the sadly defunct Ho-Hum who's now recording as Mama, that preview tracks from his forthcoming album, "Chung."
I think "Sea of Love," above, is my favorite, visually and musically, but they're all worth checking out. The title track sort of reminds me of this Justin Vernon side-project, but better and if Arthur Russell were singing.
I caught a little of Self Defence Sistem's debut set last night. It was rad and similarly visually arresting. At one point they sampled Ho Hum's "Til the Cows Come Home." Maybe a remix of Mama is in order?
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
What's going on / Music Videos Thursday: Gebisa Ejeta, The Many Persian Z's, Kristin Key
The 2009 World Food Prize Laureate Gebisa Ejeta presents a lecture on global food security, Clinton School of Public Service, noon, free.
If you dig sublime psychedelic garage rock with virtuosic guitar playing, then get on over to see The Many Persian Z's at Maxine's, with sultry pop duo Landrest, 8 p.m., free.
Funnywoman Kristin Key brings the chuckles, chortles, giggles, etc. at The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $7. She'll be there through Saturday night.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
Music Videos Adam Faucett at Carl's Country Club
Stick around for the end of Faucett doing "I Don't Need You to Love Me Anymore" on the Front Porch of Carl's Country Club in Nashville. He really goes for it.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Music Videos Ear Fear talks class warfare, the importance of art in city development
In its latest video, Ear Fear's 607 shoots from the hip on a range of topics that spring from negative reactions he says he's gotten for the Ear Fear song "New N***az." If you listen to the lyrics closely, it's a song about the oppresive nature of poverty and how the poor, of all races, have become the "new n***az" of society, 607 explains. That he's gotten push back from the song online and locally (he calls out local rapper Epiphany by name) is a sign that either listeners don't understand or they're afraid. "Fear is the enemy of art," he says several times. Eventually, he gets into a Richard Florida-style riff on how a good city becomes great through art and good public transpo.
607 is a good talker. I'd watch this kinda stuff every week.
Also, Bobby has a new, really well-done video. I really like the transition into the hook. More Levelle Davison!
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Coming soon / Music Videos Michael '5000' Watts is bringing 'trill-step' to Revolution
I don't entirely get it, but I understand the School of Dub brings out the crowds.
It's going down at 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26 at Revolution. Ten bucks in advance, $15 d.o.s.
All these folks open: Niq, Daniel Kichen, Kreepa MC, Tyler Durden and Germz.
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
What's going on / Music / Music Videos Inventors of esteemed 'crabcore' genre to play Juanita's in September
In the world of popular music, as in the world at large, the gears of time grind on. Trends come and go. Another day, another genre. Each week seems to bring forth yet another new sub-specialty-micro-niche musical mutation that the kids will momentarily freak out over before moving on to the next thing, and that the grownups will hate, not understand or just laugh at, for a brief moment before remembering that they need to schedule the online bill-pay and call the AC repair guy and file their taxes.
Ah, to be young again. To hear with fresh, unbiased ears. To listen - to really listen - without judgment and cynicism and world-weariness.
But seriously, WTF is going on with this shit?
Can anyone explain the appeal of Attack Attack! to me? It appears to be a group of kids whose parents bought them really nice gear, and they like to make expensive looking videos where they're playing out in the middle of nowhere, shifting around hilariously like crabs, while playing a truly perplexing mix of chugga-chugga breakdown metal and awful teen radio pop, with vocals that are Cookie Monster one minute and auto-tuned Nu emo whining the next.
"Crabcore," the term inspired by this video, isn't really a new phenomenon. The odds are good that you've already seen the video. One of your fellow new-music-hating, senior-citizen buddies probably posted it several months ago on Facebook, where you all had a good laugh at it. Well, your laughter might be making Attack Attack! successful and wealthy. Or at least well-known.
All joking aside, the band's videos have been viewed millions of times on YouTube over the last year or so. How many of those were kids who really like the band? How many were just jaded old-timers getting in a fleeting laugh from a viral video? I don't know, but this will probably be a huge show.
Attack Attack! plays Juanita's September 25. Tickets are $13 in advance or $15 at the door.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Music Videos Johnny Cash's 'Hurt' is the greatest video of all time
British music mag NME has named the music video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" as the greatest music video of all time. A good video, but the G.O.A.T.? Probably not.
See the complete list here. Lots more ridiculous picks.
Speaking of late-career Johnny Cash, I hope you've read the excerpt we've got this week from Tony Tost's "Johnny Cash's American Recordings." It's a great essay.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Music Videos Ear Fear throws an old-school party in new video
Nice video for "New N***az" from Ear Fear's "Art Class."
Stick around for the dancing at the end.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Music Videos Hayes Carll scores cameos from Carville, Matalin in new video
Hendrix alum Hayes Carll's new music video for "Another Like You" from his album "KMAG YOYO" debuted this morning. Directed by “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” co-creator David Willis, the video plays up the song's lyrics of romance born out of — or maybe despite — political strife and even rates cameos by the poster couple of such a union, Mary Matalin and James Carville.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Music Videos Life Size Pizza release video for "El Diablo"
Awwwyeahhhh. Check out the dude known as Jack to the Future on the run from a united front of a cowhand, an androgynous greaser and what I'm guessing is a Man in Black.
Phoon Bonair, a Brooklyn film company made up of fellow Arkansas ex-pats, produced the video.
I don't think I've mentioned this in a while: Life Size Pizza is my favorite living Arkansas band, period. I like to keep that tidbit on the record, y'know.
Their incredible first album, "Queer Ideas," is streaming on MySpace. Cram it in your ears. "El Diablo" is the first song released from the band's follow-up album.
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