Matt Mulholland

a stunning cover of "my heart will go on".

Oran Juice Jones

This video is badass on so many levels. Dude's fashion is on point. dude is baller status. dude has some sliding dance moves. dude tells the bitch like it is. sick beat and synths. dude is embodying M.O.B.

stars revisited

so, i totally listened to stars' "heart" album in 03 and 04 a good amount. kinda indie-poppy, but do they have pleasant singing voices and interesting synths in the mix. They had a couple new albums in the meantime that i never paid attention to, so i finally recently picked up "In our Bedroom After The War". i enjoy about 20% of the album, but the good songs are pretty good as far as catchy love-y poppy girl music goes. this one got stuck in my head a few times, and i really like how accurately this video portrays some aspects of love from a guy's point of view at least. fast, insane, neurotic, out of control...

definition of heavy - samothrace

I love these guys, as previously attested. I have nearly worn out their Life's Trade album which is just about elevated to Masterpiece status for me, and i'm dying to hear their new recordings. This video surfaced of one of their new songs, with their current lineup. I met all of these dudes, they are great dudes too. This clip is so fucking heavy, i've been watching this a lot waiting for new material.

Old school experimental

I've been trying to figure out what some of the earliest heavier / experimental music ever made was. I came across Luigi Nono (as early as the 50s) and Edgard Varese (00s to 40s). we could go into all kinds of elaborations about these guys, but its done for you already one wikipedia:
Luigi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Nono

Edgard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Varese


amazing stuff. This stuff is still pretty far-out for nowadays, you can only imagine what it was like in the 20s, 40s. It reminds me of newton inventing calculus out of nowhere or something like that.

george harrison

as i've grown to learn more background knowledge of many beatles songs (which beatle wrote what), I've come to learn many of my favorite beatle's songs are the ones george harrison wrote, such as this classic:

too $hort bitch

i already shared some too $hort when i was in my phase a few months ago, but damn you have to give him props for his usage of "bitch" in this song.

the tallest man on earth

I'm not at all big on bob dylan, which is the most common style The Tallest Man On Earth is compared to. I find his music way more engaging though, which may just be because its contemporary for me, so i feel like i can identify better with all the feelings he sings about.
The voice definitely seemed to be annoying to me at first, but it totally grew on me. I let the fingerpicking and general rhythm of the songs instead be the carrying factor, that just holds up the vocals, strings them along. as you can see in the live clip below, the guy honestly knows his music as his singing and playing are spot on. its pretty stuff

tom petty

I grew up with tom petty all over the radio, mtv, and played by my parents. i kind of liked his songs when i was even 5 and 6, but i didnt understand all his love and marijuana references, or understand how relatively unique and badass his musical style was for the time.
late last year i finally revisited his stuff and i was so stoked on it! what a badass! looks at the camera like a badass! dresses like a flamboyant badass! and the whole time he just looks like some skinny white stoner, unlike springsteen can pull off. revisit this one (embedding disabled):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TlBTPITo1I

erasure

taking the cake for gayness, this band, this video... i cannot believe what my eyes are seeing and what my ears are hearing. something almost could not be more shitty, and thus it has found its way on loop on my speakers a few times.