I really like the combination of rock drums and singer-songwriter ambience of John Vanderslice’s songs. Actually, he is currently the #1 played artist on my iPod. Although I prefer his song ‘White Dove’, I couldn’t find a decent version of it on YouTube, so I included the following song:
And, after having featured Noah and the Whale in the previous post, I would like to raise your attention to an ex-member of that band, Laura Marling. Is there a new British renaissance going down there, or what?
I’d like to call it ‘the second British invasion’.
From Crackle: Noah and the Whale ‘Five Years Time’
How did I run across Noah and the Whale? I don’t remember. However, their music cheers me up and rids me of the headache that was pestering me all morning.
Always experimentally inclined, Radio has produced a music video that doesn’t use ‘traditional’ camera’s, but laser scanning. The result is a beautifully mesmerising video, with collapsing infrastructure, indeed.
The page for this video, explaining how the video was made, can be found at Google Code.
Conor Oberst & The Magic Valley Band played in de Melkweg in Amsterdam yesterday. Conor Oberst, The Artist Formerly Known As Bright Eyes. And obviously, I went to see them. He’s not that well-known in this part of the world, so the concert wasn’t sold out. I am addicted not so much to his music, [...]