Showing posts with label music videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music videos. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2023

For the 'Win'

 

David Bowie fans this week commemorated both his birthday (Jan. 8, 1947) and his passing (Jan. 10, 2016).

So in honor of all this, here's a video for "Win" from 1975's Young Americans LP. 

The footage here apparently comes from (outtakes?) from the "Cracked Actor" documentary.

Friday, January 6, 2023

2023 — the year 'Neo Punk' broke

 

Iggy Pop's 19th studio album, Every Loser, is out today. 

The record, which features backing musicians Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and a posthumous appearance from Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, is enjoying some pretty solid reviews to date. 

There are a bunch of audio clips from the record on YouTube... such as the one above for "Neo Punk."

As previously noted, East Village resident John Holmstrom, the co-founder, editor and illustrator of Punk Magazine, created a new issue that's only available with a purchase of Every Loser.

Previously on EV Grieve:

Friday, December 30, 2022

Built to 'Still'

 

A top-20 album of the year contender... here's the Irish band Just Mustard with "Still" taken from the May release, Heart Under ...

Friday, December 23, 2022

It's Xmas time

 

East Village-based singer-songwriter Jesse Malin has released a new video for "Xmas, etc.," a re-recording of the song that appeared on his debut LP, The Fine Art of Self Destruction ... that record will be expanded and reissued in celebration of its 20th anniversary early next year. (Read more about that here.) 

You can catch Malin and his band at Webster Hall on March 25, 2023.

Friday, December 16, 2022

'Beat' surrender

 

In this season of the listicle... a top-20 record contender — Excess, the second release from the Los Angeles-based trio Automatic. The video here is for "Teen Beat."

Friday, December 9, 2022

Do it Clean

 

Hamish Kilgour, a founding member of New Zealand's The Clean, died this past week at age 65

Here's more about the influential (and underappreciated IMO) band via NPR:
The Clean's open, do-it-yourself approach certainly stood the test of time, crystallized in a lyric Kilgour wrote: "Anything could happen and it could be right now / And the choice is yours, so make it worthwhile." That aesthetic heavily impacted later indie rockers such as PavementYo La Tengo and Superchunk. The band's influence extended into numerous scenes around the world, from the Elephant 6 collective in America, to current bands like The Courtneys in Canada and The Beths back in New Zealand. They've all found inspiration in The Clean's impulsive creativity and lack of pretense.

The above video for "Dunes" from 1989 was filmed in NYC... and you'll spot some familiar and long-gone music venues on the Bowery and East Houston and elsewhere.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

It's 'Time for Christmas' with the book man of Astor Place

Chris Santana, aka "the book man of Astor Place," has released this seasonal single — going as SantanaClaus — filmed from his spot outside Cooper Union.

Please enjoy "It's Time for Christmas." (You can find more from him on SoundCloud.)

 

Friday, December 2, 2022

Sweet 'Nothing'

 

Don’t Know What You're In Until You're Out is the just-released second record from the Philadelphia-based band Gladie ... the video here is for the anthemic indie-pop track "Nothing." 

They'll be at the Bowery Ballroom on Dec. 16, though that show is sold out.

P.S.
Today is Bandcamp Friday, where the platform waives its revenue share, and all earnings go to the artists.

Friday, November 25, 2022

Oh yeah

 

A Thanksgiving palate cleanser with the Osees... from a recent six-song performance on Seattle's KEXP. 

The Los Angeles-based band will be out at Brooklyn Made on Dec. 16-17.

Friday, November 18, 2022

Cherry-coloured punk

 

Endure, the well-reviewed new record from Special Interest, is out now... the video here is for "Cherry Blue Intention." 

You can check out the glammed-up punk sounds of this New Orleans-based band on Dec. 8 at the Bowery Ballroom.

Friday, November 11, 2022

'Teen' beat

 

The Haunted Youth are a Belgian-based band putting out some damn good dream pop, at least based on their debut release Dawn of the Freak. 

The video is for "Teen Rebel"

Friday, November 4, 2022

Hello again

Photo for EVG last year by Stacie Joy 

Big week for local band Hello Mary... the trio — bassist Mikaela Oppenheimer, guitarist Helena Straight and drummer Stella Wave — announced the release date for their debut LP — March 3, 2023. 

They were also profiled in Rolling Stone in a piece titled "Say Hello to the Next Great New York Rock Band." 

And then there is a brand-new single-video... this is "Spiral."

   

Previously on EV Grieve

Friday, October 28, 2022

'Teenage' kicks

 

For the Halloween weekend... the Cramps with "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" ... with live footage from August 1980 and  "Urgh! A Music War." (Not the best-quality video, unfortunately.)

The song also makes an appearance in "Halloween Kills," which you really don't heed to see. 

Friday, October 21, 2022

Slow burn

 

Last month, Preoccupations released Arrangements,  the Canadian band's fourth record ... the video here is for "Slowly." 

Friday, October 7, 2022

Miss you

 

Makes Me Sick Makes Me Smile, the debut album from Pretty Sick, is out now ... the new video here is for the track "Self Fulfilling Prophecy." 

The band, with local roots, will be at Bowery Ballroom on Nov. 21

Read our Q&A with vocalist-bassist Sabrina Fuentes from last December right here.

P.S.
Today is Bandcamp Friday, where the platform waives its revenue share, and all earnings go to the artists.

Friday, September 30, 2022

This is a fantastic ramshackle day

 

A new video dropped this week for a previously unreleased Joe Strummer track titled "Fantastic" ... included on the record "Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years." 

The video, including scenes around the East Village, features archival footage shot by Strummer, Dick Rude, Julien Temple, Don Letts and more. 

Filmmaker Lance Bangs, who has directed videos for Nirvana, Sonic Youth, R.E.M., Green Day, and more, pieced together unseen footage from the artist's archives to lend a visual accompaniment to "Fantastic," and Strummer's lyrical oratory around dreaming, making change and better days... 
And the track: 
Recorded in December 2002 at the Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, "Fantastic" was one of Strummer’s final recordings, with vocals laid down just weeks after Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros played their last-ever live show at Liverpool University on Nov. 22, 2002, and exactly one month before Strummer’s untimely death on Dec. 22, 2002, at the age of 50.
H/T, Dr. Bop! 

Friday, September 23, 2022

'Foul' play

 

This is "A Foul Form," from the most recent release by Osees (aka OCS, Oh Sees and Thee Oh Sees) ... one of the best live bands around (IMO)... and they are playing tonight and tomorrow night out at Warsaw in Greenpoint.

Friday, September 16, 2022

Freaks to the front

 

Australian punks Amyl and the Sniffers released this live video clip this week from a recent show... a good preview of what to expect when they play Terminal 5 on West 56th Street next Friday night... in support of their most recent release, Comfort to Me.

Friday, September 9, 2022

That 'Thing' you do

 

And now for some 80s-style emotive synth-pop courtesy of Au Suisse, the debut record from NYC-based music vets Morgan Geist and Kelley Polar (aka Mike Kelley). Read more about the two here.

Enthusiasts of this era can check out their recently released record and spot the loving similarities here and there to Scritti Politti, Pet Shop Boys, Talk Talk, Visage and Tones on Tails, among others. 

And the video here is for "Thing."