Archive for 'Music'

House of Cards

More out-of-the-ordinary from Radiohead with this vid. In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Go Johnny

Johnny Clegg is a South African legend. He’s also known as the ‘white zulu’ and for good reason. This is a wonderful remake of one of his old songs, with many prominent SA artists. It’s followed by another SA video, set to Toto’s ‘Africa’ and tries to tell a short story of SA’s history in [...]

Our Weapons were our Instruments

I just got back from a Cat Empire open-air concert in Sydney. They are an inspired act, innovative and brilliant. They were supported by Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown and The Beautiful Girls (3 blokes) – all fantastic. This is a quick ‘n dirty vid from the concert, as well as some nice audio to [...]

 
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Greatest guitarists of all time

Greatest guitarists of all time

Rolling Stone’s 100 best of all time. But where’s Slash? 1Jimi Hendrix 2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band 3 B.B. King 4 Eric Clapton 5 Robert Johnson 6 Chuck Berry 7 Stevie Ray Vaughan 8 Ry Cooder 9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin 10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones 11Kirk Hammett of [...]

Jolene (White Stripes)

Seems Icky isn’t available for the rest of us non-americanos for now. We’ll wait and see. Instead, this live version of ‘Jolene’ is an incredible rendition. I couldn’t believe that it was a Dolly Parton cover, but it really is. Here’s her original. Your beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with [...]

Icky Thump (White Stripes)

The Icky Thump video gets released today and with any luck it should show up here. The new album gets released mid-june. Can’t wait (F11 maximises as you know!) Icky Thump Lyrics