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 [...]

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 [...]

 

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The Blue Room

It’s incredible how far the so called ‘internet’ has come over the last 2 years. There is so much cool stuff out there nowadays, and this is another example.
I watched a live webcast over the weekend – artists like the White Stripes, Franti, John Butler, Lily Allen etc etc – all performing their sets [...]

Song of 2007

Quite easily the song of the year, no matter what comes for the next half. Here are the lyrics to wail along to as you listen to the tune. shit hot.
Icky Thump Lyrics
Here’s an older interview with Jack and Meg – thank god they’re not from the U2 etc mould – hope we can see [...]

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 Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful [...]

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 ivory [...]

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

Blue Orchid (White Stripes)