ANOTHER VIDEO!

I really like the beginning of this song. The prelude right before the singing starts sounds ridiculous over the speakers at work. Otherwise, this is one of the dudes from Grizzly Bear, his bro, and features various Grizzly Bear dudes at various points. This IS a Grizzly Bear album, pretty much.
Oh yeah, Patrick Daughters directed this. He's like the David LaChapelle of Starbucks indie rock.

KENNETH ANGER, BAD DUDE

Probably pretty obvious that Anger is into the occult. Love his use of light and space. Up until "The Rise of Lucifer" his films always feel like something you can hold in your hands. Also, Mick Jagger scored the whole thing and makes a cameo with Marianne Faithful at the 5:09 mark of part II.

BIKE SAFETY IS SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT

Posting nonstop youtube videos is sort of a copout, but bicycle safety is IMPORTANT.

TURTLE RAPES SHOE

NO IDEA WHAT THIS MEANS

Joseph Beuys could do whatever he wanted. Herron needs a Beuys-style lecture class backed up by a horrible kraut-pop band.

Barry McGee for Lance Armstrong

Livestrong has kicked off some sort of art thing to fight cancer and what have you. A whole mess of Madones are going to get fresh paint from pro art dudes for a traveling exhibit. The first two come courtesy of Barry McGee(pictured above) and low brow hard-on of the moment, KAWS. The KAWS version looks like shit, but the McGee bike is ridiculous. His signature characters are obvious, but the "old road bike you found in your grandparents garage" paint scheme is brilliant. Defintely takes a sense of humor to take the whip of choice for spandex-clad dentists and make it look like your first ten speed.

C86

Chocolate Bobaka has NME's infamous C86 mixtape available, in it's entirety, for download. Good way to put the internet's boner for The Pains of Being Pure at Heart into context.

EMERALDS - WHAT HAPPENED

Emeralds make incredibly good drone-y ambient music. The focus is on 70's-80's synths stretching melody out to the edge of recognition. The near exclusive use of dated electronics tints everything with a warm naivety. Makes you want to curl up with a good bong on the couch. I'd throw up a single track, but the album really works best as a whole. Check out Emeralds-What Happened.

TGIF

TGIF from Austin Dickson on Vimeo.