Michael Cera is the Coolest Kid

Not to mention...a lucky bugger too. He's in some of the best and most talked about movies of the last 3 years, one of the greatest television shows of all time and seemingly has a group of pretty rad friends. I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like we could have gone to high school together and that's why I like him. He seems pretty down-to-earth, still kind of a loser, but that breed of loser when at some point they become the coolest loser at school. I dig.

Here he is in Islands new video for No You Don't.

It's Saturday

New Moby Single "Pale Horses" from the upcoming Wait For Me album out June 29 on Little Idiot. A charming video.

Amazing Baby - "Head Dress" from their upcoming full-length Rewild being released June 23 on Shangri-La. I'm not too sure how I feel about this video yet.

Something a little bit older. I just love this video. Lioness - "You're My Heart" from their 2008 self-titled release on New Romantic.

Fresh Friday

Again avec alliteration!

Franz Ferdinand has released a dub album. Yeah, you read that right. A DUB album. And what's more surprising? It is, for the most part anyway, incredible!
They've taken tracks from their last release, Tonight, and remixed them in a way to create Blood - a fresh take on the sound niche they've carved out for themselves. They should probably get risky like this more often. It works. Some tracks are more fetching than others but on the whole, I'm really diggin' it!

There's nothing on the internet that will let you listen to some tracks (quickly) so I've made a file of 3 of my favourite tracks and uploaded it to the site below. It's crude, so forgive me, but I have no idea how to do this and am pretty impressed I managed to do this much.

The tracks I've included are (in order of appearance) "Feel The Pressure", "Feel The Envy" and "If I Can't Have You Then Nobody Can."
Hopefully there's no trouble with this file. Enjoy!
Franz Ferdinand - Blood (Domino)

Tiga on Thursday

Apparently I really like alliteration.

Here's the new Tiga video for "Shoes" from the new album Ciao! on Last Gang records. Directed by AlexandLiane who did the video for "Shut Up and Let Me Go" by the Ting Ting's (We Started Nothing, Columbia) as well as "That's Not My Name"...and since embedding is disabled on both those videos...I'm gonna take it back to 2004 and post another video directed by AlexandLiane!

Scissor Sisters!!! "Laura" from their self-titled debut album on Universal.

A Little Somethin' Different for Hump Day

New Beyonce video for "Diva." I really like it a lot.

Happy Wednesday!

Tiny Masters of Today

These kids...15 and 13...and totally amazing.

Title track from the upcoming album Skeletons being released on June 16 on Mute records. I has me a feeling it will be packed with gems.

Here's their video for Hologram World from the 2007 release Bang Bang Boom Cake directed by Kids with Canes (Karen O and Barney Clay). Great video, great song, great kids.

And in the spirit of new music...

Here is a video of I Don't Wanna Go There... new Dinosaur Jr. song from their upcoming release, Farm (June 23) on Jagjagwuar.

Factory Party 5

Well, Calgary, it's that time of the month again!
Factory Party is back this Friday at the Uptown Stage and Screen! If you haven't been yet, you really should, and if you have, then you're probably already planning on coming again. It's a great night for music, art, film, dancing, socializing and drinking...all in one place for one low, low price!
I'm even lucky enough to have a couple things up this time 'round and I would love to see some familiar faces and shoot some celebratory tequila. Maybe, just maybe I'll see you there!
Come down early if you don't have tickets...they're expecting 1200 people so there'll probably be more than that and door tickets will sell out.
See some bands, watch some films, check out some art (mine, too, please!) mingle, shake ya tail feather and party!

Morning Bass and Cartoons

Alex Cuba - Tu Boca Lo Quita

Art of Fresh - Out of this World