New OK Go video gets over one million hits in first 24 hours (NME)

The new music video by Ok Go has been seen by over one million people in its first 24 hours, and you can see it below.

Released yesterday (September 20) on YouTube, the promo for their new single 'White Knuckles' has become yet another viral hit for the band, following the global success for the videos of 'A Million Ways', 'WTF?' and 'Here It Goes Again'.

"It took 124 takes," frontman Damian Kulash told NME about the video, which features the band and a collection of well trained dogs. "There were many more starts and stops but we actually have slates for 124 full takes. The video you see is one whole take and what you see is all take 72."

Currently seen over 1.3 million times, the singer explained that they are shocked by the number of people who have seen the promo already.

"It's mind-boggling," he admitted. "I don't think the brain is wired for comprehending those kind of numbers. Last night it was 100,000 hits and I woke up this morning with it being, like, over one million."

As for the future, Kulash was quick to reassure fans that they haven't run out of ideas for more videos, with the next one set to be released in November.

"We're releasing another probably on November 1," he revealed. "There are plenty more down the line we're working on too. We make our videos like we make our songs, so there are plenty of threads of stuff floating around, you're just not always sure if it's going to turn into something yet."

Set to embark on a North American tour in early October, the band will also be at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London this Friday (September 24), where a number of their videos will be screened and the group will take part in a special question and answer session. For more information, visit BFI.org.uk.

The Drums Guitarist Quits

Band to continue tour with stand-in guitarist.

One of the hottest indie bands of 2010, The Drums, have lost a guitarist in the middle of their North American tour.
The band used their website to announce that they were "devestated" by Adam Kessler's decision to quit the band stating, "there have been some questions as to recent events and we are sorry to say that Adam has left The Drums."
There is no official word as to who will replace Kessler, who was not one of the band's founding members.

Beck and Devendra Banhart – ‘Life During Wartime’

Beck and Devendra Banhart have collaborated on a track for Todd Solonz’ latest film Life During Wartime. The lyrics were written by Solonz while the song was actually written by composer Marc Shaiman. Beck produced and sang backing vocals and obviously, that Devendra singing the main part. It sounds like a good opening song to a, if Solonz films is anything to go by (hello paedophile black comedy Happiness which this film follows up), the calm before the storm.


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New Clare Bowditch!

Clare Bowditch & the New Slang - Modern Day Addiction (2010)
(click album to download)


01. The Start of War
02. Modern Day Addiction
03. Running
04. A Lucky Life
05. Prinz Willy
06. Your Own Kind of Girl
07. A E I O You
08. The Most Beautiful Lies
09. Break My Heart
10. Bigger Than the Money
11. A Little History (Homage To My Dad Two)
12. Stars



A songwriter from an early age, Clare Bowditch went public with her passions and talent in 1998, upon meeting John Hedigan, with whom she formed the band Red Raku, which released an EP. Upon that band's folding, she started the Feeding Set with collaborators Libby Chow and Warren Bloomer. Together, this act would release the albums Autumn Bone and What Was Left, the second of which was released on EMI. In 2007, Bowditch -- along with a slightly retooled Feeding Set -- released her third full-length, The Moon Looked On.

Clare Bowditch has covered a lot of ground since the fragile folk of Red Raku and her first solo album, 2004's Autumn Bone. She has become, in a sense, confrontational: Bowditch pushes back at the everyday perceptions we acquiesce to and the expectations that would limit her own artistic persona. She now writes social criticism, ranging through the suburbs of Melbourne to alight on privileged (Modern Day Addiction) or young women with a warped body image (Your Own Kind of Girl). She's perceptive instead of preachy and only resorts to polemic shorthand such as the "sell sell sell" refrain of Prinz Willy once she's sketched the situation. The arrangements have taken even greater strides, matching the confusion that undercuts these lives with cushioned beats, overlapping voices and insistent keyboard tones; Bowditch gets inside her charges' worlds with tunes that bear comparison to Fiona Apple. Her backing band, the Feeding Set, has doubled in size to become the New Slang and they're capable of new-wave pop (Bigger Than the Money)

Happy Birthday Mario! 25 today

Julia Stone Solo Album

Julia Stone – The Memory Machine (2010)
(Click album to download)

Tracklist:
1. This Love
2. My Baby
3. Winter On The Weekend
4. The Memory Machine
5. Catastrophe
6. Maybe
7. Lights Inside This Dream
8. What’s Wrong With Me?
9. Horse With The Wings
10. Where Does The Love Go?






The Memory Machine is the debut solo album from Julia Stone. One part of the brother & sister duo ‘Angus & Julia Stone’, known for their distinctive voices and intimate arrangements. Julia’s hushed tones resemble a more traditionally pretty Joanna Newsom, while Angus goes the sensitive-baritone route. Julia recorded the ‘Memory Machine’ in New York in late 2008, the album has been described as both haunting and mellow with dark undertones.


Julia Stone - What's Wrong With Me

Julia Stone - Maybe

This is to pay homage to the 80gb of music I lost due to a damaged hard-drive! :(

If anyones wants to send me some music, feel free to email me!