Video: “El Scorcho” by Sheezer (Southern Souls)

“El Scorcho” by Sheezer (Weezer Cover) on Southern Souls.  Two of my favourite things right now.

SHEEZER – El Scorcho from Mitch Fillion (southernsouls.ca) on Vimeo.

The Side Street Project

This looks pretty cool.  The Side Street Project is a unique and exhilarating combo of solo performances, conversations and exclusive musical collaborations on classic cover songs by three artists on one stage.  Holy Fuck, Buck 65 and Emm Gryner are the first participants in an episode that will premier across Canada on Super Channel in HD and SD on Saturday, September 25, 7pm, EST.

Here’s the setlist for show #1.  Note the cover of Def Leppard ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’.

Here’s Holy Fuck doing “Lovely Allen”.

The Pass – “Vultures” (Guess The Blogs Contest Results)

I’m having an ‘I Love The Internet’ moment.

A little while ago, a music blog called We Listen For You teamed up with Louisville, Kentucky band The Pass for a little experiment/contest about music blogs.  They put together a music video of an epic house party, depicting and acting out clues to depict 39 different music blogs.  Readers of the blog and viewers of the video were to guess as many music blogs in the video as they could.  In WLFY’s words “…the video was 90% a contest and 10% trying to do a visual representation of how a song (from the needle drop) travels over the Internet through various music blogs, onto hype machine, and off to the listener”.

When I initially saw the video, I tried to guess a lot of the blogs, but couldn’t get past 20.  It wasn’t that I didn’t know the blogs in the video (as the results listed are essentially part of my daily reading), I wasn’t thinking hard enough.

I also didn’t clue into the fact that I was depicted in the video.  0:44 in the sink as someone who “sifts water through tapes and cds”.

Totally flattered.

Head to We Listen For You to read more about the contest and check out the list of blogs in the video.

Free EP from Crocodiles

San Diego’s Crocodiles are releasing a free EP called  Fires Of Comparison, which you can download here.  The EP is essentially a quieter cousin of the fuzz drenched tunes we’re used to in “Sleep Forever”; the great BRMC sounding tune and also the name of the album set to be released next week by Fat Possum.  Look for the band doing support of this with Golden Triangle and Dirty Beaches in the US and UK (dates at myspace).

Crocodiles – “Sleep Forever” from christin turner on Vimeo.

or better yet, their newest video “Hearts Of Love”.

Put On Your Radar: Kowalski

Kowalski are Irish indie-electro outfit from Bangor and next month will be on the road with fellow Northern Ireland countrymen Two Door Cinema Club with dates all over the UK.  In the past they’ve done shows with Snow Patrol, Editors and Ash.  Hopefully, I’ll be hearing more from this band, but so glad they ended up on my radar today.

Check out “Get Back”.

Get Back by kowalski. You’ll get used to that repeating sample near the end.

Tourdates:

New Tallest Man On Earth EP

Swedish troubadour Kristian Matsson (aka The Tallest Man On Earth) has released a new EP titled Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird on iTunes today.  It features 4 new songs, plus a reworking of  Like The Wheel (download), which was the bonus track on his recent full length The Wild Hunt.  You can grab the EP here.

Video: “Superstar” by Aeroplane

Check out the video for “Superstar” by Aeroplane.  The band’s debut album comes out Sept 24th, look for it. And look for bacon brows, they’re totally in right now.

(Found at Nialler9).

Yellow Ostrich

Seeing as how its labour day, I’m going to try not to work.  Perhaps I’ll just let you know whats playing in the background to my afternoon inside.

Yellow Ostrich = Alex Schaaf from NY.  Check out some of his songs on bandcamp, which are free to download.

His youtube channel has some awesome covers, including “Zebra” by Beach House (video below).   Grab the mp3 here.