Dan Black, who recently remixed his song, “Symphonies,” for the US release of his debut album, is premiering the new video for the track with Kid Cudi tomorrow night on IFC’s Automat @ 10pm. Some clips above. Let me count the ways that this is going to be awesome… A lot. Dan’s solo record, ((un)), [...]
More Super Bowl stuff. Super Bowl <3’s good music (sans the obnoxiously safe post-boob halftime shows).Above is Jay-Z’s Super Bowl intro video, featuring a mash-up of Blueprint 3’s “Run This Town” and E.S. Posthumus’s NFL on CBS theme song, “Posthumus Zone.” I knew all those strings/power chords already had something to do with football.Pretty sure [...]
Super Bowl XLIV was totally indie. Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” was in an official NFL spot, with all of the licensing proceeds going to Partners in Health. I spent Super Bowl Sunday at Disneyland (Mickey > Football), but that commercial is pretty awesome. Almost makes me want to watch football. Almost.You can check [...]
Ra Ra Riot performed The Rhumb Line’s “Dying is Fine” for Ohio’s CD101 this past September, but the video was just posted up last week. Even though I’d love to hear a new full length from these guys, this is enough to hold me over. Still revisiting this one every few months or so. It’s [...]
Beach House was recently filmed in their Baltimore practice space performing tracks from the best album of 2010 (too soon?). Teen Dream’s gorgeous closer, “Take Care,” above. More @ P4K TV.
Atlanta rapper and recent Atlantic Records signee, B.o.B., is set to release his long-awaited debut album, The Adventures of Bobby Ray, on May 25. B.o.B.’s latest mixtape, May 25th (nicely done), hit the internets last weekend and features appearances from J. Cole, Asher Roth, and Charles Hamilton (so, someone still likes him).The tagless, merciless mp3 [...]
I was clicking around Delta Mirror’s Myspace and came across Franco Near Death, an unsigned LA based band with a handful of solid tracks on their player. About a year ago, the band told Radio Free Silver Lake that they were working on a new record, but, from the looks of it, they seem to [...]
Radiohead is officially [certified and verified accountness] on Twitter. 15,513 followers in one day. 1 Tweet: Testing the Twitter. I will be Tweeting @Radiohead daily.
Massive Attack premiered the “Splitting The Atom“ video today, the first from their upcoming full length, Heligoland. The futuristic, super sexy, computer animated video, directed by Edouard Salier, is pretty stunning. The super sexy record is due Febraury 9, unless you already won yours from My Poproks.
Michel Gondry is back in the music video business. Hard.Spent the other night watching Capitol’s Best of Radiohead videos DVD, and was reminded of how interesting/funny/disturbing/charming Gondry’s “Knives Out” was (and every other video he’s done, for that matter). It’s been a couple of years now since he’s done any ‘official’ vids, but, above, he [...]
::Stretch:: I’m back.FYF and L.A.’s Videothing put together the above 10 minute mini-doc about The Soft Pack and what seems to have been an insane day of 10 shows in Los Angeles this past Saturday (including secret house parties and beach shows). The band was promoting today’s release of their self titled debut full length [...]
Kanye is breaking the keyboard on his Macbook Air again. CAPS LOCK IS LOAD. Welcome back, ‘Ye.WHEN IT’S ALL SAID AND DONE, REMEMBER THE FEARLESS, REMEMBER THE DREAMERS, REMEMBER THOSE WHO REPRESENT THE GHETTO…THE FAIRY TALE OF NOTHING TO SOMETHING. I’M BRIEFLY SADDENED BY NEGATIVE COMMENTS, BUT I HAVE TO REMEMBER THOSE PEOPLE ARE SCARED, [...]
San Diego’s The Soft Pack (formally The Muslims/formally a Poproks Songoftheday post) are celebrating the release of their first official full length with a string of 10 shows in the Los Angeles area tomorrow (I have my eye on 8pm @ Vacation Vinyl). The self titled record (due February 2) was recorded in NYC with [...]
I just wanted to look at that cover again.Below, more 30-37 second teasers for Gorillaz upcoming album, Plastic Beach (due March 8), that have been uploaded to their Youtube/Facebook accounts over the last couple of days. Each clip features an audio sample from the record (not including the single, “Stylo”) and a look at a [...]
Above, an excellent new video from LA based band Local Natives. The track “Airplanes” is from their debut album, Gorilla Manor, and is due February 16 in the US. The band are currently touring Europe through the spring, including the Route du Rock Winter Festival in France with Beach House and The xx.So, the haunted [...]
Photographer/director/musician Michael Sterling Eaton’s upcoming release, Mictape Vol. 1, will feature tracks with Curren$y, The Cool Kids, and Mos Def. Guessing the above clip of “White Drapes” was directed by Eaton. Not sure of the release date on this, but the 1 minute and 30 second preview has been enough to add it to my [...]
Above, the new video directed by Sophie Muller for Danger Mouse & James Mercer’s Broken Bells (oebkenllbsr, berobrknells, etc.) project. “The High Road” is the first single off of the band’s new self-titled record (due March 9).Danger Mouse. James Mercer. Broken Bells. The High Road. Video. Watch.
The Dears’ Murray Lightburn told My Poproks in 2008 that they “didn’t give a crap about ‘indie’” or “sh*t bins at the record shop.” The band’s disregard for being one of the cool kids has kept their music painfully honest through the years, and is by far their most endearing quality.The Montreal band recently visited [...]
[Hi. This is an update highlighting new albums recently added to the Mymix page. Bye]Beach House Teem Dream To confirm, this is better than Devotion. An early choice for My Poproks Album of the Year, as I’m struggling to imagine a record coming out within the next 11 months that’s better than this one. Couldn’t [...]
I’m on that Disney sh*t. Goofy flow.A-Trak’s “Loonies to Blow,” a remix of Drake’s “Money to Blow,” showed up last night on Drizzy’s blog. ‘Loonies’ in the title is a play on the name of a one dollar coin in Canada, where Drake and A-Trak are both from. The remix will be featured on A-Trak’s [...]
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