New style parody of the Doors about Craigslist from “Weird Al”, released just 2 weeks ago online. The new album slated for next year is called Internet Leaks and he’s leaking the tracks himself one at a time as he gets them done apparently. Embedding has unfortunately been disabled but you can click here to [...]
Being alone is not a virtue. It is just a fact and, for most of us, a source of insecurity, occasionally a source of relief, sometimes a real liability. Loneliness, by contrast, is essentially a kind of felt deprivation (and we should note that one can feel lonely even in the presence of other people). [...]
The best covers are ones that bring things out of a great song (or even a mediocre one) that you never could have gotten out of the original and other versions. I love covers because they reveal things about songs you thought you knew already and show their other possibilities. Most of all they highlight [...]
Neko Case’s stirring cover of Harry Nilsson never ceases to move me. It was recorded in her barn in Vermont on 6 pianos she got free off of Craigslist. This video about the album features footage of the song’s recording.
Spectacular video, at least visually. Thanks to the DCist and Andrew Sullivan
Found this story through LoveAtheism.com—Democrats get into power and all of a sudden the entire animal kingdom has gone gay: Examples of same-sex behavior can be found in almost all species in the animal kingdom — from worms to frogs to birds — making the practice nearly universal among animals, according to a new review [...]
So, the other night I checked my computer and realized that not one of the 10,259 songs on it were by Michael Jackson. Then today I was randomly listening to the Simpsons soundtracks for the first time in years and it hit me. There is one song from Michael Jackson (even though he didn’t actually [...]
The former member of Polyphonic Spree and back up singer to Sufjan Stevens, Annie Clark goes by “St. Vincent” for her own albums and is pretty unconventionally awesome. Here she is live—both St. Vincent – “Now Now” from scheduletwo on Vimeo. and then St. Vincent “The Strangers” from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo. St. Vincent [...]
A rabbi friend mourns not just his death but his life, I would overcome my feelings of pity with a spirit of defiance. No, I will not cry. He hadn’t earned it.But then the news came that he had died. And I was devastated. Especially when I saw my children’s tears. Michael was accused of [...]
This cut from Nine Inch Nails’ 2008 release Ghosts just blows me away, one of my favorite things Trent’s ever done: And below is Dan Friel performing “Ghosts, pt. 1″ live from his Ghost Town, which is a great album start to finish: Finally, the Fuck Buttons’ appearance in “Juan’s Basement.”
we at Camels With Hammers couldn’t be happier with the new album’s cover art:
Wilco, The Album Cover
Great news! The new is EP is called Got Nuffin’ and it releases June 30th. To celebrate, here’s a great Spoon song! with a cool video made from old educational videos!
New Devendra Banhart CD coming in the fall! In honor of this news, here’s my favorite song of his. It’s the absolutely beautiful “This Is the Way” from my favorite album of his, Rejoicing In the Hands for a Camels With Hammers Lullaby as many of you prepare for sleep soon. In other news, the [...]
I have a weakness for women who know how to sing with some personality, even if they’re singing really poppy stuff. I don’t know if there is a word for the way she sings the words “heart” and “fall” in this song but it makes my heart flutter it’s so beautiful and cool.
In reply to my review of Peter Bogdanovich’s film about Tom Petty Running Down a Dream , “Lizzie B” over at the Tom Petty message board points out an oversight in my review. She astutely observes: Something you didn’t touch on that really stood out to me in the film is Tom Petty’s shrewd sense [...]
Michel Gondry’s masterpiece The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, following Charlie Kaufman’s masterpiece script, is one of the most top to bottom brilliant achievements in film I have ever seen. Taken as a science fiction film, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ranks as a model for the genre. The film takes a [...]
Mike Monelscachi is Tom Petty’s biggest teenaged fan. Over on Tom’s messageboard (and in his high school he says) he’s known affectionately as “Petty Kid” (which, incidentally, I think would make an awesome band name for him). He’s cutting a record and here are three of his songs. I’m seriously impressed after all this time [...]
[written October 24, 2007] One of the reasons that great art means so much to us is because we find ourselves reflected and expressed in it, even when it is other people’s creations. For a long while now, I have figured out the formula to really understanding my mind and my heart for anyone interested. [...]
An article from the Desert Sun reports that Tom Petty bashed his album Echo, one of my favorites of his, with the following comment, He’s less enamored with 1999′s “Echo,” which opens with the grim “Room at the Top,” “one of the most depressing songs in rock history,” Petty says, grinning. “If anything will make [...]
