Ben Howard. Musician. Singer. Songwriter. Babe. London.

By Mickey Mmith.
Next-lev insane skills...continue to be blown away by this music... listen lots.
benhowardmusic.co.uk

Burial + Four Tet = Nova.

Burial (Will Bevan) and Four Tet (Kieran Hebden) never fail to deliver the goods... what goodness it is.

Year Of The Dragon like Wyclef Jean + Lauryn Hill.

Hobbyist series. By Opening Ceremony.

Hobbyist. Part 5. No Age.


Hobbyist. Part 4. Suno.


Hobbyist. Part 3. Lesley Arfin.


Hobbyist. Part 2. Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar.


Hobbyist. Part 1. Lake Bell.

Brilliant idea for a video series... Opening Ceremony knows whats up... as per usual.

The Avant Garde Diaries. Helen Homan + Aki Onda.

HOMAN WU
A Different Sort of Value. Cassette Memories.
Walking along New York’s East River, Japanese artist Aki Onda records sounds that would otherwise slip away into the background. For over the past 20 years, Onda has perfected his cassette recording techniques with little more than a Walkman by his side and an intuitive sense of composition. Having seen Onda perform at a recent music festival, he was adopted by Helen Homan Wu’s Opalnest, a New York multi-media production agency. Since 2007, Opalnest has fostered artists who have made careers out of avant-garde pursuits in the audio-visual field.
theavantgardediaries.com

Four Tet. Fabriclive 59. 2011.

Pyramid.

Locked. (1:27/1:56)

Londoner Kieran Hebden a.k.a Four Tet is a bloody genius. That's all.

Cutty Ranks. Limb By Limb. 2008.

Lianne La Havas. Musician. Singer. London.

talented+rad lady.

Austra. Beat and the Pulse. Toronto.

Director: Claire Edmondson DP: Jordan Ead Editor: Kye Meechan.



Hot tune. Hot vid.
Austra is a rad Toronto-based band with members: Katie Stelmanis, Maya Postepski and Dorian Wolf.
austramusic.com

Onuinu. Ice Palace. Portland.

nice.
Directed by Andrew Sloan. Assistant Director: Joe Holiday

CFCF. Cometrue 10.55.

my homeboy Mike Silver aka CFCF recently came out with this stunning track off his EP with the same title... great bike-riding tune.

Mount Kimbie + DeBeDo. London.

Carbonated.
Director = Tyrone Lebon + DoBeDo Productions. Art Director = Lotte Andersen.
DeBeDo are responsible for Mount Kimbie's other videos: Before I move off, and Would Know.
This gorgeous song from the band's EP with the same title, Carbonated, was released in June 2011.
LOVE how this video captures the mood of the song and the city of London.

Nabil. Director. Photographer. Australian. LA.

Holocene. Bon Iver.

The brilliant Nabil Elderkin has done it again with this purely beautiful video shot in Iceland. I've never been particularly drawn to Iceland until now! Nabil is a Director/Photographer raised in Australia, currently living in LA. He has created visuals on a variety of media platforms from advertising campaigns to magazine editorials, artist branding, books, music videos and film. His first feature award winning documentary titled "Bouncing Cat's" is set for release in 2011. Check out more of his vids HERE.

Gardens & Villa. Band. Santa Barbara.

Song: Black Hills
*single tear

Song: Star Fire Power
SO. FUCKING. GOOD.
Gardens & Villa is the project of college friends Chris Lynch, Adam Rasmussen, Levi Hayden, and Shane McKillop who formed in 2008 following the collapse of a noisier post-punk band and a hitch-hiking journey up the west coast. Their name is pulled from the location of their house on Villa Street, the music they make is connected to coastal city they call home - stoney bike rides + dance parties... the band refers to this Santa Barbara feeling as "coco vibes." For two weeks in the summer of 2010, the band camped behind visionary and now-labelmate Richard Swift's Oregon studio. Soon after they added member Dusty Ineman to supremely execute the live incarnation of the band.

Pill VS. Suzanne Vega.

From the Album Pill and DJ Drama's ‘1140: The Overdose. 2011.


From the Pretty in Pink soundtrack (with pianist Joe Jackson). 1986.
...grinned wide when I first heard Pill's On Da Korner-love the unlikely collabo/mashup.

Big Troubles. Band. Jersey.

Slumberland Records.
Hits the pop spot like Silversun Pickups...
bigtroubles.bandcamp.com

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The History of A Tribe Called Quest. Documentary. 2011.

By Michael Rapaport.
PUMPED for this.

Best Coast. Music. LA.

Best Coast is my go-to band right now for rad summer tunes that remind me of Cali road tripping/surf/90's Hole.

While living in Brooklyn, Best Coast singer Bethany Cosentino looked for a way to get a taste of her native land and drew from the ‘50’s and ‘60’s aesthetic of The Beach Boys and The Everly Brothers. Creating her own little Southern California in her bedroom wasn’t enough however, and she decided to move back to LA and started recording soon after. Best Coast is a natural combo of Cosentino’s musical influences and her inherent Californian-ness.

I Break Horses. Hearts.

Tom Rowlands RAR Mix.

Bella Union Records-London. (Fleet foxes, Midlake, Vetiver, The Walkmen, The Dears, Andrew Bird, Abe Vigoda, Department of Eagles)

Tune-Yards. Bizness. Music Video.

Directed by SF-based Mimi Cave. See more of her work HERE.
Thanks to my bro Dave for sharing this awesome vid with me.