I caught a beautiful show this past Friday night…
Bonobo totally delivered the experience you’d want to see from him, and this tour better continue sometime in the Fall so I can go catch it again once everything from the new album has proper permeated my listening habits this summer. The tour rolls into Solano Beach tonight and continues on to Austin and New Orleans, so go grab one of the tickets out front if you find someone with an extra. This tour is not to be missed.
Oh hey, I just remembered that I wanted to start blogging again. Seems like a good time to restart.
I’m heading off to Vegas for the weekend. I’ll be staying at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and there will be a tons more to talk about in the next few days regarding the weekend, including the fact that I’ll be seeing Prince tomorrow at the Joint. More on this to come…
#relevant
An annual festival of redheads has been taking place in Breda, Holland.
NPR is streaming the new Animal Collective album this week ahead of its official release next week.
Read more...My roommate and I DJ’d a party in Oakland this Saturday night at our buddy Fiasco’s place, and it really came off well. I’m definitely newly inspired to put together a rad mix that gets a crowd rocking and moving. It’s a challenge to come off a certified banger and transition into something with a bit of a down-tempo feel, but there’s a way to make music flow at a party that brings people on the same journey that you feel when you listen to it…
More on this to come, I’m sure. In the meantime here’s a bunch of other stuff I’m paying attention to today:
George Michael returns to Arrested Development and the proof is on Twitter [Hypervocal]
This is exciting.
Animal Collective just put out a new single called “Today’s Supernatural.” Definitely a cool production…
Panda Bear – “Soft Serve Rip Curl” & “Principe Real” [Stereogum]
Looks like Panda Bear debuted two new tracks at the same time that “Today’s Supernatural” hit the internet…
Here’s what the view is like in our new practice space when it’s empty. We’re really happy with Secret Studios in SF and we’ll probably stay a customer of theirs for a long time…
Oh hi. I’ve been busy, blog. What have I been busy with, you ask? Well, NVO. We just moved to a new practice space and I’m thinking there’s already a new energy in that space that is going to push the band in some exciting directions…
Check out this clip…
More blahgs to come!
I was deeply saddened when I learned that Adam ‘M.C.A.’ Yauch passed away from a battle with cancer, but in death there’s always some comfort and solace when you see how that person’s life affected other people. I’m sure that MCA would be proud to see people creating more art in direct tribute to the art he created. He was truly one of the greats and I’m very fortunate to be able to say I got to see them live a few times.
This video is making the rounds and it’s well worth a look.
Yesterday at sunset I rolled through the bayous of Louisiana and into the beautiful city of New Orleans, and this is one of the first sights I saw when I got into the neighborhood I’m staying in.
This blog needs to come alive again. I’m on the road right now and have stories to tell… more soon.
Today is one of those good days where you wake up in SF to a bright and sunny day, warm and breezy, just the perfect type of day.
And this song reminds me of summer time and specifically California weather for some reason, so I figured I’d drop this Ducktails track (with Panda Bear) to start off my musical day. Lots of Animal Collective, Beach House and Panda Bear for me today… Read more…
Dubstep is awesome/hilarious. This video is about dubstep, so naturally, it’s both awesome and hilarious as well. Read more…
This “film” (i.e. Chipotle commercial) ran last night during the Grammys.
The film, by film-maker Johnny Kelly, depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future. Both the film and the soundtrack were commissioned by Chipotle to emphasize the importance of developing a sustainable food system.
Really excited to be booked to play The Independent in a month. Working so hard on NVO just keeps pushing us to work even harder…
Dig it.
So I’ve been hoping for months, hoping for years…
Hoping I might forget…awwwww, but it don’t get much dumber…
It don’t get much dumber than trying to forget a girl when you love her.
OK Go is back with a new music video for their song, “Needing/Getting.”
Check out what went into it:
The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and behind-the-scenes footage, see http://www.LetsDoThis.com and http://www.okgo.net. Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars.
Awesome.
I’m working on my conservatory this weekend now that I’m taking care of yet another batch of plants that my friend can’t take care of while she’s traveling. I volunteered, though… I needed some new variation in the collection.
Last night a small crew of us gathered before our buddies in One Way Station were set to play the Boom Boom Room, and that small gathering got right to the Reggie Watts show at the Mezzanine as the wryly comedian hit the stage to do about an hour of musical comedy theater. It was incredible.
For those not in the know, and I wasn’t, Reggie Watts has done opening stints with Conan O’Brien, played Madison Square Garden with LCD Soundsystem, and has been making a name for himself huge in the comedy world. Do not pass up a chance to search YouTube a few times and discover this guy yourself.
Here’s a clip of a show he did last week in Denmark:
Next level shit.
On the internet, there’s been talk of a return of Arrested Development for a long ass time. This post by one of the writers of the show was getting passed around yesterday and it does sorta mean that this chinese democracy will finally be released…
We’re really doing this thing. Mitch Hurwitz, Jim Vallely and I are off writing the new season of ARRESTED to premiere on Netflix in 2013. The original cast is back. There are offices and parking spaces. We’re shooting this year. I wish I could give more specifics but, for the moment, even the schedule is being kept under wraps. But it’s happening and it’s great to be back with my pals from the show. More later as it becomes okay to release further details…
I’ll definitely want to re-watch the series at least five times this year to really re-aquatint myself to all of the jokes. Can’t wait.
Ah, Super Bowl week. This is usually that week that annoyed me culturally until I joined the advertising business, and given the attention it brings to the industry and how I’ve been surrounded by that the past few years, I actually quite enjoy the annual lead up to the frenzied media blitz that will happen on Sunday night and next Monday morning. This week some of the commercials are already leaking ahead of the big-dollar money shots that you’ll see during the big game on Sunday night.
Today the official Honda YouTube channel posted the commercial that everyone will at least mention once at the water cooler next Monday — “Hey, did you see that Ferris Bueller ad…” — and it’s definitely charming. Read more…
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