Over the last few months, two “Marionette Music Videos” were released that really caught my eye. The first was Josh Ritter‘s “The Curse”, and the second, Chris Garneau‘s “Dirty Night Clowns”. Josh Ritter – The Curse Josh Ritter‘s drummer, Liam Hurley, is a skilled marionette puppeteer… so of course, when it came to telling the […]
Like a house made from spider webs and the clouds rolling in I bet this mighty river’s both my savior and my sin Oh, my savior and my sin – The Tallest Man On Earth, “Love Is All” It’s been quite some time since I originally wrote about Kristian Matsson, aka The Tallest Man on […]
So for those of you who don’t know, Ryan Adams recently played at Judd Apatow’s “I Found This Funny” 826la.org benefit gig. It was Ryan’s first live performance in over a year and a half… and man, I’ve missed him. Which is why I was unbelievably stoked when this footage of Ryan in pre-show rehearsals […]
Proving yet again that the Berninger brothers are far more talented than any human beings should realistically be, The National have just released the video for “Terrible Love (Alternate Version)”, both filmed and directed by Tom Berninger, brother to the enigmatic frontman Matt. (thanks Shelagh P for the correction in the original post) Shot both […]
Man, what a great music video from Perth lads, “The Chemist“. And there’s something about that line, “Mercy sleeps inside Love’s arms” that just really gets to me tonight. Stick around for the full thing… that last minute of the tune just feels right.
… for no other reason than it’s quite simply a “Ben Drew” kind of day.
I’ve written about aKING here on Burgo’s Music Blog before. Heck, at the time (nearly 2 years ago!) I called them “South Africa’s next big thing“. So why, you might ask yourself, am I devoting another blog post to this band from South Africa? Is it because they’ve released another album, or done something particularly […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written about super-nice dude Farryl Purkiss (see #8 on my “Top South African Bands” post for more details) on this blog… so it was purely happy chance that I came across his new video for “Kissing Devils on the Cheek” on Youtube the other day. It’s the kind of […]