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Tiny Vipers - "Development"
Jesy Fortino, aka Seattle's Tiny Vipers, is releasing her second Sub Pop full length, Life on Earth next week (7/7). It's one of the year's best. We've already posted "Dreamer," now take a listen to the stunning, heartbreaking "Development."
What inspired "Development"? There's a connection between urban development and the disappearance of a person. I grew up in a place surrounded by mountains and woods. When I was younger I used to hang out in the woods a lot. I still go back there to hang out and walk around. Each time I go there is less and less woods. They are building condos everywhere around Seattle now. Condos and gross Wal-Marts and Fred Meyers. I remember when I lived out there it was dark at night. You would look up at the mountains and they would be menacing and black. It is special to feel like you live at the edge of the world. You could run out at night and get lost in those woods. People would disappear there. Now I go to some of these parts and there are huge condos all the way up. And street lights. It is hard to accept that these places are gone. And with them being gone comes a new variable: The dark mysterious cold woods can be turned into Wal-Mart. Sometimes it feels like the world is moving away from the places I drew hope and spiritual inspiration from. And it is moving so fast it is hard to adapt to. It's hard to find new sources of this mystery and darkness. The evil witches and monsters that hid in those woods at night when I was a kid are nothing in comparison to the terror there now. The inspiration for "Development" comes from this: What does it mean to long for places that no longer exist? Even the bad places.
Wild Beasts - "We Still Got The Taste Dancin On Our Tongues" Video
Wild Beats' previous Two Dancers video for "All The King's Men" was set in a mystical forest peopled with various fair maidens (and the band). Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, aka Institute For Eyes, pilot us toward some actual wild... (more)
The Thermals - "Canada"
This week the world turns its attention to our northernly neighbor for Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympics. Not everyone's enthused. While the Thermals' one-off ode to Canada has no direct relation or reference to the world's most celebrated international pissing contest,... (more)
YACHT - "Holiday" (Weezer Cover)
Fun fact: according to Jona Bechtolt, his YACHT partner Claire L. Evans "...used to run the #2 most-popular Weezer fansite." Consider this cover a fan tribute then. "Holiday" is available on YACHT's recent iTunes Session EP, but you can listen... (more)
Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova Reissue Gets Four New Tracks
The original collaboration record One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels came out back in 2004, but the groups reunited last fall to write and record new songs at Mike Mogis's Omaha studio. The ten-track album will be out March 23.... (more)
