Toto - Africa

A favorite song of mine, but I’d never seen the video… Here it is for all y’all…

What a story, huh?

Let me smell yo …

Ok, this is NSFW (Not safe for work), but must be watched…. I am blown away (haha I love puns) by this…

Lyrics after the jump…

One of the entries for the Guilt By Association music video contest. Selected as one of three category winners, as best entry using Petra Haden’s cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”.

Directed by Kerri-Ann Doherty and her grand team over at JuiceBox Films. For information about working with Juicebox email Kerri@juiceboxfilms.com

This song is from the Guilt By Association album on which some of the top indie artists cover their favorite guilty pleasure pop songs in their own unique way. Out Sept 4th on Engine Room Recordings.

To listen to more songs from the album go to http://myspace.com/guiltbyassociation

I really like “Don’t Stop Believing”, and this version is killer… The “Guilt By Association” album has been one of my favorites for the past few months, finding this video was fortuitous…

Joscho Stephan

I’m not a huge fan of Gypsy Jazz (which is to say I’ve never given it a chance), but I am a fan of great guitar playing in general. This kid (I say kid as he is in his early 20s) has some major skills… This is Joscho Stephan doing his version of Bossa Dorado and keeping me entertained enough to watch it at least 10 times…

Sweet Home Alabama, the way it should be performed…

…with the entire Red Army Choir backing things up… (This is the Leningrad Cowboys, btw… This goes out to you BigJar (and any Lynyrd Skynyrd fans)…

Happy April Fools. Youtube.com RickRolls EVERYONE

WARNING, all of youtube’s “featured video” today get you RickRoll’d.

And thus ends the meme of RickRolling. That is all.

Note: Rick Astley call this “all a bunch of bull” and has joined the Church of Scientology

Music Performance of the Century

Skip the interview and go straight to the performance:

Never trust robots. How in the hell did i miss this video?

This video/song was a big hit in 2005 but somehow i missed it. The song is We’re in Business by Andrew Thompson. It has some very important lessons about why one never should never trust robots. Don’t leave them with your kids, dont take them along for trips, and dont take them to work. Not only is it an entertaining video, but it’s a damn good song.

p.s. it reminds me of the robot song by flight of the conchords. also great. and a damn good show.

Look for this album next week

Be on the lookout for the release next week of the 1st album by She & Him. It looks very promising. Alright, i’ll admit it, i’ve heard the album, but I intend to go purchase it when it comes out. The band is a project by actress Zooey Deschanel and musician M. Ward. It has a few very interesting covers as well as many original works, and is a kind of tour of the history of american music. It has jazz songs, country songs, Motown type tunes and is all around a really exciting release. Keep in mind thought that it is in no way transformative, groundbreaking, or eye-opening. It is however, a really really great album. I’m posting the tune that they released as a free download on myspace, so i dont think i can get in trouble there.