Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

The Arcade Fire released a pretty cool interactive video for their track "Neon Bible" which is kinda cool. Definitely won't blow your mind or create a new model for the record industry or anything like that. It's just pretty cool.

Don't forget to click on stuff. That's what makes it interactive, stupid.

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Cool Kids- Black Mags

Worst name for a hip-hop group: Cool Kids.

Ok, now that we've gotten that out of the way, check out their new video for the song Black Mags. I'm absolutely digging it. The song is fucking crazy good. The video is nice. I want what they're wearing. What's better than riding your bike around some afternoon? Nothing. Plus it all looks like a Nike ad from 1987. Fucking bad ass.

Anyone know any details on the Cool Kids? All I know is they're from Chicago and roll with the Flosstradamus crew.

(nod to Derek for the heads up on this)

Cool Kids - Black Mags (official video)

The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance (video)

How come no one ever told me that Fatlip is back on drugs? He's making a fucking song about salmon now. (nod to Ethan for the heads up on this track a while back).

The Chemical Brothers - "The Salmon Dance" (feat. Fatlip)

The 1990's - You're Supposed to Be My Friend

It's been a slow day at work today, so I'm overwhelming the Heman Blog. Sorry.

Here's a track for you by a band called The 1990's. With a name like The 1990's how bad can any of their tracks really be? Well this one is pretty nice. They sound like the kind of music that The Replacements should have been making if they'd formed their band when they were super happy 14-years-olds.

The 1990's - You're Supposed To Be My Friend

Update: Found the video for it. I think it just makes me like it more.

Oh yeah!

Check out this great animation that a student put together for his graduation project. Pretty freaking sweet! The song is Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan's "Starving in the Belly of a Whale" which is a fantastic track. It's a real double whammy.


Starving in the Belly of a Whale - Animated by Gal Shkedi

The National - Fake Empire (live on Letterman)

You're welcome.

Zissou Be Damned - I'm There

Architecture In Helsinki video - "Hold Music"

So it's a Monday and the band Architecture In Helsinki is sitting around their in their apartment hanging out. One of them, the drummer, goes over to his computer and - oh look! He's gotten an email from his mom. Isn't that interesting, she's forwarded him a video from YouTube. It's the music video for Ok Go, and they're dancing on treadmills.

He calls over the rest of the band to see.

"Wow." Says the lead singer. "What a fucking shitty video. I can't wait until ours comes out and makes them look like fucking idiots."

And then 6 months later Architecture In Helsinki's video comes out and Ok Go gets sent an email from their mom about a new video on YouTube. And they feel like fucking idiots.

Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nuthin" Video (alt. version)

Holy! Living! Fuck!

Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nuthin" video (alt. version feat. Zach Galifianakis and Will Oldham)

Best. Prison. Activities. Hour. Ever.

Shout out to Graham for the tip.

I'm Not There

I guess that this is the sort of thing for Heman Woman Haters, but it's a clip from I'm Not Here, the Bob Dylan bio-pic. It's the movie where they're using lots of different actors to play Dylan (in this case it's Cate Blanchett) at different stages of his life. Plus you've got David Cross playing Allen Ginsberg which is such a mindfuck for me because you've got one of my favorite comedians of all time playing one of my favorite poets of all time. It's like if you cast Jessica Biel to play a huge BLT sandwich for my lunch.