Summer Music Video Picks

New(ish) music, needing further attention...

This is Cloud Control, from Australia, not signed to a major yet(the original definition of "indie.")


A personal favorite for a while. Groovy, rock and roll as it was once meant to be, Wooden Shjips from Cali.


Fun, good mood, just got a phone number on the city bus music, Toro Y Moi.


More of the by-the-above-ground-pool music for my fans, as i ipoD Dj on Sundays. Love maybe, leisure first, lessons later, life always, Twin Shadow(s).


Same as Above, only Memory Tapes.


Crystal Castles, if the voice seems familiar, it's because it isn't. You would know if you knew.


Often ripped on as rip offs, but the music holds it's weight, sometimes one man's voice sounds like another, dead and/or alive. So be it, Cold Cave.


And, one of the weirdest vids ever...from "Cults." And be damned if it ain't, otherwise, as upbeat as a pig-tailed Laura Ingals runnin' down the hillside to Paw and the Little House.

Summer Music Selections

1) Wooden Shjips: Spelled with the j, by the way, recorded with one or two burning as well, one could safely say (accidental poetry). I first heard "We Ask You to Ride" on an UNCUT magazine collection titled Interstellar Overdrive.

WS jams a live in the studio feeling via guitars rich with acid distortion, but only overtop a deap seated base layer of a rhythm section droning along in the way that rock drone can be good, rather than boring. The resulting hypnotic atmospheric jam will have you travelling to your destinations in no time flat. Wooden Shjips is code for time machine.

Dos, and the self titled CD are the two I have. I would start off with Dos.



2) Viva Voce: This band is a bit like Low or Yo La Lengo. Basically built around the male/female vocals, delivered with casual emotion, and taking a back seat to the guitars which are often toned in a reverbed surf/spy effects setting. It's not as ambient as that might sound though. Rose City is a rock guitar album and was made for the long or short drive to the beach...and to think...I'm within two months of doing just that!