Black Flag Bounty

Dinner/drinks/lunch/etc. on me if you can pick me up a copy of this poster:

"The Visual Art of Brian Eno: Light and Time"

"What I'm always doing is - both in music and in light-work - is trying to make something that I wish existed. So I sort of imagine something existing, and I think, 'That's funny that doesn't exist. Why doesn't that exist?' And actually, I'd be quite happy sometimes if I found out that somebody else had done it, and I didn't have to."

How often do you hear an artist say that?

BC X R

Who else loves Vancouver as much as Kurt Vile seems to? Best Coast. But it's less surprising that the sunny beach-poppers play Vancouver so often - they're from the coast.

On August 12, Best Coast return to Van, this time playing the Rio Theatre. Interesting venue choice, as most bands that play there are ones you sit down for, so I'm curious to see how Best Coast will work in that environment. I just hope they don't switch venues again like last time when they were moved from the Commodore Ballroom to the far smaller but more appropriate Biltmore; I'd wondered how anyone expected them to fill the Commodore.

I've started trying to limit in how many times I see certain acts, especially with frequency considered, and though Best Coast may become one of those acts, they're playing material from an upcoming EP this time around. That may not translate to much new material, but ... well:

Listen to their Record Store Day single "Fear of My Identity," the first new song released since their second album, last year's The Only Place. Oh, and if the Rio is one of Best Coast's shows with Bleached, this will be a dream come true.

Full Stream: Slim Fathers - Old Fruit LP

So G.D. hyped to see Slim Fathers on the first night of the upcoming Music Waste Festival. They'll be playing at the Anza Club along with Nam Shub (whom I'm actually more excited to see), Failing and Defektors - all quality bands. Stream Slim Fathers' debut LP Old Fruit on their Bandcamp page.

For the full Music Waste schedule, click here.

Quakers - "Fitta Happier"

And the main song from the trailer of Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records), the Radiohead-sampling "Fitter Happier" by Quakers. Quakers are a thirty-five member hip-hop project put together by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. So now, not only do I need to get back into Portishead - I need to get into Quakers:

Trailer: "Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (This Is Stones Throw Records)

I hate going to the movie theatre. I'd see this at the movie theatre. GARY WILSON!!!

OUR VINYL WEIGHS A TON (This Is Stones Throw Records) Teaser from Gatling Pictures on Vimeo.

Music Video Review: Moby Featuring Mark Lanegan - "The Lonely Night"

I don't watch music videos anymore mainly because I haven't seen a good one since Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) was directing White Stripes videos; most videos I see nowadays are such pitiful, frustrating, infuriating excuses for "art": dance routines that feature less inventive choreography than elementary school cakewalks, people frolicking around in forests (the thickest patch in a public park) while wearing animal masks, intentional multicolored faux-VHS/Beta washes and fades complete with illusory tape distortions.

So it was with extreme pleasure that I blindly took on reviewing LA-based cinematographer Colin Rich's super-artful piece for Moby's and Mark Lanegan's song "The Lonely Night." Needless to say, it's one of the best I've seen in years and has restored my faith in "the state of music videos" - if there is such a thing. No surprise, the video's director is no amateur.

Since I can't post even my own work for Vancouver Weekly directly to my blog, read my thoughts on "The Lonely Night" here.