Animal Collective - Brothersport (new video)

Directed by Jack Kubizne

Teenagersintokyo

Teenagersintokyo aren’t teenagers nor from Tokyo. They are four girls (plus a guy, he comes
later) who met a decade ago on their first day of high school, and formed a band in Grade Seven
art class. They did vocal covers of their favourite songs; the first being a cover of Daft punk’s ‘Da
Funk’. Miska sang percussion, Sam belted out some random noise, Sophie crooned the synth
line and Linda yelled some arbitrary vocals. No one approved.
Eight years later, the girls picked up real instruments and found a boy named Rudy to play drums.
After releasing their self-titled E.P., the band was adopted by UK’s Back Yard Recordings, the
tastemaker label responsible for finding internationally acclaimed bands such as Chromeo and
The Gossip. They have also released their record in Australia through Pavement
Entertainment, and in Japan through Rallye/Klee Label; home to the Klaxons, Au Revoir
Simone and The Teenagers.
They have just come back from a small but well picked run of shows throughout Europe and the
UK. Selling out one of London’s core musical establishments Camden’s Barfly, teenagersintokyo
also hit up venues in Paris, Berlin and Manchester, and then returned home in time to join !!!
(Chk Chk Chk) on their national tour. Since then, they have been excited to find out that initial
pressings of their EP have sold out in the UK as well as in Australia.
teenagersintokyo have shared the stage with !!! (Chk Chk Chk), CSS, The Slits, Midnight
Juggernauts, The Gossip, Van She, Lost Valentinos, Cut Off Your Hands and Damn Arms
amongst others.

http://www.teenagersintokyo.com/

http://www.myspace.com/teenagersintokyo

TEENAGERSINTOKYO from Gil Goldberg on Vimeo.

teenagersintokyo - very vampyr from We're Wolf on Vimeo.
Black Bones from Rhett Dashwood on Vimeo.

End It Tonight - teenagersintokyo from Sam Icklow on Vimeo.

65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat! - live in New York 2008

GREAT!

PENS ( three girls and 1 microphone)

Nice bit of scuzz rock inhabiting the same segment of the audiosphere as Times New Viking and Wavves. Infact, Pens are doing some gigs with Wavves in February. Pens are a bit more lo fi than the two aforementioned bands - if that’s possible -  and a bit easier on the ears.  And a bit Vivian Girls. Maybe I wasn’t listening to them loud enough.

Read more: http://www.artrocker.com/node/6746#ixzz0byVhWiSA

www.myspace.com/penspenspenis

http://www.last.fm/music/PENS

Air doll

Air Doll  is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. It is based on a manga by Yoshiie Gōda, which was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original, and is about an inflatable doll that develops a soul and falls in love. The movie debuted in the Un Certain Regard section at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.

Middle-aged Hideo lives alone with an inflatable doll he calls Nozomi. The doll is his closest companion: he dresses it up, talks to it over dinner, and has sexual intercourse with it. However, unbeknown to Hideo, Nozomi was created with a heart. After Hideo leaves for work each day, Nozomi dresses in her maid's outfit and explores the world outside their apartment with a sense of child-like wonder. She encounters various city residents who metaphorically are as "empty inside" as she is. When Nozomi meets Junichi, who works at a local video store, she falls in love with him and gets a part-time job at the store. She learns about the world through the movies she watches with Junichi, but her happiness with him is interrupted by a dramatic turn of events.

Director Koreeda has stated that the film is about the loneliness of urban life and the question of what it means to be human.

Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension Music Video

Cold Cave

Cold Cave is an experimental synthpop musical group based in Philadelphia. According to Pitchfork the band's sound "weaves incomprehensibly distorted vocals with bits of synthetic feedback", but some songs "also come bearing serious hooks."

 That mixture of postpunk unease and fluid bleep would've made Cold Cave fit right in on the early-80s Factory Records roster alongside Section 25 or the Durutti Column.

After initial releases on Hospital Productions, What's Your Rupture?, and Heartworm Press, the band is now signed to Matador Records.who re-released their debut LP, Love Comes Close on November 3, 2009.

www.myspace.com/coldcave