The Walkmen

"While I shovel the Snow" & B-Side - "Orange Sunday"

     New York rockers, The Walkmen, released two incredible new videos yesterday. The first, "Orange Sunday", which is a previously unreleased track from the Lisbon sessions; directed by Bruno Levy, the video appears to be set in the Caribbean, following a diver through his underwater travels. On a side note, the footage seems eerily similar to Washed Out's fan made video for "Feel it all Around".
The second video, "While I shovel the Snow", was fittingly shot on location in Brooklyn during one of the cities recent snow storms. This one was directed by Jake Davis and I have to say, it is stunningly beautiful; shot entirely in monochrome, giving the already emotional song it's much needed melancholic pairing.

Check out both amazing videos below-

The Walkmen - "Orange Sunday" (Lisbon B-side) from stereogum on Vimeo.

    

Dirty Gold

"California Sunrise"

     These San Diego natives are gearing up to release an EP this April that will undoubtedly be on all of the inevitable "Summer Albums" lists. Imagine the Afro-beat of a  laid back Vampire Weekend minus the semi-annoying vocals meets Little Joy and you get Dirty Gold.
Dirty Gold's Roar EP will be out April 12th on Autumn Tone Records.

Check out the beach soaked sounds of  "California Sunrise" below.

Dirty Gold California Sunrise by Paola-Knox

Jonsi

Go Do live at The Wiltern

     This isn't the 'newest' thing out there(earlier this month), however still worth a watch or even a re-watching in some cases. It was taken from Jonsi's performance at Los Angeles's Wiltern theater, which took place last October. The concert was filmed by Dean Deblois, whom also worked with Jonsi along with the rest of Sigur Ros on Heima, both available on itunes.
Hopefully, the next thing on Jonsi's schedule will be working on a new Sigur Ros record; we can only hope.
Check out an excellent performance of "Go Do" below.

Soft Healer

     This Austin based band just released a new limited 300 copies edition 10" this week, titled "One-Sider", out on local label Monofonus Press. Soft Healer's sound could easily be described as John Coltrane sitting in with a guitar drone soaked 60's psychedelic band, ex. the standout "Grand Isle", however the four piece have many more layers, judging by their early R&B and Soul roots.
Check out their Tumblr here.

   

Beach Fossils Feat. Jack Tatum

     Next week, Brooklyn's Beach Fossils are set to release more of their jangly dream-pop upon the world with yet another ep, this one entitled What a Pleasure via Captured Tracks. This new endeavor features a collaboration with another one of our favorites, Jack Tatum, mastermind of Wild Nothing. He joins them on "Out in the Way", this may be one of the best collaborations you'll hear this year, to say the very least. The track sees Tatum and Payseur trading off vocal duties seamlessly over top of what can best be described as Beach Fossils covering Wild Nothing or maybe it's Wild Nothing covering Beach Fossils, either way it's fantastic and you need to hear it.
We can only hope they reconvene for more of this...maybe we'll see a 'Wild Fossils' album !?!    

Beach Fossils - Out In the Way (feat. Jack Tatum) by the beat farm

Arcade Fire

Acoustic @ KROQ

While in town for their performance at the Grammy's this weekend; Arcade Fire stopped by the studios at legendary L.A. radio station, KROQ for a pair of acoustic performances. The band played "Month of May" and "Ready to Start" from their most recent offering, The Suburbs. 

Also, keeping the fire burning (pun intended) is the debut of Spike Jonze Scenes from the Suburbs, his 30 min.short film featuring the band, in a continuation of their video for last summer's aptly titled "Suburbs", gets its official debut this weekend at the Berlin international film festival and a spot next month at SXSW.

Check out the footage below from the acoustic set.