Matt Mulholland here sings every part of the Ghostbusters movie theme independently and then brings them all back together in this great video.
Musicvision Phoenix
October 18, 2009 @ 11:46 pm
MUSICVISION PHOENIX from Guillaume Delaperriere on Vimeo.
Phoenix is undeniably my favorite musical act this year and just about everything they’re involved with is fascinating and interesting. The same can be said of this film by Guillaume Delaperriere that looks into the 20 tracks that have changed the lives of the Phoenix band members. I love how their influences are so varied. I’m convinced that that’s one of the reasons why they’re such a solid band.
The video is long, so if you can’t watch it all, I suggest you bookmark this link for viewing later.
Aleksandr Hrustevich plays Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on the accordion
October 8, 2009 @ 5:32 am
Aleksandr Hrustevich is seen here playing Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” (a typical string-based piece) on the accordion. [via]
Hrustevich’s YouTube video page has a lot more of this sort of stuff. It’s pretty insane what he can play on the accordion.
Leek Spin
October 2, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
You might not understand it, and that’s ok. All you need to do is love the song. And love it you will. Here is Leek Spin, an odd web meme that recycles 5 frames from the anime Bleach with a Finnish polk song.
Phoenix at Central Park
September 27, 2009 @ 2:15 am
I had a wonderful time tonight at Central Park’s Rumsey Field listening to Passion Pit and Phoenix. Both bands are incredibly solid live and very, very entertaining to watch. Phoenix was the highlight of course as they went through songs both new and old in their entire set. Their drummer is pretty insane as well and watching him go at it really made me want to bang my drums just as hard.
From here on in, if I ever get the chance to see Phoenix live in concert, I’m not even going to hesitate to purchase tickets. They are so awesome live and I’m going to go ahead and put them up there with Mute Math as the bands I would see hands-down no matter what the occasion.
In the gallery below, you’ll see a couple of photographs of Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars up close because at the end of the set he jumped down and hung out with the crowd up front where I was. I sorta hugged him (but I don’t think he knows who it was). Anyway, I tried desperately to get a photo of me behind him by sticking the camera in front of him, but it didn’t quite work out. I just kept getting his swooshy hair — oh well, just as good I suppose.
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story
September 23, 2009 @ 12:09 am
I really want to watch this documentary called The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story. It’s about the song-writing duo Richard and Robert Sherman who ended up composing many of the classic Disney songs that many of us grew up with. The pair were legendary in their field and this new documentary takes a look at their craft, their relationship with Disney, and their relationship with each other over the years.
As far as I know, the film has already been released in select theaters and won’t be seeing a worldwide release anytime soon mainly because of its appeal to Disney buffs only (rather than larger audiences in general). In any case, I would love to see this film and get a sense of how some of the songs that I grew up with came to be.
Disney doesn’t understand new media so they aren’t letting me embed the film’s trailer from YouTube, so you’ll have to go here to watch it.
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