Together In Digital Dreams

SNOW DAY VIDS – JONSI // WILD BEASTS // XIU XIU

Evan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:22:00 +0000

While we settle for snowpocalypse part deux, let’s imagine the warmth of a future summer, lean back and relax with a nice cup of steaming hot chocolate – 3 marshmallows please. Here are some fresh music videos for your snowed in pleasure.

Jonsi’s new Gobbledigook-esque track “Go Do” gets the video treatment featuring fancy makeup, a pretty rad costume, a reliable carrier pigeon and a some damn nice land scape shots.

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I think it would be pretty cool to float in mid air like that. Thoughts?

MP3 :: Wild Beasts – We Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues

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Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself from Kill Rock Stars on Vimeo.

Kind of a gnarly video, but it seems like chocolate doesn’t make everybody happy…

MP3 :: Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself

MP3: Love Connection – I Know You’re Real + Trilogy

Evan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:10:00 +0000

Melbourne, Australia’s Love Connection is a 4-piece kind of chill/kind of pop indie band that kind of sounds like an upbeat Beach House with their harmonizing vocals and dreamy walls of sound.

MP3 :: Love Connection – I Know You’re Real
MP3 :: Love Connection – Trilogy

Their debut album was released Jan 30th on Sensory Projects.

MP3: NEW Dr. Dog – Shadow People

Evan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:52:00 +0000

Check out a spanking new track off of [Philly's own and proud] Dr. Dog’s new album; Shame, Shame entitled ‘Shadow People’ – a summery pop driven catchy-as-fuck jam.

MP3 :: Dr. Dog – Shadow People

Shame, Shame will be out 4/6 on Anti Records. Just in time for your spring cleaning duties

TOUR DATES:
02/09 – Rock Island, IL @ Rock Island Brewing Co.
02/10 – Cleveland, OH # @ Case Western University
02/11 – Bloomington, IN @ Video Saloon
02/12 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
02/13 – State College, PA @ State Theatre
04/14 – Toronto, Ont. @ Lee’s Place
04/15 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig
04/16 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
04/17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
04/19 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up
04/20 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
04/22 – Boise, ID @ Neuolux
04/23 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
04/24 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
04/25 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
04/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda
04/29 – Santa Fe, NM @ Santa Fe Brewing Company
04/30 – Dallas, TX @The Loft
05/01 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s Outside
05/02 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
05/03 – Fayetteville, AR @ Majestic
05/05 – Birmingham, AL @ Workplay
05/06 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
05/07 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners
05/11-12 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
05/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
05/14 – Washington DC @ 9:30 Club
05/15 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
05/23 – Berlin, Germany @ Magnet
05/24 – Koln, Germany @ Blue Shell
05/25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
05/26 – London, England @ Tabernacle
05/27 – Paris, France @ Nouveau Casino
05/29 – Barcelona, Spain (Primavera Sound)
06/11-13 Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo)

MP3: A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Nitetime Rainbows + Video

Evan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:41:00 +0000

Philadelphia’s own chill/dream-pop group, A Sunny Day In Glasgow, will be releasing a new EP on March 2nd entitled Nitetime Rainbows. You can be awesome and pre-order the limited [to 1,000 copies] 12″ clear vinyl right now from insound.

Here’s the tracklist:
A1 Nitetime rainbows (new mix)
A2 Daytime rainbows
A3 So bloody, so tight
A4 Piano Lessons

B1 Nitetime rainbows (Buddy System remix)
B2 Nitetime rainbows (Acid wash edit by Benoit Pioulard)
B3 Nitetime rainbows (Ezekiel Honig remix)

Here’s Nitetime Rainbows:
MP3 :: A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Nitetime Rainbows

Here’s a pretty rad video for So Bloody, So Tight:

MP3: NEW Erykah Badu – Window Seat

Evan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:21:00 +0000

Soul/funk singer/powerwoman Erykah Badu will be releasing her 5th studio album this year entitled New Amerykah Part II [Return Of The Ankh] on March 30th. Check out the first single below called Window Seat – a chilled out funk jam perfect for this east coast snowpocalypse.

MP3 :: Erykah Badu – Window Seat

MP3: FREE ENERGY – Hope Child

Evan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:46:00 +0000

Philadelphia’s own [and Digi Dreams fave] Free Energy have [FINALLY!] released info for their debut LP. Stuck On Nothing will be out March 9th via DFA/Astralwerks and is about to blow the fuck UP. Here’s another freebie track entitled Hope Child.

MP3 :: Free Energy – Hope Child

“How much do you want – How much will you give?”

VIDEO: St Vincent – Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood

Evan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:00 +0000

With a song title like that and her mystical eyes/voice, you would think the video for “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood” would be just as creepy and entrancing as her other music videos. But team ThunderAnt [Carrie Brownstein of Sleater Kinney and Fred Armisen of SNL] join Annie Clark to make it wonderfully humorous with their “brand” of awkward comedy.

St. Vincent – “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood”

st. vincent | MySpace Music Videos

“Excuse me sir, this is an in-store, not a riot.”

Watch St. Vincent step outside of the bookstore and into the Sanctuary of the First Unitarian Church in Philly on Feb 25th with Sweden’s Wildbirds & Peacedrums. Get tickets here

REMIX: Yeasayer – Ambling Alp [Alan Wilkis Remix]

Evan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:49:00 +0000

In usual Wilkis fashion, he has made an already enjoyable single way more enjoyable. If you haven’t already, follow Alan Wilkis on twitter for links to his remix work. You won’t be disappointed.

MP3 :: Yeasayer – Ambling Alp [Alan Wilkis Remix]

Eat that, Urban Outfitters.

NEW Balmorhea – Bowsprit

Evan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:52:00 +0000

Bowsprit, a new track from Balmorhea’s sophomore effort entitled Constellations, starts like many Balmorhea songs – slow and quite. But what’s different about this one is it’s pull. What do I mean? I mean that little anxiety attack you get when anticipation gets the best of you and the you can feel the build of that tugging string section – all the way to moon.

MP3 :: Balmorhea – Bowsprit

Constellations is out 2/23 on Western Vinyl. They will be in Philly on 3/2 with a Digi Dream favorite – Efterklang.

VIDEO: Surfer Blood – Swim

Evan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:43:00 +0000

I don’t know about you, but that’s exactly how I get ready for a show