Ever wanted to play Tim Gunn with your favorite indie musician? Now’s your chance! Devendra Banhart has added a virtual paper doll version of himself to his website, which allows you to dress the singer up in a variety of freak folk fashion choices (including a rather frightening clown mask). Come to think of it - maybe Banhart is more Santino than Gunn. Either way - make it work.
On the post-Oscars edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, host Kimmel finally dropped his anticipated response to girlfriend Sarah Silverman’s “I’m F*cking Matt Damon.” Kimmel may have actually one-upped Silverman (not an easy task to be sure) with his video for “I’m F*cking Ben Affleck,” which features more celebrities than an Ocean’s 11 sequel. How awesome is the resulting video and song? Just ask Don Cheadle - or check it out for yourself. (Also, heads up - the clip and song are NSFW.)
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Jimmy Kimmel - “I’m F*cking Ben Affleck”
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Good news - The Hold Steady have completed their upcoming album tentatively entitled Stay Positive. Sure, the new record still needs mastering, sequencing, and artwork - but you’ve gotta admire the ever-prolific/wonderful Hold Steady for releasing four LPs in five years! Sharing the same name of a song the band has been playing live, front man Craig Finn has said that it’s “safe to say [Stay Postive is] the name of the record.”
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The Hold Steady - “Stay Positive” (Live @ Toad’s Place 11.19.2007)
Born Ruffians’ new album, Red, Yellow, And Blue, is just around the corner (March 4th). So consider Hypeful’s face red (and possibly yellow and blue) with embarrassment for not posting “Foxes Mate For Life” sooner. I’m so behind in sharing this glorious ditty with you, in fact, that I’m gonna skip the obligatory raves about the band/song and just let you get down to enjoying it.
Two iPhones and a Ninendo DS comprise the instruments in the world’s first iPhone band calling themselves (what else?) - iBand. The band is hoping to replace the DS with an iPhone through fan donations, but the results of their first jam session are pretty ace with the DS as a rhythm instrument. If you’re inspired to put together your own pocket band, iBand’s first jam session used the DS game Electroplankton and the iPhone applications iAno and Pocket Guitar.
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