This Saturday Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, the Flaming Lips, Incubus and Tenacious D will pay tribute to The Who at VH1’s annual Rock Honors event in Hell-Ay. Roger Daltrey recently revealed puppy-pushers The Flaming Lips are set to perform a Tommy medley (apropos considering Des McAnuff, the Tony Award-winning director of Tommy, is working with Wayne Coyne to turn Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots into a Broadway musical). Ahead of Saturday’s performance, you can check out the below video of The Lips getting their Who on!
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The Flaming Lips Are Giving Away Puppies
Death Cab for Cutie cordially requests your presence at the feel-goodsad wedding event of the year via their new video for “Cath…”! Don’t worry, though - unlike the countless other weddings you’ve no doubt attended this season, you don’t have to buy a toaster and Lukas “Kingpin” Haas is in attendance letting his inner-Graduate out!
(NOTE: Due to some bad info and a busy schedule, I made the embarrassing blunder of posting the wrong clip yesterday. Apologies!)
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On the heels of premiering their new song, Bloc Party has also released a music video for “Mercury.” The video finally answers the age-old question, “What would happen if Dr. Zaius made a Manchurian candidate for the Planet of the Apes?” The answer - a bull-crab hybrid, obvs.
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New Bloc Party - “Mercury”
On Funny Or Die, Will Ferrell has picked a local commercial by Oklahoma City’s very-own Mr. Spriggs BBQ as his favorite video of the week! Writing on his site, Ferrell says:
Why I love it:
Usually even a good commercial makes me think “Yeah, right. Of course you’re saying that. You wanna sell your thing.” This video makes me want to move to Oklahoma and eat Mr. Spriggs for breakfast, lunch, dinner and Taco Bell fourth meal. Enjoy the joy.
If you ever want to visit OKC, Will, consider this an open invitation - you’ve got a place to stay and the ribs are on me! Move over, Chris Brown - this commercial may be the hottest slow jam of the summer and it’s just begging for a remix! (Thanks to Heath for the heads up!)
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“Mr. Spriggs BBQ Slow Jam”
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It’s rare that musical guests perform on The Daily Show (The White Stripes were the first in 2005 and Tom Waits played on Jon Stewart’s birthday in 2006). So, it’s worth noting that Coldplay joined an exclusive club of artists last night when they dropped by the DS studios to perform two tracks (”42″ and “Lost!”) off Viva La Vida. Check it out below!
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“42″
“Lost!”
Beck’s Modern Guilt (July 8th) is just around the corner. So, what better way to get fans psyched up for the new Danger Mouse-produced LP than an artsy-fartsy promo showcasing clips in a black-and-white Warhol-esque montage?!? Check out the two-minute Modern Guilt trailer below to sample excerpts from songs like “Walls,” “Youthless” and the album’s title track.
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The Old 97’s new music video for “Dance With Me” is frackin’ awesome! If I lost you at “frack,” allow me to rephrase. It’s like a mash-up of Battlestar Galactica and the Crazy 88 bar-fight scene from Kill Bill, but set to the hot new single from Rhett Miller and company. In other words, pure geek awesomeness! (Thanks to the musical Cylons over at Salad Days Music for the heads up!)
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An interesting dispute over digital ownership is a-brewin’ between two major acts with differing views on music and the Internet - Radiohead and Prince. After videos of Prince covering Radiohead’s “Creep” at this year’s Coachella made it on to YouTube, the Purple One and his label have attempted to have all of the clips taken down claiming a copyright violation (despite, the fact that the song isn’t Prince’s and the posted videos were shot by fans). Thom Yorke recently revealed that after his band had trouble watching the clip, he’s asked for Prince and YouTube to unblock the videos claiming copyright ownership. Read more about the copyright conflict at Billboard.
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Prince - “Creep” (Radiohead Cover)
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Leave Weezer alone!!! Weezer’s new video for “Pork and Beans” is so jam-packed with YouTube celebrities (but sadly no swearing Winnebago salesman), it is guaranteed to turn River Cuomo’s mustache into the next hot YouTube sensation. So, why not throw on your gem sweater and watch it now before it goes crazy viral causing your friends to forward it to you no less than a thousand times!
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Gnarls Barkley have just dropped the video for their new single, “Going On.” Shot in Jamaica, the video follows a group of friends as they “celebrate their discovery of a portal into another dimension” as a series of yellow words guide them. Don’t worry - you won’t need a mirror to read the words this time…
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