AJJ covers the Pixies

In keeping with my incredibly annoying habit of only posting videos of shows I myself have been to, here's Andrew Jackson Jihad bringing in the New Year at Che's Cafe in San Diego with a Wave of Mutilation cover. Even though the audio is terrible.

Folk Princes of Bel-Air

Jimmy Fallon, pretending to be Neil Young, covering the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. But wait, Jimmy Fallon! Kay Pettigrew did it first.

Heartilation by Andrew Jackson Jihad

Here's Andrew Jackson Jihad (or as the first commenter describes it, a folk-punk Gordan Freeman) playing a song from their new album while riding a railcar.

Renee Fleming and Lou Reed

"Perfect Day" performed by Renée Fleming and Lou Reed, with back-up from the Prague Philharmonic. The songs okay, but Lou Reed looks so supremely bored with the whole thing.

Mark Growden covers Leonard Cohen

I've posted Mark Growden before, but here's him and his quartet doing the song I'm Your Man.

Chinese Daydream Believer Cover

I know nothing about this clip, other than that its (probably) Chinese, and that WIlliam Gibson posted it on his twitter.

Jason Webley In An Aeroplane Over The Sea

I promise this is the last Jason Webley video I'll post here. Here's him covering Neutral Milk Hotel during a show at Bottom of the Hill. I was there in person, but the video was done by someone much closer to the front.

Jet Set Junta

The best part is the tambourine-playing girl.

Amanda Palmer & Friends

Amanda Palmer performs "Marry Me" by St. Vincent (from the record "Marry Me") with Reggie Watts (beatboxing), and other featured friends and performers including Sxip Shirey, Jason Webley, Meow Meow, Una Mimnagh, and Jonas Woolverton...

Recorded live in Boston, MA at Sxip's Hour of Charm
September 15th, 2007

Hey Ya!

Jason Webley is moderately well-known for his accordion cover of Hey Ya. Check out this version he performed at the American University!

Sxip Shirey Rocks Out

Sxip Shirey is probably the most creative musician I've ever seen perform. Here's him beatboxing with Adam Matta to the song Moon in her Belly.

In Space, Carl Sagan Smokes Astroturf

A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.

RIP Dr. Sagan, you will be missed!!

Download the mp3.

Kirk Wants To Hug The Mountain

Eggs And Sausage

Eggs and Sausage from Jackie Lay on Vimeo.

Loving the typography in this Tom Waits music video.

You Don't Nomi

"I just do the simple, things, that a simple man, can!"

Mark Growden - St. Judas

Mao Mao

Check out this song from 1967 by Nino Ferrer.

Weasels Ripped My Flesh

From Wikipedia comes the news of how a 1970s Zappa album got both its name and cover design from a men's magazine that I have to find a copy of.

Frank Zappa recruited artist Neon Park to create a subversive image based on a cover story from the September 1956 issue of Man's Life, a men's adventure magazine. After showing Neon a copy of the magazine, Zappa inquired, "This is it. What can you do that's worse than this?" Neon's answer was to craft a parody of an advertisement for Schick brand electric razor based on the "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" theme.

German releases of the album featured an album cover showing a metal baby caught in a rat trap. This cover was not approved by Zappa.

I guess you can do a lot worse than that.

Fred Vom Jupiter

From Richard Metzger's blog Dangerous Minds:

“Fred Vom Jupiter” by Die Doraus and Die Marinas. Teenage New Wave, German style from 1981. I warn you, this song is mad catchy.

I love the description from the translated German Wiki:

The text is about a "very muscular and very attractive," described extraterrestrial charmer from Jupiter, who ends up on Earth, because it runs out of fuel. There, he becirct all women, but ultimately led by the jealousy of earthly men, to disappear again. The women are then sad, but Fred vows to return.

Becirct, indeed.

The Many Shades Of Thriller

On August 29th I had the supreme pleasure of catching the Monsters of Accordion tour as it made its way through San Francisco. As if the concert weren't enough, at the end Jason Webley, Eric Stern, Geoff Berner, Mark Growden, and Stephen Iancu all came up to play Thriller as an encore. This video is from Seattle, but the show I was at can be partially seen here.



All of which was pretty awesome, but reminded me of some other Thriller videos. Apparently, prisoners in the Phillipines perform the choreographed dance as a way to exercise. As far as I know, the woman fleeing in terror is actually a male prisoner in 'costume'.



Though the Bollywood version of Thriller has to take the cake.