Ever thought of what happens when your favorite punk-rockers take on the role of "dad"? "The Other F Word" explores the parental-perspective of some of the most well known names in punk-rock, featuring punk rock veteran Jim Lindberg (of Pennywise), blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, and Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath. The documentary is directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins and produced by Cristan Reilly and Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, and is currently screening in selected theaters. Visit the site herefor more information. Other dads featured in the film include Art Alexakis (Everclear), Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo), Tony Adolescent (The Adolescents), Fat Mike (NOFX), Lars Frederiksen (Rancid), skater Tony Hawk, and many others.
View this clip on CNN where Pennywise frontman, Jim Lindberg talks about the documentary with CNN.
Los Angeles-based Ashtar Command is comprised of Brian Liesegang and Chris Holmes. The talented duo has just released their album American Sunshine, co-released on OBEY Records, and has also unveiled their music video for the track "Mark IV" featuring Josh Radin. Directed by Matt Ornstein and produced collabortively by Lodger Films and Daft Punk's producion company (Daft Arts), the music video features a mind-bending story-line with some interested visual effects. Overall, the video highlights and compliments the alt-rock elements of "Mark IV".
Purchase Ashtar Command's 'American Sunshine' Here.
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Watch this short film about the waste and tragedy of war, featuring music from the legendary producer.
We all know that war is a futile travesty that wastes vast amounts of money and lives over exaggerated pissing contests. But just what are the costs of the Afghanistan war for the UK? This video, narrated by former British MP Tony Benn and featuring music by Brian Eno, gives the hard facts and invites all watchers to participate in an October demonstration for the Anti-War Assembly. Watch it below.
Roger Linn, he of the MPC and AdrenaLinn and Linnstrument, sends us his friendly walk-through video showing you how to get started actually using the upcoming Linn/Dave Smith Tempest analog drum machine. We’re awaiting details on when this unit is actually shipping; I’ll update this post once we hear.
What you get instead, though, is nearly twenty minutes of Roger walking you through every single function – this is as much a video manual as it is a “quick start.” It’s nice to see some clever workflow features in action, and you get some very in-depth looks at how the Tempest operates. This is documentation, not marketing, in a good way.
Incidentally, lest you think the Tempest is late — or, at least in terms of its last known shipping projection — Dave and Roger technically have until the Autumn Equinox, which in 2011 falls on September 23 inclusive, in order to ship in summer 2011. I’d go further to say that they have until the end of the date of the equinox Pacific time, which gives them a few additional hours beyond even the majority of their customer base. They’re currently listing the Tempest as due in “late summer 2011,” but unless they mean “late” as in early fall, they have until the 24th of September before they become seasonally incompatible.
I believe it’s briefly on the cusp of the Autumn Equinox on which MIDI clocks start running backwards, or vocoders talk without carrier signals, or something.
Happy Labor Day weekend, USA (and labor lovers everywhere). Happy Fifth of September, everyone. Only (??) shopping days until the Tempest ships.
Indie supergroup? Is that a thing? Well, if it is, we might have one right here.
Haunted Hauses is comprised of Autry Fulbright (Midnight Masses, Trail of Dead, Dragons of Zynth) on vocals along with Leif Huckman (ex-Boggs) and was recorded with Eric Rodgers (VHS or BETA) and Here We Go Magic's drummer Peter Hale. Formed earlier this year, the band has been inspired by many German bands such as Can and Kraftwerk. We've got the first look at their new video for "Bon Voyage" below. Let us know what you think about Haunted Hauses' take on Krautrock?
For more information on the band, visit their Facebook page.
Sonic Youth lead man, Thurston Moore, performed one of his solo tracks for David Letterman last night.
Watch as Moore performs his tune, "Benediction," from his recently released solo record, Demolished Thoughts, on the "Late Show With David Letterman." Did anyone else catch the Black Flag bars on the bass drum?
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Die kanadische A Cappella Gruppe Les Charbonniers de L’Enfer hat sich mit La Nef, dem Ensemble für alte und zeitgenössische Musik, und der Soprano-Sängerin Meredith Hall zusammengetan, um traditionelle Lieder aus Quebec neu zu vertonen. Mit ihrem ungewöhnlichem französischen Akzent singen die Sänger von Kriegen und Fernweh. Ihre Lieder sind eingebetet in folkloristischer Fiddlermusik, zeitgenössischen Klängen und Melodien der alten Musik. Keine alltägliche musikalische Reise.
The first video off the latest The Real Tuesday Weld album The Last Werewolf made its debut on Mashable this week. The stop-motion video for “Tear Us Apart” was directed by Alex de Campi and was described as “creepy yet sweet”. Mashable has more background on the video, and we’ve got the video below.
San Diego dwelling group The Tree Ring made the long haul to our Dickies Showroom in Los Angeles recently for an exclusive performance.
The group performed their tune "Dreams Where I Am Sleeping" from their album, Generous Shadows using a stand up bass, violin, acoustic guitar and some softly hit drums.
Keep checking in for more Dickies Showroom performances.
Watch the video below courtesy of Dickies and check out www.facebook.com/dickies for tons more exclusive videos.
Hooray For Earth, an electronic Yeasayer-esque band out of New York, recently released their debut LP, True Loves. Not too long ago, they released a music video for "Sails," and it's a strange video indeed. A woman appears to be running around... chasing no one, or herself, or something. Confusing? Yes. Metaphoric? Probably. See for yourself below.
True Loves is out now via Dovecote Records. Pick it up here.
Still hot off the release of their latest album, Nine Types of Light, TV On the Radio have just made available two new remixes of "Caffeinated Consciousness" and album stand-out "Will Do." Pick up the two tracks, exclusively available on iTunes.
It's a big day for "Caffeinated Consciousness." In addition to the remix, TVOTR has also just released a sporadic music video for the album's closing track. Check that out below.
And if you are in the Los Angeles area, make sure to pick up tickets to TVOTR's Hollywood Bowl show on September 25th. They will only be co-headlining with Arctic Monkeys. Oh, right, and Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns will be there too. No big deal.
In case you missed it, just this past Monday, Little Dragon played a soulful electronic set on KCRW's infamous Morning Become's Eclectic. In front of a small audience at Apogee's Berkeley St. Studios, Little Dragon performed many songs off their upcoming album, Ritual Union. Check it out below, or visit KCRW's site for more info.
Ritual Union comes out July 26th. To pre-order, click here.
Dallas Green, aka City and Colour, stopped by the Dickies Showroom to perform a new song from his new album and an oldie.
Splitting his time between fronting his post-hardcore band, Alexisonfire, and writing haunting melodies as City and Colour, Dallas holds nothing back when writing his infectious tunes, and you can clearly see that when you watch him perform "Silver and Gold" from his new album, Little Hell, and "As Much as I Ever Could" from his album, Bring Me Your Love.
At bottom, a strobe and high-speed camera accurately represent the way in which a string is moving. At top, a video taken with an iPhone camera distorts your sense of how the string is moving by capturing instead images of standing waves, caused by the rolling shutter on the device. The video isn’t wrong – it’s just showing you beautiful visualizations of standing waves that make visible how the shutter works on the camera more than they do how the guitar works.
Full disclosure: I love waves. Analog, digital, acoustic, we’re talking vibrations in sound (and other substances, as well — and light). I don’t think you get into this area without having a certain wave addiction. If you love waves, you could easily get lost in exploring videos of vibrating guitar strings and pondering the physics of the string.
This story begins not with how guitar strings actually vibrate, but a curious phenomenon when combining the regular oscillation of the string with the rolling shutter of a CMOS digital camera — namely, the iPhone’s. To accurately capture motion, you need to record an image all at once (or at least come close). Rolling shutter or line scan as exhibited in a CMOS camera sensor like the iPhone is a side effect of the capture being scanned from top to bottom, so the bottom portion of the image is saved later than the top. That causes motion to skew across the image. (Long before digital, people played around with the same effect in analog video and even using film photography – all you need is something moving and a way of capturing the image that moves gradually in a different direction.)
When the regular oscillation of the scanning combines with the oscillation of what you’re filming – as with a vibrating guitar string, or the rotating propeller on an airplane — the two frequencies effectively phase, causing some curious distortion. In the case of the guitar, this means seeing the appearance of standing waves that, while they can occur in nature, don’t occur on any conventional guitar. (You can also think of the basic effect as aliasing, as seen optically when video shutters capture the frequency of rotation of a rotating car wheel in such a way that it appears to move backwards.)
As with many concepts in physics, it’s all easier to see than explain, so I’ll turn it over to some terrific videos. I’ve contrasted two at the top of the story; here are more examples.
Below, a high-speed camera operating at 600 and 1200 frames per second, played back 20x and 40x, respectively, slower than you’d see with your naked eye.
And here’s another example of how that might appear on a camera like the iPhone:
Of course, that means – fodder for our sister site Create Digital Motion – potential for more creative abuse, beyond the mere novelty.
What’s also amusing is the heated discussion this triggered as the iPhone video went viral. Read some angry comments – and some solid science among them — at Reddit: Guitar string oscillations captured on video [reddit.com]
I’m glad people don’t behave (yet) in person the way they do on the Internet.
In person: “Excuse me; I think your fly is open.”
On the Internet: “That guy’s fly is open. He doesn’t even know his fly is open. That’s bullshit. I mean, what kind of person leaves their pants just *(&$#ing open like that? Look, look, look at his open fly. I’m never talking to him again. I’m not even going to wear pants from now on.”
(Seriously, happily, many of the comments are perfectly polite and well-informed!)
School’s out for just about everyone, but I’m going to remember to file this away for the next time I have to explain sound vibration. Now, back to the beach, or wherever you’re relaxing.
Thanks to Alexander Chen, from whom I lifted this via Google+. (See his own work on CDM here and here. Alex is just the kind of person I want to see this, as he’s been working with the aesthetics of vibrating strings! So, hurrah, Google+…
Enjoy a short doc from vbs.tv about extreme mexican pointy boots which are connected with tribal guaracha music movement – because music and fashion always go together big time!
