Greg A. Brown

Heck, while I’m posting animal things here’s a video of a bird with only one real move, but it’s a totally awesome one.

Free music: the album Ptolemy’s Guitar by Roland Satterwhite. It’s a stripped-down, multi-instrumentalist sound like Andrew Bird’s Weather Systems.

The internet seems to have already passed through the “collect all information” stage and “enable new ways of doing business” stage and - with this video - may be close to finishing the “compile all the awkwardness ever put to videotape” stage.

Rolling Stone has assembled the best-sounding live versions of all the songs from Radiohead’s upcoming album In Rainbows. Seeing as how the band’s vowed to not give journalists copies before the October 10th release date, this is the only way to glimpse the album before then.

Radiohead - I Will, a song to appear in their new album “In Rainbows” due October 10th.

From FonnyJez’s Flickr collection

For the last two years or so, Godspeed You Black Emperor has been my favorite band. It’s actually starting to creep me out, if only because I don’t have favorites in any other areas that have remained favorites for so long. But still they remain, probably because they offer some distinctive mix of something that’s hard enough to put your finger on, much less recreate under any other setting. That may have been why the band was put on semi-permanent hiatus in 2003, and why the efforts of that group since through the band A Silver Mt. Zion have been quite different (featuring lyrics, amongst other differences).

Either way, something special happened during that time of less than a decade where GYBE counted itself as whole. Here’s one of their studio recordings, consisting of material that eventually debuted in a somewhat different form on their album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.

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A gorgeous video from Animal Collective’s upcoming album, with especially great cinematography.

Having churned out a recent poorly-rated album, Daft Punk is moving towards concerts that seem to double as psychedelic installation-art.