tUnE-yArDs 4AD Session

My favourite new artsist of 2009 (besides Julian Plenti) is without a doubt tUnE-yArDs. I cannot get enough. She's currently signed to 4AD and recently did a live session with them. Enjoy!

Dniwer Ximer, Vol. 2

I have this on-going remix project I call "Dniwer". I got into remixing after Gentleman Reg decided to start a remix competiton. Needless to say I didn't win the competition, but that didn't stop me from not making remixes. I recently created a second volume of my remixes entitled "Vol. 2". It can be downloaded for free by visiting www.dniwer.bandcamp.com. Enjoy.

Kid Robot "Alphabet!" collection

I live in Toronto. Being from there means we get all the cool Kid Robot stuff later. On a recent excursion I becamse sort of really into their Alphabet! keychain series. I really, really like all Kid Robot keychains because a)they are so sharp looking and b)they're the only Kid Robot things I can afford. They were made in conjuction with Mike Davis. I got the letter "O" which stands for "ouch"

"Hell"

This is the new music video for the first single off of Tegan and Sara's new album Sainthood. It was directed by Jamie Travis. It is incredibly fantastic!!

Hell from Tegan and Sara on Vimeo.

Clues/"You Have My Eyes Now"

Clues are a band from Montreal and are comprised of ex-members of such bands as The Unicorns and The Arcade Fire. Together they make alternative/noise/rocky music with lyrics that are chillingly genuine. I haven't heard any album as new and fresh as this one in a long time.

Their new music video for "You Have My Eyes Now" was directed by Tim Heidecker from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Tim Heidecker in CLUES - "You Have My Eyes Now" (dir. Matt Wells) from Matthew Wells on Vimeo.

"Dear Diary"

So a while ago Vice was promoting a new book by Lesley Arfin.

Anyway it's called Dear Diary and it's SO good. It's a chronical of Lesley's real diary. She delves into her experiences with drugs and sex, and even interviews the people she wrote about now to get some sort alt-girl perspective. It's incredibly well-written and dark, and funny, and a great little gem of a book!

Superjail!

So it's become a guilty pleasure of mine to watch "ADD" on G4TECH TV. Anyway, they air this comepletely absurd cartoon show called Superjail!. It's this incredibly graphic, violent, perverse, even grotesque (at times) show about this crazy-morbid-funland jail. Anyway the animation is really quite interesting and it's just another oddly dark/creepy/weird thing I'm into.