When Morning Comes.

Craig B and Iain Cook, formerly know as the geniuses behind Aereogramme, released a new, wonderful, quite non-Aereogramme record as The Unwinding Hours. And Solstice played its way right into my Top 10 love songs. Too bad the (animated...) video can't keep up with the song. A 'Hallam Foe'-esque melancholic Glasgow aesthetic might have been too obvious, but still...  

You can just switch to a blank tab to enjoy the song.

Hell.

No, not a commentary on this foggy, tired, late fall Monday. It's the new Tegan and Sara video 'Hell'. I like the tune, haven't made sense of the video yet. Especially of the flower-print-little-house-in-the-prairie-dress-Burqa-esque-thing. But well, here it is:

Hell - Tegan and Sara

Tegan and Sara | MySpace Video

Pretty neat nevertheless.

Monday Music for the New Term.

It's all starting all over again.

The Anti-Beatles.

Last night I saw Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, a documentary about The Monks, a fairly experimental art garage beat band of 5 GIs. They were designed to be the Anti-Beatles - and their sound blew me away! Active between 1964 and 1967! Beat-Proto-Punk-Heavy-Metal-Noise-Art! Wow.

Lonely for So Long.

This nice new video from Olli Schulz reminds me of my long trip through the night in a Greyhound from San Francisco back to Oregon in 2006. So lonely and yet so wonderful. And I could barely keep myself to singing along to the music I was listening to as well.
The song, 'So lange einsam' is pretty nice as well.

Zoot Woman's Memory

Here's a pretty cool pretty new pretty video for Zoot Woman's Memory. Boy-remembers-girl.
Polaroids + Animations + Heartbreak + Cute Couple = Indie Cliché Bingo.
But still witty and good. Like the tune as well.

Psychedelic Zombie Mummies from Outer Space Love Geometric Shapes!

Portugal. the Man released a new video for "Do You".

Portugal. the Man - Do You from Ryan Rothermel on Vimeo.

Weird. Wonderful!

Update: Kanye and i have something in common now..

In the Summertime.

A glass of red wine. The window wide open, the last summer night breeze. Remembering the smell of fresh cut grass and hot blacktop. A special person on the phone. This song on the stereo.
The only way to end this summer.

The daytrotter version is even more beautiful.
Rural Alberta Advantage - In the Summertime

To The Ghosts Who Write History Books.

To them ghosts that write history books
To them ghosts that write songs
Everyone asks would you write one about me

Do yourself a Monday night favor and hook this haunting beauty up to your stereo or your headphones. (Unfortunately the volume level is quite low on this performance.)

Then, head over to Daytrotter to get more beautiful folk songs by the Low Anthem.

For Those Summer Moments.

to the east, to the east/
the road beneath my feet

to the west, to the west/
I havent got there yet

and to the north, to the north/
never to be caught

to the south, to the south/
my time is running out

Frank Turner - The Road

Transatlanticism.

Because it's Monday.
Because dear friends are leaving, transatlantic.
Because the clouds opened up once too often.
Because back in the days, everything was different.
Because long distance is too long sometimes.
Because a chorus says more than a thousand words.
Because it's swelling up.
Because I need you so much closer.
Because, because.

Alive.

The neat video to Alive by the Beastie Boys. Posted just because.
[Plus: I'll probably start a "Monday's Music" series.]