Veda Rays.
New York post-punk band Veda Rays have released a new video for their single “Close Range,” taken from their current album For the Rest to Rest. The video has a dark and politically troubling feel that is described by band member Jim Stark as being about “image and identity, specifically as presented through the lens of the media, whether self-curated through one’s own social media platforms, or by professional design, channeled through larger outlets.”
ARTIST: Veda Rays
TITLE: Close Range
MOOD: Dystopian
Nouveau
Fantastic, stylish and super cool new track ‘Nouveau’ released today by Mark Fernyhough and Steven Horry accompanied by an equally cool and colourful video featuring an awesome gang of Berlin roller girls.
ARTIST: Mark Fernyhough & Steven Horry
TITLE: Nouveau
Us.
Predictably beautiful new track by Andrew Montgomery’s most recent musical venture Us – accompanied by an equally wonderful, claustrophobic video with a dash of Eyes Wide Shut dark glamour.
ARTIST: US
TITLE: Mute
Veda Rays.
Watch the hypnotic video for Veda Rays’ fantastic new single Shadow Side which is is available for purchase through their site www.vedarays.com/store and through bandcamp. A luscious slice of guitar-based, gothic, post-punk drama for your ears and eyes to enjoy.
Pop Bitch Celebrity Death Match
Playlist: Pop Bitch Celebrity Death Match
Heavyweights: Madonna
Middleweights: Kylie
Featherweights: Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Gwen Stefani, Ke$ha, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilira
Bantamweights: Shakira, Rihanna
Tag Team: Spice Girls
Outside Contenders: Cher, Lana Del Rey
New Favourite: Lady Gaga
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Place your bets.. 🙂
Because We Can can Can.
Because we can can can
MDNA.
I’ve been revisiting MDNA over the last week or so having not really listened to it at all since it was released. Generally I won’t put in the effort to go back to an album I haven’t connected with but partly because I have given in and am going to the tour this weekend and partly because I’ve had the nagging suspicion there was a much better album lurking in there than it appears I decided to give it another go. I’ve been working on this little redux playlist and I think I’ve finally hit the sweet spot.
A lot of albums these days have problems with weak bonus tracks cluttering up otherwise sturdy albums but I have to say that with MDNA the bonus tracks are far from being the problem – in fact it’s the singles that drag it down most for me. The running order also exhausts me with far too many of the flimsy or psuedo-ballsy songs up top leaving the songs I rate most obscured or so far down the tracklist that I’ve given up by then.
Whittling the album down to these 11 tracks has made all the difference and I feel like there is a pretty strong little record there after all. No, still not her best but in this format certainly stronger than Hard Candy and arguably Confessions too.
There are a few songs that I’ve left on here (most notably Turn Up The Radio, Gang Bang and I Don’t Give A) that still bother me for various reasons but in this context I can enjoy far more.
In my mind I am currently living in a parallel universe where this was the album, the singles were I’m Addicted > Love Spent > Anything apart from GMAYL, GGW or Birthday Song and the artwork looked more like this:
and less like this:
In that unviverse MDNA is really rather good actually.
Love, Madonna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nh2hqnsAJY
I could watch this over every day for the rest of my life and never get bored of it.
Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATKOP1xtptc
I realise I’m about a year behind but I’m kind of obsessed with this song at the moment. It’s like a one-woman tour through the dark heart of the Disney channel. Somewhat ironiaclly it’s autotuned to hell on the album – the girl can sing live though..
It’s been like this from the start
One piece after another to make my heart
You mistake the game for being smart
Stand here, sell this, and hit your markBut the sound of the steel
and the crush, and the grind
it will scream – who am I, to decide my life?
But in time it will die, they’ll be nothing left inside
Just rusted metal that was never even mine
I would scream, but I’m just this hollow shell
Waiting here, begging please
set me free, so I can feelStop trying to live my life for me
I need to breath, I’m not your robot
Stop telling me I’m a part of the big machine
Im breaking free, can’t you see
I can’t love, I can’t speak
Without somebody else operating me
You gave me eyes, and now I see
I’m not your robot, I’m just me
Miley Cyrus – Robot (Live At House Of Blues) HD (by Daria1771)