(This is a post from about a year ago. I just love, love, love this little tune, and wanted to re-play it for all you new friendlies who have joined me over the past year. Hope you like it, too.)
Good music is a huge motivator for me. I stumbled onto this gem yesterday, and it’s been stuck in my head ever since.
If you dig it, visit their kickstarter page here, and give these fabulous musicians a boost if you can – either through funds, or simply spreading the word about them through FB/Blog/Twitter…whatever! Support the arts!
Regina Spektor is on my list of favorite musicians. I’m super, super stoked about her new album coming out in May. ’Till then, here’s a little bit of Regina doing what she does oh-so-well. Enjoy!
P.S.
Thanks to a head’s up from the super-fabulous Hubster, I had to add this one last minute – a little taste of what’s to come on her new album!
I love good commercials. For a girl with a short attention span, commercials are like fried heaven on a stick. I especially love good commercials that feature good music.
Check out ‘The Entrance’ by Heineken. Clever, funny, and visually engaging, this commercial has me hooked from the get-go. Add in a little tune by the Asteroids Galaxy Tour, and you’ve got gold, Jerry! Gold.
What are your favorite song/commercial combos? Fave commercials in general? (And please, for the love of Pete and his pet raccoon, tell me that I’m not the only one who cries over the commercial for Google where the dad creates an email account for his daughter, sending her emails all the years she’s growing up, waiting for the day she can finally read and understand how much he loves her. Uh-oh. Pregnancy hormones coming on. The weeping is starting. The hubster is throwing me cautious glances. This parenthesis has gone on waaaay too long.)
Commence with the commenting!
(Hey, ps. If you like Asteroids Galaxy Tour, do something about it! Good music is meant to be shared! Tell your friends, buy their albums, go see ‘em live. Support the arts and the artists you love!)
Much to the hubsters chagrin, I’m also a sucker for bluegrass.
Punch Brothers play bluegrass, but bluegrass with a kick in the pants. Some of what they do is uber-bluegrassy. Some of what they do bears only a small resemblance to the genre. But everything they do, they do so, so well.
I<3 Punch Brothers. They play good music. And what do we say about good music, friendlies? Share it!
The first video is what hooked me. I hope it will hook you! It’s just a taste of the second movement of The Blind Leaving the Blind from their first album, Punch. The music is haunting, and it’s stuck with me from day one. The second video is from their second album, Antifogmatic, released last year. The song is Alex, and is a little more lighthearted than the first. The third is Rye Whiskey, another song from their second album. The bluegrass in ‘em really shines here.
Have a look, give ‘em a listen, and if you like what you see/hear, do something about it! Buy their albums (the second is available on vinyl – yummy!), go see them in concert, tell your friends. Support the arts and the artists you love!
Due to the TV station claiming the rights to the video, this video is no longer available on YouTube. Bummer. You can go watch it here (thanks, K. B. Owen), or I can describe it to you. Here goes: Stop! It’s weathertime! *music plays in background, dancers dressed in M.C. Hammer pants girate across the [...]
Okay, so this giggle’s not as quick as usual. But when you’re never gonna dance again… And when your guilty feet have got no rhythm… Sometimes what you really need is five minutes of a guy in pleather tights playing the sexy sax riff from George Michael’s Careless Whispers over… and over… and over… (p.s. I’m more than a [...]
Oh yes. He’s got moves. And he knows it. (And I love how, at the end of the video, he gets all chill with the guy walking by, and then follows up with a KAPOW! I’m comin’ to GETCHYA! flashy kick/wave/surfer move. It’s oh, so good!)
(This is a post from about a year ago. I just love, love, love this little tune, and wanted to re-play it for all you new friendlies who have joined me over the past year. Hope you like it, too.) Good music is a huge motivator for me. I stumbled onto this gem yesterday, and it’s been stuck [...]
Regina Spektor is on my list of favorite musicians. I’m super, super stoked about her new album coming out in May. ’Till then, here’s a little bit of Regina doing what she does oh-so-well. Enjoy! P.S. Thanks to a head’s up from the super-fabulous Hubster, I had to add this one last minute – a [...]
