HAVE YOU SEEN?: Lorde's "Yellow Flicker Beat"

My goal is to post more often. It's also to make over this site. Let's see if i do either of those things.

I'm totally loving this video Lorde just put out for "Yellow Flicker Beat." Maybe it's just because i'm hungover, but to me this video is like the bizarro version of Miley's "Can't Stop." Please see rationale below:

Sure, Lorde dances like she graduated from the Thom Yorke School of Interpretive Dance:

While Miley ... does this:

But wait a second... what's this? 

They both perform from bed:

They both perform by a window:

Actually, the above image of Miley is a 2-4-1... since they both like performing by vertical slatted shades: 

And both have a fondness for shrubs:

And they both perform from a pool:

And outfit themselves in sheer tops! 

So yeah... I think i'm on to something. 

HAVE YOU SEEN?: SKRILLEX "FIRST OF THE YEAR (EQUINOX)"

Skrillex - the Patron Saint of Dubstep - just released his latest video for the track "First of the Year (Equinox)," which features a kid FUCKING SHIT UP. Fucking shit up in the vain of Dexter Morgan, that is.

We challenge you to not want to punch the air, punch your computer, or tighten your fist when the little girl yells "CALL 9-1-1!!!!!"

Justice is served:


And in the spirit of watching little kids fuck shit up, one of our favorite videos: Yeah Yeah Yeah's - "Y-Control":


The YYY's clip kind of reminds me of the London rioters.

HAVE YOU SEEN?: THE HORRORS LIVE FROM MY APT

Once upon a time, the Horrors played a show in my tiny Lower East Side apartment. Well... they played one song before the cops and fire dept showed up because someone decided to use a smoke machine and so people thought the building was on fire.

IT WAS EPIC.

Watch them performing "Jack The Ripper" right here:

HAVE YOU SEEN?: CULTS "ABDUCTED"

My favorite genre of love is Stockholm Syndrome. I love any piece of art (music, movies, literature, etc) that plays with this idea. I think that love, in a way, is the ultimate form of SS. How many unhealthy relationships have we found our friends or ourselves in... just total hostages of our own hearts holding us captive.

Cults' "Abducted" is my new favorite song on the subject. I hope you enjoy:



And ... since I love any opportunity to mention Muse, here's their video for "Stockholm Syndrome":

LEGACY

As many of you might know, I spent the past year and a half working at Edelman (a marketing and pr agency) with one of my main clients being AXE. Over the time I worked on AXE, the folks over there began to really trust my taste in music... so much so that they let me choose the song that would be used in an online commercial for their Fixers product!!!

Now, it's no secret that I'm obsessed with Hussle Club. When my brother-from-another-mother, Josh Madden, turned me onto Hussle Club I immediately punched him in the face for holding them from me for so long. Black Terry fronting a goth band that sounds like Bauhaus at a rave? SIGN ME UP. This is why I'm BEYOND excited that AXE agreed to use Hussle Club's "Quarenteenagers" for the commercial!

I'm now at NYLON Magazine as the Director of Music Marketing, and I couldn't be happier about the legacy I've left behind! Please take a look at the commercial. Post it! Spread the love! Thank you!

Watch it here:


Buy Hussle Club's "Quarenteenagers" on iTunes.

HAVE YOU SEEN?: THE ROYAL WEDDING PARODY?

We've all obviously seen that Chris Brown wedding procession video...

I love what T-Mobile did with their version for the Royal Wedding, and I'M IN LOVE WITH PRINCE HARRY (because you could totally see him doing this):



By the way, the song in the commercial is called "House of Love" by East 17. The track was released in 1992 on London Records. East 17 is basically what NKOTB would've been if they were being produced by the people behind EMF and Jesus Jones:

HAVE YOU SEEN?: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE "COMMON PEOPLE" (PULP COVER)

My Chemical Romance recently visited BBC1's Live Lounge where they covered Pulp's "Common People" by Pulp. Knowing these guys, they've probably been planning on covering this track since 2001 and it shows. I think they did an amazing job!

HAVE YOU SEEN?: INNERPARTYSYSTEM "AMERICAN TRASH"

The video for Innerpartysystem's "American Trash" is probably one of my most favorite videos of the year. Done by the irreplaceable Penta, the video is a hypnotic dosage of anti-brainwashing propaganda. A contradiction, i know, but watch the video and you'll get what I'm saying.

Innerpartysystem - American Trash from PENTA on Vimeo.

HAVE YOU SEEN?: SHE WANTS REVENGE "MUST BE THE ONE"

The new video for She Wants Revenge's "Must Be The One," which was directed by the band's singer Justin Warfield, features a very familiar face... recognize the mom?



It's Deborah Foreman! AKA Julie from Valley Girl!!!!!



Valley Girl is one of THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME. If you haven't seen it, go home NOW and watch it on Netflix.

Not only does Nicolas Cage look AMAZING in the movie playing a valley punk, but the soundtrack is also INCREDIBLE:



The Valley Girl soundtrack is almost as incredible as the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack, which umm... Justin Warfield is ALSO FEATURED IN!

Remember that song "Pretty Piece of Flesh" by One Inch Punch? Justin raps on that:


Anyway, I really hope that my brother Lawrence isn't the only person who gives a fuck that Deborah Foreman is in the SWR video. The end.

HAVE YOU SEEN?: FRIENDLY FIRES "LIVE THOSE DAYS TONIGHT"

Everyone seems to be talking about Friendly Fires' appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night... mainly due to the singer's dancing. Gurj had seen them at SXSW and said he danced like me, but everyone online seems to think he dances like Elaine Benes.



And the Elaine:


When I saw them in the summer of 2009 at Le Poisson Rouge I just remember him dancing like the party came from his body. I fell in love with them because of their song "Kiss of Life."

HAVE YOU SEEN?: KE$HA "BLOW"

Dear Ke$ha,

I already loved you. I saw your music video for "tik tok" and thought to myself: that's me circa 2005, but cuter and with a record deal.

You effortlessly barrel through life like a drunken bat out of hell, making out with boys, throwing them to the wayside, and treating the world like it's your giant glittery disco ball.

i fucking love you.

You didn't have to win me over, but holy eff, did you ever.

UNICORNS?!

MOTHER FUCKING UNICORNS?!

AND JAMES VAN DER BEEK?!

AND RAINBOWS?!

Britney, Katy, Gaga... they all wish they were as effortlessly amazing as you.

I love you.

I love this video.

you are my spirit animal.

Love,
Ultragrrrl

HAVE YOU SEEN?: RADIOHEAD "LOTUS FLOWER"

Dance, Thom Yorke, dance!

HAVE YOU SEEN?: MAT DEVINE IS MY HERO

I dont know how this ended up on my hard drive, but it did. And i'm not sure if Mat wants me to share it, but I am until he tells me to remove it. This is genius. This is why i love him.

HAVE YOU SEEN?: JOY DIVISION "TRANSMISSION" VIA PLAYMOBILE

Um...

Quite possibly the greatest thing I've ever seen (and no, that is NOT a hyperbole):



thank you SO MUCH @TrentVanegas aka pinkisthenewblog!

HAVE YOU SEEN?: ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD

The latest installment in the Zeitgeist The Movie series came out today.

You can download a high res Quicktime (with subtitles) here.

Or stream it via YouTube by clicking here.

HAVE YOU SEEN?: CAT'S EYES

A few years ago, in a life long ago, Stolen Transmission (my now defunct record label) signed The Horrors. I love The Horrors.

The singer, Faris Badwan, launched a new band (in addition to the horrors) called Cat's Eyes and filmed the video for the song "I Knew It Was Over," from their first gig which at the Vatican. NO BIG DEAL.

more info at gigwise. video below. thanks @karenplusone for the link:

HAVE YOU SEEN?: NEW GLASVEGAS VIDEO

It doesn't matter if you like Glasvegas or even this song... this video was cut together amazingly:

HAVE YOU SEEN?: PAJAMA JEANS

Wow. Has it really come to this?

HAVE YOU SEEN?: LOST ALF FOOTAGE

Gawker posted footage -- taken from BadTVblog -- of ALF outtakes that someone posted on YouTube. The story is that the un-aired footage comes from a VHS tape that someone purchased on eBay about 10 years ago and finally decided to upload for everyone's shock, awe, and amusement. Basically, it features ALF dropping the N-bomb about a dozen times... which according to Gawker's comment committee, is probably an on-set joke referencing an LA LAW episode that featured a plaintiff with Tourettes. Either way, the footage had me wowed. Don't play this outloud on your computer.

Here's the footage:

And the LA Law episode footage:

HAVE YOU SEEN?: THEOPHILUS LONDON "OOPS"

NSFW! Lindsay Nipple!

Thanks to Ashley and Audrey for sending over this video which i took off of Theophilus London's blog.

Old readers of this blog might remember how I used to say stuff like "my vagina just exploded" whenever I heard a song i loved, saw a great show, or saw a cute boy ... well, this video just made my vagina explode. Holy hotness. She might have some trouble getting an acting job... but the bitch can play hot at fuck. damn.

Oh, and this song is a cover of Tweet's song "Oops." I forgot that an actual song was attached to the video.