Backseat Sandbar

So my brother over at We Listen for You and The Pass are at it again and have another great music video for our enjoyment.  This time it is part of a WLFY contest.  See the details below.  BSSB makes a number of appearances in the video in our acting debut!

VIA WE LISTEN FOR YOU:

A few weeks ago the up and coming Louisville electro pop band The Pass told me their idea to create a found footage or unofficial video for each of their songs to act as way for people to stream their new album BURST (out Sept 21st).  Instead of going on myspace and streaming the album, you would go to youtube and be able to watch eleven videos and hear the entire album (see the first track video stream HERE).

I immediately told them I wanted to take a crazy dream I had and put it into moving images.  The dream consisted of me showing up at a crazy party to find that all the people are life like takes on the names of music blogs.  As you know, there are a lot of clever names for music blogs and the goal of the video was to transform the name of music blogs into human/prop representations.  An example of this would be the music blog “I Guess I’m Floating”…you would see a guy floating and then shrug with indifference.

To make this even more fun, I’m holding a contest to see who can identify the most music blog/music site references.  We managed to reference over thirty sites.  To prevent people from listing every blog they know, if you guess a blog that isn’t featured in the video you get –1 points….one right you get +1.  The person with the most points win.  E-mail to answers to guesstheblogs@gmail.com.  Please don’t use the comment box to guess…they will not count.

The winner will receive a 50 dollar gift certificate to Insound and a cd copy of The Pass debut BURST.  If someone manages to get a perfect score, I might throw in something extra.  This was a lot of fun to make and I hope you have as much fun watching what has to be one of the craziest house parties ever.

HERE IS THE VIDEO:

Via We Listen for You:

It’s no secret that one of our most anticipated releases of 2010 is the debut LP from Louisville electro pop outfit The Pass.  With infectious hooks and synths on top of synths, The Pass makes pure dancefloor fire.  Their debut album, “BURST” will be released this fall on SonaBLAST! Records.  The band is giving everyone a taste by syncing their opening track “Treatment of the Sun” to some crazy dance footage.  The first track off “BURST” is now available to buy from their Bandcamp site.

Via Pretty Much Amazing:

Almost six months ago we introduced you to Louisville, KY’s the Pass and their brand of indie pop hat marries Manner‘s synthesized fervor and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix‘s endearing warmth. Over the last six months, The Pass has released an EP and worked on their full-length debut Burst with mixing engineer Alex Aldi, whose latest works include Suckers’ Wild Smile, Passion Pit’s Manners, Harlem Shakes’ Technicolor Health, and The Walkmen’s You & Me. Well, Burst is all wrapped up and almost ready for you to devour. You’ll see evidence of that in the album’s instantly infectious opener, “Treatment of the Sun”. You can listen to the track in the video above.

Burst is due out this Fall on sonaBLAST! Records, but you can purchase “Treatment of the Sun” now.

Out this week… “To Live In Dreams And Memories” music video from the Saredren Wells upcoming “Memories are Hunting Horns” LP, out may 11th.

Pre-order the album at louisvilleisforlovers.com. All vinyl LPs come with download coupon for album and video.

Saredren Wells and The Mack dual album release May 14th at Glassworks…. Click here for details.

My brother over at WeListenForYou.com directed a music video for Louisville’s  The Pass.  The song is “Colors” from their 2010 EP of the same name which is available HERE.  Their EP has been getting a lot of buzz and our friends at Pretty Much Amazing called their song “Crosswalk Stereo” one of the best so far in 2010 (edging out The National’s “Bloodbuzz Ohio” by a couple spots).  You can download “Crosswalk Stereo” at the link above.  Anyway, here is the much anticipated video that is going around now.  Enjoy.

Dude Plays Saxophone, Douglas Lucas, Brian Beyke and Our Velocity will be at the Brick House tomorrow night (10/24).  The show starts at 7pm so get there on time.  It will only set you back $5 bucks.  Before you go, you have to check out the music video below by Dude Plays Saxophone.  Amazing!

Dude Plays Saxophone- “Nothing Works” (video)

Monday, September 21st
Skull Alley
The States w/ Music Video and Your My Density
1017 E Broadway
Louisville, KY
myspace.com/skull_alley
$7 / All Ages

NYC’s The States will be releasing We Are The Erasers September 22nd on Genious Collective Records.  We Are The Erasers is the follow up to Path Of Least Resistance released independently by The States in late 2007 concurrently sending them on a tornadic tour of the US in 2008.

The States’s razor-edged rock has the uncanny ability to evoke Radiohead-like dreamscapes, Zeppelin-inspired bombast, and an Orwellian political sensibility…often in the same song. Their forthcoming new album, produced by Chris Grainger (Wilco, Switchfoot), is both intimate and grandiose, at home equally in an echoing arena and in your own headphones.

The band’s inventive songwriting has earned accolades from the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (Grand Prize Winners) and the International Songwriting Contest (Winners), and it has been featured on MTV’s “The Hills” and “The Real World,” and ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight.” Q104.3′s Jonathan Clarke recently included The States in his list of the Top 10 New York bands.

Behind the music is an unconventional lineup: a Harvard-educated singer/guitarist (Chris Snyder), a punk/acid-jazz/prog-influenced drummer (Joe Stroll), and a sonic experimentalist bassist armed with an arsenal of fuzz pedals (Pete Connors).

thestatesonline.com
myspace.com/thestatesonline

Sep 07  Kipona Festival                 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Sep 08  Crash Mansion                                   New York, New York
Sep 17-18  PLAY:stl Music Festival      St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 18  PLAY:stl Music Festival                 St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 21  Skull Alley                                     Louisville, Kentucky
Sep 23  The Factory                     Rochester, Michigan
Sep 24  MPMF – Midpoint Music Festival  Cincinnati, Ohio
Sep 25  Howard’s Club H                                 Bowling Green, OH
Sep 26  Green Lantern Bar               Lexington, Kentucky
Sep 27  Abby Pub                                    Chicago, Illinois
Sep 29  Brownie’s 23 East               Ardmore, Pennsylvania
Oct 03  Dewey Beach Music Conference    Dewey Beach, Delaware
Oct 16  TT The Bears Boston EP Release  Cambridge, Massachusetts
Oct 17  The Rack N’ Roll Cafe           Stamford, Connecticut
Oct 18  The Vibe Lounge                                 Rockville Centre, NY
Nov 05  Puck                            Doylestown, Pennsylvania

My brother over at We Listen for You submitted a music video for The Fiery Furnaces’ “The End is Near” to a contest run by WNYC Radio.  It is damn good and the acting is incredible.  [It may or may not star one or more Backseat Sandbar writers.]  The winner gets a bunch of cool stuff, including an appearance with the band on WNYC’s Soundcheck.  Check it out and show some love with a vote!

Here is how to vote:

1.  GO HERE (WNYC’s youtube page)

2. Watch the Video

3. Join Group

4. VOTE…click on “I Love It” below the video

It’s that easy.

Lucky Pineapple is filming a new video for “A Moment in an Empty Street” with Andrew Vititoe of Vititoe Videos and they need 30 extras for the video! If you’re a fan of the band and you want to help them make their music video and get your 15 seconds of local fame, then be the first of 30 people to show up to the Cat House (747 South Preston Street, off Broadway) with a bright solid-colored shirt by 8pm on August 22nd (until who knows when). You are encouraged to eat before you come and to RSVP to Facebook HERE.  By RSVPing you are agreeing to:

• Being there and not making lame excuses the day of shooting for not being able to be there.
• Wearing a bright solid-colored shirt.
• Having a great time filming in a small-ish space with some potentially sweaty people.

DISCLAIMER: Lucky Pineapple reserves the right to turn you away if:

• Thirty people show up before you do and they don’t need anyone else for the shot
• You are wearing the wrong clothes (e.g., black, white, or something with a logo on it)
• You are generally acting like a jerk and haven’t been directed to do so.

For the people who show up and are capable of following instructions, it should be an awesome time.

I can’t go to the TV on the Radio concert tonight, so I had to settle for youtube music videos.  This piece of [art] is not only entertaining, but an interesting glimpse of mild genius.  It blends political satire with an electronic concern for the everyman….think Pride & Prejudice meets Slaughterhouse Five.  Just look at this one verse:

Black out the satellite and be my road star
You wanted anything else so show ya my heart
Let’s leave this city behind us
We can get out of here

(Let’s go)

She is clearly referring to her GPS.  It has lost its signal and they can’t get to Santa Barbara from Beverly Hills without it.  But then she decides to go anyway, despite the huge setback.  She will simply follow her heart home; a place where it may have been all along.  Below this layer, she could be referring to commercialism and the need for more of it.  If you look closely (perhaps on a second view), you can see that she is wearing a bikini at 2:15.  Without more accessories, how can she fully express what she feels?  Perhaps only during a black-out.

Here is her first music video.  Notice the clear departure from her youth and embrace of maturity.

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Animal Collective- My Girls

Merriweather Post Pavillion just released this month and they already have a music video for one of my favorite tracks on the album.  Also, condolences to my brother and the other west coasters who had tix to AC’s LA show last night that was canceled.

Enjoy.

You can read our review of the album here.