I recently fell in love with La Blogotheque's Take-Away Shows. It's a repository for videos of musicians traveling through Paris making their music on the streets, in the subways and at tables of coffehouses throughout the city. Liars are featured in one episode using the inside of an elevator to assist a song. Vampire Weekend plays one of their hits in an empty courtyard using garbage cans as drums. The most recent post highlights current obsession Animal Collective taking a shopping cart for a walk and singing into cups to create the trancelike and deeply affecting wonder that is "Taste."
Please check out the site. It's fascinating to see these songs in such different contexts, augmented by traffic sounds or half sung by bemused Parisian onlookers. The kids are taking it to the streets.
And since I mentioned them, check out this video that I can't get enough of lately.
This confirms what many have long thought - Vampire Weekend are the new Monkees.
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will check out the site. thanks.
do love that vampire weekend video even though i really don't think they are all that special. definitely no monkees.
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