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Annuals - Confessor (Subterranean Link)

“The treatment for the video was written by Annuals’ own Zach Oden and then brought to life by Terry Gilliam’s special effects designer, Daniel Auber.  It is not only gorgeous and fantastical, but it also features drawing-versions of the actual band.  You know, if they were traveling woods-guides and prison torturers [...]

I’m almost positive they filmed this here in Springfield.  I recognize that neighborhood they’re playing in.  I could be wrong, but hey, any new SSLYBY news I’m posting.

Ben Folds’ upcoming album comes out in September I believe, and you can bet I’ll be all over that release, but in my excitement today upon receiving some new Ben Folds’ news, I looked up some youtube videos randomly and found these beauties.  Where the heck have I been and how did I miss the [...]

Detektivbyran, arguably my favorite instrumental band, finally finished their newest album, Wermland, and I’m more than excited to get my hands on it.  They posted two new songs over at their myspace, so here’s my heads up to all of you to go over there asap and give them a listen.  “Om Du Moter Vag” [...]

Time to be completely unoriginal here at the Perch.  I’m sure you saw this tidbit of news if you read any of the big blogs, but since Radiohead are one of my favorite bands, I figured what the heck, I’ll share.  Today marks the world premier of Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards” and, [...]

Weezer lost me a long time ago. I’d pinpoint it to around the time Matt Sharp left the band. But my love for them way back in the day still carries over even now and has led to me at least checking out every new album they come out with, even if they’re [...]

Now this video is just plain impressive. I hadn’t stopped by Shots Ring Out in a while, so in my hasty browsing to catch up with their archives, I found this little beauty. It’s animation in the form of graffiti. I don’t even want to think of how long it took them [...]

And in terrible audio too!  I doubt this is too much of an exclusive, since they’ve gone on a stop or two since I saw them live last Tuesday, but if you can decipher the song from the bass filled crappy audio, then you’ll have an idea of what some of the new songs from [...]

New Animal Collective video for “Water Curses” from their new EP of the same name. Haven’t had a chance to listen to the EP yet, but this song is pretty poppy and fun compared to most stuff AC have written. Short post before bed, but I figured a few of you would be [...]

Fans of Damien Rice take note. I don’t know how real the sound is with this video, as far as whether they used the album version and synched it up to the video, but either way the man plays all the stuff and it would be pretty cool if it was all linked to [...]