This week check out sweethearts Devendra Barnhart and Natalie Portman in the video for “Carmensita”, off his 2007 album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon…just getting around to his first video from last year’s album, smokey indeede! Worth the wait, though, featuring Natalie P., Bollywood motifs, and Spanish lyrics! On an entirely different front, Vampire Weekend bring the balmy breeze of a Cape Cod summer with two more video offerings from this years well received,
self-titled album on XL Recordings. Serious preppy East coast vibe here on videos for the songs, “Oxford Comma” and “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”. And finally, from the demise of Seattle’s, The Blood Brothers, comes Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato’s new effort Jaguar Love. They have a new album out on Matador called Take Me To The Sea and we’ve got the video for the song “Highways Of Gold”!

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High Rez:
VIDEO: Devendra Barnhart “Carmensita” XL Recordings

VIDEO: Vampire Weekend “Oxford Comma” XL Recordings

VIDEO: Vampire Weekend “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” XL Recordings

VIDEO: Jaguar Love “Highways Of Gold” Matador Records

It might seem like the Northwest had some sort of premium on the golden days of garage rock, boasting such classic heavyweights as The Kingsmen, Paul Revere and the Raiders, as well as The Sonics; while in reality we were just one of many active music scenes venerating all that was loud and raw in rock, and like other regions, it was our relative isolation from the mainstream media markets that produced our unique take on blues-based music.
This month on Live Eye Tv we celebrate the raucous, do it yourself spirit of garage rock with some of our favorite noise-makers! The Pharmacy hail from Seattle and play the most infectious pure drunk fun we’ve seen in awhile, and like their current tour mates and long time kings of clown, Japanther, they also amaze with songs of perfect pop punk genius…CONTINUE READING

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VIDEO: THE PHARMACY on Live Eye Tv

VIDEO: JAPANTHER on Live Eye TV

VIDEO: THE OLD HAUNTS on Live Eye Tv

VIDEO: BLOOD ON THE WALL on Live Eye Tv

VIDEO: THEE OH SEES on Live Eye Tv

VIDEO: Aa on Live Eye Tv

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This week new additions to the Tv Party Podcast Series, as well as the Mix Tape Series. Here are some great options for subscribing to the LIVE EYE TV Podcasts: iTunes, Podcast.com, and Podcast Alley.
Sigur Ros continue to amaze on the visual front as well as the aural! The band follows up last years’ spectacular documentary, Heima, with another visual treat. “Gobbledigook” is directed by Stefan Arnie and Siggi Kinski, shot by the fantastic cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and it features Ryan Mcginley’s love of naked forest revelers! Yummy…if you’re of age and all!! Also, up this week electro, wizardly duo of Matmos, with a visual offering for the song “Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band”, as well as Mates of State, those Barsuk Record dandies, with a video for the song “My Only Offer”, directed by The Beta Movement!!

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Sigur Ros “Gobbledigook” Dir: Arni and Kinski XL Recordings
STREAM VIDEO 28.2MB”
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Matmos “Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band” Matador Records
STREAM VIDEO 23.3MB”
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Mates of State “My Only Offer” Dir: The Beta Movement Barsuk Records
STREAM VIDEO 20.7MB”
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LIVE EYE TV MIX TAPE SERIES #2
Thirteen exciting new tracks for you to check out this month…

Negativeland Thigmotactic “Richard Nixon Died Today” Seeland Records
Cultural terrorists Negativeland have assailed the corporate media malaise for twenty-six years using cut-ups and found audio, as well as other extreme art means, to recalibrate the messages we are mass fed. On this, their newest album, the band charts new territory-The Song…you know, with actual singing and stuff. Wow, it only took almost three decades…
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Remote Control Frequencies Tempus “The Negotiator” The Secret Life of Sound
Remote Control Frequencies blend an intoxicating brew of noisey analogue rock and hip-hop driven by raw drumming, intriguing noise experiments and inciteful lyrical display. This, essentially two piece band is excellent drummer LG of Camel City Bomb Squad, and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist R-Rock who runs The Secret Life of Sound label outta Chicago…
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Bum Kon Drunken Sex Sucks “Nancy Regan Fashion Show” MAXIMUMROCKNROLL Records
In 1983 any good city worth it’s salt had a dedicated hardcore scene, fiercely loyal and locally supported. Bum Kon rocked Denver’s scene and etched their name in the American hardcore annals with the blistering ep Drunken Sex Sucks. Out of print for many years but selling for big bucks on eBay, the tapes for the album were recently rediscovered and re-released with additional tracks! Bum Kon, still your favorite Korean mass murder…
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With several tired rock strategies vying to bore the fuck out of the mid 90s, the American independent music scene started looking beyond guitar driven punk for new avenues into the musical beyond. The complexities of experimental jazz and progressive rock offered new and fertile ground, as artists began combining these forms with a revived interest in electronics, to put a final nail in the coffin for verse chorus verse, three cord punk.CONTINUE READING

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VIDEO: Trans Am on Live Eye Tv
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WANT MORE COOL Trans Am STUFF? YOU GOT IT!
Here’s a documentary, filmed in New Zealand, about the making of Trans Am’s 2007 album Sex Change “Keep On Going”

Check out these music videos from Trans Am: “Tesco V. Sainsbury’s”, “Conspiracy of the Gods”, “Future World”.

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Lot’s of good stuff to look at this month in the Music Video Dept.! Some of our favs include Menomena’s “Evil Bee” video, “Myriad Harbors” from The New Pornographers, Handsome Furs “Cannot Get Started” as well as “Kiss” from Scout Niblett…c’mon a duet and video appearance from Will Oldham! Stream the videos right here or podcast them through these options: iTunes, Podcast.com, and Podcast Alley using this URL: http://www.liveeyetv.org/podcasts/podcast.xml. The easiest way to get Live Eye Tv Podcasts “to-go” on mobile devices/phones other than Apple Products is through Podcast.com. They make it nize and eazy!! So DO IT. Anyways, enough blah, blah, blah…just some music videos, ya know!! Let’s start local…
BARSUK RECORDS:
Menomena “Evil Bee” Dir: PT Flyers
STREAM VIDEO 28.2MB”

SUB POP:
Handsome Furs “Cannot Get Started” Dir: Matt Moroz
STREAM VIDEO 19.5MB”
Dntel “The Distance” Dir: Adam Bizanski
STREAM VIDEO 26.2MB”

MATADOR:
The New Pornorgraphers “Myriad Harbours”
STREAM VIDEO 26.9MB”
The Cave Singers “Dancing On Our Graves” Dir: Mike Ott
STREAM VIDEO 22.2MB”

BEGGARS BANQUET:
The National “Mistaken For Strangers” Dir: Thread-Count
STREAM VIDEO 23.4MB”
Film School “Dear Me”
STREAM VIDEO 23.4MB”

XL RECORDINGS:
The Teenagers “Love No”
STREAM VIDEO 20.4MB”
Tapes N’ Tapes “Hang Them All”
STREAM VIDEO 20MB”

TOO PURE RECORDS:
Electrelane “To The East” Dir: Rupert Noble
STREAM VIDEO 31.2MB”
Scout Niblett “Kiss”
STREAM VIDEO 41.6MB”