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Video du Jour: Shredder Zoe Thomson
She’s only eight-years-old but it looks like she’s been playing guitar twice that long. Zoe Thomson is about to give Nicki Minaj singers Sophia Grace and Rosie a run for their money in the precocious youth department. She’s already in a rock band called The Mini Band and has an endorsement deal with our good friends at Daisy [...]
Video du Jour: Cherri Bomb
All teen rock band, Cherri Bomb, is just three days away from the release of their major label debut album, This is the End of Control on Hollywood Records. Managed by former Hole drummer Samantha Maloney, the group took their name from a book of the same name, written by Carrie Borzillo, which also happens [...]
Video du Jour: Bonnie Raitt
It’s been seven years since Bonnie Raitt released her last album, Souls Alike. Now she’s back with Slipstream (her nineteenth!) and about to embark on an extensive tour. The deaths of several loved ones contributed to the long hiatus. In 2005 she lost both of her parents, her brother and a best friend. The grief took [...]
Video du Jour: Kat Edmonson
Austin singer/songwriter Kat Edmonson has had a really good week. First she released her new album, Way Down Low. Then she was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and received glowing praise from the New York Times. If that weren’t enough, she also released a video, “I Don’t Know (Reprise)” that’s creepier than a David Lynch film. [...]
Video du Jour: Nite Jewel
Nite Jewel (the nom de stage of Ramona Gonzalez) has a brand new album and video out: One Second of Love (Secretly Canadian Records). If you like electronic dance pop you will surely love this. Warning: one scene is not for the easily-grossed-out. See them at a club near you! Nite Jewel Tour [...]
Wild Flag Friday!
We really miss spending Friday nights watching Carrie Brownstein’s madcap escapades on “Portlandia,” her comedy IFC sketch show with Fred Armisen. But, until next season, we can always get our Carrie fix musically with Wild Flag. The all-female supergroup is made up of 2/3 of the late, great Sleater-Kinney (Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss), Mary Timony [...]
A Little Breeders Nostalgia
It’s Friday which, in MEOW land, means it’s Video Day! We chose “Cannonball” by The Breeders to feature today because it is a true classic and we are in a grunge revival mood. Let’s revisit this video – which was directed by Spike Jonze and Kim Gordon. When you have those superstars onboard plus Kim [...]
Video du Jour: tUnE-yArDs “Gangsta”
Here’s a video to kick off your weekend, directed and performed by tUnE-yArDs, aka Merrill Garbus. Considering the tribal influence of the music, you may not be surprised to learn that at one point in her life, Garbus taught singing in Africa. Catch tUnE-yArDs on tour this summer at a venue or music festival near [...]
Video du Jour – School of Seven Bells
Ethereal is the new black – or so it sometimes seems. School of Seven Bells got together in 2006 , comprised of twin sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza and guitarist Benjamin Curtis. Claudia recently left and the band is now a duo. Their third and latest album, Ghostory, was released last month. If you like [...]
Grimes Gets Oblivious
Canadian-born artist Claire Boucher, aka Grimes, has just released the first video for her single, “Oblivion.” from her latest album, Visions (4AD/Arbutus Records), her fourth album in two years. Drawing from a variety of inspirations, such as Aphex Twins, Enya and TLC, Grimes’ sound is dreamy electronic pop. Music is “the only means through which [...]
