Werner Herzog Lends His Enigmatic Gravitas to Plastic Bag
Everything to do with Werner Herzog gets me excited. His movies, his approach to making movies, his life and his approach to living his life. This idolatry of him has caught on with more of the public in recent months. Case in point: the internet trend of appropriating Chuck Norris hyperbole and inserting a ludicrous [...]
Read MoreCable Network Goes Green with Recycled Talent
“It’s not TV. It’s HBO.” – HBO It’s hard to argue with a statement like that when you’ve had the sort of run that HBO has. With notches on their belt that include The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Mr. Show with Bob and David the cable channel could feasibly retire, and [...]
Read MoreEnjoying the Afterglow of “The Sun,” a New Video from Portugal. The Man.
I watch a ton of videos for Portland bands and this is easily one of the most enjoyable I’ve seen in awhile. It helps that the band, Portland-based Portugal the Man puts out music that’s deserving of badass videos. The pacing is superb (my biggest gripe with Portland music videos is that they’re slow as [...]
Read MoreAu’s Gorgeous New Video “Ida Walked Away”
Check out this awesomely psycadelic video for Portland band Au‘s “Ida Walked Away,” off of their new EP “Versions.” It was skillfully animated by Takafumi Tsuchiya, a Tokyo-based video artist and motion graphics designer. How did the band get set up with such a talented dude? Portland Mercury’s End Hits music blog is on the [...]
Read MoreQuasi Video – Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler
Check out the new track “Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler” off of Quasi‘s new album “American Gong.” The album was just released on February 23 by Kill Rock Stars. The video was directed by Clyde Petersen and Forrest Baum.
Read MoreReporter at Metro’s Ecoroof
Check out episode 28 of the Portland music series directed by fellow Truckerspeed author Sean Whiteman, produced by me (Scott) with sound done by our talented friends at Dexterous Productions, plus a couple of other cool dudes, Jov Luke and Matt Huiskamp. We’d been talking to the band Reporter for awhile trying to set up [...]
Read MoreMuppets Primed for Resurrection
Though the franchise has never been entirely dormant (often appearing online in some very savvy short pieces, and always a perennial television favorite) the Muppet franchise has been a stranger to the silver screen for over a decade. But not for long. Those who seek the rare fusion of high and low-brow comedy will be [...]
Read More“Younger,” new track off Ethan Rose & Laura Gibson’s Bridge Carols
We’re big fans of both Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose (check out our Penny Jam episode with Laura here) so it stands to reason that their new collaborative project, Bridge Carols will please those same mellow, ambient sensibilities. The video is a slow and meditative, but ultimately quite beautiful. Directed by Ryan Jeffery.
Read MoreBoy Eats Drum Machine releases “ABQ,” a New Video for “Hoop and Wire”
Jon Ragel’s one-man-band Boy Eats Drum Machine is in a small group of Portland music that I listen to on repeat. His last album BOOOMBOXXX was killer, and having got my mitts on his new one “Hoop and Wire” I can safely say that it is even better. The video, “ABQ” is full of BEDM’s [...]
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