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Video: The Go! Team – ‘Apollo Throwdown’
Police sirens, disco horns, and cheer leading in one brassy jubilant pop song, it can only be The Go! Team and the retro computer graphics and flashes of American pop culture suit the theme of ‘Apollo Throwdown’ from the band’s latest Rolling Blackout… LP.
Also, check out the awesome Star Slinger remix blow.
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Video: PJ Harvey – ‘The Glorious Land’
This is the fourth video by photographer Seamus Murphy in a series of films for the songs off PJ Harvey‘s amazing Let England Shake… album.
The video for ‘The Glorious Land’ captures the tranquil English countryside amidst clips of warfare, the call-to-arms horns in the tune makes more sense now.
Video: The Raveonettes – ‘I Wanna Be Adored’ (Stone Roses cover)
Commissioned by Dr. Martin (as in Doc boots) as part of their 50 year anniversary celebrations Danish fuzz-pop duo The Raveonettes have covered The Stone Roses most iconic song ‘I Wanna Be Adored’. It’s almost an exact replica of the original, the only real difference is a breathier vocal from Sharon Foo and even that…
Watch The Strokes perform on SNL
In what must be a career-high for the band, Miley Cyrus introduces the band’s performance on Saturday Night Live. They played two songs: ‘Under Cover Of Darkness’ and ‘Life Is Simple In The Moonlight’. The Strokes’ new album Angles… is out next week.
Video: Lykke Li live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Wounded Rhymes… is deservedly winning over critics across the board for Lykke Li and the Swedish popstrel is making waves State-side too.
Here she is performing the swaggering ‘Get Some’ on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a kind of rite of passage for all up and coming indie stars.
Video: Paul Brady by Myles O’Reilly
Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns captures a rare Paul Brady performance at Doyle’s Pub in Dublin City at The Ruby Sessions.
Filmed by Myles O’Reilly and Stephen Mogerley. Edited by Myles O’Reilly.…
Video: The Strokes – ‘Under Cover of Darkness’
Regardless of what you think of the tune there’s one thing The Strokes do well – being effortlessly cool. Ok, it’s heavily stylised but it is great to see all five lads back together and it looks like they haven’t changed a bit in 10 years.
Angles… is out on March 18th via Rough Trade.
Watch Glasser live on Jimmy Fallon
Four days after a stunning performance in Dublin’s Crawdaddy Glasser returned to New York for an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Cameron Mesirow and her band played ‘Clamour’, the closing track off Ring…, dancing crookedly in indiscriminate tribal costume – inelegant but beautiful.
Photo by Richard Gilligan.
Watch Lady Gaga’s video for ‘Born This Way’
Seven minutes long, Bernard Herrman’s Vertigo… score, big budget special effects, celestial beings, skulls, a monologue, machine gun Gaga and the inevitable dance troupe. It can only be the video for ‘Born This Way’.
Watch Dr. Dre & Eminem’s big budget video for ‘I Need A Doctor’
Lost in a nostalgic bubble Dre totals his Lamborghini and winds up in a Frankenstein-type lab to be rehabilitated (shouted at) by Eminem while Estella Warren swirls about like a spectre. Odd, long, self-important and big budget, this is a music video that belongs in the 1990s era of MTV.…
Video: VerseChorusVerse – ‘Inches From A Fairytale’
While the excellent new And So I Watch You From Afar single premieres on Nialler9 today, State is delighted to bring you music from the band’s Tony Wright and his new VerseChorusVerse project.
Tony himself says of it:
“Verse
Origin: bef. 900; ME vers(e), fers line of poetry, section of a psalm, OE fers < L versus a row, line (of poetry), lit., a turning, equiv. to
vert(ere) to turn (ptp. versus) + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > s;…
Video: Rubberbandits want to fight your father
After the massive success of ‘Horse Outside’ in the Christmas and its 6 million views, the Rubberbandits are back with a video for the fan favourite ‘I Wanna Fight Your Father’ which centres around the desire of wanting to fight with your girlfriend’s da.
Available on iTunes.
The bandits play The Olympia Theatre on Thursday…
Adele performs ‘Rolling In The Deep’ on Letterman
With number one slots in the album chart in Ireland and beyond for 21…, a sideways-knocking performance on the Brits, here she delivers a brilliant live rendition of ‘Rolling In The Deep’ on David Letterman.
Video: Kanye West – ‘All Of The Lights’
For a Kanye West and Hype Williams video it has to be said this one is kind of under-whelming, perhaps the budget went on the all-star cast on the song consisting of Rihanna, Kid Cudi, Fergie, Charlie Wilson, John Legend, Tony Williams, Alicia Keys, La Roux, The-Dream, Ryan Leslie, Alvin Fields and Ken Lewis. Only…
