video: February 2010 Archives

Vampire Weekend's new video for the song "Giving Up the Gun," featuring RZA, Lil Jon, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Joe Jonas, is now available at Spinner.

Vampire Weekend is playing at the Tennessee Theatre on Saturday, March 27, as part of the Big Ears festival.

Passion Pit, the synth-pop up-and-comers who are headlining UT's Volapalooza concert at World's Fair Park in April, have just released a video for the song "Little Secrets" at mtv.com.

Pitchfork's Ryan Dombal says, "It doesn't add up to much, though, and it's not pretty enough to get away with it."

Passion Pit, from Cambridge, Mass., are playing Volapalooza with Asher Roth and Flogging Molly on April 30.

Country/folk singer Malcolm Holcombe visits Knoxville quite a bit. He's coming back to the Laurel Theater on Saturday, March 6. Here's a pretty unhinged clip of him at the Laurel back in 2008:

St. Vincent's new video for the song "Laughing With a Mouth of Blood," (via Pitchfork) from her 2009 album Actor, features Fred Armisen of SNL and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney (aka the comedy team ThunderAnt). It's a takeoff on TA's "Feminist Bookstore" series, available here.

St. Vincent's playing at the Bijou Theatre on Sunday, March 28, as part of the Big Ears festival.





St. Vincent - "Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood"

st. vincent | MySpace Music Videos

Big Ears headliners Vampire Weekend recorded a session for the French website La Blogoteque's Les Soirees de Poche series of video concerts. They play six songs in just over 20 minutes, including the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right." You can watch it here. 

Cold Cave, the noisy Philadelphia electro-pop band that's gone totally '80s on their new album Love Comes Close, have just released a new video for the song "Life Magazine." The band, featuring members and ex-members of Xiu Xiu, Prurient, and American Nightmare, is playing at Pilot Light on Saturday, Feb. 6, with Nite Jewel and locals Damaged Patients. 

Cold Cave "Life Magazine" from Focus Creeps on Vimeo.

YouTube (via Pitchfork) has this video of St. Vincent and Bryce Dessner--both of whom will be appearing at Big Ears in March--performing together at Lincoln Center this weekend as part of the American Songbook series. (David Byrne also played with St. Vincent, and she and Dessner collaborated at a Haiti benefit in NYC last week, where they played a 10-minute version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene.")

Old-time and bluegrass fiddler Charlie McCarroll is playing at the Laurel Theater in Fort Sanders on Friday, Feb. 26. Here's some footage of him playing at Don's Barber Shop in Harriman last year.