Steel Train – I Feel Weird
The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
Rivers Cuomo – Lover in the Snow
Elliott Smith – Say Yes
Jimmy Eat World – Invented
The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
Wilco – I’m Always In Love
Limbeck – I Wrote This Down
Girls – Saying I Love You
Cults – You Know What I Mean
The Format – Janet
Best Coast – Crazy For You
Last year, Converse brought together Kid Cudi, Vampire Weekend‘s Rostam Batmanglij, and Best Coast to create the cheery “All Summer”. Yet again, Converse has created another random combination of musicians, putting together Soulja Boy, Andrew WK, and Matt & Kim to create the extremely catchy “I’m A Goner”, recorded at the Converse Rubber Tracks studio in Brooklyn. Talk about a weird group.
The video features the foursome rising from the dead to “throw a raging dance party in a morgue.”
You can download the track or find out more about the project over here.
Bethany Cosentino fronted surf pop band Best Coast have been on quite a roll lately. After releasing the music video for single “Our Deal”, which was directed by Drew Barrymore and featured a star-studded cast including Donald Glover and Miranda Cosgrove, the band follow up with a brand new song called “How They Want Me To Be”. The new cut was recorded during the Crazy For You sessions but will be re-recorded and included on the band’s upcoming second album. No details yet on the album.
MP3: Best Coast – “How They Want Me To Be”
You can watch the video for “Our Deal” after the break.
VEVO have announced a partnership with music festival Bonnaroo, held annually at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee. The website, widely known for its music video streaming service, will be presenting a live and on-demand web cast of performances and interviews from Bonnaroo at no charge, courtesy of sponsors like Ford. Fans can watch their favorite artists perform live at Bonnaroo on the VEVO.com website, VEVO Mobile (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android), all VEVO connected devices (Google TV, Boxee), and VEVO’s syndication partners (YouTube, AOL, BET, CBS Interactive Music Group, etc).
It should be interesting to see how the live streams pan out. Will advertising be extremely prominent on VEVO’s website? My immediate guess is yes, as providing so much content at absolutely no cost to viewers will be quite costly for VEVO – especially when considering hosting and bandwidth costs. For advertisers and lesser-known musicians, this could be a great way to reach out to music fans – either to expose new artists or to advertise. We’ll find out soon enough.
Best Coast and Wavves are heading out together for a joint US tour. Read more to check out the dates.
San Diego, CA Soma (January 21)
Tempe, AZ The Clubhouse (22)
Dallas, TX Granada Theater (24)
Austin, TX Emo’s (25)
New Orleans, LA House Of Blues (26)
Tallahassee, FL Club Downunder (27)
Athens, GA 40 Watt Club (28)
Carrboro, NC Cat’s Cradle (29)
Washington, D.C 9:30 Club (31)
Philadelphia, PA Starlight Ballroom (February 1)
New York, NY Webster Hall (2)
Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg (3)
Boston, MA Paradise (4)
Montreal, QC Cabaret Mile End (5)
Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre (6)
Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall (8)
Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom (10)
Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater (11)
Omaha, NE Waiting Room (12)
Boulder, CO Fox Theatre (14)
Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge (15)
Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw Theatre (17)
Victoria, BC Sugar (18)
Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater (19)
Los Angeles, CA The Music Box (24)
San Francisco, CA The Grand Ballroom at Regency Center (26)