Fresh from two weeks of holidays filled with everything i love , Audiopleasures is back on active. Next week full details on Audiopleasures 2nd anniversary.
Henni Van Dijk is a Dutch graphic designer with a passion for photography , this picture is my favorite but you can check for yourself Henni's Flickr photostream
Pitchfork has post it a list of their favorite music videos of the 2000's.
Music videos took a few odd turns in the 2000s. At the onset of the decade, big-name late-90s directors such as Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Jonathan Glazer, and Mark Romanek were branching out into feature films, greatly reducing their music video output. Two other pioneering directors, Chris Cunningham and Stéphane Sednaoui, also cut way back on the number of promo clips they directed.
At the same time, MTV de-emphasized music videos. An easy stand-in for the missteps of the industry, with hindsight MTV in America throughout the 1980s and 90s often served a positive role as a central delivery system for non-commercial radio music-- hip-hop, metal, alt-rock, and dance all gained a foothold in America via MTV's genre-specific shows, and as late as this decade bands like the White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and the Strokes were showcased on the channel.
Complete story and videos @ Pitchfork
Video from Camera Obscura's 2009 album, "My Maudlin Career", directed by Blair Young .
Watch | Camera Obscura - French Navy
Watch | Acoustic Session: Camera Obscura. At Route du Rock
Camera Obscura will be in Amsterdam 20 October @ Paradiso
A few month ago passion pictures released the brilliant cinematographic opening for the Beatles rock band , now a new video by director Pete Candeland has been released and i must say that is absolutely fantastic.
Watch the video @ Fubiz
Here is a subversive fashion video I edited for House Casting in New York City. It is based on the Iggy Pop song 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'.
The video will be played at the Center George Pompidou in Paris this September as part of the 'A Shaded View On Fashion', during of larger fashion week. Nathan Byrne
Watch | 'I Wanna Be Your Dog'
LA punk label BYO Records is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with the release of Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records.
Includes a 31-track compilation of songs from the extensive BYO catalog and a documentary on BYO and Youth Brigade's involvement in the early LA punk scene, directed by Jeff Alulis.
Watch | Let Them Know
Mp3 | Pennywise - We're Gonna Fight [ 7 Seconds Cover ]
Drag City has released the new video for Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “How About Thank You“, directed by Mike Aho
Watch | Bonnie "Prince" Billy - How About Thank You
Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn't the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.
I sent the music to the photographer, Paulo Pinto, who I Googled on the internet. He told his editor, who told a reporter and the story ended up as an interview in the very same newspaper.
Watch | Birds on the Wires
The Mill's multi award winning directing collective, Bif, has won the prestigious Jury Award at the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival for their short film, 'Dix'. For ten years, SIGGRAPH has been an official qualifying festival for the Academy Award for "Best Animated Short Film". Dix is a darkly comic short film showing the complexities of psychological and obsessive behaviour and is a mixture of live action and CG. Dix has already scooped a raft of awards, among the most recent, the Shoot Young Directors Award and a win at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.Sputnik 7
Watch | Dix
Concert Update
Paradiso Amsterdam
28 Sep - Patrick Wolf
01 Oct - We Have a Band
11 Oct - Kings of Convenience
15 Oct - Maximo Park
20 Oct - Camera Obscura
22 Oct - Drum n bass night Pendulum + Noisia
23 Oct - Handsome Furs
28 Oct - Autokratz
04 Nov - Passion Pit
05 Nov - Efterklang
14 Nov - Marianne Faithfull
16 Nov - Wilco ( Sold Out )
18 Nov - Zion Train
20/21 Nov - London Calling
03 Dec - Fever Ray + Hildur Gudnadottir
04 Nov - Engineers
06 Dec - Whitest Boy Alive
Melweg Amsterdam
18 Set - Ray la Montagne ( Sold Out )
18 Set - King Britt
20 Set - Lisa Gerrard ... Dead Can Dance singer
20 Sep - Dirty Projectors
26 Sep - Red Snapper
30 Set - Orka feat Yann Tiersen
02 Oct - Idjut Boys
09 Oct - Fuck Buttons
15 Oct - Wolfmother ( Sold Out )
16 Oct - Lulu Rouge Dj Set
20 Oct - Emiliana Torrini
30 Oct - Bat for Lashes
02 Nov - The Horrors
06 Nov - Royksopp ( Sold Out )
08 Nov - Editors ( Sold Out )
09 Nov - Grizzly Bear + St Vincent
12 Nov - Yo la Tengo
15 Nov - Andrew Bird
19 Nov - Vitalic ( live )
23 Nov - Gomez
27 Nov - Pantha du Prince
Patronaat Haarlem
25 Set - Dum n kick ass bass night Black Sun Emprire + Noisia
30 Set - Shadow Dancer
24 Set - Stateless
29 Set - Castanets
26 Nov - Beth Hart
Trouw Amsterdam
25 Sep - Chateau Flight ( Live ) + I Cube
03 Oct - Gus Gus ( Live )
Muziekgebow Amsterdam
03 Nov - Tomoko Mukaiyama ( Sonic Tapestry III )
25/26 september , The Hague
International festival beyond art Twodaysart 09
Philip Jeck , Hildur Gudnadottir (Touch) and many more
