Check out this awesome performance by The Dead Weather Live on Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement. If you haven’t checked out their debut album out yet, Horehound, pick it up now. I am pretty sure everything Jack White touches is gold.

The following video is not from From The Basement, but it is one of my favorite songs by The Dead Weather called I Cut Like a Buffalo.

Check the performances in high quality video and sound here

The Dead Weather Myspace

Via twosyllable records:

Summer is no myth. It exists year round on Holiday Shores Ct, a two-block stretch on the Florida panhandle where twenty-one year old Nathan Pemberton grew up. It’s no more than five minutes from white sand beaches, squawks of seagulls, and wafting smells of suntan lotion.

Columbus’d The Whim is the first first full-length album from Pemberton’s Holiday Shores, who, like the street that bears their name, are quintessentially summer: chimey guitars, reverb-soaked vocals, warbling Rhodes, echoes of years past.
Pemberton started playing the piano at age seven and learned the guitar shortly after. He began finding his musical footing in high school bands, playing with his brother, friends, and eventually his college roommates.

The album, packed with 10 could-be singles, reads like a book of Pemberton’s well-written memories. Each word chosen meaningfully with a linguist’s touch; each sentence constructed carefully with an artist’s ear. Columbus’d The Whim is a literary work in addition to a sonic one.

The current line up, comprised of friends and roommates spent months recording together in Pemberton’s living room obsessing over vintage gear and perfecting their captivating hooks, heart-warming melodies, and creating a haunting tunnel of sound as a stunning backdrop.

Holiday Shores Myspace

The final song on Ok Computer. Perhaps the most perfect ending to an album and absolutely memorizing live.

How long has YouTube been able to host full videos like this? I guess I am out of the loop. Regardless, here is a full concert video of Radiohead in Japan. I am still waiting for them to release a DVD concert video.

*Check out and download A Tender Praise’s list of the best Unreleased Radiohead songs here.

My favorite Fleetwood Mac song and probably one of my top ten favorite songs ever. And not to be a dork, but I haven’t found a song that sounds better than this on vinyl.

I first heard this song, “White Sky” played at the Pitchfork Music Festival last year and it was a joy to hear it on a nice summer day. It sounds great on Jimmy Fallon as well. I have kind of gone in waves liking Vampire Weekend. When their album first came out, I got really into it, but after a couple weeks it had no real staying power for me. But there is no denying these guys write some perfect pop songs. “White Sky” takes the Paul Simon influences to the next level. I also kind of enjoy how these guys really push their whole ivy league school image. At the Pitchfork Festival, the guitarist was wearing a lacrosse mesh tank top. Not too many bands can pull that off. In this clip, the singer is wearing what looks like one of those late 1990’s Patagonia fleeces. Niooozce.

Paul McCartney is a big dork, but it doesn’t really matter when you write songs like this.

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Now this is just downright vogue-tastic. After releasing what has become of my favorite albums of 2008, which I only realized after I made a best of list, I have always wondered what Hercules and Love Affair were like live. Their look kind of reminds me of an early 80’s urban anti-drug commercial that has gone disco. Enjoy.

The videos were giving me grief embedding them, not sure why. Oh well, they still work.

From Pitchfork TV

Featuring just Thom Yorke and Johnny Greenwood accompanied by the USC Marching band, Radiohead’s performance of 15 Step on the Grammys was downright brilliant. Who knew combining this song with a marching band would work, but it turned out to be a perfect combination.

It is also pretty ironic how Coldplay front man Chris Martin’s wife introduced the band.