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Born to Run

Musician Russell Golobic performs Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run with Ukulele and Kazoo. We find this rendition roughly 97% easier to take than the original.

Bebe - Malo

Appropriately moody clip for Spanish singer Bebe's Malo:

Dance Like A Monkey!

Dano Johnson and R. Don Smith join forces to create an animated video for the new New York Dolls single. Kicks ass, actually, which is a nice surprise. Also, keep your eyes peeled for a little Pastafarianism.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games

The 1980 single from Japanese electropop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra.

The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite

The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite
Chris Cunningham (probably best known as the creepy bugger responsible for Apex Twin's Rubber Johnny clip) gets back to making music unpleasant with this video for The Horrors' Sheena Is A Parasite.

The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite

Yello - Bostich

If you're only semi-familiar with `80s Swiss electronic act Yello, it's probably from Oh Yeah, the tack which became the signature sound for Ferris Bueller's Day Off and later, Duffman. Yello is an odd band: two highly creative studio musicians who insist on making their own samples from live instruments, and Dieter Meier, a millionaire playboy turned singer because it suited him that day. Sonically they sort of bridge the gap between Art Of Noise and DEVO, with their albums being relentless playful ( we ran into their first full length LP from 1980 Solid Pleasure over the weekend, of which their first real club hit Bostich springs, which is why we posting this. Yello's first six albums have all been re-released recently and are well worth the cash if you should run across `em, they sound very fresh again.

Divine Pustulence - Blowtorch Lobotomy

We'll let the horse speak for itself here because we like the bombast:
"Extreme music video/short horror film for Tulsa, OK-based death metal stalwarts Divine Pustulence directed by best-selling true crime author Corey Mitchell. WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREME GORE, BLOOD, TORTURE, BLAST BEATS, and RELIGIOUS FANATICISM"

Heavens to Betsy.
Divine Pustulence - Blowtorch Lobotomy [undergroundfilm]

Brooklyn Zoo

Two versions of Ol' Dirty Bastard's Brooklyn Zoo; first the "original", which is more fun to watch, and then the "production" number:

The original version:

The production version:

With Our Olds`88 And The Devil On A Leash

Hot for Tom's upcoming appearance in Atlanta, Needcoffee.com went Crazy Eddie on the Tom Waits clips and rounded up a bunch of performances, videos, and bits.

Also, we remind you and Needcoffee.com of this and this odd bit of Tom's past.

Superchunk - Watery Hands

David Cross and Janeane Garofalo pop in and make Superchunk's Watery Hands video fun to watch.

With thanks to Chris

Down by the Riverside

Sister Rosetta Tharpe kicking unbelievable ass with Down by the Riverside. You may have seen this clip blip past in the movie Amélie.

Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings

This is fairly lesser known and completely bitchin' music album from `67 available for download. Dartman's World Of Wonder the site bringing the magic, explains: "A lot of people have heard Bill Cosby's album entitled 'Hooray For The Salvation Army Band' but not too many people know about his first album. 'Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings' came out in 1967 at the height of Cosby's "I-SPY" fame! The back cover proclaims that it is a "rocking soul album" but the first side features a more country flavor with covers of three Jimmy Reed songs. The most surprising thing of all is that Cosby had a hit his first time out of the gate. He took Stevie Wonder's 'Uptight' and reconfigured it with a new (funny) lyric and got himself a top 40 hit in September of 1967. I present it for you now in it's original pristine stereo sound!"

Yes. Think Camille asked Bill to wear the mustache now and again?

Hoberreeba-Soben-Puddin' Pop!!!! [Dartman's World Of Wonder]
by way of PCL

The Great Grendizer Rocks Out With His Multi-Purpose Missile Launcher/ Reproductive Device/ Liquid Waste Removal Conduit Extended Out

We enjoyied the hell out of this home-brewed video for electro outfit Le Mans' Data Cassette by Zack of Phi Phenom. A clunky sort of clip which employs bits of Go Nagai's late 70s giant robot animation classic Grandizer (aka Goldorak, Goldrake, or Duke Fleed depending on where your dangly bits blossomed) on Ebay-obtained Super8 film. To us, the video looks just like the track sounds:

30 Days

A free to download Creative Commons'd album with an interesting gimmick:

"This album was created in thirty days by thirty different artists, in a sort of chain-collaboration where one finished at midnight and passed it on to the next to continue the set, an idea inspired by Soulseek Records."

Considering the globe-spanning nature of the artists, the end result is surprisingly coherent and interesting.

30 Days [peppermill records]

SXSW doesn't suck

Music For Robots sifts though the massive first (of two) torrents on offer from this year's SXSW festival and indexes his favorite tracks for easy download of individual tracks. A good way to get your feet wet without drowning in a sea of music.

SXSW doesn't suck [Music For Robots]