“Thanks god for mental illness”… This unofficial music video illustrates Mount Eerie‘s music so well: slow motion violence and intensity. Phil Elverum, Mount Eerie’s frontman and principal member (and formerly known as The Microphones) had a great album, last year’s “Wind’s poem”, full of drone guitars and weird melancholy.
Phil Elverum website: HERE
As a solo act, Mount Eerie is less violent but probably even more intense. Check out this live solo performance shot in Chicago, 6 years ago. “It’s oh so quiet”.
No surprise in that, 3.5-inch Floppy disk is dead today. I hesitated to put that on the blog knowing that people who would be interested in that info would already know by now anyway. And I just remembered this 1992 anti-copy hip hop commercial. Which is worth digging. It was produced by the
Graduated from Washington University in St Louis,Atlanta-based artist 





This is the first song from M.I.A’s coming up album, due to June, 29. The song samples Ghost Rider by Suicide and the video needs no explanation. 


This is not even something I can remember live because I’m just too young. But I know that in any record store you go, there’s always a hidden
” “USA Boys” was recorded at former tourmate Trent Reznor’s home studio with Alan Moulder at the mixing desk, a guy who’s produced Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, and a grip of other crushingly coarse, wonderfully hi-fi records.
This is the 28th album and the first on