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Showing posts with label she and him. Show all posts
Showing posts with label she and him. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Music: New Release Tuesday Gets Violent with Destroyer, The Kills, and more!


The Kills veiled threat...

The Kills come back for more with new album Midnight Boom and they've discovered the ol' poppy poppy by adding some boopy- boppy. I mean to say their embrace of electronic flourishes enhances their new found delight in melody. Oh hell, judge for yourself with new video for the first single "U R A Fever":



Dan Bejar asserts his independence from Canadian supergroupdom by releasing yet another album of intense singer songwriter action under the Destroyer name. It's called Trouble in Dreams. Here's Destroyer doing "It's Gonna Take an Airplane" back in '06:


Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward team up as She and Him on their utterly charming new album Volume 1. Dare I dream for a Volume 2 ? Here they are doing "Black Hole" at South by Southwest last week:


Cute little riot guys and gal Be Your Own Pet unleash Get Awkward. Because they are hip to the whole youth thing, being youths themselves they went the viral webisode route rather than making a vid. See it:

Thursday, January 31, 2008

New Music: Lucious Thespians Test Their Pipes This Year -- Zooey Deschanel and Scarlett Johansson in Hip Album Battle


Plenty of ink has been spilled already, including here, on older man candy Scarlett Johansson's upcoming Tom Waits cover song opus, which will also include one new song. Now indie pixie Zooey Deschanel is prepping to finally release her collab with M. Ward, Volume 1, under the band name She and Him.

Unlike Scarlett's record, Zooey's songs are mostly originals though she does slip a Beatles and a Smokey Robinson cover in. Ward, who has released several critically acclaimed albums of atmospheric indie roots-folk heard Deschanel's demos and offered to collaborate.

Here's She and Him live doing "Lonesome Town"...Deschanel has a very impressive voice:



Here's Scarlett warbling with the Jesus and Mary Chain last year, the voice is...not as impressive: