Never ones to disappoint, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers have released their new, interactive music video for Look Around.
Basically, it's an opportunity for you, the viewer/listener, to scroll through some personalized rooms, find hidden videos and slide shows and bop your head to the new track (suitably groovy) all while the four of them act like silly buggers in the foreground.
aKing is one of the few bands doing something original in a scene that is full to bursting with SAFA-pop. I think it's great that we've developed our own, local, rock sound but, like anything pure and good in this world, there are those who would, and have, used it's powers for evil. It is in the dark that the light shines brightest, however (look at me, all poetic and not even drunk yet) and aKing, having done a metric shit-ton to build this aforementioned sound over the last few years, have continued to improve it. Jumping riffs, catchy melodies, unique vocals and, praises be-on-high, intelligent lyrics have put them smack-bang in the top five of this SAFA muso's list of Rad Okes To Get Pissed Jamming To.
Take a gander at their new music video for 'So Close'.
Big props to Adriaan Louw for a superb job shooting and directing. Looks great.
While you're at it, check out the video for Catch Alight, and watch the boys bet the shit out of each other for four and a half minutes. Spectacular.
What question do you ask yourself most often while online? Well, if you’re anything like me, it’s likely; “How in the hell did Nickleback get all over my internet?
It’s a dilemma that tens of thousands of procrastinating cubicle jockeys have to face every day. No sooner have you Googled Why am I so lonely? when a dozen links promoting whichever sound byte of lyrical drivel these Moose-loving dropouts from a Gillette commercial have most recently ground out dry-hump themselves across your screen.
Thanks to the ingenious minds at Aux.com, however, we can final rid ourselves of this blight upon our screens. With but a click of the mouse, you can now rid your Internet of Nickleback forever.
What words can describe it? It’s like a miniature Meatloaf is channeling the spirit of Linda Blair during an epileptic seizure while a hunchback Jesus lopes across the playground at a Mormon primary school, trying to entice children into his Happy Van.
All this from a band who recorded twenty-one studio albums and sold in the tens of millions. God bless you, The Kelly Family.
(Thanks to my buddy, @mattcredible, for putting me onto this)
Marilyn Manson - Born Villain (Official Video) Embedded after the jump
Seriously? It’s not that I have anything against pornography or violence – in fact, there isn’t a scenario I can imagine that wouldn’t be improved by the addition of boobs and a Colt snub-nose – but is there anyone else out there who thinks that the big M may have eventually taken his celluloid fetishes a little too far?
As I’ve said before, if heavy metal were supposed to be taken seriously, Rob Zombie wouldn’t be doing it. It’s easy to get bogged down in the grinding riffs and ripping solos when you’re mid-pit and covered in Emo blood, but it’s always nice to take a step back every now and then to fully appreciate metal for what it is, in-between gut-punching hippies.
I don’t watch SA Idols. I consider this a character strength. Any good it may have once represented has been dead for so long that the fellow currently holding the whip is simply flogging mushy ground and bone chips.
As far as soulless, moneymaking schemes go, it’s frigging genius. As a magnifying glass held up to the face of South African popular culture, however, it illuminates every pockmark, blister and cruddy scab carefully concealed by the corpse-white, harlot’s base lathered on by the pimps and pit bosses of the SA popular music scene.
This here is the music vid for a song called Control by Spoek Mathambo and it’s been shot and directed by local photographers Pieter Hugo and Michael Cleary.
The story goes that Piet was rocking his way through some local albums when he was suddenly confronted with a familiar image gracing the cover of Spoek’s Mshiniwam album – one of his own.
