Check out The Kickdrums and their latest music video for the song Just A Game directed by Rik Cordero.
Enter a world where sugar is outlawed and dealers, cops and businessmen are all vying for control. Seems like irony and social questioning is a big theme in all of their videos, watch Things Work Out if you missed the earlier post.
Circa Survive performs the song Living Together live at the Metro in Chicago, Illinois in 2007. The energy and passion is top notch, I love when the confetti comes down. Keep your eye out for a fresh album from these guys sometime this year and get ready for an album version of their newest song Frozen Creek.
Circa Survive Concert Dates for 2010:
3/11/10 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
3/12/10 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/ In
3/13/10 – Birmingham, AL @ WorkPlay Theatre
3/14/10 – Little Rock, AR @ The Village
3/16/10 – San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
3/17/10 – 3/21/10- Austin, TX (SXSW festival) @ TBD
3/22/10 – St. Louis,MO @ The Firebird
3/23/10 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Emerson Theater
3/24/10 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
3/26/10 – HOODWINK Anaheim, CA @ Grove of Anaheim
3/27/10 – THE BAMBOOZLE Anaheim, CA @ The Festival Grounds at Angels Stadium
In mid 2009 a friend shared the video below, produced by Inspired Bicycles, starring Danny MacAskill. The footage is unreal and the music fits so well, the whole thing is just epic. This was my first encounter with Band of Horses and their music got me hooked.
So today while exploring new music I came across a song by Kid Cudi called The Prayer which had a familiar beat. Turns out the background music is sampled from The Funeral, that same song by Band of Horses being used in the BMX video. I just wanted to call it out in case anyone else is trying to figure out where that song is from and who it is by.
Great lyrics and structure in both songs, I’ve listed a few lines from each below to help match it up. I really like the way Kid Cudi’s lyrics take in actual lines from prayer and twist them around to fit his song. You can listen to Kid Cudi’s version here and watch the original song, The Funeral, from Band of Horses on their MySpace here.
Kid Cudi – The Prayer:
if I die before I wake
I pray to Lord my soul to take
but please don’t cry
just know that I have made these songs for you
and if I die before I wake
I pray to Lord my soul to take
cuz I’m ready for the funeral
Band of Horses – The Funeral:
I’m coming up only to hold you under
I’m coming up only to show you wrong
and to know you is hard and we wonder
to know you all wrong, we were
really too late to call, so we wait for
morning to wake you; it’s all we got
to know me as hardly golden
is to know me all wrong, they were
at every occasion I’ll be ready for a funeral
at every occasion once more is called a funeral
every occasion I’m ready for the funeral
at every occasion one brilliant day funeral
Check out The Kickdrums music video for Things Work Out just below… and try not to get too depressed when the girl gets hit by the car. Remember this song the next time you’re screaming in a fit of road rage.
Crush Me performed by Go Periscope live at the C89.5 Listener Appreciation Party at Club Heaven in Seattle, Washington. The beginning of the video depicts the last bit of one of their other songs called Take It Personal. Looks like it was an awesome party!
