Lo-fi Video Collection

Couple of notable lo-fi youtube vid representations.

An earlier project of the late Mark Sandman. Treat Her Right was a Boston band in the mid-eithties, pre-Morphine. I was fortunate enough to witness Morphine live at Firestone in Orlando before Mark died on stage in Italy on the same tour. There is a new documentary about him called Cure For Pain.


I have been a fan of Smog/Bill Callahan for years. His style is a challenging listen, but lends well to this video, and to a certain mood that I used to find myself in.


Just plain weird. Can't stop watching. Somehow reminds me of Crystal Castles...I don't know why. Perhaps it's just that Post L.A. - L.A. Anti-American Idol approach that feels, in this case, like it could have come up from some dive club, an unpolished gem, between 1979 and 2015.


I love Wooden Shjips. Multi Functional. Road trip, poolside, skatepark, study room, hangover, party tracks...


One of the many Will Oldham incarnations. An early '90ish Palace tune. That certain lost mood again. Faith in love lost, the pros and cons.

Summer Music Video Picks

New(ish) music, needing further attention...

This is Cloud Control, from Australia, not signed to a major yet(the original definition of "indie.")


A personal favorite for a while. Groovy, rock and roll as it was once meant to be, Wooden Shjips from Cali.


Fun, good mood, just got a phone number on the city bus music, Toro Y Moi.


More of the by-the-above-ground-pool music for my fans, as i ipoD Dj on Sundays. Love maybe, leisure first, lessons later, life always, Twin Shadow(s).


Same as Above, only Memory Tapes.


Crystal Castles, if the voice seems familiar, it's because it isn't. You would know if you knew.


Often ripped on as rip offs, but the music holds it's weight, sometimes one man's voice sounds like another, dead and/or alive. So be it, Cold Cave.


And, one of the weirdest vids ever...from "Cults." And be damned if it ain't, otherwise, as upbeat as a pig-tailed Laura Ingals runnin' down the hillside to Paw and the Little House.

Summer Music Selections

1) Wooden Shjips: Spelled with the j, by the way, recorded with one or two burning as well, one could safely say (accidental poetry). I first heard "We Ask You to Ride" on an UNCUT magazine collection titled Interstellar Overdrive.

WS jams a live in the studio feeling via guitars rich with acid distortion, but only overtop a deap seated base layer of a rhythm section droning along in the way that rock drone can be good, rather than boring. The resulting hypnotic atmospheric jam will have you travelling to your destinations in no time flat. Wooden Shjips is code for time machine.

Dos, and the self titled CD are the two I have. I would start off with Dos.



2) Viva Voce: This band is a bit like Low or Yo La Lengo. Basically built around the male/female vocals, delivered with casual emotion, and taking a back seat to the guitars which are often toned in a reverbed surf/spy effects setting. It's not as ambient as that might sound though. Rose City is a rock guitar album and was made for the long or short drive to the beach...and to think...I'm within two months of doing just that!