Sunday Matinée - Celebrating Sunday's With A Live Clip: Alt-J (live on KEXP) & Goat (live at Truckstop Alaska)

Been a long while since we posted a Sunday Matinée so I figured we were about due for one, or in this case two since we’ve been dropping the ball. First up is British group ∆ (pronounced Alt-J) who have been gaining a lot of steam since their début album, An Awesome Wave, came out in the summer, a short and sweet affair packed with many memorable moments of catchy pop, hip-hop beats and a trip-hop atmosphere. The band just won Britain’s coveted Mercury Prize this week so I thought why not post this full performance on Seattle’s KEXP from September.

Playlist:

0:40 - Intro 3:25 - Interlude 1 4:48 - Tessellate 8:16 - Something Good 12:08 - Dissolve Me 16:24 - Fitzpleasure 20:15 - Matilda 24:18 - Interlude 2 25:30 - Breezeblocks 29:32 - Bloodflood 34:25 - Hand-made 37:25 - Taro

Second up is Swedish band Goat, a collective who hail from a small and very remote village called Korpolombolo and play a crazy mix of psychedelic funk, tribal rhythms, kraut rock, prog-rock, and folk they describe as world music because it draws from so many places( as apposed to the usual, limited (Afrocentric) definition of the term.) Like many of the bands that hail from the cold north Goat applies a lot of theatrics and satanic imagery, hence the name of some of the tracks including Goatman, Goathead and Goatlord but unlike a lot of those bands Goat are in no way a metal band. Check em' out doing their thing live at Truckstop Alaska, in Gothenburg from 2012-10-27. 

Sunday Matinée - Celebrating Sunday's With A Live Clip: Gull

After a number of years playing drums & guitar in various bands (Snack Truck, Ultra Dolphins, etc..), Nathan Rappole decided to go off on his own and create his own band, Gull in which he plays drums & guitar..... at the same time.  Based out of Richmond, VA, Gull has made a made a name as a street busking band and could be found set up playing on random street corners throughout the city any random night.  After popping up in NYC & Mexico, Gull has decided to test his skills abroad..

Rappole is currently taking part in a documentary entitled the Street Muse Project, that explores the art of street performing through out the world and is currently traveling Africa performing as Gull in various towns while interviewing other street performers along the way.



BONUS video - Gull - "Shackleton"

Sunday Matinée - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip: St. Vincent - "Marrow" on Letterman

When looking back through the archives I was suprised we never used this one already for a Sunday Matinee. Pretty classic performance of "Marrow" by St. Vincent on Letterman in 2009. During her touring for her previous album Cruel, Annie Clark performed with a full brass section but has since then simplified her band to about 4 people, mostly drums, guitars and synth. That being said, though her current lineup has an interesting sound, the full power of a brass performance such as on this track is a bit lost.

 This is a pretty great live performance, especially for something broadcast on a late night television production.

Sunday Matinée - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip – Joanna Newsom & Fleet Foxes

This weeks Sunday Matinée comes courtesy of last night's episode of Austin City Limits with two full sets from the likes of Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes. Fleet Foxes start things of  with a selection from both their LP’s including "Sim Sala Bim", "Your Protector", "The Shrine/An Argument", "Helplessness Blues", and "Blue Ridge Mountains". Newsome kicks off the second half treating us to an old classic, "Bridges and Balloons", as well as two cuts from her last 3 disc LP, "Have One on Me", and "Good Intentions Paving Company". Enjoy below…

Watch Fleet Foxes / Joanna Newsom on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - Kurt Vile

I feel like we have been slacking on some good live performances and skipped a couple "Sunday Matinee's" but we are back with a good one courtesy of the great French music blog, La Blogotheque, specially their ongoing series of videos, the Take Away Show.

This week is a completely relaxed and earthy version of "Baby's Arms" by Kurt Vile filmed last summer in Paris while on tour for his latest album, Smoke Rings for my Halo (Matador Records). You can catch him now if you are lucky touring with Thurston Moore.

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - Eclectic Method @ NYCWTF Jan 2010

This week Sunday Matinee was shot at NYCWTF in January 2010 and is a whimsical journey into audio and sound from  London’s Eclectic Method (You MUST SEE their video autobiography) – The trio made up of Jonny Wilson, Ian Edgar and Geoff Gamlen – helped pioneer the emerging art of audio- visual mixing since first cutting U2’s Mysterious Ways music video with the Beastie Boys’ Intergalactic as an experiment back in 2002. The group’s audio-visual mash-ups feature television, film, music and video game footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance floor events. It’s a cyclone of music and images mashed together in a world where Kill Bill fight scenes and Dave Chappelle’s Rick James rants are ingeniously cut and looped over bootleg samples, DVD scratches and pumped-up dance anthems. It’s a real-time subversion of technology and media performed live on video turntables for what LA Weekly called a “mesmerizing” sensory overload.”

Eclectic Method @NYCWTF Jan2010 - Part 1

Eclectic Method @NYCWTF Jan2010 - Part 1 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Eclectic Method @NYCWTF Jan2010 - Part 2

Eclectic Method @NYCWTF Jan2010 - Part 2 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Eclectic Method @NYCWTF Jan2010 - Part 3

Eclectic Method @NYCWTF Jan2010 - Part 3 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - Quinn & Meklit

For this weeks edition of Sunday live San Francisco duo, Quinn DeVeaux & Meklit Hadero, do a nice acoustic soulful cover of Arcade Fire's "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)", recorded at the Port Franco Gallery.

They will be releasing a covers album in January 2012 on Porto Franco Records.

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - Gold Chains

This Sunday I’m taking it back to Gold Chains's 2002 track “Rock The Parti” performed at a club called the Switchblade circa 2007? The San Francisco MC has been pretty quite in recent years but I still love and listen to all his releases regularly, enjoy the clip below...

BONUS: Studio Recording

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - DJ Dexter

Dexter is most famously known for his work with the critically acclaimed Australian group The Avalanches but has long since parted ways citing the long delay of the eagerly anticipated follow up to 2001’s "Since I left You" and consequent drought of live performances. Disillusioned with mainstream music Dexter went on to form Grrilla Step dubbed the world’s first Krump band  with Papua New Guinean log drumming master Airi Ingram and Krump crew Royal Fam from Dandenong, who weave Polynesian culture into the aggressive, emotional street dancing.

For this week’s Sunday Matinee we are gonna go back to 1998’s Technics World DMC Championship, my favorite of Dexter’s many outstanding appearances. 

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip - MAN MAN

Philly based band Man Man is back on tour after a 2 or 3 year hiatus pushing their new album "Life Fantastic" and in celebration of the boys being back they are our Sunday Matinee. Here they are playing on and through the streets of Paris.

The clip is a bit long as it also shows some on stage and post-show footage... but well worth it. If you ever get a chance to catch em live... do!!!!

Video provided by lablogotheque

Sunday Matinee - Celebrating Sunday's with a live clip.

Fang Island released one of my favorite albums last year, here are the boys performing choice track "Sideswiper" live in the KEXP studio.