The Mozfather’s latest video is for the lead single from his upcoming album Years of Refusal, I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris. Featuring tiny dogs, a woodwind instrument, Twilight-levels of makeup and denim shirts, it pretty much confirms you suspicions that Morrissey is your indie granddad (even though all the makeup makes him look a bit like Bea Arthur).
As for the song itself it’s brilliant, vintage Moz; if you can’t be maudlin to this then you’re just incapable of that emotion full stop.
Fact: Scandinavians are the most inadvertently creepy people on the planet, artistically speaking.
If you have any doubt that the above statement is indeed the truth, may I present the video for Fever Ray’s “If I Had a Heart” as exhibit Z (exhibit’s A-Y consist of all of the videos by The Knife, who’s Karin Dreijer Andersson is Fever Ray). There are fetish chambers in Vincent Prices basement that are far less infested with the heebeejeebees than this clip; you may want to call a friend to come and watch it with you.
This is the video for Tokyo Police Club’s “Your English Is Good” in which we find that the band are apparently quite fond of improbably attractive foreign ladies whose beauty is subtle yet unmistakable. We also reaffirm that the band is capable of some of the finest indie-pop around and can pretty much sneeze out anthems at will.
So as you could probably guess by watching this video, I’m From Barcelona aren’t Spanish. You can probably also ascertain that they are just as weird as actually Europeans though. If you need convincing that this is indeed the case, just pause the video above during the scene where there is a rotund man wearing a mesh tank top and what appear to be Santa-red children’s underpants whilst playing the flute in the elevator.
You’ll notice that the singer is ever so casually buttering his bread in the background of all this; anyone, or any band in this case, who still want breakfast after that is top-shelf, certifiablly odd. FACT.
We went away for a few days –hey it’s the holidays, everyone is entitled to some time away from the grind– but we’re now back with a bit of rough Justice. Not the kind that comes from fists, but the kind that comes from France.
A Cross the Universe, the highly-anticipated live CD and tour documentary from the Ed Bangers duo was released and it’s one of the most-metal dance albums you will ever own. Additionally it’s one of the most random/funny documentaries you will ever see. Seriously, these guys are running around America with their gun-toting tour manager getting arrested and getting girls whilst dressed as gay truckers on the way to a Motorhead show. Perplexing stuff that will leave laughing and scratching your head at the same time.
The clip above isn’t from the film but that’s because of all of the bizzarre things in A Cross The Universe, the one thing it’s missing is a substantial chunk of footage of the guys killing it live. So Subteranean is here to pick up the slack for the French (it’s what America does; see World Wars I & II for reference) and provide you with the goods; we give you Justice Live @ Rock Werchter Festival 2008.