Show & Tell No.3: Take It To The Streets

Question: What's better than an impromptu performance by your favorite band in the middle of city streets?
Answer: A website that archives impromptu performances from lots of bands on city streets!

Take Away Shows are recorded every week by a group of filmmakers who invite musicians to play in random locations throughout cities like Paris, New York and Buenos Aires. Subjects include Animal Collective, Bloc Party, Lykke Li and Vampire Weekend. Spontaneous and unedited, these film clips are the real deal - complete with quirks, mess-ups, hesitations and raw talent.

It's film. It's music. It's great. Check it out.

Show and Tell No.2 Look at your tongue!

Recently, I embarked on an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy training. For those of you who don't know what Ayurveda is, it in a ancient "sister science" of yoga. They developed around a similar time and Ayurveda refers to the science of life and well being. The science goes incredibly deep...incredibly...but one thing I have enjoyed learning so far is in regards to the tongue. Look at your tongue!
It can tell you many things. Look at it every day. Is it a strange color like black or green or white? Does it have a large line down the center. Tell me!

Show & Tell - Item No. 1

Stereogum is hosting a new track by The Clientele from their new album, Bonfires on the Heath, that will be out in the fall: I Wonder Who We Are.

The track is more upbeat and energetic than my favorite songs by The Clientele. It's definitely more in line with their most recent releases than their older wispier album, The Violet Hour, which is probably my favorite of theirs. Nonetheless, I am looking forward to hearing the entire album.

The cover of the album features a portrait by Giuseppe Arcimboldo:



What do you think?