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Random video of the week #50 - Stone Temple Pilots featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar "Sour Girl"

Our 50th random video of the week!  We've been able to keep this pretty consistent surprisingly and of course, pretty random. 

Our 50th comes to us in the middle of all of the recent Stone Temple Pilots hype surrounding their just released self titled record.  All this STP chat reminded us of the video they did for Sour Girl with miss Buffy The Vampire Slayer herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, all gothed out and looking hot.  The video always stood out to us as a demented little departure from the STP norm, something that made it pretty great.

Rewind the years a bit and relive below: 

Today is the day, Happy Birthday Morrissey

The great Moz turns 51 today. 

Slicing Up Eyeballs is featuring the full Live In Dallas concert.  Check it out here. 

Looking forward to Mozzer's next move.  It's been a very quiet year. 

Chris Isaak live album on the way

A tiny bit of Chris Isaak news for a Friday, a new live album is on the way.  Details are sparse at the moment, but we do know that the material was recorded at the Fillmore in San Francisco (shout out the the Bay!) during October 2008.  We believe he was there on the 8th and the 9th.  We also know that 17 tracks will be included.  The booklet will contain original artwork by Isaak as well as accompanying photos shot at the Fillmore shows. It's sure to contain lots of Isaak's infamous banter as well.   

More Fyfe Dangerfield, East Village Radio session

He's all over lately.  Enjoy She Needs Me, Faster Than The Setting Sun and Firebird. 

Fyfe Dangerfield releases video for Billy Joel cover of "She's Always A Woman"

Fyfe Dangerfield's not only in America for a string of shows, but he's also just launched a new video for his excellent cover of the Billy Joel classic She's Always A Woman.  We love his simplistic take on the song.  He stays fairly true to the original, but it has that overall Fyfe feel to it. 

Fyfe plays Hotel Cafe next Wednesday night in Hollywood.  Expect to hear this cover and more stellar tracks form his solo debut Fly Yellow Moon.

Random video of the week #49 - Peter Godwin "Baby's In The Mountains"

Every now and then we discover a track, or in this case an artist, that we were completely unfamiliar with in the 80's.  It always shocks us, especially when it falls into the New Wave or Modern Rock categories. 

This week's discovery? Peter Godwin (thanks to the amazing Viva Radio DJs). Heard the track Art Of Love (some great 80's style UK remix), which lead to other discoveries such as the video for Baby's In The Mountains, a hit Godwin had back in the early 80's. Remember that? Or perhaps the equally successful Images of Heaven? 

We were lucky enough to find a sealed vinyl copy of Godwin's out-of-print album Correspondence, featuring both Art Of Love and Baby's In The Mountains.  Love finding a still sealed record from 1983 in 2010.  

Still not sure how Godwin missed our radar back in the day?

Trashcan Sinatras Daytrotter session, complete with unreleased track

Trashcan Sinatras recorded a nice little session for Daytrotter.  The four-song set includes a previously unheard and unreleased track called The Stairs Of New York.  The other three tracks are taken from the band's most recent album, In The Music.  All great, but we would have liked to hear a classic in there, a little Obscurity Knocks perhaps?

Listen/download the session over at Daytrotter.  By the way, how insanely great is Daytrotter? 

Full track listing:

Prisons
In The Music
Oranges and Apples
The Stairs of New York

Happy Norway Day, a-ha style

What do you know?  It's Norway Day (or more correctly Norwegian Constitution Day).  Fitting as we just took in a-ha's triumphant return to Los Angeles this weekend at Club Nokia.  First time seeing them, and completely impressed.  The guys played material which spanned their entire career.  We had no idea how many amazing songs they possessed.  Spending lots of time revisiting their past 9 albums.

The Blood That Moves The Body is a new personal favorite track. 

a-ha closed out the show with none other then their massive 1985 hit, Take On Me, of which everyone remembers the classic video:

Vintage magazine cover - Morrissey on Raygun

The March 1994 cover. 

Editors prep "Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood" 6-track single

As we've said before, Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood is our favorite tracks from Editors In This Light And On This Evening.  Actually, it's one of our favorite Editors tracks of all time.

The release encompasses six tracks, including two previously unreleased b-sides, Alone and Thousands Of Lovers. 

They've kept consistent with the single art (above) throughout this album's releases. 

Full track listing below:

Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood (edit)
Alone (previously unreleased)
Thousands Of Lovers (previously unreleased)
Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood (acoustic version)
Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood (Magnus "Veggie" mix)
Eat Raw Meat = Drool Blood (Steppin' Brothers remix) 

Looking forward to the acoustic version. 

Official video: