Music Blog
Randoms #2
And this year's (formerly somewhat prestigious) Mercury Prize goes to...er....The Klaxons? Those crazy Brits, with their toast done on one side, and now this. The London-based band's Myths of the Near Future beat out heavily-favored releases like Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, not to mention more deserving efforts like Fionn Regan's The End of History and Bat For Lashes' Fur & Gold. Said NME editor and Mercury judge Conor McNicholas in the overstatement of the century thus far, “It is an album that could only have been made in the UK and could only have been made this year. But it is a record which will stand the test of time." No doubt.
Portland's own Decemberists are the latest to put their own idiosyncratic stamp on the theme song to Showtime's Weeds, and what a stamp it is. Hear it here.
Speaking of Portland's own, there's a new video out for Menomena's "Evil Bee" from this year's Friend & Foe release. Stunning work from Stefan Nadelman.
