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The video for "Ghost Woman Blues," the opening track off The Low Anthem's album Smart Flesh, is set in the abandoned pasta sauce factory in which the album was recorded. The video was produced by filmmaker Robert Houllahan with the band.
Watch This VideoAfroCubism—the long-awaited collaboration between Cuban and Malian musicians meant to take place when the Buena Vista Social Club was born—first performed live at the Mar de Musicas festival in Cartagena, Spain, on July 9, 2010. Here is the band's performance from that event, featuring the song "Nima diyala," off their self-titled debut album.
Watch This VideoThis music video for "From Above," from the Ben Folds / Nick Hornby collaboration Lonely Avenue, was created by director and animator Julius Preite (The Simpsons) and designer Justin Owens.
Watch This VideoRhys Chatham prepared the outdoor version of A Crimson Grail featuring 200 guitarists, 16 bassists, five conductors, and one percussionist, for the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival performance heard here. Director Steve Lippman, aka FLIP, uses three excerpts from the Nonesuch album as the score to this short film, shot on rolls of expired unexposed Kodachrome Super 8mm, adding in some new cartridges of Color & B&W Ektachrome.
Watch This Video"By Some Miracle" is the first track off of Philip Selway's solo debut album, Familial, and for good reason, says Selway. "'By Some Miracle' is always the first track that I play to people who are new to my songs," he has said. "I'm aware that no one knows what to expect from me outside Radiohead, and so I think this song sets the tone for what is to come on the record." Watch the official music video here.
Watch This VideoAfroCubism is the long-awaited collaboration between Cuban and Malian musicians meant to take place when the Buena Vista Social Club was born instead, finally realized 14 years later. Go behind the scenes and into the studio to hear from the musicians who made it all happen.
Watch This VideoLonely Avenue features music and vocals by American singer-songwriter Ben Folds and lyrics by English novelist Nick Hornby. In this video, Folds and Hornby talk about how they came together to create what The Huffington Post calls "one of the most interesting collaborations of the year." Hear how it all happened and listen to the end result with clips of songs off the album, including the single "From Above."
Watch This VideoFenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's male alter ego, featured on her 2010 album Homeland, imagines life as a troubadour in pastoral France, with all that might entail—the good, the bad, the fantastical.
Watch This VideoThis is the first take of the first track recorded at the AfroCubism sessions in Madrid, December 2008. This eagerly awaited collaboration of Malian and Cuban musicians, first conceived as the project that became the Buena Vista Social Club, is due out in the fall of 2010.
Watch This VideoThe Punch Brothers' honed the songs on their 2010 album, Antifogmatic, during a residency at New York's The Living Room. The deluxe edition of Antifogmatic includes a seven-song DVD, Live from the Lower East Side: It's p-Bingo Night!, from which this performance of the album track "This Is the Song" is taken.
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