The Super Bowl is coming, guys. This means it’s time to do the Super Bowl Shuffle. Don’t know how? Let this bizarre group of comedians, indie musicians, and Internet cats teach you how. Louisville radio host Sean Cannon assembled the team to cover the 1985 Chicago Bears classic to raise money to benefit Reading Is Fundamental. You can purchase it here and/or listen to it below. You’ll hear Lil Bub, David Wain, Comedy Bang! Bang!’s Scott Aukerman, Tom Scharpling, My Morning Jacket's Jim James (on sax), Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington, comedian Kyle Kinane, Dave Hill, Man Man's Honus Honus, the Long Winters' John Roderick, and wrestler Colt Cabana. It’s so bad, you know it’s good.
- 1/21/2014
- Vulture
Indie music hub Pitchfork, who in 2008 launched online channel PitchforkTV filled with mini-documentaries, curated music videos, and the original series Beardo featuring Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington, has unleashed another original series Pitchfork 3D, which (as the name suggests), plays off of all the 3D hype led by James Cameron and his fellow Hollywood legionnaires in an attempt to get you and your money back in theaters. "Order your glasses now!" reads a promotion on the site, which links to a pair of 3D red and blue anaglyph glasses for one cent on Amazon.com. The series features original music videos in old school style 3D: Deerhunter performing "Primitive 3D," Wavves "Post-Acid," Delorean "Real Love," and Neon Indian "Mind Drips." The videos are all very psychadelic and trippy and posesses all the gimmicky 3D shtick that you've learned to expect, of course here it is presented ironically—though I can't...
- 5/27/2011
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
A coquette is a woman who desires mens' affections without having to surrender any true intentions. of Montreal's "Coquet Coquette" is a music video that seemingly has nothing to do with coquettes. However, it is a good excuse to feature ritual violence, loincloths and cannibalism. (And,perhaps, a very brief peek of Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington, but that's probably just my eyes playing tricks on me.) Frontman Kevin Barnes makes a cameo himself, as a sort of survivor of the slaughter. I'm not sure if this tale is based on a historical incident -- of an island of mostly white people...
- 8/19/2010
- Hitfix
Thanks to Jay-z and Beyoncé repping for Grizzly Bear and hanging out at Coachella to see some Pitchfork-approved acts, indie rock and hip-hop have been having a very public love affair lately. Sometimes it's a late night hook-up that is walk-of-shame worthy in the morning (paging Weezer and Lil Wayne) and other times it's so seamless you wonder why nobody thought of it before. Kid Cudi rolled out the carpe for Ratatat and Mgmt on his studio debut, Ghostface Killah has admitted to loving Vampire Weekend and the Black Keys chopped it up with everyone from Mos Def to RZA and Raekwon on the Blakroc album.
In the most recent example, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon revealed that he spent a couple days earlier this year in Hawaii with Kanye West, laying down some of his patented hushed, pastoral vocals for 10 songs that might appear on West's upcoming CD. That...
In the most recent example, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon revealed that he spent a couple days earlier this year in Hawaii with Kanye West, laying down some of his patented hushed, pastoral vocals for 10 songs that might appear on West's upcoming CD. That...
- 8/16/2010
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
MakingOf recently paid a visit to Industrial Light and Magic in San Francsico, CA. We sat down with Animation Supervisor Tim Harrington, whose previous credits include "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," as he described some of the creatures of “The Last Airbender.”
“When we start designing creatures here at Ilm, we throw out a wide variety of different options for the director,” says Harrington, “and we might have something that’s completely different than from what’s in the show. In the beginning, maybe we went too far off the model from the show and the creators of the show did have a say in guiding us into something that was a little more recognizable as being from the cartoon.”
Harrington went on to describe the different creatures taken from the original show and how they were recreated for the film.
“When we start designing creatures here at Ilm, we throw out a wide variety of different options for the director,” says Harrington, “and we might have something that’s completely different than from what’s in the show. In the beginning, maybe we went too far off the model from the show and the creators of the show did have a say in guiding us into something that was a little more recognizable as being from the cartoon.”
Harrington went on to describe the different creatures taken from the original show and how they were recreated for the film.
- 6/25/2010
- Makingof.com
2009 is coming to a close, which means it's time to look back on some of the best songs, albums, artists and moments that passed through our collective consciousness in the past 365 days. Stay tuned for more insights from the folks here at MTV News (including James Montgomery's list of the 25 best songs of the year), but we begin our 2009 retrospective with the answer to this week's MTV Newsroom poll question: What was the best concert you saw in 2009? Check out what the staff thought below, and let us know what your best live show was in the comments.
Sabrina Rojas Weiss
After missing many chances to see the Beastie Boys in the past two decades, I was super excited to finally see them at All Points West this year. Then McA had to go and get cancer. But as consolation prizes go, Jay-z wasn't too shabby, especially after we'd...
Sabrina Rojas Weiss
After missing many chances to see the Beastie Boys in the past two decades, I was super excited to finally see them at All Points West this year. Then McA had to go and get cancer. But as consolation prizes go, Jay-z wasn't too shabby, especially after we'd...
- 12/9/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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