saturday wake up call

"Travelin' Man" by Still Flyin'





Get the Travelin' Man 7-inch here.

friday wake up call

Check out The Hudson Branch's teaser video for their upcoming record, World Kid, out on April 24th:




Hear "Periodic Table Of Elegance" below:

thursday wake up call

Here's the second video/single, "Wolf Hand", off of Pulled Apart By Horses' Tough Love.

wednesday wake up call

Tom Gabel performs new Against Me! song entitled "Black Me Out" via Nervous Energies Session:

tuesday wake up call

Brand new Sigur Rós song/video, "Ekki múkk"!!!



The video is directed by Jónsi's sister, Inga Birgisdóttir and it's from the upcoming Sigur Rós record, Valtari, out on May 28th!

monday wake up call

Watch Blood Red Shoes' new video for "Cold" below:



"Cold" is from the duo's latest record, In Time To Voices, out today!

sunday wake up call

Here's a different video version of The Maccabees' "Feel to Follow" than the one I previously posted:



"Feel to Follow" is from Given To The Wild, one of my favourite albums of the year so far!

saturday wake up call

Pop. 1280 performs "Dead Hand" live @ Viva Radio:



"Dead Hand" is off of Pop. 1280's great debut, The Horror, out now via Sacred Bones Records.

friday wake up call

Great Enter the Void-like video reveals a man's secret in "Interference" by Breton



"Interference" is off of Breton's debut album Other People's Problems, out on March 26 via on FatCat Records. Get Blanket Rule EP for free over at Breton's Facebook page!

thursday wake up call

Plan B is back (Who Needs Actions Plan B) with a brand new track "ill Manors":





Listen to the inspiration behind the "ill Manors" on BBC 1Xtra below:

wednesday wake up call

"Small Hands"—great song by Keaton Henson and brilliant video directed by Joseph Mann!



"Small Hands" is taken from the album Dear, out on April 2.

tuesday wake up call

Watch/listen to this wonderful live performance of "Little Carmichael" by Good For Grapes:





Hear more songs from the band's SoundCloud page.
Get Good For Grapes' S/T EP over at iTunes.

monday wake up call

"Keep On The Light" by TMS feat. Jagga & Devlin:



Mahogany Session:



Download "Keep On The Light" for free here!

sunday wake up call

Jonny 'Itch' Fox (aka The King Blues) performs "Five Bottles of Shampoo" live at The Roundhouse in London on November 2nd, 2011.



This powerful and truthful track, "Five Bottles Of Shampoo" is from one of my favourite records of last year Punk & Poetry, get it here.

saturday wake up call

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Here're a couple of classic celtic punk songs:

"Dirty Old Town" by The Pogues:




...and "Chip" by The Real McKenzies:

friday wake up call

This video (directed by Ninian Doff) for Graham Coxon's "What'll It Take" is made up of video clips sent in by 85 fans from 22 countries:

thursday wake up call

New Margot & The Nuclear So and So's video for "Prozac Rock":





"Prozac Rock" is off of Rot Gut, Domestic—the band's 4th full-length—out on March 20th.

wednesday wake up call

The Death Set lead an army of pop culture icons through the streets of NYC in this insanely hyper video (directed by Guillaume Panariello) for "They Come to Get Us".

tuesday wake up call

Wonderful animation by Overture for Rayons' "Halfway"

monday wake up call

Anti-Flag and Amnesty International USA teamed up to create this video for "This Is The New Sound" to speak out against indefinite detention / National Defense Authorization Act .



"The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) makes it more likely that anyone–including you–could be held indefinitely without charge or fair trial. You could be like Shaker Aamer. He’s been held by the US government at Guantanamo for over 10 years without charge or fair trial, despite the British government’s request that he be released to his wife and children in London. Like all people held without charge by governments around the world, he should be charged and fairly tried or released. The right to a fair trial protects all of us from abuse."

"This Is The New Sound" is from Anti-Flag's ninth studio album The General Strike, out March 20th via Sideonedummy Records.

sunday wake up call

Gem Club recently released a rather eerie video for "Black Ships", directed by BriAnna Olson:



"Black Ships" is from Breakers, which also features "252", one of my favourite songs from last year! You can stream the entire record here.

saturday wake up call

Watch this ultra entertaining video of 4 Toronto DJs (DJ Grouch, D-Scratch, Thera-P and Riccachet) mixing Queen's "We Will Rock You"!

friday wake up call

The New Limb cover New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time"



Visit The New Limb's Bandcamp page to hear more music.

valley of wind / minimalist ghibli posters

Here's my sort-of sequel to my Minimalist NHL Posters. This set is dedicated to Studio Ghibli.

I grew up watching Studio Ghibli movies and have been obsessed with everything Ghibli since I was a kid... in particular, the films by Hayao Miyazaki!

So for the fun of it, I combined my love for design and Ghibli to create this personal project of minimalist Studio Ghibli posters. Hope you enjoy them!



Happy International Women's Day!!! My mom is my hero... and Nausicaä!

thursday wake up call

Sharks have posted a brand new song entitled "Able Moving Hearts"!




"Able Moving Hearts" is track 3 off of the band's debut record, No Gods—one of my most anticipated records of the year—out on March 19th in the UK and March 20th in North America, pre-order it here.

Watch the video for "Arcane Effigies", also off of No Gods, here.

wednesday wake up call

Super trippy and weird video involving a Shaman and future visions for "Light Speed Transit" by Break Science.



The video was directed by Mike Wechsler and John Camalick; "Light Speed Transit" is off of Monolith Code EP, you can download it for free over at Pretty Lights Music!

tuesday wake up call

Two of my favourite hardcore bands released new albums today!

Ceremony released Zoo—the band's Matador Records debut.

Although I am still trying to get over the band's "new sound", I am really loving "World Blue"... definitely one of my favourite tracks of the year so far!




Every Time I Die released their incredible sixth full-length, Ex Lives via Epitaph Records. Here's "Revival Mode", the second single/video off it.

monday wake up call

Happy St. Piran's Day! Crowns' debut EP is out today and here's the new single/video from it:



Stream "Full Swing", along with "Kissing Gates" and the rest of the EP below:

sunday wake up call

Delightfully trippy video (directed and animated by Kristofer Ström) for "Dinosaurs" by 16bit.

saturday wake up call

This video (directed by Alex Sky) for the song "Keramika" by Pixelord is full of cool/mesmerizing dancing 3D geometric shapes.

friday wake up call

Dave Meinert created this extremely entertaining music video from the POV of a dog for the song "Hearts" by Johnny Neon.

thursday wake up call

New video/single by Future Of The Left entitled "Sheena is a T-Shirt Salesman":



The track will appear on The Plot Against Common Sense, out on May 28 via Xtra Mile Recordings.