Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer | Another Video Worth Watching
Childish Gambino has released a new animated music video celebrating Summer. It features a number of imagined celebrity appearances including Kanye West, apparently remorseful about recent comments,...
View ArticleSkin Deep – featuring Buddy Guy | Video Worth Watching
From the Playing for Change YouTube website: Playing For Change and Buddy Guy united to record and film his anthem, “Skin Deep” across America. The song includes over 50 musicians from coast to coast...
View Article‘Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful)’ – Marc Ribot, and featuring Tom Waits |...
After two years without Tom Waits on the music scene, he’s back! He joins Marc Ribot in a version of Bella Ciao (Goodbye Beautiful) with video by Jem Cohen. (h/t to AGD) [Read more...]
View ArticlePascuala Ilabaca y Fauna – El Baile del Kkoyaruna | Video Worth Watching
From the Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna Oficial YouTube page: This song is dedicated to so many people who leave their hometown, their family to look for a job. This poetry wants to remind you that you can...
View ArticleEric Satie : Gnossiennes 1 – 3 / Reinbert de Leeuw ( piano) | Video Worth...
Music for a bit of respite from the hectic and insanely tumultuous last few days: Satie's Gnossiennes 1 - 3 performed by pianist Reinbert de Leeuw. Breathe slowly and deeply. [Read more...]
View ArticleJefferson Airplane – Volunteers (Live At Woodstock 1969) | Video Worth Watching
R.I.P. Marty Balin (January 30, 1942 - September 27, 2018). Marty Balin was one of the original founders of the Jefferson Airplane and in the early years was its signature voice. This YouTube clip...
View ArticleWillie Nelson – Vote ‘Em Out (Texas – Rally for Beto) | More Video Worth...
At an Austin rally for Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke that Rolling Stone reported drew nearly 60,000, Willie Nelson unveiled a new song aimed at encouraging his fans to exercise their civic duty...
View ArticleBlues For A Warm Planet [Adagio from Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite] |...
Here’s the Adagio from Khachaturian’s Gayane Ballet Suite, envisioned by Politesseo as a lament for a warming planet. [Read more...]
View ArticleTalking Heads – Burning Down the House | Video Worth Watching
Music for our Times? Talking Heads - Burning Down the House (and maybe the Senate, too?) [Read more...]
View ArticleKeb’ Mo’ – Put a Woman in Charge feat. Rosanne Cash (Official Music Video) |...
From the Keb’ Mo’ YouTube page: "My mother just recently passed at the age of 91. She was smart. She was strong. She was a leader. This video is dedicated to her and amazing women everywhere that are...
View ArticleCanned Heat – Election Blues | Video Worth Watching
Canned Heat is more widely known for its hits “Going Up the Country” and “On the Road Again”, but here’s a lesser known one of their numbers from 1972 after Nixon was re-elected and features a theme...
View ArticleAnselmo Sacasas – Trumpcrazy | Video Worth Watching
What was the inspiration for this title? Was it a time-traveler? a psychic? a distant relative? random chance? a play on the word trumpet? For whatever reason Cuban musician Anselmo Sacasas chose this...
View ArticleHandel Unleashed: Tilda Swinton Directs Dog Opera | Video Worth Watching
A HuffPo post alerted us to this bemusing video by Tilda Swinton and Sandro Kopp. It features her spaniels cavorting seaside to “Rompo i Lacci”—music from Handel's “Flavio”. With a bit of editing magic...
View ArticleLila Downs – Zapata Se Queda | Video Worth Watching
The Day of the Dead has passed, but here’s a little something by Lila Downs, accompanied by Totó la Momposina and Celso Piña, that resurrects that sensibility. [Read more...]
View ArticleAlice Coltrane –‘Turiya And Ramakrishna’ | Video Worth Watching
“Turiya and Ramakrishna” appears on the album Ptah, the El Daoud. Wikipedia notes: The title track is named for an Egyptian god, Ptah, “the El Daoud” meaning “the beloved”. “Turiya”, according to the...
View ArticleChavela Vargas – La Llorona (with Images of Frida Kahlo) | Video Worth Watching
I’m a Frida Kahlo fan, what can I say? This is also a consummate rendition by Chavela Vargas of the classic Mexican folk song La Llorona, but it’s the selection of Frida Kahlo’s works and the...
View ArticleFranchise Freedom at Burning Man 2018 | Video Worth Watching
From the Studio Drift YouTube web page: In their work Studio Drift often contemplates the concept of freedom. “Franchise Freedom” visualizes the connection between a group and the individual by...
View ArticleChanges – David Bowie | Video Worth Watching
Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming ... [Read more...]
View ArticleThe Day After Tomorrow – Joan Baez (Tom Waits / Kathleen Brennan cover) |...
The inimitable Joan Baez presenting her plaintive interpretation of the Waits/Brennan anti-war song “The Day After Tomorrow”. (h/t to mic) [Read more...]
View ArticleAna Tijoux – Antipatriarca | Video Worth Watching
Ana Tijoux was born in Lille, France in 1977, daughter of Chileans that had fled the 1973 Chilean coup of Pinochet. Her interest in rap, hip-hop and dance began in 1988, but she didn't return to Chile...
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