good love / bad love

Guided By Voices – Bad Love is Easy to Do

It turns out that the combination of Guided By Voices, Rob Corddry, and Mike Postalakis gives me the giggles.  Earlier this year M|H featured their sports-themed take for “Planet Score,” and here we get a glimpse of an alternate 60s folk scene that’s brimming with sexual tension, bad hair, and shrimp cocktails. Bonus points for the delightful addition of one of our favorite ladies, Katy Goodman. Fingers crossed this is just the beginning of a long line of collaborations.

make the best of downtown

Guided by Voices – Planet Score

So, I generally consider cutting and pasting content from a press release to be cheating/lazy journalism, but I so thoroughly enjoyed the quotes about making this Guided by Voices video that I’m going to make an exception. The following content courtesy of Kip Kouri at Tell All Your Friends:

“When Bob told me I could direct a music video for the next GBV album, he had just one stipulation; it can’t suck.” says director Mike Postalakis.  After seeing the out-come GBV leader Robert Pollard approvingly noted “Now that’s a well put together video with skills.  Basketball, acting and rock! And you don’t have to suffer through 4 minutes of lip syncing.”

Nate Corddry, who plays “Sports Fan”, remarks: “To put it simply, GBV changed my life. When I first saw them at a small club in Vermont when I was 19, my musical tastes were still very confused. I was spending way too much time hanging onto my hippy jam-band roots, and needed a stiff smack to the face from the fist of rock. Robert Pollard provided that fist. If I remember correctly, he drank a beer per song that night. My life would never be the same. He’s everything that’s great about being an American. My brother Rob, who compellingly stars as “Basketball Coach” in the video, was the one to turn me on to GBV, so to appear in a GBV video with him was a bit of a surreal dream come true. Hopefully this gets me one step closer to doing shots with Bob. The Club is Open.”

Brother Rob Corddry adds: “It was my life’s dream to see GBV play live more than I’ve ever seen anything or anyone play live, and I accomplished that. All I had left were two pipe dreams: to be in a GBV video and to drink beers with Bob Pollard. One to go.”

yo la hannukah mix by yoni wolf of why?

WHY? is a weird, weird band, and that’s why I dig them. I first encountered them when a coworker at the public library I worked at in college gave me Elephant Eyelash and was surprised to find it was nothing like I’d ever heard. M|H has been featuring WHY?’s work over the years and when we saw they were coming to town to play a free show at the Sett in Union South with Astronautalis and Dream Tiger we jumped on the chance to have them make us a mixtape, and WHY? founder Yoni Wolf passed along his Yo La Hannukah mix to us. Be sure to check out WHY?’s website for more tour dates, videos, and Yoni’s blog.

Yo La Hannukah

01| I Shall Be Released by Bob Dylan

02| True Love Will Find You in the End by Daniel Johnston

03| Lady May by Michael Wolf

04| Prince Song by Dump

05| Wonderwall (Oasis Cover) by Cat Power

06| Blimps Go 90 by Guided By Voices

07| Kids Party by Chris Morris

08| Tears of Rage by The Band

09| Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles

10| Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred by Dylan Thomas

11| 8 Million Stories by A Tribe Called Quest

12| Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock) by Kendrick Lamar

13| Nice Train by The Donkeys

14| What’s Up Freaks? by Fog

15| Ol’ English by The Game

16| Bad Religion by Frank Ocean

17| Night at the Knight School by Thee More Shallows

18| Figaro (101 Remix) by Madvillain

19| Hit by Guided By Voices

20| I Like Dat by Lil’ Wayne

21| Minha Galera by Manu Chao

22| Nehadar Zéytkéwen by Teweide Redda

23| Deny Deny Deny by Hood

24| Tshitua Fulia Mbuloba by Kasai Allstars

25| Long Ears by Serengeti

26| On a Good Day by Joanna Newsom

27| Song One by cLOgs

28| Elevators by Outkast

29| Dying Crapshooter’s Blues by Blind Willie McTell

30| Mermaids by Liz Hodson

31| Queston by May Swenson

32| I Shall Be Released by The Band

33| Grave Robbers by Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron, Fred Squire