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Kimbra – 90s Music

In a video that looks like a Japanese game show art-directed by Dave LaChapelle, Kimbra sings about 90s music without sounding anything like it. Throughout my first listen I vacillated between thinking that it was great and that it was terrible, which is surely a sign of art (or at the very least that it’s a piece worth considering). Take a look for yourself, but be careful that the neon and reflective fabrics don’t burn your retinas.

sxsw 2012: the pro videos

So, we had this wonderful plan to write this post with lots of beautifully-shot videos to supplement the mediocre camera-phone videos we posted last Monday. It’s proved to be difficult. Our hosting service only allows embedding from certain sites, and most of the videos aren’t found on the approved list. We posted what we could, and linked to the rest of what we wanted to show you. We apologize for the minor inconvenience of opening a new tab and hope you’ll take the time to click. A big thanks to Spotify and Dig for Fire for creating such wonderful concert spaces and videos, as well as DoStuff’s Justin Schaffer.

Yellow Ostrich – The Shakedown

The Sheepdogs – Laid Back

Dry the River – Bible Belt

 Kimbra – Settle Down

Glen Hansard – Say It to Me Now

 Grimes – Genesis
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  SBTRKT
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A$AP Rocky – Peso
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Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws

 Fanfarlo – Deconstruction 

PS – For an extra challenge, play spot the M|H editor. She’s in almost every one of these videos.

every photo we took at sxsw

We started editing photos from SXSW and realized we took 864 shots. M|H thinks that number shows restraint on our part, but it’s still a lot of photos to comb through and edit. To keep you from having to wait, we put every single photo into a two minute and fifty-three second video for you. Check back for edited shots!

All the photos we took at SXSW, unedited. St. Louis Arch, The Salt Lick, We Were Evergreen, La Sera, Dry the River, Kimbra, Spotify House, Friends, Pond, Miike Snow, Hype Hotel, Of Monsters and Men, Hotel Vegan, Glen Hansard, We Are Serenades, Hospitality, Brighton MA, Spotify Live, Grimes, SBTRKT, A$AP Rocky, Say Anything, Night Moves, Father John Misty, Doomtree, Jack White, Andrew WK, The Jealous Sound, Fanfarlo.