Videos Of the Day: Sad Kermit

I saw these on Stereogum and they were cracking me up, so I have to share them here. As sadkermit.com explains:

Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit spiraled downward into a life full of addiction, romance and pain. The songs and videos on this webpage shed light on Sad Kermit's descent into his dark, hurting world.

Sad Kermit doing Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt":



Elliot Smith's "Needle In The Hay":



And you can even download mp3s from the site of sad Kermit songs. Since it is Radiohead week in Atlanta, here's "Creep":

Sad Kermit : Creep (Radiohead)

The Hottness: Earlimart

Earlimart is a band that I've heard about and listened to a little but never really knew and every chance I had to see them just hadn't worked out yet. But since getting Mentor Tormentor, their new album, it is all I have been listening to. I have a feeling this is going to sit high atop my best of 2007 albums. The sound is very heavily Elliot Smith influenced (who was a friend and mentor to the band) but i also hear alot of the Yo La Tengo and Autolux vibe. Check it out for your self:

Earlimart : Mentor Tormentor : Everybody Knows Everybody


Earlimart : Mentor Tormentor : Bloody Nose


Buy Mentor Tormentor Here

Earlimart Myspace



Here's a live show they did for KEXP:

EARLIMART (1disc-Uncompressed Stream)
2007-08-25
USA-Seattle, WA-KEXP In Studio Performance and Interview

SOURCE: Uncompressed Stream 44.1KHz PCM Webcast (WMA lossless at 1411.2 kb/s) -> Total Recorder -> WAV

TRANSFER: WAV -> Normalized with Adobe Audition 2.0 -> Cut on CD sector boundaries with CD Wave -> Converted to FLAC (8) with FLAC Frontend

SETLIST:
01 KEXP Intro
02 Answers & Questions (*)
03 Never Mind The Phone Calls
04 Interview
05 700>100
06 Gonna Break Into Your Heart
07 KEXP Outro

LENGTH: 19:10
DATE: Saturday, August 25, 2007 | 12:01 p.m.

(*) NOTE: There is a drop out at the 3:10 mark. Tried 3 recordings and ALL dropped at the same point so it seems to be a KEXP issue.

Download Lossless Torrent Here

Earlimart will be at The Earl on October 14th. I'll be going to Birmingham, AL the next night to catch them there because of Echo Project.

Torrent Of The Day: Elliot Smith (7-31-1997)

Elliott Smith 1997-07-31 Knitting Factory New York, NY (16-bit) (FLAC)

Elliott Smith
7.31.97
knitting factory
new york, ny

pictures of me*
alameda*
ballad of big nothing*
speed trials*
cupid's trick*
rose parade*
miss misery*
something*
waltz #2 (xo)
division day
between the bars
christian brothers
unknown
say yes
i didn't understand
southern belle
st. ides heaven
clementine
angeles
punch and judy
no name #4
coming up roses
biggest lie
needle in the hay

bootleg: yes
bootleg info: average sounding show. elliott is in a very good mood and plays forever! you can tell by the setlist huh?
approximate running time: 90 minutes (last song is incomplete) all songs with and asterik ( * ) are backed by quasi.
something is a beatles song written by george harrison. it can be found on the beatles abbey road lp.
the unknown song contains the lyrics "...you can go but i'll say what i should..i'm doing okay pretty good...

AUD > CDR > EAC > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

Video of the Day II: Elliott Smith

Here's a short film circa '93 entitled Lucky 3 featuring three classics from Mr. Smith

Releases Of The Week

Three new albums from three great artists:

Bjork : Volta



Listen to a track: Earth Intruders (co-produced by Timbaland)

Buy the album here


The Sea And Cake : Everybody



Listen to a track: Exact To Me

Buy the album here


Elliott Smith : New Moon



Listen to a track: High Times

Buy the album here

Videos Of The Day: Elliott Smith

Just listened to XO the other day and I think I'm on an Elliott Smith kick again. Here's some vids:

Torrent Of The Day: Elliott Smith (DVD)

ElliottSmith/ 09/02/2000 / Bumbershoot / DVD

Elliott Smith
Boombox Stage
Bumbershoot Festival
Seattle, WA
September 02, 2000

Lineage: 3/4" Master > VHS > DVD author (by Chrisedge)

Pro-Shot or Audience shot : Pro-shot
Stand Alone or PC : PC
NTSC or Pal : NTSC
Menus : Menu with song selection
Aspect Ratio: 4:3

intro 00:00:00:00
needle in the hay 00:00:52:10
bled white 00:05:06:19
stupidity tries 00:08:15:21
coming up roses 00:11:40:21
waltz #2 (xo) 00:14:43:12
everything means nothing to me 00:19:12:00
clementine 00:21:55:24
son of sam 00:24:57:11
la 00:28:05:15
amity 00:31:38:12
ballad of big nothing 00:34:13:07
cupid's trick 00:36:51:20
st. ides heaven 00:40:21:00
junk bond trader 00:43:10:07
division day 00:46:57:00
christian brothers 00:49:56:14
angeles 00:55:14:21
fond farewell 00:58:28:16
alameda 01:02:06:05
say yes 01:06:05:15

Here's a low quality youtube clip of the DVD: