Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke-Heads -

I compiled these links earlier for someone specific and then thought I might as well just post them here too:

Merzbow performing LIVE in Korea.

     Noise rock? Yes, please.

Xiu Xiu
 performing I Luv the Valley OH! LIVE at SXSW.

     Kinda math rockish, but cool.

Side project of Dean Wareham (singer from Galaxie 500) and
Britta Phillips (bassist from Luna). Incidentally, Britta Phillips
provided the vocals for Jem of Jem and the Holograms
. Obviously, she was destined for indie rock stardom and thank
heavens she is actually talented. In this clip you can see them a
little better. 

Sufjan Stevens performing The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades LIVE in Indianapolis.

I guess I like this guy. (He used to play banjo for those crazy Christian rockers known as the
Danileson Famile
if that rings a bell.) I am mostly adding him to the list because this
is what the kids are listening to these days. I (blame?) Sufjan Stevens
for the fact that I am suddenly being subjected to a pile of half-assed
folk/roots music lately. Don't get me wrong now, I am a total
folk/roots music fan, it's just that after all the "folk music" shows I
have been to here I am left unconvinced that this-or-that 21 year old
student really knows all that much about the seafaring life -- or
life in general, for that matter.