of Montreal stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday  Feb. 12 to perform “Dour Percentage” off their most recent LP Paralytic Stalks. You can buy the album on limited edition fuschia vinyl at the Polyvinyl website.

The performance itself was pretty darn cool. Check it out above. What do you think of it? Let us know in the comments below.

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Overall, I like the fact that these guys are thinking outside of the box when it comes to delivering something interesting for their fans to watch. OK Go are nothing if not ingenious when it comes to funding their careers as musicians and the best thing about this band when it comes right down to it is that their music is damn good as well. Check out all their videos and behind the scenes featurettes on the making of their videos on their You Tube page.

What do you think of the video? Let us know in the comments below.

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The fine folks over at Consequence of Sound posted this sweet video this week, along with upcoming tour dates, by former Sock Monkey Sound podcast guest Into It. Over It. (a.k.a Evan Thomas). Just a dude walking down the street singing directed by Jordan Welker.

Pick up the album Proper via the Into It. Over It. website or No Sleep Records online store, Evan will love you for it. At the very least he will like you quite a bit.

Into It. Over It. 2012 Tour Dates:
01/25 – Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern *
01/26 – St. Augustine, FL @ Cafe 11 *
01/27 – Gainesville, FL @ Double Down Live *
01/28 – Orlando, FL @ The Social *
01/29 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade *
01/31 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *
02/01 – Beaumont, TX @ Antone’s *
02/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
02/04 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues *
02/05 – West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour *
02/07 – Santa Ana, CA @ Yost Theater *
02/08 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Downtown Brew *
02/09 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill *
02/10 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge *
02/11 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern *
03/09 – Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club ^
03/10 – New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theatre ^
03/12 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Downstairs ^
03/13 – Ottawa, ON @ Ritual ^
03/14 – Toronto, ON @ Annex Wreckroom ^
03/15 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick ^
03/16 – Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s Down Under ^
03/17 – Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge ^
03/18 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club ^
03/20 – Denver, CO @ The Marquis Theatre ^
03/21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound ^
03/23 – Boise, ID @ The Venue ^
03/24 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon ^
03/25 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre ^
03/27 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s ^
03/28 – West Hollywood, CA @ The Troubadour ^

* = w/ Chris Conley, Matt Pryor, Anthony Raneri, and Ace Enders
^ = w/ The Wonder Years, Polar Bear Club, Transit, The Story So Far, A Loss For Words

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St. Vincent performed on Conan last night and played “Cheerleader” from the Strange Mercy LP. What was cool about this outing on Conan is that Annie Clark and her band decided to poke a little fun at Elvis Costello’s 1977 performance on Saturday Night Live where he interrupted his band a a couple of bars into “Less Than Zero” and then launching into “Radio Radio”.

It’s nice to see that Annie and Co. have a sense of humor.

Check out the inspiration for this gag below.

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Polica – Lay Your Cards Out

Listen to our recent podcast interview with Channy Leaneagh of Polica

Check out Polica’s video for ”Lay Your Cards Out” (feat. Mike Noyce of Bon Iver) off of POLIÇA’s debut record, “Give You The Ghost” out now on Totally Gross National Product.

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Funny or Die

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Sharon Van Etten and Aaron Dessner

One of our favorites, Sharon Van Etten (interview link), is back with a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon performance of the song “Serpents” off of her new album TRAMP on February 7, 2012. If 2011 was the year of Bon Iver, it’s quite possible that 2012 will be the year of Sharon Van Etten. Check out Aaron Dessner of The National playing a little slide guitar with Van Etten’s band; Dessner produced the new album. I, along with many others, can’t wait for this. (via The Audio Perv)

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“Loose Tooth” can be found on 2010′s Deserters E.P., which is the official companion piece to Cameron McGill & What Army’s 2011 full-length beauty, “Is A Beast.“

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Video Credits

MONKEYEATSMONKEY PRESENTS:
Cameron McGill – “Loose Tooth”
08.19.11 at The White Rabbit, Indianapolis, IN

Cameras: Derik Savage, Christina Reid
Audio: Derik Savage
Booked and Promoted by: Josh Baker and MOKB Presents

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Live performance of “People” by David Bazan at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee. An interview with David Bazan and more footage from the day will be available soon on Sock Monkey Sound, stay tuned.

Thanks to our friends Matt Youngblood at Bingo Productions and Undertow Music Collective (undertowmusic.com/) that helped make this project happen.

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Deloreans!!! Two of them! AND Zombies!!! F@#k Yeah!!!

This video can’t get any better can it? Check out more Minotaur at their website.

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Oakland based band Kapowski (band website) have released a video for the song  “Section 8”, off of their upcoming album Boy Detective (set for release on February 2, 2012). The tune features stuttering drums, a spry bass line, a scratchy organ and a mesmeric piano line that sets the foundation for lead vocalist Jesse Rimler’s lyrics.

Filmed on location in Oakland by The Perez Brothers, along with additional footage shot in the tiny town of Carpinteria, the video for “Section 8” was inspired by the futuristic tone of the track. Pulling from their love of classic cinema, the Perez Brothers have described the film as a, “Melancholy homage to Woody Allen’s Sleeper.”

While the “Sleeper” elements are there, I personally liken the look of the Robot without meaning in the video to that ridiculous Robin William’s vehicle “Bicentennial Man”. Quirky and fun, The Perez Bothers Kapowski take the phrase “Section 8″ and turn it’s meaning on it’s head. What happens when you lose your will to live? The answer is: drink a bunch of sweet tea and go into a sugar coma.

I hate sweet tea.

“Section 8″ is off of Kapowski’s upcoming album Boy Detective, set for release on February 2, 2012.

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Bon Iver has released is releasing a “deluxe” edition of their 2011 release Bon Iver just in time for the holidays on Jagjaguar. Included in the deluxe package are videos made for each of the 10 songs on the album. Many of the videos are tone poems for your eyes that do an effective job of conveying an interpretation of feelings linked to the songs. Pretty to watch at first but also kind of boring unless you’re into artsy stuff of course. What these videos are really missing is some booty shaking as well as a cameo by Kenny Loggins during the clip for Beth/Rest. Check out all of the videos at the band’s You Tube page.

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Check out the Blitzen Trapper performance from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday night. While you’re at it you can read Andy’s review of their latest release ”American Goldwing”.

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The Storylines began in 2006, in a 17-inhabitant town called Piancavallo, in the mountains looking at the city of Pordenone in north-eastern Italy. The single Icarus is from the bands debut “June Leaves” (Download on Bandcamp for FREE), their first full-length album released by the independent label Megaphone Records.

According to the band, the video, created by Edoardo Vojvoda, was born out of the idea of portraying what goes on in a dog’s brain during a normal day: boredom from being neglected, the desire to escape, freedom; finally leading to melancholy and homesickness. Vojvoda even went as far as toning down the Reds and Greens from the video considering that dogs don’t discern between Red and Green in the color spectrum.

Pretty cool stuff, the video does a nice job of complementing the music and giving the viewer a sense the dogs life. It makes me want to go home and hug my dog.

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Check out Danger’s review of their latest album Only in Dreams out on Sub Pop Records now.

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Noel Gallagher's debut solo record, "High Flying Birds" is out Nov, 8th in the US

“I’ll f@%king decide what I think you should listen to, within my music- not you… If you want to sequence an album, f@%in’ start a band.  If you f@%in want to be involved in the making of music, buy a guitar.”

- Noel Gallagher

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•  SEPT 24 Rochester NY @ The Club at Water Street w/ Okkervil River
• SEPT 28 New Orleans LA @ Tipitina’s w/ Explosions in the Sky
• SEPT 29 Atlanta GA @ The Tabernacle w/ Explosions in the Sky
• SEPT 30 Asheville NC @ Orange Peel w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 5   Albany NY @ Valentine’s
• OCT 6   Montreal Quebec @ Metropolis Theatre w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 7   Toronto Ontario @ The Sound Academy w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 8   Royal Oak MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 10  Minneapolis MN @ First Avenue w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 11  Des Moines IA @ Val Air Ballroom w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 12  Kansas City MO @ Uptown Theater w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 13  Oklahoma City OK @ Diamond Ballroom w/ Explosions in the Sky
• OCT 14  Austin TX @ The Parish

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The single “My Machines” features 80′s synthesizer god Gary Numan on vocals and this great video via The Creators Project.

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The is the most significant auto-tune. It’s art and science, and science as art — the Symphony of Science (via Kottke.org)

but, nothing…  nothing is more magical, or special than watching Richard P. Feynman talk of fire, how trees come from the air and logs are nothing but stored sunlight.

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In this dirty old part of the city / Where the sun refused to shine / People tell me there ain’t no use in tryin’

“We Gotta Get Out of This Place ”, performed by The Animals, was written in 1965 by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil (Brill-Building-era composers responsible for many hits).  The song’s timeless angst has been embraced by many fed-up, walks of life in the past 5 decades; the military, graduates, the working class and most recently, peasants known as Rockfordians from Illinois who are seeking a decent–we know ‘better’ is too much to ask or work hard for anymore–walk of life somewhere else.

Rise, peasants, rise! This is your song– now, leave!
Oink oink, bah bah, moo.

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L>R: Rosenquist, Ropp, and Garvey

Micky Rosenquist, Rockford, IL area musician, instructor and drummer for many midwestern bands (Cameron McGill & What Army, Miles Nielsen & The Rusted Hearts, Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons, & more) has launched his his own solo project. Production on “Micky Rosenquist & The Black Squirrel“ record began in late August at Rosenquist’s own studio space, Underground Squirrel Studio in Rockford, IL.

The record will feature Rosenquist’s songs with many musicians he’s played with or befriended over the years making appearances throughout.  Rosenquist is taking the reigns on many instruments while handing off the rhythm duties to session drummer/percussionist, Darren Garvey (Cameron McGill & What Army, Andreas Kapsalais Trio) & bassist, Karl Ropp (The Snaggs, Das Boton, The Gomows).  Appearances by Cameron McGill, Miles Nielsen, Kevin Schwitters (The Braves), Barrett Martin (The Gomows), and many more are planned to flesh out a full-length album by 2012. The Black Squirrel Project is being co-produced by Daniel McMahon, Andy Whorehall and Rosenquist.

For now, enjoy 2 Rosenquist originals (“A Song”, and “Your Blood”) below that were recorded by Barton Bishoff, hootenanny style, last winter at his studio (featuring many past SMS podcast guests).  They’re anticipated for a formal release on Rosenquist’s debut record, due in 2012.

> To follow “Micky Rosenquist & The Black Squirrel” project as it unfolds, click here.
> For more info on Underground Squirrel Studio, click here.

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The Onion’s AV Club has been putting on a fun series of video posts titled “A.V. Undercover” the past 2 years.  25 classic songs performed by bands/artists stopping by the A.V. office.  The 2010 series ended with an honorable reworking by The Walkmen covering R.E.M.’s “Driver 8″, take a listen. 2011′s highlight (so far) has to be Parts and Labor‘s cover of Kanye West’s hit, “Runaway“, view below. 2 songs remain by Otis Redding and Loretta Lynn to be covered by bands stopping by the A.V. office in the 2011 series, click here and scroll down to see a full list.

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