speed of dark

I Guess I'm Floating has the new Devendra Banhart video, all Bollywood and starring his girlfriend Natalie Portman. I don't think I'd ever listened to Devendra before, since I was put off by his oddness. Now I see that I was wrong - I like the song and the video is just icing on the cake and is oddness is to be embraced. My favorite "subtitle", although there's some great ones to choose from, was "Crystal bubbles will cremate our troubles!"

Motel de Moka brings out a mix dedicated to the lovely state of California.

As I mentioned on the last FF, Taylor from Music for Kids... got married and he has posted an absolutely gorgeous mix of songs from his wedding.

Muzzle of Bees has a ton of stuff this week, including pictures from the Pitchfork Music Festival, a review of The Hold Steady, plus much more.

We crossed paths unknowingly yet again with Rawkblog when we saw Wolf Parade and The Listening Party at the Henry Fonda last weekend. Check out his photos (and BTW, I was thinking there could have been MORE of Spence's keys).

The Late Greats posts one of my favorite Iron & Wine songs, "The Trapeze Swinger", which is the softest and sweetest song to ever feature the lyrics "fuck the man".

Trendwhore has the lineup for Pop Montreal 2008, which includes some amazing bands, including Nick Cave, Hot Chip, The Dodos, Black Kids, Great Lake Swimmers, and many, many more.

Vinyl District was voted #5 on Makeoutclub's Top 10 Mp3 Blogs (congrats!) and posts some Grant Lee Buffalo.

Yellow Stereo also has some recap and photos from Pitchfork and this week's Daily Graboid.

yoav: adore adore [session remix] [buy]
the mountain goats: no children [buy]
russian futurists: incandescent hearts [buy]
thom yorke: skip divided [acoustic] [buy]