Booze has always been prevalent when I’ve seen The Brixton Academy live, the band popping open bottles of Champagne to share with the crowd or downing shots post-set. Yet their January 28 show at Shibuya’s Womb – which, for the uninformed, is the place those deaf kids make out in the film Babel – was…
40. The Telephones “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” The video tries to trick you into thinking The Telephones remain the same attention-rattled guys as before, the type of band who would make finger puppets the big draw of their clip. “Kiss Me, Love Me, Kiss Me” the song, though, finds the group getting a…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20v19eA4bEM”] Break out the weed glasses for the new “2010” video by The Telephones. A lot of colors flash around and all sorts of animals pop up and then they dissolve into rainbow orbs (?) and it’s all pretty cool, way more so than my lame drug joke up there made it seem. The clip…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-OomjdUR8&hl=en_US&fs=1&] In which one of the better rock bands in Japan get transformed into the house band for a party desperate to be raunchier than it actually is. Clearly the idea of the record label higher-up thinking “if we combine Artist A with Artist B, we’ll grab both their markets! Double money!”, “Wonder Woman” (take…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMAMMiyn1qM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] In which The Telephones decide to become the Japanese Killers, and not just because lead singer Akira Ishige makes some dramatic pointing motions a la loveable bag-o-wind Brandon Flowers. I’m not talking about the whole “are we human, or are we dancer” debacle, I mean the version that managed to pump out awesome rock…