We realize that Yahoo has “Wanderlust” up over on their site, which confirms much of what we talked about with E.P. Yes there is a dvd coming out with a version of the video and yes it will have some sweet 3-D glasses to help you get your coolness on.

Everyone, your attention please. I’m declaring this the future of band promotion. Tour info, song streaming, video streaming, mailing list, and everything else that encapsulates the need-to-know info about your favorite band — all wrapped up into a little widget, just waiting to be embedded on your favorite daily read. It’s pretty much a mini-website about your favorite band (well currently for Simiam Mobil Disco) all packaged up nice and tight. It can be updated remotely so you can always stay on top of the latest happenings, without having to go out and check their dirty myspace page. This is pretty much awesome, so someone hurry up and start making these for my Dashboard, or dare I say iPhone. Come on people, get rich already.

I’ve been kicking around this video in my drafts folder for sometime now. And though its been out for awhile, I couldn’t shake it and just let it lie there, so let’s embark on a little journey we’ll call “A Good Video by Default”, for now. Also, I won’t try and front that we’ve been all about Erykah Badu and that we’ve listened to her stuff for some time now. Aside from “Tyrone” we haven’t really been up on her music and outings. Thats just the way things are sometimes. However, after this, we’re making sure she’s on our radar, but we won’t blame it on the video.

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Now there are two things that are ridiculous about what I posted above. First, that people are still making videos based off of this stock footage. I know we posted on the Dr. Dog clip back in the day. There is also an unofficial Shin’s video, along with some band called the Weather who also made a video. These are just the ones I felt like mentioning and there are plenty more in the comments sections for said videos over at the Ville. So come on people, let’s have some originality. In the year 2008 you can no longer hide behind the statement, ‘I didn’t know’; we all have the internet, it doesn’t discriminate. If you are just plain unoriginal and have no budget then OK, do what you will, but then that brings me to my second point.

Editor’s note: Pete hails from across the pond and every day is knee deep in the muck of trying to make a go from labels/music in the modern age. His latest video from his new prod co. is a great blend of tip-top animation and Enon-ish dance dance. He wanted to say a few things so we gave him some space and he gave us this. Check it!

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Well the shots certainly have been ringing out in the Wild West town of Musicsville, the saloon bar is full of despairing workers, shirkers and lurkers but the band still plays on.

Fiest is hocking iPods. Rogue Wave wants to sell you a Zune. I’m pretty sure Spoon is the official band of Top Chef. The Moving Units are selling make-up or something. We all know that while Conor Oberst hasn’t actually sold a song to a commercial he’s still totally faking it. And then there’s Kevin Barnes who allowed one of his better tracks to be used for an Outback commercial and has just released a T-Mobile commercial (with Art Brut apparently doing a similarly themed one as well). Fucking sell-outs, …

The few people I know who have great taste in music seem to be leaning away from their old habits and daily rituals of reading the mp3 blogsphere. I myself find that I check at most, three different music blogs the entire week. There is something telling about these facts, because my friends and I really care about music and love it more than casually, but the blogsphere doesn’t seem to resonate with us like it used too. My feelings are that most of them are just plain turds, and barely post about anything worthwhile anymore. Rather they just regurgitate press releases and reiterate their ‘highly recommended’ tags each day for a different band. After falling for those tricks on and off, you start to realize that it’s a case of ‘The boy who cried wolf’ and tend to not really value or believe their opinion anymore. This is the state of the new mp3 blogphere, and Pretty Goes With Pretty has captured these sentiments much more succinctly and elegantly than I ever could have hoped to. It’s definitely worth a read, so go see if they make light of the blogs you read!

Part I: First on the Scene, to What End?
Part II: Check My Stats!
Part III: The Perpetual Debut Album
Part IV: Coalescence

Some of the choice quotes:

If posts like IGIF’s (or the many other blogs that did Radiohead posts last week—he was hardly alone) are not calculated to get hits, then he and the other blogs have gotten wrapped up in the pressure to hype, rather than the desire to share. To what end? Are all of these bloggers big fans of Radiohead who are just way totally stoked and want you to be way totally stoked too? Or, as Ryan Catbird identified, is it all just a ploy for blog hits? These posts are only nominally intended to pump u up 4 radiohead. There’s a certain narcissism—a desperation to be noticed—inherent in these posts.

You forget that half these blogs are outsiders in shitty apartments in Pensacola or Indianapolis, who likely started their little blogs because they loved music. Worse, they forget.

This reminded me of an article from the Believer magazine a few years back, “The Perpetual Debut Novelist,” by David Amsden, in which he imagined that he would change his name for every novel he published, so as to be showered with the press that is reserved for the rising stars of tomorrow.

WNYC’s Soundcheck program recently did a little music video state of the union. We had the host John Schaefer, Wired’s Eliot Van Busrkirk, and the hardest working man in music video Patrick Daughters rapping on the odd simultaneous rise and fall of the music video industry. And wouldn’t you know it but the trio pretty much gets everything right. The quick recap (fused with my own comments):