Monday, April 18, 2011

And now for something completely different

While browsing the Electro Harmonix website to see if they had any new crazy guitar effects coming out, I found this link on their page. It is this band Pomplamoose. Actually, the original link was just the dude (Jack Conte), but then I found more links for his "band" on youtube.

These two are adorable.

The basic deal is that he plays every instrument himself and videotapes everything. Then, he edits the video in a way that you can basically see him creating the song. The music is super sweet stuff ...kinda New Pornographers/Aisler Set/Moldy Peaches. Even if you hate the sound of that, you should watch just one of these.

-- EDIT: In some of the vids, the lady friend also plays instruments. I didnt see that in some of these until now. The ones I saw at first were all just him. --


Here is the first click I watched, which is more Elliot Smithy


And another with both of them:




and here they are covering Michael Jackson's Beat It:

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Responsible for one of the most irritating commercials during the holiday season.

Anonymous said...

That means Grapefruit in French doesnt it?

Ryan said...

Who watches commercials anymore?

Ryan said...

"That means Grapefruit in French doesnt it?"
- it does.

Anonymous said...

Double bill with Megasus?

Ryan said...

Oohh... now that is an idea.
Get them on the horn!

FranklinDC said...

is it me or does she look just like pam from the office? is it lame that i've seen the office?

Anonymous said...

That f-ing car commercial was so bad I hope they got paid

Anonymous said...

@Ryan

"Who watches commercials anymore?"

Those of us who watch broadcast TV because we can't afford internet-direct HD TVs and components or Tivo that enable filtering.

The fact that you mistook another group of musicians' commercialization of their craft for profit as something fresh and new is a whole new level of irony.

Ryan said...

"Those of us who watch broadcast TV because we can't afford internet-direct HD TVs and components or Tivo that enable filtering...."

That is funny. You know that you dont have to watch commercials, right? You can mute+walk away. I havent watched commercials in decades...way before any of that tech stuff you mentioned.

Wait... am I being lured into another "boo! musicians making money off their music" conversation? Oh boy.