Weekly: Star By Star

I first heard Plex Plex in Atlanta back in '08 when they performed with a friend's band. No insult to said friend... but they owned the entire show.

Word from singer Amanda is they've finally recorded and mixed their first official release. They're pre-streaming three songs from the CD on their website (here) starting with my favorite, Star by Star.

Weekly: The White Witch

Sunny Day in Glasgow - The White Witch

Pop etheral lovelies Sunny Day in Glasgow kick off their Spring 2010 tour this Friday at The Mercury Lounge. See their blog for tour dates, and watch a sneak peak of their live performance in the video above, shot last December in NYC.

Weekly: Bright Lights

I just don't know what to say. So much time has passed since I first fell in love with Placebo... when I daydreamed over the etheral buildup of songs like Follow The Cops Back Home... rocked out to drum heavy tracks like Taste In Men... and drooled over videos like Special Needs.

Oh, Placebo. Where did your glamrock androgynous fantasticness go?

Sure, things had to change a little when Steve Hewitt left the band, but you gotta admit, he wasn't exactly the androgynous fantasticness of the trio. For starters, his name was STEVE. You could replace him and still maintain everything that was sexy on the Sleeping With Ghosts and Meds albums. Right?

OR.

You could replace him with some homosexual version of the dude from Crazy Town (or as Russ calls him, "Dudebro Mc Beefystix".)

On the plus side, Stefan has great hair in this new video. It's a little Carlos D. Maybe that's why you named this song after Interpol's best album?

Weekly: On To The Next One

Here's the latest video from Mr. Shawn Corey Carter-Knowles' Blueprint III, which also happens to be my favorite track. Love the styling on this.

Jay Z — On To The Next One (featuring Swizz Beatz)

Weekly: Without You I'm Nothing.

Dear Bowie,

Our relationship began in the early hours of one fateful morning in 1987. I stayed up all night watching music videos, back when MTV played music videos, and the VJ that got stuck with the overnight shift must have either been tired or retarded in love with you. Because that night, that glorious night and into the morning, I watched every one of your videos in a row. From the twenty minute long video, to the video with the asian chick with the scary long fingernails, to obscure pre-MTV television appearances turned into videos, to that one video were you look like that dude from The Furs, to... well, you get my point. Let's just say that by like, the third video, I was totally and completely in love with you even though I wasn't entirely sure if you were gay.

Time passed, and I stayed loyal even through that freaky Glass Spider tour where you had the oxygen mask. Or when you joined Tin Machine and looked like bad guy in Grease. Eventually we drifted apart, but I dated numerous boys who I wasn't entirely sure if they were gay either, so you must have still been on my mind.

Then, somewhere along the way, I forgot about you. Maybe it was you. Maybe it was me. But then came that day when I saw the video for Placebo's Taste in Men and all the emotions I felt for you two decades prior were rekindled. Except they were all directed at Brian Molko. I felt a little guilty, sure. Imagine my relief when I heard your duet with him. Without you, I'm nothing. Indeed. Without you, well, I don't want to imagine. (Although, I can imagine you're not gay, right?)

In honor of your new CD, out yesterday, this week's Weekly is all about you.
And Brian Molko.

Love,
Krystyn

David Bowie and Brian Molko — Without You I'm Nothing