Best Blog Evar! (Besides Ours.) "Take Away Shows"
In the current trend of France re-assuming their proper place as the founders of renaissance (i.e. offering tax breaks to game developers and making their x-files public), French blog outfit Blogotheque has quietly been producing a live music podcast that's gaining underground credibility by the nanosecond.
The 41st episode in their Take Away Shows series features the blazing-hot Arcade Fire (thus luring all the audiophiles like me into their giant bear trap). The approach of these usually two-song, short films is to shoot the artists out in an urban environment of some sort and achieve a level of intimacy with the performer often lacking in the average music video. For example, Arcade Fire were seen packed in an elevator in Paris singing "Neon Bible" and the producers traveled to New York to record My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden larking "Disappear" from the middle of a serene forest setting.
Like a fast food value menu for music hounds, Take Away Shows' Videography reads like a who's who of indie acts. Podcasts featuring Divine Comedy, Tapes N' Tapes, Okkervil River, Mojave 3 and Cold War Kids are currently offered up as free chow for your Video iPod. What the hell are you waiting for? Check this page out here. (Some of it is in French, so don't come complaining to me if you accidentally click a link for Viagra instead of subscribing to the feed.)
What say you?!