MMTV...

Two posts in one day? No, not really. The last one was mostly written in an airport lounge on Friday, so that's cheating. And this one is only a small, single-subject post anyway.

I discovered a fantastic “new” band in the last week (well they’re new to me anyway): "MuteMath". I came across a MuteMath video podcast, where they perform their song “Typical” on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. They have such afantastic sound, with some great lyrics, and I think they’ll come to be among my most favourite bands (they are certainly in very high rotation in my head at the moment, and I only know two of their songs!). Sure, the lead singer Paul Meaney plays a key-tar, but he makes up for that with a terrific voice. Problem is that no retail stores in Australia have ever heard of them (I’ve asked at JB, Powerhouse, Sanity, Virgin…and people think I’m just making it up a random name, or I'm some old fogey who overheard some kids talking about a great new band, and I've got the name wrong…”Mutewha?” they all say). Actually, they’ve toured the U.S and Europe with The Fray and others, and have been featured as the next big thing in Billboard & Spin magazines, so they’re probably going to be big in Australia in the very near future. Unfortunately as an Australian resident you can’t purchase the songs via iTunes’ U.S. store, and they aren’t for sale on the Australian iTunes store. Will have to make do with the two songs on YouTube for a while until a CD can be delivered from Amazon (it's already annoying Mel how often I play the clips - she said to me this afternoon, rather sarcastically, "Oh, I wonder who this could be...???"). I’ll link to both "Typical" (the music video, not the live performance) and "Chaos" (a live performance), which the band have posted on YouTube. The Typical clip is one of the best music videos I’ve seen in a long while, which is already gravy given the quality of the song itself.

Here's "Typical"...


And here's "Chaos"...

Goodnight,

Matt