"We Were Wild", by Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun.
It's catchy pop. The video is insipid, so we'll stick with the SoundCloud player.
"Solid Ground", by Maps and Atlases:
A couple of years ago, I rediscovered contemporary music. That's a story in itself. This is one of the songs that made me think, "Whoah...there is some really, really good stuff out there."
"The National Anthem", by Radiohead.
I showed the video to my wife recently, and as is their wont my two sons came up to watch. The 4-yr old quickly wandered off, bored that it wasn't Spider-Man or some such, but 6 stayed for the whole thing. I wonder what was going through his head; there's a lot in this that we've rarely talked about with him: religion, ritual, race relations (alliteration unintentional), and of course the flat-out jazz weirdness of the final breakdown...which I love, but I can't help but think it's an acquired taste.
Fim D'aemission.