I found a video that gives you an idea of what the show was like. She sang my face off.

Snap­shots from wednesday’s show, taken with my S90.
they are a lit­tle bit pho­to­shopped. maybe.

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Goldfrapp’s lat­est album Head First, slated for release later this month, has leaked onto the glo­ri­ous inter-webs. And boy am I glad to hear it! Ali­son Eliz­a­beth Mar­garet Gold­frapp has solid­i­fied her posi­tion as my favorite female vocal­ist of all time. Her last album, Sev­enth Tree, got me hooked on her dreamy ethe­real land­scapes, although it was a slight depar­ture from her well-established synth-pop per­sona. Head First marks her return to the world of dance, and it’s quite a return indeed.

You may have heard her first sin­gle, Rocket, on Week­ly­TRACKS. As the first track on the album, Rocket serves as a great intro­duc­tion to the 80’s throw­back world that Head First seems to live in. With it’s Jump-style synth lines and huge cho­rus, it is true movie mon­tage mate­r­ial. The sec­ond track, Believer, is also great sin­gle mate­r­ial, and I wouldn’t be sur­prised if it did bet­ter than Rocket on the charts. Both tracks were pro­duced by Pas­cal Gabriel, who has also worked with Kylie, Lady­hawke, and Lit­tle Boots. The third track, Alive, is prob­a­bly my favorite. It sounds like some­one took the dreamy sound­ing Sev­enth Tree, and injected it with NOS. That some­one being british pro­ducer Richard X.

All in all, Head First is a mag­nif­i­cent addi­tion to Will & Alison’s already impres­sive Gold­frapp discog­ra­phy, and if it doesn’t  break charts here, it will in the UK. I’m actu­ally con­sid­er­ing buy­ing it, that’s how good this is…

It’s been a great week for music leaks, first we got “Frag­ile” from Daft Punk’s upcom­ing Tron Legacy sound­track, and now I see that two of my favorite girls, Gold­frapp, and Zooey Deschanel are releas­ing sin­gles for their new albums! Check out “Rocket” from Goldfrapp’s new album Head First, and “In The Sun” from what’s sure to be this sum­mers musi­cal block­buster She & Him’s Vol­ume Two. Above and below are pro­mo­tional videos for Danger’s upcom­ing EP.

Gold­frapp — Rocket

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She & Him– In The Sun

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there needs to be a pret­tier youtube player, i’m get­ting sick of these bor­ders.

You may remem­ber how sad I was when I found out Kim’s Video, my go-to spot for hard to find films, closed. Well, to make news worse, they just announced that their sec­ond loca­tion in the west vil­lage is also clos­ing. This marks the true end of my favorite local video store, mak­ing Net­flix really my best option for get­ting DVD’s. The two Kim’s video loca­tions were a huge part of my life here in NY, and I wasn’t about to just let them die alone. So I picked up a few DVD’s at the storewide sale they had this week.

It seems that pre­ten­tious film school hasn’t got­ten to me yet, because the movies I chose were: Glad­i­a­tor: 3-disc Extended Edi­tion, Rome: Sea­son 2, and Armaged­don: The Cri­te­rion Col­lec­tion. I got ‘em all for about 30 bucks (a steal, con­sid­er­ing each one would cost about 30 bucks).

But my story doesn’t end there. The aban­doned Kim’s Video loca­tion on St. Mark’s Place is cur­rently in the process of being torn down. Today, as I walked by, I noticed the poster of one of my favorite albums was still sit­ting in it’s case. Watch­ing the con­struc­tion work­ers tear­ing the place apart made me think, gee, no one is going to claim this stuff, why shouldn’t I? After a good 5 min­utes of pu**y woody try­ing to talk me out of it. I strolled in, walked up the stairs to the bal­cony, ripped the poster out of the case, and walked out. No ques­tions asked. For me, this was not only an amaz­ing piece of free art, it’s also the kind of clo­sure I needed to finally let go of my for­mer favorite store in New York city. I hope Tim doesn’t mind me hang­ing it in our new place– It’s huge.

This week’s music post is actu­ally an album, because it’s really all I’ve been lis­ten­ing to lately. For a long time, the only Gold­frapp songs I knew were Ooh La La and Strict Machine. I thought they just did the electro/dance/glam/rock thing– Boy, was I wrong. Last year they released Sev­enth Tree, an acoustic album with a gen­tle sound mel­low enough chill Air out. I’ve been lis­ten­ing to it on repeat, espe­cially Eat Your­self, Road To Some­where, Hap­pi­ness, and Clowns…

Go hug a giant owl
So, if for some rea­son, you sud­denly get the urge to chill, check it out.

Hap•pi•ness n. 1. A man in a white suit jumping.

What do you think? Does it beat the orig­i­nal? Goldfrapp’s is one take, so yes, it wins.