Holy Shit My Darkest Light Will Shine (Felt cover) live in San Francisco’s Kimo’s 3/8/08 for Mushroom International’s Mini Pops festival with Girls, The Passionistas and art by Jason Yates (Fast Friends Inc.)

More Holy Shit footage here

John Maus – Maniac

I’ve listened to John Maus’ album Songs more times then I’m willing to admit. I listen and wonder how long it took Maus to program all the stupid Baroque moments that manically pop in and out of the album. I really do love those moments, even if they are a bit showoffy and ironic. I dunno, classical music isn’t funny yet, and I really doubt Maus is passionate about the Baroque period – he’s probably just into the naive 60s Baroque that everybody loves – he could probably give a shit less about the furniture.

The above video for Maniac was only recently put back up on YouTube. Let’s give him a break: from my experience, It’s hard to keep videos on YouTube because in moments of paranoia, you somehow visualize people laughing at you huddling around a laptop. In this video Maus looks like he hasn’t slept for days and yet he’s very confident (I’m not saying he’s high) about his cool. It’s the kind of video your parents would hate. The inde girl in the video puts it all in perspective. She’s hypnotized by his multitrack. She obviously hasn’t dated a musician before and she thinks he and his friends are all really cool. If I were in the video I’d tell that bitch to RUN. I love the Maniac video.

John Maus plays this Saturday, March 22nd at Kimo’s with Bridez.

So, I never did get around to writing about the girls show a few weeks back. It was the feel good show of the winter. So many young kids (ok, girls) who knew the songs on the myspace by heart. They could barely contain their excitement that these songs were going to be performed live, close enough to touch, which is so much closer than the internet can get you. I normally hate it when people sing along at shows but this was endearing. Really. And the band was so excited to play. Summertime fuzzy pop magic.

see the rest here

If you missed it, don’t worry! They’re playing again at the third night of Mushrooms International:

8PM Sat, March 8, 2008
Kimo’s Bar
1351 Polk St

Holy Shit (LA, featuring Ariel Pink and Matt Fishbeck)
Girls (SF)
The Passionistas

Also, here’s some video Myles took of Holy Shit when they were in town to send dead eye off on his toothless new life in appalachia. This is a spaced out bongo jam with bad drugs written all over it — just dead eye’s style.

And a passionistas video for good measure:

Come!
I’m going!
The Passionistas are going with their new drummer!
The Real Janelles are going and they better be as fun as the songs on their myspace page or there’s gonna be a fight. What? I can throw down!