Tuesday Bears: No Age on Surveillance

Pitchfork Media's new online show, Surveillance, featured a performance So. Cal. duo No Age.

The show, which can be viewed at Pitchfork.TV, features artists being performing live in a New York City hotel room performing live during this year's ATP Festival through a grainy surveillance camera.

No Age performed "You're a Target," a single I often mention as one of the best of 2009, from their recently released Losing Feeling EP, in a monochrome grey monitor. The episode was the second to final installment in the Surveillance series for 2009, which rounds out tomorrow with a performance from No Age's Randy Randall, Bradford Cox, and director Jim Jarmusch. In what exactly, I'm not sure.

No Age - You're a Target (Live on Surveillance)

Tuesday Bears: New Flaming Lips Video: I Can Be a Frog

Supporting the Flaming Lips upcoming 12th studio album, Embryonic, the Oklahoma natives have performed stints at Pitchfork Music Festival, ATP, and the Colbert Report before releasing the first video for the talk-along song "I Can Be a Frog." The song is a slow, quiet, and kind of odd choice to be put in video format, but still presents its quirky fun.

For those who may not recognize, that's Karen O's voice playing the part of sound effects as the brunette model (in a setting resembling Roxy Music's Country Music album cover) acts out each of the animals Wayne Coyne name-checks.

Flaming Lips - I Can Be a Frog (ft. Karen O)

Wednesday Bears: A Real Pavement Reunion?!

Today's headline on Pitchfork's news feed reads, "Holy Shit: Pavement Reunion is Real!" finally giving hopeful fans word that isn't just a useless rumor. According to an unidentified source (Pitchfork, via Brooklyn Vegan did not reveal the name) 90's indie-rock pioneers Pavement will be performing a benefit show September 21 next year at Central Park Summerstage.

The Brooklyn Vegan article (since confirmed by Stereogum) posted yesterday states that, "According to reliable sources, it's finally happening in 2010! There will be multiple, possibly four, nights of shows at NYC's Central Park Summerstage in September of that year."

From there it goes on suggesting a possible tour, an appearance at next year's ATP NY Festival, and maybe Coachella in April, but nothing beyond the Central Park Summerstage has been anything close to confirmed yet.

Stay tuned in for more developments in the story.