Prick Tunes: Hayes Carll "Stomp and Holler"

Here's another stand-out track that can be found on KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories), Hayes Carll's fucking rocking 2011 release. If you don't have this album, you are doing yourself a big disservice. It belongs on the very short list of best albums of last year, right along side Tom Waits's Bad As Me, Destroyer's Kaputt, and Bon Iver's puzzlingly named Bon Iver.

This clip is courtesy of IFC and was recorded here in Austin, Hayes Carll's homebase, during SXSW last year at some fake place called the IFC Crossroads House. The best I can tell it was up Brazos from The Driskill. I couldn't even tell you what's normally there. I can guarandamntee that Hayes Carll will be playing about 15 times in Austin during SXSW, but I'll be damned if I get to see one damn show.

Check out his tour dates here because he's probably coming to your neck of the woods soon. I know I'm gonna see what I can do about getting to that Gruene Hall show March 3rd.

Prick Tunes: Destroyer "Savage Night at the Opera"

I know it hasn't been long since the last time the Dan Bejar project Destroyer graced these cyberpages, but I didn't want to forget that this video existed. Then there's the fact that I love this album.

Once again from the album Kaputt, here is "Savage Night at the Opera" from everybody's favorite male New Pornographer.

Prick Tunes: Destroyer "Kaputt"

If ever there were a video that was more befitting a song's aesthetic than the video from the title track from Destroyer's most recent release, I'd like you to show it to me. Until then, this will have to do.

From one of the best albums of this year that has almost passed us by, here is "Kaputt" from Kaputt.