What happens when the French get their hands on indie rock

Posted by Dan July 8th, 2008 at 11:03am In Internets TV The Funk

I’ve known about this site for a while now, but I’m just getting to post about it now because you guys have to see one of these clips.

Let me back up.

There’s this French Web site called (of course) La Blogotheque. They make little films out of performances by various indie musicians (filmed in locations around the world). They’ve got Jose Gonzalez, The Big Sleep, Hutch and Kathy from The Thermals, Bon Iver, R.E.M., etc. In short, a pretty strong guest list. With each performance, they put the artist in a sort of unique location and incorporate some sort of interesting art film-y angle to the video.

To provide you with an example, here’s a video of Wet and Rustling by the band Menomena. You guys, you have to watch it because about halfway through it gets to be the cutest god damned thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And, you know, the song is good too.