Music Morning Links, 1-04-07

• We're going to see The Fiery Furnaces at North Six tomorrow night, in what is supposedly one of the last shows there before Bowery Presents takes the place over. Above, the Gondry-esque video for "Tropical Iceland" (I actually like the album version of this song better, but this is better than nothing).
• That Little Round-Headed Boy has been powering through a Bowiethon, ostensibly in honor of his upcoming 60th birthday. Today, TLRHB explains what's really going on: "[Y]our Little Round-Headed Boy asks himself: TLRHB, why are you devoting so much real estate to a recording artist you don't really like that much? While I admire Bowie's decades-long ability to remain fashionably hip, he's not my favorite singer or actor, by a long shot. I don't currently own a single album of his...No, my whole Bowie obsession really comes down to one song: 'Changes'."
• Pitchfork points to a stream of the first single off Modest Mouse's first album with Johnny Marr on guitar. It works a lot better than I thought it would; I have not yet forgiven Modest Mouse for the egregious use of saxophone on their last album, and they're still overusing the horns budget in a pretty serious way, but I'd dance to this after a couple of drinks. I still liked this band better when they were speed-addled teenagers, though.

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Morning Links, 12-19-06

• Remember last week, when you thought Michel Gondry was some kind of foot genius? See incontrovertible evidence to the contrary above.
• The Guardian's film staff and friends count up 50 Lost Movie Classics. It's an inspired list, the kind of alternative contemporary history that's definitely worth keeping in mind when updating the Netflix queue. Sample selection: "#33 Less Than Zero -- An example of an over-rated book being beaten by the film version...It has this amazing sadness and helplessness to it and at its heart there's a career-defining performance from Robert Downey Jr."
• Nobody loves Frances Gumm, even when she's being marketed as Judy Garland.

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