lemon & tennis ball

Coming soon, a short film about the love story between a lemon & tennis ball. This is just a little teaser, stay tuned for the film.

a lemon and tennis ball met and fell in love on the high seas
they had great times together
one day a crow came down and absconded the tennis ball
and lemon was looking for him
so lemon went to the beach and caught a cucumber in a fishing net
she attached a "have you seen this ball" sign to it with a picture of the tennis ball.
in search of her partner, tennis ball.
she posted the sign by the lost and found too, but he wasn't in there
she got an electric car from the lost and found and drove away in it
across a grassy knoll, in search of tennis ball.

oh......summer

the masters, they are tiny

Well see, its been awhile since we communicated with you, dear blog. we have really good excuses like 'we moved!' and 'we're busy!' but we have a saying here at Mute US: no good dead goes unpunished. and so we bring you a new irregular feature.....the highlight of the week!
This week's Highlight of the week was a NYC performance by Brooklyn's own teen-sibling-super- duo, Tiny Masters of Today. Ada, 13 and Ivan, 15 along with their friend drummer Jackson (i know he's not related, but they let him in the band anyway. can you believe it?!) opened for Art Brut at NYC's Mercury Lounge in advance of their new album Skeletons which is released June 16 2009.

Some photos of their nothing-short-of-adorable live set are below. They ironically covered Sonic Youth's "Youth Against Facism" at this show, and also at a Sonic Youth party which Gawker saw fit to cover HERE, read all about it.

small ness in charge

sibling conference moment

ivan shreds

a girl and her bass

muteants justin, erik and stephanie really enjoyed the show.

an evening with throbbing gristle

after witnessing the opening set from throbbing gristle (their first ever NYC show and their first US show in 28 years) ... we, the followers, were led by our charismatic leader to a dining room prepared for our communion. we filed in quietly so there would be no distractions for the ceremony. In the ritual, which everyone watches, a drugged child, usually one of the witches in the covens, herself a hybrid (typically), is brought out on the alter. the child is slaughtered. her blood is drank by all. then it was poured upon the members of the chapter. her limbs, and finally, the heart of the child is placed inside a bowl. Then, as the ritual proceeded, we all took turns "tasting" the meat. once it was confirmed as pure for our leader to ingest, the ceremonial golden bib was removed from its casing and placed around his neck. graphic images of our ritual can be seen below. we vacated the area shortly after as not to be late for the second performance from throbbing gristle.

David Lynch & Moby

When before in the history of Mute has David Lynch been asked to create a music video for one of our artists? Oh, never! So this is pretty cool stuff. Moby's new album, and subsequently - video, has reached this rite of passage. I don't know if its a rite of passage anyone else will ever reach, but we think its just perfect.

Maps & KEXP

Maps have been in the studio working on a new album. KEXP who are arguably their biggest media fan made this video awhile ago

M83 on Carson Daly

Usually when bands play on TV they play one song in a stale studio in front of the studio audience that claps like trained monkeys.

Well, not THIS time.

M83 got to play on the 'Last Call with Carson Daly' show (hold your comments) to a full concert like crowd, outside no less! Also they did a little piece on the M83/LA Philharmonic collaborative show that went off magically at LA's Walt Disney Music Hall on 3/7/08. That is 12 whole minutes of TV. So ignore the talking head bits and wrap your head around the rest of it HERE


For a review and photos of that splendid LA PHilharmoinc/M83 show, check out Stereogum's review HERE