Video: Idiot Glee - Let's Get Down Together

Photo credit:  Benjamin Gallardo The week may not be starting off with a bang, but it certainly looks like the combo of bands hitting the city this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday will make up for it.   Future Islands , Gauntlet Hair , Jukebox The Ghost , Sondre Lerche , YACHT , the list goes on and on and on.  Enjoy it! Devon Williams ,  Tony Castles ,  Young Buffalo  @  [...]

It's Music Video Friday! Waved Rumor brings you some new music videos, strange and modern, opulent yet translucent. For your ear or for your rear - you decide. Weekend audio viewing to take your mind off 9/11 media overload! Featuring bands you know, some you may not, and some I like. Yaya! ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------- Idiot Glee is the nom du musik for 23-yr.old Kentucky-ian James Friley, who is touring the US this autumn promoting his new Paddywhack EP . Friley & Co. will be at the Yellow Canary Dancehall [...]

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We first heard this album playing in Lexington's CD Central.  From that point forward, we have been hooked on Idiot Glee 's album, Paddywhack .  We now get the benefit of having Idiot Glee coming to Louisville on October 8, 2011 at Zanzbar.  Going to be a great show and one not to miss. Tour Dates 9/16 - DAAC - Grand Rapids, MI 9/17 - Cataracts Music Festival - Indianapolis, IN 9/18 - Beauty Bar - [...]

The 60's swinging summer piano sample that's used to great effect in "Let's Get Down Together," the latest track from James Friley's Idiot Glee project, sounds an awful lot like the Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself." But, hey, when the result is as wonderful and hammock-breezy as "Together," it doesn't particularly matter. The hand percussion, that Motown-styled piano part, and Friley's vocals-- which have just the slightest touch of Roy Orbison on this track-- come together and create a fantastic summer barbecue soundtrack. The video is an impressionistic little thing with a lot of Friley's facial silhoutte in side [...]

Here's the new video for Idiot Glee's beautiful song "Let's Get Down Together." His new album is obviously a favorite of mine and you can buy it at his album release show on Friday if you're in Lexington.

*NSFW* -Matt

The new single from Idiot Glee, taken from his debut album 'Paddywhack' due out on 16th May.

Idiot Glee first came to my attention back in November, when I heard two of his EPs. 'Let's Get Down Together' is taken off his forthcoming album, Paddywhack, out in the middle of May. Over one simple riff, James Friley's voice is still allowed to shine through. He sounds happy [Read more]