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If you don’t know who Leslie Hall is by now, you probably don’t have a series of tubes connected to your haus… because this would have arrived in your inbox with the subject line:
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Leslie, a 24-year old art school graduate from Ames, Iowa and self-proclaimed keeper of the gems, made a splash this past year with several YouTube hits performed with her rotating backup band the Lys, including Gem Sweater, Gold Pants, and Beat Dazzler.Additionally, she joined forces with fellow internet personalities Tron Guy (Jay Maynard) and Peter Pan (Randy Constan) to make an impassioned plea for net neutrality on We Are the Web.
Quite possibly the lovechild of Amy Sedaris and Mike Myers, Leslie recently released her second album, Door Man’s Daughter, which is round 2 of rhymes plus beats and tinkly piano ballads. The song “Mother Gem Lullaby” was running through my head this evening after my pants burst during Thanksgiving dinner.
Gold Pants may be the only way for me to continue being seen in public.
- Listen to Mother Gem Lullaby
- Listen to Beat Dazzler
- Listen to Zombie Killer
Buy Door Man’s Daughter from 
or from Leslie herself.
BTW, here’s Leslie and her recent appearance on Ring My Bell taking calls and playing with plastic dinosaurs.
Nobody knows where you are is more like it.
The runner up in MTV’s Basement Tapes contest, the Dog Police were featured twice on Weird Al’s Al TV.
Here’s the song for those of you who are into that sort of thing.
Lasse Gjertsen is at it again.
As you may know, the 22-yr old from Volda, Norway readily admits that he can’t beatbox.
And now he has revealed that he also can’t play the drums or the piano.
So what can he do?
Well he can edit for starters.
He can animate.
He’s quite the fashionista (check out that haircut).
And, he makes some pretty compelling music without (apparently) being able to play an instrument.
Welcome to a series of tubes.
- Listen to the audio from Amateur
- Listen to Jeg Bryr Meg Ikke
- Listen to I Love Trees
Hear more here.
A rather lovely Gilliam-like animation mix from Cyriak.
Now that you’ve got that embedded in your noggin, how ’bout listening to that song over and over again?
- Listen to No More Memory