From Yo La Tengo's Web site: "Atlanta's Masquerade was always just like a home away from home to us, if the people in your family always spelled your name wrong and built the stage right above the pumping techno soundsystem. (June 10, 1995, Atlanta, GA)"

As we wind down this holiday weekend and make our way back to reality, here’s this week’s DeadJournalist.com Sunday Night Videos.

This week’s Video of the Week is from Lo La Tengo from 1997 because “Sugarcube” is one of the best indie videos of the decade. And I had to add Atari Teenage Riot as a nice little tie-in to round out the set.

Other videos this week include: Kurt Vile, Jemina Pearl, Atlas Sound, The xx and The Sounds as well as Thoa with the Get Down Stay Down, Midlake, Crystal Castles, Broken Social Scene and The Unicorns, among others.

Video of the Week

Yo La Tengo – “Sugarcube”

Sunday Sixteen

Atlas Sound (featuring Laetita Sadier of Stereolab) – “Quick Canal”

Kurt Vile – “Freak Train”

Jemina Pearl (featuring Iggy Pop) – “I Hate People”

The Sounds – “Beatbox”

The Unicorns – “Tuff Ghost”

Crystal Castles – “Untrust Us”

The xx – “Crystalised”

LCD Soundsystem – “New York, I Love You”

Cymbals Eat Guitars – Wind Phoenix (Live on KEXP)

Midlake – “Roscoe”

Broken Social Scene – “Cause = Time”

Thao with the Get Down Stay Down – “Bag of Hammers”

Port O’Brien – “I Woke Up Today”

The Antlers – “Two”

Skunk Anansie – “Secretly”

Atari Teenage Riot – “Atari Teenage Riot”

Here’s the DeadJournalist.com Sunday Night Sixteen:

Fanfarlo – “The Walls Are Coming Down” (live)

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – “40 Days” (live)

Sufjan Stevens – “Chicago” (live)

Arcade Fire – “No Cars Go”

The Raveonettes – “Last Dance”

The xx – “Crystalised”

David Bowie (feat Nine Inch Nails) – “I’m Afraid Of Americans”

Morcheeba – “Trigger Hippie”

The Big Pink – “Dominos”

Catherine Wheel – “Judy Staring At The Sun”

Placebo – “Running Up That Hill” (live)

Tiny Vipers – “Dreamer”

The King Khan and BBQ Show – “Why Don’t You Lie”

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings – “100 Days, 100 Nights”

Crystal Stilts – “Love Is A Wave”

Dinosaur Jr. – “Over It”

The Anwering Machine

- The Answering Machine have released their “Obviously Cold” video. The UK band, comprised of Martin Colclough, Pat Fogarty, Gemma Evans and Ben Perry, completed their debut album Another City, Another Sorry on which Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers) produced.

“We’re still writing about drinking, sex and arguing but those things go so much deeper than surface level and it took us time to adjust to and understand that,” said Colclough. “We’ve had to redefine the boundaries of relationships, and master the act of survival which everyone our age is having to do. Ultimately we have written an album that we hope a generation and beyond will be able to identify with.”

- Longwave will play their final show of the year at Bowery Ballroom in New York on Saturday, November 14. The band is offering a free download on its site www.longwavetheband.com/bowery daily through Friday. Fans can also enter for the chance to win one of five guest list spots for the Saturday show.

- The Drums have announced details of their next single, “I Felt Stupid” out on November 23 in the UK.

- We Have Band and The xx were recently featured on ABC News “Amplified” http://www.abcnews.com/amplified

- Passion Pit to play Jimmy Kimmel Live on December 8 after performing on the mtvU Woodie Awards show December 4.

- RED Distribution has produced a benefit compilation for the non-profit organization Malaria No More. Indie Rocks! A Benefit Album For Malaria No More is comprised of 14 songs from artists including Juliette Lewis, The Walkmen and Youssou N’Dour, in addition to an exclusive unreleased live track from Third Eye Blind, and an exclusive cover track from Peter, Bjorn, & John. On November 17, 2009, the digital-only release will launch on Amie Street with a four week exclusivity period. The album will then be available to all participating digital service providers. RED and Amie Street will be donating 100% of the proceeds to Malaria No More.

Track Listing
1.) Peter Bjorn & John – Summer Breeze (Exclusive)
2.) Juliette Lewis – Fantasy Bar, from Terra Incognita
3.) Jeff The Brotherhood – Bone Jam, from Heavy Days
4.) The Grates – Two Kinds Of Right from Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
5.) Third Eye Blind – Bonfire (Exclusive, Live in NYC)
6.) Dirty Little Rabbits- Hello, from Simon
7.) Wild Light – Adult Nights, from Adult Nights
8.) The Walkmen – Four Provinces, from You & Me
9.) State Radio – Let It Go, from Calling All Crows
10.) Those Darlins – Wild One, from Those Darlins
11.) Great Lake Swimmers – Pulling On A Line, from Lost Channels
12.) Kate Miller Heidke – Politics in Space, from EP Kate Miller-Heidke
13.) Yonder Mountain String Band – Fingerprint, from The Show
14.) Youssou N’Dour – Fight Malaria

- 60 Watt Kid has released a for “Virtual Plastic Surgery”:

60 Watt Kid – Virtual Plastic Surgery from JOSH on Vimeo.

The xx

The Quietus is reporting that The xx guitarist Baria Quereshi has left the group. The band played their most recent show as a three-piece, but has canceled European dates while determining the future of the band. While, according to the story, the band has labeled her leave as temporary, the future may be up-in-the-air for a London-based band whose emergence has highlighted this year’s parade of new music.

Pitchfork.com is reporting that label sources say Quereshi’s departure is due to exhaustion, and that the band will resume its tour on November 3 in Frankfurt, Germany.

The band’s Web site and social networking pages do not reference the cancellations.

The xx emerged earlier this year with their debut LP, xx, which was released on August 17, 2009 in the UK (October 6, 2009 in the US). The band, formed at the Elliott School (noted alums, Four Tet, Hot Chip) in London, consists of members Romy Madley Croft, Qureshi, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith all in their early 20′s. The band recently finished playing CMJ in New York and was previously on tour with The Big Pink and Micachu.

The complete The Quietus article can be found here: http://thequietus.com/articles/03092-the-xx-down-to-three-split