Condo Fucks – “What’cha Gonna Do About It” from the forthcoming LP/CD ‘Fuckbook‘. Little known fact : The J. Geils Band’s Magic Dick is also a resident of New London, CT.
Oh boy. All sorts of potential problems with this one. Where do we start with the apologies? To the estate of Peter Ivers….sorry. Wicked Witch? WE’LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN.
The promotional video for The Unsane’s “Body Bomb” from the album ‘Total Destruction’ seemed, at the time, like a rather pricey (ie. more than $10) way of making a clip guaranteed to receive zero MTV play, the fine efforts of Chris, Pete, Vinnie and director Richard Kern aside.
History, however, has a funny way of sorting things out. Thanks to the patronage of Mike Judge’s Beavis & Butthead, the “Body Bomb” video ended up being seen by a wider audience than the occasionally “120 Minutes” spin might’ve garnered. And more importantly, the clip’s explosive subject matter guaranteed the star turn from Cop Shoot Cop’s Jack Natz would forever place Kern’s former Black Snakes bandmate on a Do Not Fly list.
With all due respect to the likes of Darling Cruel, Joey Welz and whoever directed Mick Jagger’s “Let’s Work”, there are music videos that commit themselves to memory so profoundly, nothing sort of joining the Moonies (or a frontal lobotomy) is required to banish their dubious charms from one’s headspace. Today, we have two such contenders for the crown of Sickest Music Video Of All Time.
Challenger A, submitted by Mr. J. Reatard of Memphis, TN is The Dog Police.
Challenger B, offered by Megan Metzger of NY, NY, is the semi-legendary Complete. Feel free to make your own suggestions, but it’s gonna take some doing to top either of these.
We’ll have a major announcement in the next day or so regarding the new A.C. Newman LP/CD ‘Get Guilty’. Oh fuck it, I hate suspense, too. Dates and a new MP3 forthcoming.
I saw Jaguar Love do-their-thing Saturday evening in the sweaty confines of Austin’s Emo’s Lounge, and fine though that performance was, a tip of the hat to videographer Jasten King for compiling footage from a recent L.A. show and giving the uninitiated a nice sub-5 minute crash course in this fantastic band.
Because pt. 1 was so well received (well, over at the Sonic Youth message board, anyway), it’s for yet another trip down memory lane, this one in honor of Margaret Fiedler’s recent guitar heroics filling Bruce Gilbert’s Air Jordan’s in Wire.
Moonshake – “Secondhand Clothes”. Directed by Julie Hermelin. From the album ‘Eva Luna’ (1992, licensed from Too Pure).
Our friends at Super Deluxe bring us the long-awaited, oft-rumored, Fozzie Bear-approved video for the New Pornographers’ Challengers standout “Mutiny, I Promise You”.
Part of the hilarious Penelope: Princess of Pets series, this is one rock video that’s wholesome fun for the whole family. Sort of.
Much as we appreciate the attempt to provide visual accompaniment to ‘The Hawk Is Howling’’s “The Sun Smells Too Loud”, the above video is anything but authorized. Duh.
Ever wondered what it would be like having Jay Reatard perform in your living room? Ask Jeremy Warmsley, although you might need to ask him several times before he hears you.
See Jay, Stephen and Billy play on some slightly more spacious stages this Fall (or Autumn, if you speak English):
16 Nov : Green Synergy Festival, Dublin
18 Nov : Barrowlands 2, Glasgow
19 Nov : Deaf Institute, Manchester
20 Nov : The Faversham, Leeds
21 Nov : Korova, Liverpool
22 Nov : Bodega, Nottingham
23 Nov : The Cooler, Bristol
24 Nov : Old Blue Last, London
26 Nov : The Sazerac, London
27 Nov : Banquet Records, London (in-store performance)
28 Nov : Engine Rooms, Brighton
Thanks to Jeremy and Faye for being extremely accommodating. Check out the other Welcome To Our TV Show episodes here.
From the album, ‘Here With Me’ (OUT TODAY), video directed by Zacarias Bezunartea, hosted by Stereogum. Please keep in mind, Jennifer and Dump will be playing NYC’s Mercury Lounge tomorrow night to commemorate the release of ‘Here With Me’.
Though Pitchfork, Stereogum and Wired all linked to the above clip — directed by Dominic Hailstone — yesterday, for some reason the MySpace video is no longer functioning. So here’s a YouTube clip instead of “Batcat” from the forthcoming Mogwai LP/CD ‘The Hawk Is Howling’, in stores and online on September 23.
The above video along with an animated version of the same song and a film about Mogwai directed by Vincent Moon & Teresa Eggers constitute the DVD portion of the CD/DVD edition of the new album.
