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I'm a big fan of the various projects E*Rock is involved with (see here, here, here), so this interview on XLR8R is a treat. It's part of the Portland-centric issue, and there's more interviews/clips/etc over on their website. Anyhow, dude is talented.
Here's a new video from American Princes, who have a new album coming out next week (which I wrote about here). It's directed by Matt Bradley, who must be a ninja with the scissors.
Gold Robot Records has just released their first proper video, and I'm excited to share it with you. Directed by Greg Tuzin of On the Fly Films, it features Meanest Man Contest doing the title track from their Throwing Away Broken Electronics release. Check out the dancers wearing cardboard boombox heads, the slow-mo shots of shattered televisions, and the enviable dance moves of MMC.
Check out the new video from Two Gallants for the track "Despite What You've Been Told" off their new self-titled (also seen as 2GS in some places) album. It was directed by Alexander Safdie and Ronald Schnetke while Doug McCann handled the director of photography duties. I'm enjoying it even though I've had this thing against clowns since It was on TV.
I last caught these local (SF) boys at the Treasure Island Music Festival, and they're as good as ever. The new album (released on Saddle Creek; love the hyphen in their web address) is a raucous collection of broken ballads and I consider it my perfect October 2007 album. If you're in Europe you might have a chance to catch them on their current extensive tour. Here's an mp3 for the video shown above.
