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[watch] San Cisco//Girls Do Cry

 

San Cisco are proud to present second single “Girls Do Cry” from their debut EP, Golden Revolver. Shot in New York by an independent fashion design collective, the track’s vintage-inspired clip was a lucky discovery.

San Cisco drummer, Scarlett Stevens, uncovered the piece of footage by chance, posted on an underground fashion blog ‘Cat Party”. After introduction, Hannah Metz—clip co-director and slumber party beauty—thought the passage a perfect fit for Girls Do Cry. The women seen in the video are all independent fashion designers themselves. There’s an  undeniable synergy between the splendour, strength and individuality of the small NY fashion collective, and the liberated youthful abandon of this foursome of teens from Fremantle, WA, that colours the ‘Girls Do Cry’ collaboration.

♫ San Cisco – Golden Revolver ♫

[watch] Fanfarlo//Replicate

A couple of weeks ago, Fanfarlo released the video for their brand new track, “Replicate” (BIG thanks to All Songs Considered for bringing this to my attention).  I really dig this track and can’t wait to hear more.  Enjoy the video below, along with a message from the band, and then head on over to fanfarlo.com for more (hint: if you sign up for the mailing list, you can download “Replicate” for free).

 

Dear all,

Almost exactly a year ago we stopped touring and sat down to write a new record. Earlier this year we went to a remote slate quarrying town in Northern Wales to record it and now we finally have the finished result in our hands.

There is so much we want to show you! It was hard to decide where to start, but we decided to start at the beginning. So here is the first song from our new album — it’s called ‘Replicate’. Over the summer there were so many visual ideas we wanted to incorporate in presenting this music to you, both on your screens and live, coming to play in your city. The first puzzle piece is the video above we made in collaboration with Alex Southam.

But that’s not all. We also have a small number of shows scheduled which we are terribly excited about. Simply cannot wait to play you all the new music. And of course, coming to the shows is the only way of hearing it.

Here are the dates:

Sept 30 London, Hoxton Hall – tickets
Oct 25 Boston, Brighton Music Hall
Oct 27 New York, Mercury Lounge – tickets
Oct 29 Washington DC, Red Palace
Oct 30 Brooklyn, Glasslands – tickets
Nov 01 Philadelphia, Johnny Brendas
Nov 13 Tenerife, Auditorium – tickets
Nob 15 Madrid, Heineken Music Selector – tickets
Nov 16 Barcelona, Bikini – tickets
Nov 18 Toledo, Heineken Music Selector – Círculo de Arte – tickets
Nov 19 Cadiz, Heineken Music Selector – Sala Imagina – tickets

See you there!

Love,
F

[watch] Icarus Himself//On Your Side

Madison’s electro-psych-folk band Icarus Himself just released a brandnew video for “On Your Side”.

“On Your Side” is the first single from the band’s upcoming album Career Culture, to be released on October 11th on Science of Sound Records. The band’s sophomore full-length is a sonic cinema, drenched in the influences of artists like Kurt Vile, Deerhunter, The Who, and David Bowie. [source: planetary group]

 

♫ Icarus Himself – On Your Side ♫

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Tour Dates
10.8 Madison, WI @ UW Union Der Rathskellar
10.14 Eau Claire, WI @ The Mousetrap
10.15 Minneapolis, MN @ Kitty Cat Klub
11.2 Chicago, IL @ Utlra Lounge
11.3 Carbondale, IL @ Hangar 9
11.4 Bloomington, IN @ Rhino’s
11.6 Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie’s
11.7 Asheville, NC @ Lexington Ave. Brewery
11.9 Brooklyn, NY @ Spike Hill
11.11 Toledo, OH @ Ottawa Tavern
11.12 Rock Island, IL @ Rozz Tox

[watch] Y Luv//All Night

You’ve heard of “going down the rabbit hole” à la Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, but have you heard of “going down the panda hole”?  The video for All Night is an evolution of the inspiration for the song and takes the this idea and runs with it.

“The song’s about trying to find something, but you’re not quite sure what,” says Y Luv’s frontman Freddy Janny. “Once we had the panda idea, it was perfect. We’ve gone down the panda hole.”


The video was filmed at Venice Beach, California, a spot known as much for its cinematic beaches as for its strange mix of characters. “What better location to bend reality in?” poses Janny. The scenes of the band playing were filmed on a rooftop near the band’s almuni campus, University of Southern California. The band wrote the video along with director Jane O’Neill and and Sanjiv Solanki contributed the cinematography. [source: planetary group]

♫ Y Luv – All Night ♫ 

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[watch] The Jezabels//Endless Summer

Endless Summer is an ideal, a fantasy, the kind you can impose onto another person when you are lonely or when reality is dark and cold, like the boy in the film clip,” says Hayley Mary, the front woman of the  Australian moody-pop quartet The Jezabels.

The video for Endless Summer, premiered this morning by the international culture outlet PopMatters.com, was directed by Mikey Hamer and appears as if straight out of a period-piece film, complete with beautiful cinematography and costumes. The band’s penchant for the dramatic shines through, re-asserting their self-described genre “intense-indie,” called  “emotional intensity and grace” by Canada’s Chart Attack. The video is for the single Endless Summer which will be released on their debut LP Prisoner, for which the U.S. release date is yet to be set.  [source: planetary group]

And if you have a hankering for some live music, The Jezabels will be returning to the U.S. and Canada in November to tour with the Canadian indie rock band Hey Rosetta!

♫ The Jezabels – Endless Summer ♫