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Promo Promo: Merz - Goodbye My Chimera
First single from Merz's Xynthia EP, looking forward to the rest of this. More details here
14th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Promo Promo: Rowdy Superstar - Breathe
Someone needs help with their Freeview tuner... New Rowdy Superstar album Battery out on Accidental today
12th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Invisible - Generational
New Invisible vid directed by Th13teen. Bonus Post War Years remix here
"Taken from The Invisible's new single Generational which includes a 15 minute Theo Parrish Remix & Anna Calvi cover of The Wall. Released 22 October 2012 on Ninja Tune."
1st Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Death Grips - True Vulture
Animator Galen Pehrson teams up with Death Grips and Jena Malone here
19th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Rolling Stones - Doom And Gloom
In which Mick notices that "plane" and "insane"; "dirt" and "hurt"; "doom" and "boom" rhyyyyyyyyyyyyyme
11th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: DJ Empty - Meaningless Four
Accidental's DJ Empty's album is out now - iTunes, Boomkat
21st Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wilco - Sunloathe
not sure which one of these monster maze critters is Tweedy...
20th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Tame Impala - Elephant
Heavy Syd-era Floyd / T-Rex / Black Mountain riffing from Aussie psych-masters here. The album Lonerism is out Oct 8
20th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Frank Ocean - Pyramids
off to the desert for Ocean's long-player, directed by Nabil. Bit NSFW before it gets to the Floyd-y guitar
17th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
trailer for the new @FlyingLotus album out Oct 1
13th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Dirty Projectors - Hi Custodian
great to see someone diving into the art of the 20 minute pop video again...
12th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Beards - Got Me A Beard
I think Team Chimpomatic can all relate to this Aussie band (via @AdamRealBuxton)
12th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Metronomy - Hypnose
pet sounds galore in this video from Dan Has Potential (via @itsnicethat and lpoper)
12th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Band Of Horses - Knock Knock
Good beards, good rock, filmed in EPIC 4:3 aspect ratio. @BandOfHorses ride back into town w a new album later this month (Sep 18). Slow Cruel Hands Of Time is streaming at Stereogum, there's an acoustic version complete with mountains at NME, they played the iTunes festival on the weekend - still available here and the whole thing is streaming on their own website here. Beard rock, the maximum digital edition.
11th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Pop Levi - Strawberry Shake
Milkshake? New Pop Levi album on the way in Nov
10th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Orb Feat Lee Scratch Perry - Golden Clouds
Little Fluffy Clouds, LSP style. From The Orbserver In The Star House
7th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Atoms For Peace - Default
@ThomYorke sidebots release new track
7th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Moon Duo - Sleepwalker
Let's get metaphysical! Moon Duo return with a psych-heavy work-out
6th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle
Off the wall promo from @bluetonguefilms Nash Edgerton for Bob Dylan's track Duquesne Whistle. Brother and emerging Hollywood tough guy Joel Edgerton makes a cameo. As does Dylan.
Via thefilmstage.com
3rd Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Flaming Lips & Amanda Palmer - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
NSFW promo for the Heavy Fwends track. How come Wayne keeps his kit on?
31st Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: My Morning Jacket - Outta My System
Cape? Check. Furry Boots? Check. Cyclops Jim James? Check. Zach Galianakis as a tripped-out cartoon wizard? Check. Yes, it's a new My Morning Jacket video for an EP that includes this Washed Out remix
7th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Tame Impala - Elephant
Like the idea of an impala singing about an elephant. Nice stomper with occasional tricksy grooves thrown in from the upcoming new album on Modular. Another psychy track w no video here
27th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sigur Rós - Ég Anda
Sigur Rós have handed over the tracks to their latest album Valteri to a selection of directors with a free rein to shoot promos for any of them. This one's from Rahmin Bahrani - check the other Mystery FIlm Experiment results here
24th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Django Django - Love's Dart
Enjoying the Beta Band-style feel to the Django Django album. Here they are in a field.
17th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Planet Rock And Other Tales Of The 808
808 doc coming soon - Arthur Baker, Diplo, Fatboy Slim, ?uestlove etc all featured
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13th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Justice - Newlands
Rollerball-style future sports video for the Justice track
13th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: OFF! With added Kids In The Hall
OK, it's only Dave Foley making an appearance in this double feature promo for OFF ...styled like a chunk of 80s public access TV. Don't worry, the songs are still only 60 seconds each.
12th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Jay And Seth Vs The Apocalypse
trailer for a short from Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel that they've since worked up into a full-length feature The End Of The World, set at James Franco's house
12th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Zac Brown Band - The Wind
aka Robo Redneck - from Mike "King Of The Hill/Beavis & Butthead" Judge
11th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Abe&Tell - This Man's Brighter Days
an iPad stop motion video can take you quite far
11th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Blur - Under The Westway
New Blur song. Sounds just like a Blur song
4th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Dirty Projectors - Gun Has No Trigger
new single from Domino's Dirty Projectors
1st Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Frying Dutchman - humanERROR
A passionate anti-nuclear punk-meets-westcoast epic rant from Japanese band Frying Dutchman (via @YukaCHonda)
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29th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Toy - Left Myself Behind
Always like a good seven minute song when it's done well. Details of the album from Toy on Heavenly in September over at the Quietus
27th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Poliça - Amongster
Life In Cold Blood meets the Blue Lagoon
26th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yeasayer - Henrietta
trippy visuals for new Yeasayer track
21st Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Nite Jewel - One Second Of Love
you don't see enough nodding dogs in pop videos
19th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Family Bones - If You Ever Needed Someone
featuring 25000 Post-It notes... (via Laughing Squid)
6th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Mara Carlyle - The Devil And Me
like the grammar war going on in the comments... single out July 9, Mara is playing live at The Lexington 19 June
1st Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Hot Chip - Night & Day
"Many animals were harmed during the making of this video. Regrettably, none of them made the final edit." Peter @Serafinowicz, director. Can't concur with the "Zapp not Zappa" line, but good to see Terence Stamp, Lara Stone and Reggie Watts mucking about with spaceships
1st Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Accordion
Madvillan/MF Doom number from Neneh Cherry and her avant-jazz covers project with The Thing. Here's Four-Tet's rework of her take on Suicide's Dream Baby Dream. Nice to have her back
30th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Kanye West & Jay Z - No Church In The Wild
a designer riot from Romain Gavras (who shot MIA's ginger killathon) for the Phil Manzera-sampling Watch The Throne track
30th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Cornershop - Milkin' It
relaxed beats and old school shout-outs from the new Cornershop album Urban Turban
8th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man In The Universe
OK, as far as promo videos go, this is just a picture of Bobby Womack in an astronaut suit - but then again, it's BOBBY WOMACK IN AN ASTRONAUT SUIT. Damon Albarn produced album out on XL in June
4th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Mr Oizo - Stade 3
fun William Fichtner cameo in this trailer for @oizo3000's new EP Stade 3 - free over at www.mroizo3000.com
2nd May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Kwes - Bashful
Nice, cinematic flash-mob style promo up for 'Bashful' by @Kwes. Seems like less and less people put this much effort into a promo these days.
2nd May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: OFF!
@OFFOfficial channel the intensity of Black Flag classic "Wasted" with their new single Wiped Out. The video is suitably agro.
18th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Heavy Blanket
Psychedelic album promo up for J Mascis' side project Heavy Blanket.
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23rd Mar 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Horrors - Changing The Rain
wooooh trippy video from Peter "Monsterism" Fowler for The Horrors. Plus you can download wallpapers, and more usefully, some Horrors masks to cut out. Love it when people make a bit of an effort. Still listening to this album too
20th Mar 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet