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Promo Promo: Max Tundra
Promo up for Max Tundra's current single Which Song. Shot in one take for £22 apparently. And the money's all on the screen.
2nd Apr 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Promo Promo: The Veils
Video up for the new single from The Veils - The Letter. New album Sun Gangs arrives next week.
They're going on tour too:
Apr 15 London Dingwalls
Apr 16 Brighton The Hope
Apr 17 Guilford Boiler Room
Apr 18 Reading Oaskford Social Club
Apr 20th Nottingham Bodega
Apr 21 Manchester Ruby Lounge
Apr 22 Cardiff Barfly
Apr 23 Birmingham Rainbow
Apr 24 Preston Mad Ferret
Apr 25th Glasgow V Club
31st Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: King Creosote / Pssap
Former Chimpomatic favourite King Creosote is back with a new album - Flick The Vs - out on Domino on April 20th. Check out the video to first single Coast On By.
And here's a creepy promo for Pssap's new single I Want That - out March 30th, also on Domino.
27th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: 1990s and Camera Obscura
Rough Trade band the 1990's have a new single and video - 59 - while 4AD's new signings Camera Obscura are back with a new mobile-phone-commercial-friendly single - French Navy, out April 13th.
25th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: Fully Flared
After UNKLE provided the music for the opening of Spike Jonze/Ty Evans' 2007 skate video Fully Flared, the directors have returned the favour - extending and re-editing the footage to serve as a video for the UNKLE single Heaven.
Promo up top, original down below.
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24th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Bonnie Prince Billy
With a beard even bigger than normal, check out the promo for Bonnie Prince Billy's new track - I Am Goodbye, from forthcoming new album Beware.
Directed by Jennifer Parsons & Leif Johnson.
6th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Free Police Woman
New video up for Joan As Police Woman's track Start Of My Heart, and a free download of the track too.
16th Feb 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Antony + The Johnsons
Pretty freaky new video up for the Antony & The Johnsons single - Epilepsy Is Dancing.
Not surprisingly perhaps, it's directed by the Wackowski Brothers - with help from painters Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paradiso.
9th Feb 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: The Kills - Black Balloon
Glad to see somebody's still using Super 8.
New Kills EP Black Balloon out March 23rd.
1 – Black Balloon
2 – Crazy (cover) – iTunes session
3 – Kissy Kissy – iTunes session
4 – Sour Cherry – iTunes session
5th Feb 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Eugene McGuinness
Nice stop-motion promo up for Eugene McGuiness's track Fonz. Glad someone is still using the art to good effect. With a digital camera you can make an HD stop-motion promo for next to nothing.
28th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Tim Buckley
Not a new promo, but with John Frusciante bumping Song To The Siren back up the playlist, and Jeff Buckley riding high on his X-Factor success, check out Tim's original version of a timeless classic.
23rd Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Neil Young
Crazy Uncle Neil Young has a new lo-fi video up. Fork In The Road is taken from his latest madcap concept album, which is all about bio-fuel cars....
Check out the Linc Volt site for more info.
23rd Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Animal Collective
Time for a bit of nature watching with Animal Collective. Check out the promo for their track My Girls - from the highly rated Merriweather Post Pavilion album.
22nd Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Friendly Fires - Skelton Boy
Nice lo-fi video up for the Friendly Fires' single Skeleton Boy.
20th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Invisible - Visible
The Invisible's balloon-filled new video for London Girl is up on the Guardian's music site
9th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: TVOTR Dancing Choose
Promo up for TV On The Radio's forthcoming single Dancing Choose.
6th Jan 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Song Of The Day: Volume V
Meant to put this up after President Obama was beamed into the universe, but seeing as we've still got his four years to look forward to, there's still loads of time to enjoy TV On The Radio's Golden Age.
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26th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wild Beasts
Check out this mind bending post-Seven Nation Army video for Wild Beasts' Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants.
19th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tall And Tanned...
thanks to our HK correspondent J Lawless for this tropical video
15th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: White Denim - Let's Talk About It
Check out this strangely focused narrative video from Austin's White Denim. Let's Talk About It.
P.S. Don't be fooled into tracking down their new US album, it's just a re-jigged and re-titled version of the European Full Time Hobby release from earlier this year.
30th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Troublemaker
Weezer have stepped into the record books for new video Troublemaker, setting a record for most-number-of-records. Biggest custard pie fight, biggest game of dodgeball, 22 people on a skateboard, largest air guitar ensemble.... just watch the pretty hectic video for more.
9th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: MMJ Touch Me Part 2
Spooky animated promo up for My Morning Jacket's Touch Me, I'm Going To Scream Part 2.
4th Sep 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
House of Cards
Radiohead's much vaunted camera-free video for House of Cards is finally online - hosted by Google with a whole bunch of extra data.
It's pretty spooky, spectacular and adventurous - but what did you expect? Check it out below, or head over to the Google page for a making-of, some explanation of the process and a great demo - as well as the opportunity to download the data files used in the promo and create your own video version.
15th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Fleet Foxes - Winter Hymnal
There's a nice old-school stop-frame video up for Fleet Foxes excellent Winter Hymnal.
11th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet