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Videos of the Day – week of 8/8/16

8/8 – check out the new Shovels & Rope video above…new album out in Oct. & see ’em at The Jefferson 10/22!

8/9 – as heard last night on BTC, the video for the new Massive Attack/Hope Sandoval collab has just debuted today!

8/10 – Beach Slang made quite a splash (so to speak) last year with their debut album, The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us…on 9/23, they’re already back with another great album title, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings.  Here’s the brand-new video!

8/11 – Belle & Sebastian has Olympic fever & they’ve composed a new theme song!  Here’s how they put in on their YouTube page: “Belle and Sebastian dig the Olympics, love the Olympic ideal, love that the world gets together for a big ‘sports day’ once every four years.
We can’t be part of it, though we’d like to be. So we recorded a piece of music with Rio In mind: specifically the Track and Field. ”

8/12 – J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. joined Pearl Jam at Fenway Park last weekend for “Rockin’ in the Free World!”

and here’s a view from the pit, joining J in mid-shred progress…

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