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Videos of the Day – week of 2/23/15

2/23 – Sleater-Kinney (above) teams with the Bob’s Burgers animation folks for the “A New Wave” video

2/24 – First Aid Kit had our 2nd favorite BTC album of last year…here’s the video for the new single & title track, “Stay Gold”

2/25 – about this time next month, Big Data puts out an album called 2.0 with a variety of guest vocalists, including Rivers Cuomo from Weezer on this track.

2/26 – Best Coast is back with a bit of a different sound on California Nights, out 5/5.  Here’s the title track…

2/27 – just came across this cool video from a band that you may know from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack (different song).  Check out “Poison” by Vaults from their Vultures EP that came out late last year…

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