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Videos of the Day – week of 4/14

4/14 – the new Bleachers project is the solo venture of Jack Antonoff of the band fun.  His girlfriend Lena Dunham of HBO’s Girls directed the video!

4/15 – The Both is the new band feat. Ted Leo & Aimee Mann. Their new self-titled album is out today!  Here’s a track inspired by the Bronze Fonz statue in “Milwaukee”…check out Ben Stiller rockin’ the Alice Cooper makeup on drums!?

4/16 – Here’s a weird one we posted for a hot minute last week, but then took down in honor of all the Nirvana goodness during & after the RnR Hall of Fame business.  The band is the transcontinental husband/wife duo Thus Owls…

4/17 – kind of an Interpol-meets-The National sound for the L.A. band NO (somehow they got the Twitter handle @NO)…

4/18 – Here’s a rockin’ one for a Friday…Gord Downie (of The Tragically Hip), The Sadies & The Conquering Sun have a new self-titled collaboration album that just came out this week

 

 

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