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Videos of the Day – week of 8/13/18

8/13 – Canadian BTC faves Metric are busy this year touring with Smashing Pumpkins & here’s their cool new video!

8/14 – California duo In the Valley Below is back with a new video about which they say, “We wanted the music video to be colorful, classic 90s vibe, with lots of eye candy. Desperation at the end of the rainbow.”

8/15 – cool new live video for Jade Bird’s new single…looks like Vevo is not totally going away, but rather is in cahoots with YouTube now with this DSCVR (at 1st we were like VCR, what?  oh, DISCOVER, lol) thing

8/16 – The inimitable Cat Power’s 10th album is due out 10/5.  The 1st single features Lana Del Rey

8/17 – Leeds (UK) singer/songwriter Hannah Trigwell came to our attention via one of our coworkers discovering her mostly acoustic cover song videos on YouTube…her new single is in more of an electro-pop direction.  Her debut album RED is out in 2 weeks…

 

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