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Videos of the Day – week of 8/14/17

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Videos of the Day – week of 8/14/17

8/14 – The Shins’ new video (above) was filmed on a white backdrop, edited, then printed out. “Half A Million” was created with 5,566 stickers, hand cut from the 4,868 frames and animated by sticking them down on top of each other at each of the 40+ locations.

8/15 – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have a new album out 9/1.  Here’s their new video

8/16 – Phoebe Bridgers has a new album out on the Dead Oceans label 9/22.  Check out the karaoke-style lyric video for the new single…

8/17 – in an effort to keep up with the seemingly more-drastic-by-the-day headlines this year, Billy Bragg is releasing a song a month instead of a traditional album.  Here’s the lyric video for the latest track & what “sunny day flooding” means

8/18 – there’s a new Protomartyr album out 9/29 called Relatives In Descent.  Here’s the thought-provoking new song & video, “A Private Understanding”

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