In honor of Labor Day—sadly I am not the only Mercury word drone spending his holiday at the office—we present you with this Cass McCombs music video for “The Executioner’s Song” that is all about working. What great timing, since McCombs is in town tonight—performing at Mississippi Studios—which means you can watch this clip and […]
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Hockey – “Song Away” Video
Hockey – Song Away (Official Music Video) “Song Away,” easily the best track on Hockey‘s Mind Chaos, finally gets a video, and it stars twee-as-fuck actress Charlyne Yi (and some actor named Paul Rust, but I am not sure who he is). It’s your typical boy-girl dance party with lots of bright lights, plastic cup […]
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Richmond Fontaine – “You Can Move Back Here”
Few recordings, local or not, have me as excited as We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River, the poetic-sounding new full-length from the booze/horse enthusiasts in Richmond Fontaine. Thankfully the band just released this excellent video for their lead single, “You Can Move Back Here.” Blatantly ignoring the threat of poison oak, […]
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DVD Review: Dollhouse
DollhouseSeason OneAvailable Now In Blogtown, instead of doing yoga in a soothing spa-like atmosphere, we’re forced to do our downward-facing dogs on discarded wooden pallets out by the dumpsters. So while twinged with jealousy of the actives’ work environment, we are beyond relieved about Dollhouse’s renewal for 13 more episodes. Phew! That was a close […]
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Heath Ledger’s Modest Mouse Video
Stereogum has posted the new Modest Mouse video, directed by one Heath Ledger. Weird, right? The Mouse have a new release out today, No One’s First, And You’re Next, and the lead single, “King Rat,” was given the animated video concept by Ledger… FROM THE GRAVE. Um, no. Actually, it was started before Ledger’s tragic […]
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YACHT – “Psychic City (Voodoo City)” Video
P4K has posted the YACHT video for “Psychic City (Voodoo City),” from their DFA debut, and just-released, See Mystery Lights album. With a drip-drip beat that sounds like it was trapped in R. Kelly’s closet—with Rufus—the song is a joyful little pop number that stands on it’s own, yet still fits in nicely within the […]
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The Gossip Take a Stab at “Psycho Killer”
Sure, it would have been nice to see the Gossip burn it up in the SE industrial blocks for PDX Pop Now, but they are no longer our band, they are everyone’s band. That is why the trio quartet (Wait, when did that happen?) was at the Capitol Hill Block Party on Saturday, and it […]
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The Best 14 Minutes of Your Life
Our mild Juggalo obsession has just reached full meltdown mode thanks to this infomercial for the 10th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos. Clocking in at a brain-dissolving 14+ minutes, this video has it all. (And by “it all” I mean a bunch of fat kids in clown makeup, exploding graphics, and Violent J comparing this […]
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Minhternet Video: Nightvision
Frequent Mercury contributing photographer Minh Tran just sent me his video project, “Nightvision.” Part documentation of what the kids are doing and wearing while you’re home asleep, part lovenote to PDX’s DJ and club scene, it is perhaps overlong, but filled with flattering images of tipsy young things. In other words, you can probably take […]
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The Builders and the Butchers – “Golden and Green” Video
In what could best be described as their own personal “November Rain” (but with less shots of Slash soloing outside a dusty church), the Builders and the Butchers pull out all the stops on their epic “Golden and Green” video. This Alicia Rose directed clip—which debuts on the AOL Spinner site this morning—captures plenty of […]
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Dave Chapelle – The Video
Dave Chappelle at Pioneer Square </center Surely the internets are loaded with various camera phone clips of Dave Chapelle’s show/Twitwreck last night, but I doubt any of those can touch this OregonLive video that not only has Chapelle’s face, but his voice as well. In a night that had just about everything but sound, this […]