I used to post a video every Friday and tell you all to "Rock on!" Not sure when or why that stopped, but a couple of interesting videos came out this week. It's Friday, so...
The So So Glos, "A.D.D. Life"
If we've learned one thing from the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, it's that message discipline can take you far. My Bay Ridge, Brooklyn paisanos, The So So Glos, appear to be big believers in that. Songs like "Xanax" and "Speakeasy" from 2013's BLOWOUT are commentaries on the dominant role that technology has assumed in our lives. Even their band name is a reference to the subtle glow of a smartphone screen on a user's face.
Their latest single, "A.D.D. Life," stays pretty solidly on message with lines like, "I'm a too much information generation cliché" and a video that's as frantic as the life they describe.
dollys, "friendly"
dollys display a discipline of a different sort. They stick pretty tightly to a strategy which I'm beginning to believe is a really good one for new bands. Rather than releasing an album and then waiting until they have enough new music to put out another, dollys have gone with releasing a couple of singles every few months accompanied by a video or two. It allows an up and coming band to stay out in front of people and to keep adding new music to their sets.
It's been about two months since dollys' last singles; but this past Tuesday, the band released a video for "friendly," one of the songs they put out towards the end of last year. The video compiles footage from one of dollys' semi-regular trips to Virginia (Establishing kind of a "home away from home" area to tour: also a good strategy.) into a simple but effective montage.
And now that dollys have enough singles out there, they're combining them into a full-length called Low Year that they'll be releasing next Friday, February 26th, as part of a joint record release with Lost In Society. That show takes place upstairs at Asbury Park's Convention Hall and also includes gods, Kyle Trocolla, and Derek Rossi.
This may or may not be the last you hear from me today, depending on how things go, but...
Rock on!
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