New Videos from Mikey Erg and The So So Glos

Mikey Erg at Anchor's Bend in September

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Just wanted to call your attention to a pair of new videos that came out over the last day or so from two acts near and dear to us here at CoolDad Music.

Mikey Erg, "Faulty Metaphor"

Mikey Erg is probably the hardest working guy in punk. He does so much -- from leading the band on The Chris Gethard Show to drumming with Worriers to reuniting with the beloved Ergs! to hopping up onstage to play drums whenever Beach Slang want to cover The Replacements to so much more -- it's amazing that 2016's Tentative Decisions is his first solo record.

Well, it is; and it's great. When we had Mikey on our post-New Alternative Music Festival show back in September, just about everyone in the crowd knew every word. "Faulty Metaphor" is a standout track that mixes pop punk and -- to my ears anyway -- some of the feel of early Elvis Costello.

The Brendan McKnight-directed video for "Faulty Metaphor," which premiered over at Noisey, is a visual metaphor in itself. In it, Mikey Erg arrives at a party and all the fun... ...well... ...stops.



The So So Glos, "Missionary"

I use this joke all the time: The So So Glos are a Brooklyn via Brooklyn band. More than just about any band in the fertile Brooklyn scene, The So So Glos make their Kings County origins part of their identity. The So So Glos are also a band with an ideology. Their band name is both a goof on people whose faces are constantly illuminated by a handheld screen and a pejorative nickname for the mindless, gentrifying hordes that are invading their borough.

"Missionary," off of 2016's Kamikaze, can be taken two ways, I think. First, there are those mindless hordes. They venture out like missionaries to new lands. The streets get cleaner. The "riff raff" disappear. We're all told that this is an absolute good. Then, there are The Glos themselves, preaching that we should stop and take a look at what all of this change actually means. Getting, yeah, a little preachy about the value of authentic human relationships.

The video, directed by Operation Ivy's Jesse Michaels, shows a faceless, blue and orange-clad figure attempting to spread a Book of Holy Thought to an initially non-receptive population. Check it out and see what you make of it.