Spring Break Friday
Spring break started for the cooldaughters today. We're all gonna be kicking it together locally for a few days before I head to Japan (more on that later). They'll be shuffling off to sunny Buffalo. In the meantime, here are a pair of cool videos from cool bands that came out earlier this week.
Exmaid, "Vamp"
Exmaid, fronted by Miranda Taylor (Black Wine / Full Of Fancy) and rounded out by Psychic Teens' Dave Cherasaro, Joe DeCarolis, and Larry Ragone, will be releasing their debut LP, Fair Sex, via Don Giovanni Records / SRA Records next Friday. Earlier this week, they gave us the video for "Vamp."
Shot and edited by Joe Evans at Flemington DIY, the clip features an appropriately DIY wedding reception with Exmaid as the entertainment. The song is the noisy, heavy, doomy punk that Exmaid are known for; but the video shows that they don't take themselves too seriously.
The band will be celebrating the release of Fair Sex with a show at In The West in New Brunswick on April 14th. That show also features "Vamp" video stars Secretary Legs and Decoration.
Wax Idols, "Mausoleum"
Oakland's Wax Idols bring together the sounds of dark post-punk and catchy pop. Fronted by songwriter Hether Fortune, the band's whole aesthetic harkens back to images from my youth as an 80s kid living in the 'burbs. Nowhere is all of that more evident than their latest single and video "Mausoleum."
Dalton Townsend shot the clip with the band in Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery on a Sony Hi8 camcorder. Wax Idols ride around the cemetery in a Volkswagen convertible similar to the kind that filled up the parking lot of my old high school and have a pretty good time among the headstones.
The visuals are a nice metaphor for the song. "Mausoleum" wraps its lyrics about the ways in which random moments can suddenly rekindle feelings of grief for those we've lost in hooky, upbeat pop.
"Mausoleum" is off of Wax Idols' upcoming, Happy Ending, which is due May 16th via the band's own Etruscan Gold Records.
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