Sorry for the delay in posting the link to watch Saturday’s episode - your dutiful Subterranean blogger is home siiiiiiick. Summer sick is the grossest, worst thing possible. So while we ice down a fever you check out Subterranean on MTV.com - this week with a bonus playlist of our favorite Americana songs right this Americanasecond.
Don’t forget this coming Saturday will feature our guests The Black Keys.
And now, some news - we’ll be on a holiday break the week of 9/6 so no new episode and then…we’ll move to yet another new time! Hopefully this one will stick. Starting on 9/11 you can catch us on Thursdays at 1AM EST.
This video is a nice mid-afternoon break from the dull drums. White Denim have a fantastic new video for “Shake Shake Shake” that we recommend you watch. We’re gonna call it a chavfest due to the location being “a junkyard in South London” on vimeo, but if it were American bred we’d call it hillbilly.
This Black Keys episode won’t air until Saturday August 30th BUT the interview is so hilarious that we wanted to bring you some sneak peeks. There will be another next week.
What’s funny about it is at the end of the interview the guys were like, “so who has to edit this?” Haha, assuming we’d edit it for air (which we will) but thanks to the magic of the Internet we can bring you this story about Duffy, The Black Keys and brainwashing uninterrupted.
Director Brian Savelson has come quite a long way since he directed Band of Horses’ god awful first video “The Funeral” strike that, homeslice emailed to let us know that particular piece of ick wasn’t him, but he did direct a not released alternate video for the same song - he also helmed their much improved video for “Is There A Ghost” and a sort of slo-mo video for The Republic Tigers, who happen to be on music supervisor Alex Positivo’s imprint label.
He gets even better on this outing with buzz band Ra Ra Riot (seriously, the buzz is mounting - almost everyone has declared this their anticipated fall record already). It’s a simple performance video, but done on a compelling world map backdrop. We’re assuming the strings are supposed to symbolize that we’re all attached and/or in this together?
Now this is a video concept we like. Langhorne Slim’s label Kemado told us it was going into production probably three months ago and it’s taken all of that time to finish. It’s from Joey Garfield, who also was behind RJD2’s “Work It Out” and Aesop Rock’s “No Jumper Cables” videos.
The wooden man concept captures an interesting idea - most of Langhorne’s songs are about romance and this wooden man in rustic settings who learns about human behavior could be symbolic of a boy growing into a man who’s learning the ways of the world.
Naturally he returns to the earth in the end - a poetic ending to the humanity of a tree.
