Kool Rock Radio News Update February 18, 2022

Kool Rock Radio News ► February 18, 2022

1. Leeds post punk/dark pop band Klammer have aired the video for their newest single “Progress (or the lack of)“. Read more ►

2. Belfast cold wave/minimal synth/electronic artist Crystalline Stricture has aired two new songs “Real” and “Right Out“. Read more ►

3. Berlin bedroom-rock/post punk new solo project Jogger (aka Florian Nikolai) has shared the video for his new single “Du & Ich“. Read more ► 

4. UK-based dream pop/lo-fi/indie artist Jesse D’Kora (aka Dan Parker from Juliper Sky and Affairs) has revealed his new single “cricket“. Read more ►

5. Miss Kittin & The Hacker, the electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France, have revealed their infectious new single “19“. Read more ►

6. Swedish coldwave/synthpop/darkwave band Cold Connection have unleashed a new video for “Beautiful (remixed)“. Read more ►

7. Washington DC electro/synth artist S Y Z Y G Y X (aka Luna Blanc) has dropped the video for “Can’t Kill Me“. Read more ►

8. Indiana shoegaze/dream pop band Whimsical have announced the release of their album ‘Melt’ and have shared the video for  their new single “Rewind“. Read More ►

9. Dallas, TX indie rock/pop/new wave band Motorcade have returned with their new single/video “Standard Passage”. Read More ►

10. Brighton art-rock band Youth Sector have unveiled the video for their new single “Always Always Always“. Read more ►

11. Russian post punk/new wave band PLOHO have shared the video for their new single “Plattenbauten“. Read more ►

12. Los Angeles based bedroom pop/lo-fi artist Vinyl Williams (aka multimedia artist Lionel Williams) has announced the release of his new LP ‘Cosmopolis‘ and has shared the video for his new single “Probable Cause“. Read more ►

13. Austin, TX dream pop/post punk/shoegaze band Glaze have aired the video for their new single “Buttercup“. Read more ►

14. Austin, TX dream pop/shoegaze/bedroom pop band Blushing have premiered the video for their catchy new single “Ours“. Read more ►

15. Los Angeles new wave/post punk/synth pop duo Sacred Skin (FKA Second Skin), have released their new single/video “Earthbound“. Read more ►

16. Brisbane psych pop band The Belligerents have revealed their new single/video “9 Times Out of 10“. Read more ►

17. Swedish indie-pop band Shout Out Louds have unleashed the video for their new single “My Companion“. Read more ►

18. San Diego indie/alt trio Los Saints have dropped the video for their new single "Fouund You Somewhere".

Film School Premiere "Take What You Need" & "Superperfection" Music Videos

Los Angeles shoegaze/psych/alt band Film School have premiered two new video for the songs "Take What You Need" and "Superperfection".

Both tracks are taken from their sixth studio album "We Weren’t Here", released in September last year via Sonic Ritual. Get it here.

About the video for "Take What You Need", Director Laura Conway explains: 

"Place is crucial for me and I often start with a location as the first character. In this case it was the Media Archeology lab and their workshop of beautiful (and functioning!) machines. Once I listened to the song, which is all about living your truth, a story started emerging about a computer tech encountering a computer virus that red pills her into the realization that she is also a dancer. I have been looking for a project to collaborate on with choreographer and mover Constance Harris because her choreography is so dynamic and when she performs I am completely transfixed. As we developed the look and ideas Constance Harris, my costume designer Andrea Ballas, and I talked about references from Grace Jones and Bruce Conner, to Black Box, and Spike Lee's Girl 6. The video also nods to the buried history of women, especially black women, in the development of early computer programming, which has been erased by the silicon nightmare/regime we currently live under.”

“Continuing on Laura’s ideas here, to me this video not only celebrates women and diversity in early computer programming, but also the underrepresented diversity and POC in our music genre, past and present.” - Singer Greg Bertens

On "Superperfection" video, Director Christin Turner, says:  

"Superperfection follows the psychedelic undergrowth encroaching on mysterious and breathtaking structures. The music video was shot on 16mm Kodak film in the forested ruins in Sintra, Portugal, and the Carmo Convent Ruins in Lisbon, stitched together in oscillating light. Waves of color overtake the real and place us back into the surreality of film. The video interprets the song's lyrics as an overtaking of civilization by all forms of wild-ness in the foreseeable future - as pattern that repeats throughout the centuries. The world without humans is animated using camera effects, colors, and movement. Experimental film techniques push into the frame, as if to introduce an alternate reality that underlies it all. True wildness emerges from vibrant inner experiences."

(facebook.com/filmschoolmusic)

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Watch: Los Saints Drop New Single/Video "Fouund You Somewhere"

San Diego indie/alt trio Los Saints have droppped the video for their new single "Fouund You Somewhere".

The song is out now through Enci Records (The Joy Formidable, Fences), it was recorded in Los Angeles by Keith Cooper of Dear Boy and is a perfect introduction to Los Saints: a tale of longing and regret set to a rousing, stadium-worthy chorus. Get it here.

Band member Angel Mariscal says: “‘Fouund You Somewhere’ was written at the end of my first serious relationship. It’s about yearning for something that you lost and holding on to what could have been, if things were done differently.”

The video, directed by Mariscal, puts an amusingly literal spin on the song’s meaning, as he leads the band on a wild-eyed odyssey to the heart of the city in search of someone or… something.

Watch/listen below.

(instagram.com/lossaintsofficial)

Tags: Los Saints