VIDEO: Sky Juice - "Hard to Kill"

"Marked for Death"

Another mind-bendingly awesome visual masterpiece from video artist Todd Ledford, the dude behind Olde English Spelling Bee, for "Hard to Kill" by Sky Juice, the solo project of Lambsbread's Zac Davis. (Watch Zac Davis and James Ferraro performing at DBA on November 5, 2009.)

The video, Ledford's best yet, contains excerpts from the 1983 film Nightmares starring a pre-Repo Man (and pre-pubic hair) Emilio Estevez as J.J. Cooney, 8-bit arcade wiz kid whose night takes a nightmarish (haa) turn for the worse when the Bishop of Battle (the scary green grid-faced dude you see here) exits screen and enters reality. Spliced with those gems is old 70's anti-drug animation, which works fucking perfectly. I got home late last night only to find a delightful sneak peak of this baby waiting for me to curl up with in my bed. Though watching this thing right before zonking out hard was arguably a mistake, the dreams that ensue are worth it. And as Todd put it,

PLAY THIS SUCKER LOUD!!!!

Below are some tracks we got along with the video from OESB:

Sky Juice - "Can't Cross the Border" (Hard to Kill LP, July 2008)

Sky Juice - "Empty Grave" (Above the Law LP, February 2009)

Sky Juice - "Slimescape (For James Ferraro)" (Above the Law LP, February 2009)

Buy all releases at ye olde OESB Online Shoppe.

PS - Watch Nightmares on Youtube in parts. It's that good:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

VIDEO: Alice Cohen - "Memories of Glaciers"

"Walking Up Walls"

Alice Cohen, an incredibly talented musician/video artist over on Olde English Spelling Bee, has a new video out for her song "Memories of Glaciers." The song is the closing track off her spectacular album Walking Up Walls, and it is a perfect song for the recent chill that's settled into all our frigid bones. It certainly soundtracked my morning. Waking up in a freezing Bushwick loft with no insulation or heat on yet, the song dances slowly along as I watch my breath form a cloud in front of my face.
Maybe you accidentally overlooked this awesome LP by Cohen because it came out the same time as Ducktails and Julian Lynch, but hey - that's ok! Don't beat yourself up just yet. You get a second chance. Buy it here. And look at all these incredible videos that Alice has made that you'll surely recognize.

VIDEO: Grippers Nother Onesers (At Slimer Beach)

New video from hypno chill label Olde English Spelling Bee called "Grippers Nothers Onesers (At Slimer Beach)." Dig the homemade video aesthetic. The piece contains clips of old school video games, home movies, and at least one part of it looks like it was shot right off a TV screen. And that mask from Scream still totally scares me, even if it is worn by some nitrous burnout in a hoodie dancing around his dorm room in slow mo. In fact, it's even creepier.

The audio is can be described best by the label: "The soundtrack for this 12-minute long total mindfuck of a video is a jump-cut medley excerpting several different tracks from the LP... Grippers Nother Onesers is a channeling of teenage mutant glue sniffing psycho dreams, a prelude to the psychotic beach bum depression induced by junkfood and huffing siphoned gas out of the Oscar Meyer mobile." It's a re-issue of the cult fave tape from 2006, previously known as Lamborghini Crystal's 1992 Cool Runnings Holiday.

Always good shit from OESB. Vinyl release is December 14th. Check out their new blog!

VIDEO: Oneohtrix Point Never - "Time Decanted"

Olde English Spelling Bee sent out the new Oneohtrix Point Never music video for "Time Decanted" off their album Russian Mind (No Fun Productions). Video by Todd Ledford.

I love where music videos are going...