New music video from Mitch Gettman directed and edited by yours truly. Check it out here: http://hearnebraska.org/content/stay-me-gettman-music-video
If you’re like me, you might have heard of Mitch before. At 15, Mitch started posting videos on his youtube account of acoustic versions of some of his influences like Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and U2. With view counts in the hundreds of thousands, he found an audience online. His reception helped to form a band here in town and he has been playing for almost two years now. With only the acoustic songs I had seen online, I was blown away with the mature and rocking sound of his new album. Gettman has written a solid album of mad bittersweet characters yearning after love, life, and happiness. In working on this video, we mused on the album title, a Jack Kerouac quote. We wanted to project what one does when errant love runs off. We both agreed that fireworks were a centerpiece image, exploring wonder and danger, energy and contemplation. Take a moment and let the sweet release of this video set in while fireworks make your heart grow fonder.
Barley Street Tavern is a last call bar — a great place to throw the last one back, wrap a few hugs around old friends, and sing along with the final band. A delayed flight allowed me to see only the last band at the OEAA showcase July 8. Alt-country rockers The Big Deep were keeping eyes and ears awake with their lively show.
Tightly packed on the small stage, the band ripped a set of fun riffs packed with stories of romantic pratfalls and late-night existential philosophy sessions. It was the perfect end to my long day. This set helped The Big Deep win the last local MAHA Music Festival spot.
The circumstances surrounded this shoot might make you laugh or cry but this video can’t help but make you smile.
Just dropped!
It’s dreary, drizzling and gray across most of Nebraska, today. It’s the kind of weather that sours moods and turns eyes to the sidewalk, but on a rooftop in Brooklyn, a man in a dapper suit sings optimistically of the bright side of life. This Love Drunk video posted today on HearNebraska.org is Ace Reporter performing “Untouched and Arrived,” a song of affirmation and hope.
Just try to stay gray and downtrodden after watching it.
This video is blowing up. Check out Philly punkers, the Menzingers rock a one-take in the Ava House, an old DIY space in South Philly. This is part of the Love Drunk tour I’ve been helping with, 17 bands, 15 days, 13 cities all for the love of video and music making.
Lastly, fresh from mixing and mastering a new album with Doug Van Sloun of Focus Mastering, Poison Control Center ripped through a new set of singles and classics. As the night progressed and drinks were flowing, a frisky fan kept inviting himself to the mic to promote what I guessing was a sad after-show party featuring professional crying games (did anyone go? I would love to hear about it!). Brushed aside by the crowd, our intrepid fan threw a inflatable sex doll into the chaos that is PCC and surprisingly it stuck, to headstanding guitar player Devin. For entire song, Devin and the sex doll had an insatiable love/hate chemistry as they clung together no matter where Devin dove, ducked, and dodged. Even attempts to scrape their relationship onto Dave the drummer were failures. So enraptured by these events, I forgot I had camera in hand, only recognizing this as I wiped the tears from my eyes. Another classic night with PCC and why you shouldn’t miss them next time they swing on through.
Amazing review and videos from our Omaha show thanks to Ingrained Video’s and Hear Nebraska! This is pretty awesome! Thanks to our bud Andrew for his amazing amazing work on this!
http://www.hearnebraska.org/content/oleavers-triple-feature-ingrained-video
(Source: thepoisoncontrolcenter)
My friend Django who does Love Drunk also plays in Down With The Ship, a stellar roots rocking band. Normally, I shoot very naturally but I was playing with an effect earlier int he day and decided to go with it. Tell me what you think?
“Are they reliving the past or projecting a hazy future?” I asked myself as NAWAS settled into their album release show Feb. 25 at the Waiting Room Lounge. Out of the feedback, they coaxed one of my favorite songs, “Warm Eyes,” off their Slumber Party Records release, Hanga-Fang. It’s such a freeing song — a base of happy grunge, indie pop experimentation, and echoing hazed-out vocals. If you dream of the ’90s, then you’re in deep REM right now.
When they hit the chorus, I get that feeling that I’m being lifted off the ground. You know, that “Flight-of-the-Navigators”-tingling where you’re flying over trees and lakes at breakneck speed. I’m not feeling so old anymore. “Set me on fire” only makes sense as fast as I’m going. And then I realized, it wasn’t about what time I was teleported to, it was about space. And this was a place I wanted to go.
What do you feel when see this video?
Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship heads out on a tour today with Yuppies. Buy their new album here.
Shot by Django Greenblatt-Seay, Daniel Muller, Mike Machian, Andrew Roger, Andrew Norman
Edit by Andrew Roger
Photo Credit: Daniel Muller
More videos at vimeo.com/ingrained
Mercy Rule wasn’t a band when I got into the music scene. They were a legend of what could be and what the music industry had become; livers and killers. I just saw this music video today and it still speaks the same way to me as it did in hushed corners of bars.
Cool video for The Benningtons’ new song “The Lucky Man” off their new forthcoming album FIND LOVE. Enjoy!
Here is another Ingrained video with instrumental rock band The Answer Team. Less nerdy than most post-rock instrumental bands, these guys are huge on melodic swaying hooks. Enjoy!
Caught Irkutsk (don’t even try to pronounce it) at HearNebraska’s benefit show at O’Leavers in Omaha. Somewhere between punk, prog rock, and post-rock, Irkutsk is truely its own country of sounds, maybe even continent. Enjoy!
I just realized I never posted this kickass video of Kyle Harvey playing his Christmas From Outer Space CD live at The Barley Street Tavern. People came dressed as alien and spaceships and Kyle who normally is very minimalist dressed up in a full space suit. He filled the room with lazers and balloons and hip-hop drum beats under his sparse guitar playing. It was a night to remember and I’m glad I could catch it.
