Video: Joe Volume & The Shot o'Clock - "Oh Lord!"

We’ve never heard a full album by Joe Volume, but in our IndieAlt bubble, it’s almost impossible to dismiss his weekly controversies. Yes, trouble seems to find him and he’s probably contributing to it. These personality traits however, don’t change the fact he is a rock stallion. Video editor turned director Mauricio Coy directs Joe Volume’s very first video “Oh Lord!”, the promotional single from his latest record The Shameless. The band’s fuzzy and frenzy punk is the soundtrack to a morbid and unsteady sequence. It’s midnight and a camera spots a creature behind a tree, it’s a girl – she runs-, let’s chase it. If you were to take my word-by-word description you could easily dismiss the clip as another punishing sexist clip, but if you’re a follower of the genre, you probably know ‘The Chase’ could go beyond that. Here they make things a bit more interesting by desexualizing the clip, and placing religious accessory on the girl (he goes for the cross, not her body), who knows, perhaps she’s in need of an exorcism and they’re just trying to help.

New MP3: "Arde la Gente", Margarita

If we were to revise our list of the best albums of 2008 there would be dramatic changes, but an album that I still love and placed deservedly high at #12 is Margarita’s Parque Magico, not too many people has heard it but it’s flawless. You’ll be especially thrilled if you’re into the vintage Tropicana from Montañas, Juanita y Los Feos, Joe Volume or even the inspiring and whimsy sound of Battles or Abe Vigoda. Sometimes they sound just rude but they’re working with pop in incredible ways, some kind of pop noir? They sent us their new track “Arde la Gente”, this is the first time we’ve heard them singing in Spanish although you don’t need to understand a word to picture a crowd in flames, this is going straight into our features, it’s that good.

♫♫♫ "Arde La Gente"
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