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Check out Weird Womb's "Hitler Painted Roses" featured in Thrasher Magazine's "Out There: Mike Anderson" interview
The Dark Prince of Lower Allston, Ian Adams, splendidly covers Eldridge Rodriguez’s “Next Year’s Prom Song” from This Conspiracy Against Us. Check out Ian’s project, Holy Temple of the Mystic Eight Ball for other great tracks
From the Desk of Management,
Its been two decades since the release of The Beatings first EP, 6Hz, which we released on our own Midriff Records label. Since 1999 we presented 5 more collections for your listening pleasure, saw you on lots of national tours, made tons of new friends and its been a real blast for all involved.
Haven’t we all, at one point or another, fantasized or heard rumors about an office romance? Sandwiched between stacks of papers, staring helplessly at the computer screen, taking habitual sips of lukewarm coffee, it comes as no surprise that salacious thoughts sometimes sneak into our heads to deliver us, momentarily, from corporate boredom. In the new music video for “Lost City,” a song from New York-based indie band Relations’ 2016 album Cloud Dreaming (Midriff), director Victoria Stevens takes this fantasy to another level. Surrealist and playfully grim, her short film—which features a philandering boss and revenge-seeking employee—may just teach all those office Casanovas a little lesson.
We are huge fans of Ian Adams’s artwork. Over the course of the next few weeks will be posting galleries of his work in a new blog feature called That Looks Awesome. That Looks Awesome will focus on local visual artists that we admire and showcase our favorite pieces. But first, as an introduction, we have a video made by our own in-house team. Welcome to the dark world of the illist of illustrators, Boston’s own Ian Adams.
The Outdoorsman, which features the track “Abigail” off the Scuba (mems. of Louder My Dear, Eldridge Rodriguez) album from a few years back!
Directed by David Haskell
Starring Brent Morin, Sasheer Zamata, Peri Gilpin, Rick Glassman, Rick Shapiro, Monique Coleman, Spencer Grammer, Laura Kightlinger, Brooks Wheelan
If you don’t live in the metro Boston area you probably/maybe have only a peripheral knowledge of “The Bubbler”, the super informative music oriented and band profile show hosted by Ryan Spaulding of the Ryan’s Smashing Life blog and aired on CBS’ MyTV 38 Sunday nights over the last few months. We love the show and reviewed, profiled and posted a clip (featuring me) a few posts ago.
Recently, the show aired a profile and extended interview with The Beatings, where we talked about the band and Midriff. Since we announced it’s broadcast, we’ve been getting emails from fans and friends outside of MA asking where they can see the segment. Here it is… for your consideration.