TRIPLE DIPPER

November 25, 2008

The video for Michna’s “Triple Chrome Dipped” – the opening track from his excellent debut Magic Monday – is a collaboration between Michna and Philly-based video artist System D-128. Filmed entirely on a Hi8 analog camcorder purchased in 1989, the clip creates on odd but heartfelt contrast between the song’s slick hip-hop strut and its accompanying imagery: nostalgic footage of Adrian Michna’s coming-of-age in New York in the early `90s. Throughout the video, lo-fi computer graphics flit across the screen, giving the sequences a surreal, DayGlo mood to match the music.

Deastro - Keepers

November 20, 2008

Deastro’s Keepers is one of the most bounce-off-the-walls joyful records we’ve ever laid ears on. The brainchild of a young singer/songwriter/producer named Randolph Chabot, Keepers contains the sort of candy-colored pop nuggets that get us all smiley and teary-eyed at the same time. (SPIN likes Keepers’ “bubblegum tunes and swooning vamps,” and eMusic says Chabot “has pop star written all over him.”) Deastro’s Keepers was formerly available only on eMusic, but now, through Ghostly, you can buy it in all your usual MP3-buying places.

We should also mention that “Parallelogram” – the first single from Deastro’s next album Moondagger – is also up for download at The Ghostly Store. “Parallelogram” (and its B-side “Carol Gilligan”) features Chabot fronting a full live band, and places Deastro’s boundless energy in some ecstatically rock-y new territory.