{"id":10811,"date":"2017-03-23T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2017-03-24T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:32:39","slug":"iow-a-myriad-musical-tour-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=10811","title":{"rendered":"IOW: A Myriad Musical Tour, Pt.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Even if we seem a bit out of tune with the ongoing soundtrack of our <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> lives, we find no harm in revisiting cool examples of local music artists set to full-motion visuals! Therefore, we restack the deck of melodious streaming content in an \u201c<strong>Images of the Week<\/strong>\u201d that will provide you with an aesthetic range from something old (in historical content) and something new (rendered with charming animation) to something borrowed (in the non-political plundering vein) and something Blue (in both the song\u2019s reason for being and the singer-songwriter herself.) Scroll away and press \u201cplay,\u201d dearest listeners!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fux970y5H0w\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Unleashed last week by the C-U garage rock combo, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The Underwerewolves @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/underwerewolves\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Underwerewolves<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, this self-produced video for \u201c<strong>The Aliens Work for the Evil Boss<\/strong>\u201d finds our heroes performing in a partly shorn cornfield \u2013 it is, perhaps, a crop circle? \u2013 to warn the world of extraterrestrial invasion. Intercut is black-and-white public domain footage from <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Starman series :: Weird Wild Realm Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weirdwildrealm.com\/f-starman-series.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Japan<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>STARMAN<\/strong> featurettes<\/a><\/span> from the late Fifties that depicts bizarrely-costumed space people, wire-hung model rockets, and <strong>Earth<\/strong>\u2019s bombardment via exploding miniature sets! This track appears on <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The Underwerewolves @ Bandcamp\" href=\"https:\/\/underwerewolves.bandcamp.com\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">their upcoming EP-with-comic book<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Adventures in Time<\/strong><\/span>, which will be released at a <strong>Cowboy Monkey<\/strong> show on <strong>Saturday, April 8<\/strong>. <strong>Acme Principle<\/strong> and <strong>Lonely Trailer<\/strong> are set to join <strong>Jeremy Pessin, Jay Creek, Will Arnold<\/strong>, and <strong>Conner Buenting<\/strong> in downtown Champaign for the cosmic festivities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4epl4_jirjA\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Taking its music cue from <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"The Fights @ Bandcamp\" href=\"https:\/\/thefights.bandcamp.com\/album\/bramble-patch-blues\" target=\"_blank\">the \u201cno-collar country\u201d album <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bramble Patch Blues<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> by <strong>The Fights<\/strong>, released back in October, the following CGI video for \u201c<strong>Self Helpless<\/strong>\u201d (despite the onscreen title) relays \u201ca short fable about how things we don\u2019t understand can be beautiful if we only take the time to learn about them,\u201d told with a sleepy brown bear, busy little caterpillars, and a colorful polygon countryside. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"7x6 Design :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/7x6design.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Florida<\/strong>-based firm <strong>7&#215;6 Design<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, operated by <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"IOW: Dolls dwell in \u201cElephant\u201d :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=4529\" target=\"_blank\">former C-U music scene contributor <strong>Chris Eitel<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, lovingly crafted the spot and premiered it in late February, while The Fights \u2013 <strong>Clayton Deering, Nicholas Stine, David Pride<\/strong>, and <strong>Cole Rabenort<\/strong> \u2013 performed this past Monday night with <strong>Rebecca Rego &amp; Eric Fitts<\/strong> and <strong>Dewclaw<\/strong> as part of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Urbana Hootenanny celebrating five year anniversary Monday night :: Smile Politely\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smilepolitely.com\/splog\/urbana_hootenanny_celebrating_five_year_anniversary_monday_night\/\" target=\"_blank\">the fifth anniversary <strong>Urbana Hootenanny<\/strong> show<\/a><\/span> at the <strong>Rose Bowl Tavern<\/strong> in our other downtown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ujKZ_lPEqEg\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We pay mind and listen up with our next video, the first of several to accompany <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Emily Blue @ Bandcamp\" href=\"https:\/\/emilyblue.bandcamp.com\/album\/another-angry-woman\" target=\"_blank\">the EP <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Another Angry Woman<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> by Champaign-to-<strong>Chicago<\/strong> performer <strong>Emily Blue<\/strong>. A stark reminder that sexual assault affects thousands of individuals daily, this minimalist expression produced by <strong>Wave Upon Wave<\/strong> alternates between slow-motion \u201climbo\u201d vignettes of Blue, a survivor who is using the track &#8220;<strong>No Pain<\/strong>&#8221; to call direct attention to a society-wide problem, and anonymous women and men depicting their traumas and defiance on a marker board. Both made their debut in August and attracted nationwide press for their timely messages as well as for Blue donating her proceeds to help <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"RACES :: Home Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cu-races.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Rape Advocacy, Counseling, and Education Services<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (<strong>RACES<\/strong>) in Urbana, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Rape-crisis center on the rebound :: The News-Gazette\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news-gazette.com\/news\/local\/2017-01-06\/rape-crisis-center-rebound.html\" target=\"_blank\">a vital regional agency only beginning to rebound<\/a><\/span> after losing all its state funding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x6rYNtm6pw0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally, we check in with Urbana filmmaker <strong>John Isberg<\/strong> of <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Swede Films @ Tumblr\" href=\"http:\/\/swedefilms.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Swede Films<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, whose output <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"IOW: A Myriad Musical Tour, Pt.2 :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=9799\" target=\"_blank\">dominated our last Tour<\/a><\/span> and recent portfolio includes videos for <strong>Elsinore, We the Animals<\/strong>, and <strong>Sunset<\/strong>. Just returned from <strong>South by Southwest<\/strong> in <strong>Austin, TX<\/strong>, Isberg will resume work on his massive national-to-local documentary <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"WHERE IT BEGINS @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Whereitbeginsdoc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>WHERE IT BEGINS: 1977-2000<\/strong><\/a><\/span>; here, we share a teaser trailer filled to the brim with ephemera and familiar faces that will register with long-term fans of Champaign-Urbana rock history. Veteran talents also taking part include <strong>Adrian Belew, Kim Deal, Jon Ginoli, Ian MacKaye<\/strong>, and <strong>Steve Albini<\/strong> as interview subjects and <strong>The Smashing Pumpkins<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Jeff Schroeder<\/strong> as score composer. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Where It Begins campaign @ Indiegogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/where-it-begins-1977-2000-indie-music-doc#\/\" target=\"_blank\">An <strong>Indiegogo<\/strong> push to afford post-production costs<\/a><\/span> has just been extended to <strong>Saturday, April 22<\/strong>, coinciding with the annual <strong>Record Store Day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.<\/em> Not unlike in <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"\u2018Dance\u2019 to be last FOW, FWIW :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=10779\" target=\"_blank\">our review post from last week<\/a><\/span>, we have most likely seen the last of a department as we begin to retool what we do on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>C-U Blogfidential<\/strong><\/span>. \u201c<strong>Images of the Week<\/strong>\u201d hasn&#8217;t been employed much lately, as it is pretty well understood that a forum about movie media would be illustrated, and we never seemed to build up enough steam to offer it weekly without fail. Maybe it could use a more autonomous voice in a column format similar to what we think might benefit a fresh round of \u201c<strong>Flicker of the Week<\/strong>.\u201d We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: The Underwerewolves, The Fights, Emily Blue, and a cornucopia of Champaign-Urbana bands provide the soundtracks for today&#8217;s gallery of music videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,20],"tags":[940,900,1789,1502,1788,1790,1794,1793,1505,1792,1083,1791,1673],"class_list":["post-10811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-music-video","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-adrian-belew","tag-chris-eitel","tag-emily-blue","tag-john-isberg","tag-jon-ginoli","tag-no-pain","tag-races","tag-self-helpless","tag-swede-films","tag-the-aliens-work-for-the-evil-boss","tag-the-fights","tag-the-underwerewolves","tag-where-it-begins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}