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Video: Lower Dens, “Brains”

February 22, 2012
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Video: Lower Dens, “Brains”

For the sweeping drama and layers of quivering sounds in “Brains,” the first single off the forthcoming album Nootropics, Lower Dens released a music video that is rather minimalist. Well, minimalist at least in narrative action. The entire video focuses on a seated Jana Hunter, as seen through a convex screen resembling that of...
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Q&A: Jana Hunter on Exxon, Band Changes, and the Changing Future of Humans (Part Two)

May 10, 2011
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Q&A: Jana Hunter on Exxon, Band Changes, and the Changing Future of Humans (Part Two)

At the time of this interview, which was arranged and conducted in the span of several hours after it was announced that Will Adams was leaving Lower Dens on April 25, there was a growing local controversy surrounding an ExxonMobil commercial touting oil-sands technology. The reason: the oil company licensed the opening guitar chords...
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Know Your Product: Jana Hunter, “Two Cocks Waving Wildly at Each Other . . . ” from split EP with Inoculist (Heartbreakbeat)

July 24, 2009
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Know Your Product: Jana Hunter, “Two Cocks Waving Wildly at Each Other . . . ” from split EP with Inoculist (Heartbreakbeat)

Well, the full title of the song is “Two Cocks Waving Wildly at Each Other Across a Vast, Open Space, a Dark, Icy Tundra” but, wouldn’t you know it, there’s a character count limit on these blog titles. And it’s the “dark, icy tundra” part that really matters here. Billed as most likely Jana...
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The Baltimore Round Robin Tour Goes An Extra Round At Home

December 29, 2008
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The Baltimore Round Robin Tour 2008 is one of the more brilliant ideas to come out of the Wham City collective in its past few years. Not only did the two-night traveling show give exposure to dozens of local acts while pulling respectable crowds across the midwest and East Coast with the buzz of...
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