Lower Dens’ singer Jana Hunter brushes his teeth in a snazzy suit and grooves alongside dancers in the indie pop band’s new video for “I Drive.” The track is the second single off their upcoming album The Competition, out September 6th via Ribbon Music.
Shot in monochrome and directed by Jason Nocito, the video features dancers Stephannie Henriquez and Steven Jeltsch surrounding Hunter in a synth-pop haze. “We had streets,” he sings, snapping his fingers and staring into the camera through mysterious shades. “But now there’s just police.
Shot in monochrome and directed by Jason Nocito, the video features dancers Stephannie Henriquez and Steven Jeltsch surrounding Hunter in a synth-pop haze. “We had streets,” he sings, snapping his fingers and staring into the camera through mysterious shades. “But now there’s just police.
- 7/9/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Baltimore indie pop act Lower Dens have announced a new album, The Competition, out September 6th, with an unsettling new music video for its lead single.
In “Young Republicans,” the band’s own Jana Hunter travels through a time warp – Fifties nostalgia by way of the 1980s – and ends up confronting a disturbing suburban cult dressed in red. Hunter goes from narrator of the cult’s seemingly benign activities to their prisoner and, eventually, an unwitting participant in a gruesome ritual. We won’t spoil it here, but let’s...
In “Young Republicans,” the band’s own Jana Hunter travels through a time warp – Fifties nostalgia by way of the 1980s – and ends up confronting a disturbing suburban cult dressed in red. Hunter goes from narrator of the cult’s seemingly benign activities to their prisoner and, eventually, an unwitting participant in a gruesome ritual. We won’t spoil it here, but let’s...
- 5/30/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Updated 11:15 Am: Whitney Cummings will not be back as executive producer/co-showrunner of Roseanne for the show’s 13-episode eleventh season, with executive producer/co-showrunner Bruce Helford taking the reigns as the sole showrunner.
“Whitney just had too much on her plate to commit,” Helford told Deadline. “But she’s always a part of the Roseanne family.”
Cummings later confirmed the news on Twitter. “Working on Roseanne was a surreal, incredible experience,” she wrote. “Due to work commitments and my tour schedule, I’m gonna have to watch the Connors from the sidelines next season. It was an honor to work with such an incredible group of actors, writers and crew. Harry Levin, you can stop calling my cell phone now.”
Returning as writers on the show are Wanda Sykes and Norm MacDonald as well as veteran Roseanne alumni Bruce Rasmussen, Dave Caplan, Sid Youngers and Betsy Borns, all...
“Whitney just had too much on her plate to commit,” Helford told Deadline. “But she’s always a part of the Roseanne family.”
Cummings later confirmed the news on Twitter. “Working on Roseanne was a surreal, incredible experience,” she wrote. “Due to work commitments and my tour schedule, I’m gonna have to watch the Connors from the sidelines next season. It was an honor to work with such an incredible group of actors, writers and crew. Harry Levin, you can stop calling my cell phone now.”
Returning as writers on the show are Wanda Sykes and Norm MacDonald as well as veteran Roseanne alumni Bruce Rasmussen, Dave Caplan, Sid Youngers and Betsy Borns, all...
- 5/18/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
"Inside Llewyn Davis" star Oscar Isaac plays Mr. Carpool, a down-on-his luck Angeleno, in the video for Danish producer Anders Trentemøller's latest single "Gravity" (featuring Jana Hunter of Lower Dens) from the album "Lost." As Mr. Carpool, Isaac's character wanders around the freeways of Los Angeles, making ends meet by offering his services as an extra passenger so they can drive in the carpooling lane. The collaborative video by directors Tue Walin Storm and Elvira Lind bridges the line between fiction and documentary as many Los Angeles natives play themselves. Though the video was shot in L.A., the footage was edited in a small cabin in Denmark by Mette Olendorff and Mathias Nyholm Schmidt. "The video is an homage to the great city of La," read the video's press notes, "a place where diversity is an understatement: a place full of vibrant characters from all walks of life...
- 1/10/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
There are some musicians who thrive exclusively on what they feel, writing songs by following “vibes” and other groovy nonsense. Jana Hunter is not one of them. Which could explain why the Lower Dens front woman calls her second album Nootropics — it's the name for “smart drugs,” a.k.a. memory enhancers. She's pragmatic, focused on the facts, and says things like, “I’m more interested in process than outcome.” We spoke with Hunter ahead of today's release about that process, how man’s struggle with technology inspired the album, and why she’ll never stop trying to sound like David Bowie.You grew up in Texas, now live in Baltimore, and wrote much of the new record while on the road. Does location inform your music?I’ve always thought of Texas as being very open territory, especially because I grew up in a smaller town that empties at night.
- 5/1/2012
- by Jillian Mapes
- Vulture
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
Fun Fact: Trullie used her graphic design skills, honed at the New School's Parsons School for Design, to modify a photo of an ample derriere from a '70s porno mag for her debut Ep's cover artwork.
Why She's Worth Watching: Self-aware songcraft and a muscular band make Trullie's pop morsels easy to ingest—without serving up her obvious influences on a silver platter.
For Fans Of: The Pretenders, Nico, Jana Hunter
Lissy Trullie always slips a cover into her live sets, but pairing her new-wave instincts with garden-variety “girl with guitar” material doesn't interest her. “I try to push the envelope," she says, instead offering up unlikely retro-rock versions of songs like Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" (sometimes with the help of pal Adam Green) and Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor." For the latter, she adopts a slight British lilt to deliver the “do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-now” refrain,...
Fun Fact: Trullie used her graphic design skills, honed at the New School's Parsons School for Design, to modify a photo of an ample derriere from a '70s porno mag for her debut Ep's cover artwork.
Why She's Worth Watching: Self-aware songcraft and a muscular band make Trullie's pop morsels easy to ingest—without serving up her obvious influences on a silver platter.
For Fans Of: The Pretenders, Nico, Jana Hunter
Lissy Trullie always slips a cover into her live sets, but pairing her new-wave instincts with garden-variety “girl with guitar” material doesn't interest her. “I try to push the envelope," she says, instead offering up unlikely retro-rock versions of songs like Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" (sometimes with the help of pal Adam Green) and Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor." For the latter, she adopts a slight British lilt to deliver the “do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-do-it-now” refrain,...
- 2/9/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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