On Friday April 29th, Titus Andronicus fans all over New Jersey are invited to premiere the band’s new video for the song “No Future Part III: Escape From No Future” [from the band's 2010 album The Monitor -ed] directed by longtime NJ resident and WFMU radio host Tom Scharpling.
Titus is inviting everyone that lives in their home state of New Jersey to join in the premiere: whether….you have a video store in New Brunswick, you run a poker blog in Atlantic City, you manage a record shop in Princeton, you have a blog about Seaside Heights, you are a Sparta stoner with a sweet new flatscreen, you are a mechanic in Clifton with a video projector and a white wall or you are the Newark Star-Ledger, it's your God-given right, scratch that your responsibility to participate in the premiere of this video. Everyone in the Garden State is welcome to post/host/display the video on the 29th. Everyone else will just have to wait!
The band is also playing on the 29th in Hoboken, NJ at Maxwells! Perfect timing.
All Jersey residents, publications, websites, and institutions public or private are invited to simply email [email protected], and the band’s label, XL Recordings, will set you up with whatever tool you need: DVD, QuickTime file, embed code – it’s a cinch to participate!
The “No Future Part III: Escape From No Future” video is a love letter to Titus Andronicus’ home state, and in it the band travels to The Pine Barns, the suburbs around Lakewood, Asbury Park, and New Brunswick before finally ending up in Jersey City. The video honors the state in a way that it truly deserves. New Jersey is NOT a punchline – it is a lovely place – the home of Sinatra, Springsteen and Stickles, and the band want to involve its residents in our day of excitement.
The band’s leader Patrick Stickles says, “Throughout our career, we in the rock and roll band Titus Andronicus have gone to great lengths to celebrate our New Jersey heritage. We know well how our state has a way of instilling in its citizens a certain sense of underdog pride – for all of its faults and flaws, it is home, and for all that we may dream of escaping it, we never hope to forget it. These themes of regional identity, the way that a sense of heritage informs our behavior, run throughout our latest album, The Monitor, and with this video we intend to manifest them visually.”
Artist:
www.titusandronicus.net/
Album:
The Monitor is out now. Buy it here on Amazon .