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NEW RELEASE: Doughty "Fort Hood"

Mike Doughty does a much better job setting up his video than I ever could, so I'm just gonna reprint the whole spiel from his blog. I don't think he'll mind.

Mike Doughty: Bex Schwartz directed this video for "Fort Hood." We made it together, without the record company, because we wanted to get a message out there, about young people whose bodies and minds are still being damaged in Iraq.

SHOT: Mike Doughty - Bex Schwartz, director

You probably know Mike Doughty as the frontman of Soul Coughing, and perhaps you know Bex Schwartz from a whole bunch of stuff — be it her blog, or one of her many many  TV appearances, or the video she directed for The Long Winters.

This video was shot in Brooklyn. Lefferts Gardens, to be exact.

artist: Mike Doughty song: "Fort Hood" label: ATO director(s): Bex Schwartz production co: High Water Mark Productions

NEW RELEASE: Ben Kweller "Penny On The Train Track"

Treadmills? We don't need no stinking treadmills. Ben Kweller — or more precisely, his grandma Marilyn "Bubbie" Kweller — is poised to have the first viral video hit of 2007. Shot by Ben himself in the gym of his grandma's condominium in Florida [where else would it be?] the video is basically nearly five minutes of the elder Ms. Kweller performing a Jazzercize routine to "Penny On The Train Track." --> watch "Penny On The Train Track"