Radiation City Find It Of Use Video
While You Were Out…
Since the past few weeks have been consumed with travel, shit internet connections and well, a lack of time, it feels like all my social networks are one giant memo pad that reads “While You Were Out.” You see, I didn’t forget about all this good stuff, I just haven’t had a chance to sit down and write a post about it. So now I’m playing catch up with all the great videos I missed. The plan is to post them this week until they have all been shared with the world. Good shit y’all need to see and hear.
They say the writing process for many artists is a form of catharsis. They pour every ounce of themselves into a record, and once it’s written there is a tremendous weight lifted. In the case of my Portland budz Radiation City, they had one more thing to do for their catharsis to be complete. Of course I’m talking about this fantastic video of band members smashing a piano to pieces, to the tune of their latest single, “Find It of Use.”
This song is big and dramatic, with an ending that has an epic feel to it, like a gigantic wave crashing on a beach. I can’t help but feel like Rad City’s latest jam would be fantastic music to do a sexy, slowed down salsa dance to. As with their earlier tunes, the band infuses a vintage, “simpler time” feel with a slight Latin/Copacabana/old Hollywood vibe that is really wonderful.
Radiation City’s 7 song EP Cool Nightmare drops March 6th on Tender Loving Empire.
(via IFC)
