Well, Iceland’s Benni Hemm Hemm is about to take a long trek to the United States. But before that, he is debuting his music video for lead track “I Can Love You In A Wheel Char, Baby.” The music video totally reminds me of what maybe a really young Wes Anderson would’ve done if he had to do a music video project in film school.
Here are the tour dates:
July 05 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
July 06 Boston, MA Middle East
July 07 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s
July 08 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
July 09 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
July 10 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry
July 13 Seattle, WA Crocodile Cafe
July 14 Portland, OR Towne Lounge
July 16 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
July 17 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
July 18 Phoenix, AZ Paperheart
July 20 Austin, TX Emo’s
July 21 Houston, TX Proletariat
July 24 Atlanta, GA Drunken Unicorn
July 25 Wilmington, NC Bella Festa
July 26 Washington, Dc Rock and Roll Hotel
July 27 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s
July 28 Brooklyn, NY Union Hall
Hula Garu is a based on a true story of Japanese women taking on Hula Dancing (Hawaiian dance) to save their small mining town of J from going into extinction. As coal was being replaced by oil, their town decides to open a Hawaiian center to attract tourists and keep their town alive.
I can’t believe this is the first time i’ve heard this track. But then again I guess I am a little bit biased, because I try to keep up with BEIRUT as much as I can. I guess you can say I’ve been a fan since October 2005 ever since I received this nice little white CDR with red marker written over it that said Gulag Orkestar put in a homemade plastic DVD case with the artwork being a photograph of an old home. But a lot has changed since the years that have passed.
