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Seems that Universal Music Group has done a deal with youtube, and while there is a lot of dreck up there from them, there are some gems too, like this great performance video of Robery Cray doing don’t be afraid of the dark.

If you haven’t seen this, you owe it to yourself to check out Famous Last Nerds Shawshank in a Minute - where you guessed it the’ve remade The Shawshank Redemption into a funny little 60 second clip.

The Churchills have released there newest video online - I’m a Sucker for a Girl in Uniform juxtaposes sugary sweet power pop sounds with vile imagary and takes a political stand all at once.

The Churchills have had cred in my book ever since I saw Meadow Soprano wearing a Churchills t-shirt.

If they are new to you: The band formed in New York City in 2000 when founding members Ron Haney and Bart Schoudel got one of their songs into the hands of Michael J. Fox who put them on three episodes of his show “Spin City.” The band appeared playing their song “Everybody Gets What They Deserve” live on the street in the show. Since then they have been featured widely on radio and video outlets around the country and syndicated on NPR around the world. Other members of the band include Scott Haskitt on drums and Jed Higgerson on guitar.

in addition to the video, you can listen to Sometimes Your Best Isn’t Good Enough here.

“No More Kings is for anyone who’s ever wanted a talking car.”
– Pete Mitchell

After dancing the night away to his fun, high-energy pop/funk/rock, you’ll find snippets of his catchy songs about zombies, Smurfs, and The Karate Kid stuck in your head. And you won’t be at all surprised to learn that this singer/songwriter’s story is as unique as the characters in his songs.

Pete Mitchell is just as comfortable on the West Coast as on the East, in a garage band as in a recording studio, animating cartoons as painting fine art, and his music echoes this ability to swing between the silly and the serious.

“This album is very character-driven, very story-based,” Pete says. A trait he learned as an animator that has carried over into his songwriting is communicating a character’s core to an audience. In “Sweep the Leg,” for example, Pete digs into the head of Johnny, Daniel-san’s nemesis in The Karate Kid, and presents a new way of looking at the story.

Pete Mitchell calls No More Kings’ first album a “thank-you letter to the 80s,” a perfect theme for someone who says that he (and his music) were “born in the 70s, raised in the 80s, and perfected in the 90s.”

They Have graciously provided RoxorBlog a copy of their MP3 Zombie Me so that we could make it available for download.