New Vids! Darling Downs, Watsons, Loxsly, Toadies

And the hits just keep coming at BLURT TV… because we care.

By Blurt Staff

In addition to that Toadies exclusive rehearsal clip we told you about yesterday and the Jason Isbell exclusive live performance a few days ago (more of that soon…), we’ve also added three of our favorite new videos to the BLURT TV section, which you can access by scrolling down or simply clicking through HERE.

• *The Watson Twins – “How Am I To Be”:  Double your pleasure and double your fun with this choice track off the Watson Twins' recent Vanguard album Fire Songs. The ladies may have come to our attention via their Jenny Lewis connection, but they're doing just fine on their own, we think. They are, as the saying goes, two breaths of fresh air in one.

• *Darling Downs – “Circa ‘65”: Dig this freaky video for “Circa ‘65” which the Darling Downs’ Ron Peno and Kim Salmon call “a 'countripolitan' song filmed in a neo-cubist style” — our eyes are poppin’! Peno and Salmon, of course, comprise Australian’s Darling Downs, and the song comes off their new album From One To Another (Carrot Top Records). And if those names ring a bell and you cast your memories back to Peno’s old band the Died Pretty and Salmon’s myriad outfits (Scientists, Surrealists, Beasts of Bourbon, etc.) then go directly to the head of the Oz-rock class.

• Loxsly – “Lamprey Eels” : From the forthcoming album Flashlights, a spacey bit of grooviness from one of Austin’s finest new bands. Mix in some Spoon, puree up some Beach Boys, and finally season with Wayne Coyne’s ashes and you just might have a sense of what this band’s all about.

Wait -- you say you missed the Toadies? Let us urge you on....

hTe Toadies’ new album No Deliverance is due August 19 on the Kirtland Records label, and it’s a BLURT-approved scorcher. We’ve got a nifty video peek of the band rehearsing, with another one to follow next week, and then a full song the week after that.