(Screen capture from Test Patterns video)
Online music magazine Impose has just launched a brand new video feature called Test Patterns. For the two-part inaugural installment, Impose video’d Iowa City krauty, sun-soaked, pop mavens Wet Hair. The session was taped back in April, on the band’s Northeastern tour, at Shea Stadium (the now famous DIY spot, not the now-demolished former home of the New York Metropolitans). The videos aren’t quite as lo-fi as the feature’s name would imply, really, the only nod to being a guerrilla, post-test-pattern airing is the random changes of color. Otherwise both the picture and audio quality are really beyond reproach. If you don’t believe me, just get a load of either “Echo Lady” or “Tarantula” below–both standouts from the group’s brand new De Stijl-released In Vogue Spirit. (more…)