Shake Appeal is a column that highlights new garage and garage-adjacent releases. For the first installment of 2014, Evan Minsker features new music videos from Chicago's White Mystery, Los Angeles' Endless Bummer, England's Factotum, and New Zealand's Cool Runnings.
White Mystery: "Hey Shirley" and "Junglecat" [dir. Thadd Day]
Chicago's favorite brother-and-sister duo White Mystery are offering two music videos from their 2013 LP Telepathic. Both feature live footage of the band filmed in Austin, Texas (at Trailer Space Records, Beerland, and Hotel Vegas) and directed by Thadd Day. "Hey Shirley" is "Henry Rollins' favorite song from the Telepathic record", according to Miss Alex White, and the video features two kids sword fighting.
Endless Bummer: "Such a Drag" [dir. Jessica Hundley]
From their ripping debut 7" comes the ultra-bloody clip for Endless Bummer's "Such a Drag". The video features Greg, Lance, and Liz Bummer getting doused in blood, Carrie-style. The track (as well as the band's forthcoming full-length) was produced by Ty Segall.
Factotum: "Minute" [dir. Karl Gowing]
Later this month, Al and Karl of Factotum will release their album Knife Gun on Stolen Body Records. The clip for "Minute" is fairly minimal: Just two guys hanging out, steering a boat down a river.
Cool Runnings: "Cool Death" [dir. Alexander Hoyles]
New Zealand's Cool Runnings, whose members also play in the Raw Nerves (they put out a great self-titled album in 2012) have delivered a video for "Cool Death" that has one mission: To show a bunch of people smoking weed.