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Monday, June 16, 2008 

Current mood:  animated
Category: Music

::: split cassette w/ Death By TV ( www.myspace.com/deathbytv ) :::

 

new Videohippos track, "Happy Creek", is now available on a cassette split with Death By TV (UK).  Out on UF Records. 

 

HEART GARDENS subscribers also get extra bonus tracks on 3" CD ! ! !

 

"Happy Creek" video by MS Paint virtuoso, Chris Lineberry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyNu_orJVUo

 

 

from http://www.ufrecords.com/heart_grdns.html  :

TO BE ISSUED ON CASSETTE, HAVING A PINKISH CAST AND IMITATING MOST THOROUGHLY THE DOUBLE VISION OF TRUE SEEING ; COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE DELIVERY PER MONTH OF AN INDETERMINATE QUANTITY, THE SUBSCRIBER IS ASSURED NEW LISTENING INFUSIONS REGULARLY. LIMITED TO APPROXIMATELY 140 SUBSCRIBERS. ACT NOW!

$2-$3 PER TAPE, OR $35 TO SUBSCRIBE! PPD!

 

http://www.ufrecords.com/heart_grdns.html

www.myspace.com/ufrecords

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOUAzfCl01U


Here's a video by Robby Rackleff of our recent tour of Eastern Canada with our favorite friends DDMMYYYY and BLUE LEADER. What a tour!



Here's some photos taken with disposable cameras courtesy of Impose Magazine:
http://www.imposemagazine.com/tour-photos-video-hippos-vs-ddmmyyyy/9283/
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Monday, April 28, 2008 

Current mood:  pure
Category: Music

Help support our tours and get a FREE monthly sampler of 10-15 mp3 tracks with album purchases from Insound ! ( http://www.insound.com )   ....AND/OR....

Buy our album "Unbeast The Leash" from Insound and receive two exclusive Videohippos tracks as a free bonus.  Songs "Trashed" and totally brand new song "Bonehenge" !!! (only available for the next 6 months!)  ( http://www.insound.com/Videohippos_Unbeast_the_Leash_CD/productmain/p/INS36319/ )

The fine folks at Insound have started a new project to help Videohippos and others go on tour.  It's called "Give More. Get More".  Here's the idea:

Give More: Show Support:

Every time you buy an MP3 album from Insound (not EPs or singles), Insound will donate $.25 to a touring band. Insound will choose 6 lucky bands that they like, but you get to select the actual artist (videohippos!!) to earmark your quarter to. Furthermore, should you wish to "tip" additional funds to these great artists, you can add your own tip during checkout. 100% of these funds will go to the band you choose. If you do not choose a specific band, Insound will distribute the funds equally to all of the bands.

Get More: Insound Mixtape:

With every single digital album order (again, not EPs or singles...sorry), Insound will offer it's customers a free monthly sampler of 10-15 tracks, hand-selected by insound as a free MP3 download at checkout. In essence, you get two albums' worth of music for the price of one, when you buy an MP3 album from Insound. Insound will create a new mixtape each month so you can discover the newest and the bestest all over again.

http://www.insound.com

http://www.insound.com/givemoregetmore.php

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Friday, August 03, 2007 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
"I'm severely in love with this record. Its simple, effective beats, fun-loving vocals, and pop aura are ferociously addictive. "Kool Shades" immediately caught me, while no one track on this record disappoints. One of the best full-lengths of the year!" - Heather K, OUT OF ORDER RECORDS

"Videohippos' debut is in full-on attack mode for most of its 13 track songs, charging through woozy analog hardcore with the ingenuity of keyboard-pounding forerunners Add (N) To X (or is it Suicide?) but leaving techno bite marks with its hyper beat patterns." - Band To Watch, MAGNET Magazine
 
"...seemingly lawless...perfect for those rare times when deciding between Mates of State, a tab of Ecstasy, and Lightning Bolt proves too difficult." - Josh Modell, SPIN Magazine
 
"...it sounds at once a part of its scene and completely contrary to it, the warm crash as the sugar wears off." - Mike Powell, PITCHFORK
 
"...Unbeast The Leash contains thirteen tracks of electric (and toy) guitar, addictive beats via electronic toy keyboards and the right-on-time drumming of Kevin O'Meara, and it's all overlapped by the infectiously odd-sounding pop melodies of Jim Triplett...I really do feel like Unbeast The Leash is one of the coolest things I've heard so far this year.  In a live setting, Videohippos provide a show that just might cause you to have a mild seizure. They perform their two-piece attack backed by a giant screen featuring film clips from cartoons, movies, commercials, and other propaganda that add an additional element to their already explosive songs." - COVERT CURIOSITY
 
"Rising like a computerized phoenix through digital ashes and announcing its arrival with an ominous squak...Unbeast The Leash aims for a sound in the region of My Bloody Valentine and Stereolab's strange cousin that's been on Ritalin for a few too many years, watches too much television, possibly needs to take a shower and for some reason has that likable grin that makes it hard to make fun of him." - Jeff Hasay, SPACELAB Music Review
 
"The two fellows in the band play a noisy racket of electronic-laced pop music that's at times spazzy and almost happy hardcore, while at other times pushes into a darker, almost post punk realm that gives Unbeast The Leash a much more rounded feel. The group seems to know that too much sugar makes your teeth hurt, but even the more foreboding songs have a great sense of energy that implies that if they're going down, they might as well do so swinging." - ALMOST COOL Music Reviews
 
"Videohippos tackle indie rock with harebrained experiments, offbeat arrangements and oddly enough, a sizeable amount of pop hooks. But Unbeast the Leash is misleading in its dumbed down antics; it features carefully measured timing, genre crossovers and did I mention the hooks? Everything is calculated brilliantly by the tag team of Kevin O'Meara (drums/keys/vocals) and Jim Triplett (guitar/vocals/keys). Yes, somehow they pull off this kaleidoscopic mind melding experiment with only four hands." - Cam Lindsay, EXCLAIM!
 
"Baltimore's Videohippos know how to capitalize on the psychedelic happening. Like any good trip, the band's initial approach is a casual one: Drummer Kevin O'Meara and guitarist Jim Triplett set up a familiar rock 'n' roll instrumentation with the sweet promise of relief from reality. But once the hallucinatory jams begin to drop, the audience members' senses start getting skewed, and all visual and audio input is thrown into doubt. Is that a gas-mask microphone O'Meara is hollering into? Is Triplett playing a pint-sized toy ax? And where the hell did the Berenstain Bears footage projected onto the wall come from? Like the Exploding Plastic Inevitable—minus the whips, the chains, and Lou Reed--- Videohippos create confusion for the sake of thrills. Sure, it's a mess—but it's a mess made for your benefit and one that you can safely come down from once the experience is over." - Aaron Leitko, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
 
"Teetering on the fringes of happycore, techno, and noise, this duo has concocted heavy pop rounds on their debut. Jubilant at points, dark at others, they seem to have a sense of foreboding about the future. As their name suggests, Videohippos perform live with both audio and video. Backed by a giant screen, personal and pop culture video collages are projected in synch with the music. "Unbeast The Leash" at first glance is a pop album, but after a couple listens you realize there's so much more going on.  Videohippos are big drum and guitar beasts with keyboards revved up on giant pixie sticks and liquid fun. Freakout fuzz coordinated with video plunder." - WFMU Radio
 
"Videohippos pack in 12 tracks of rawk, pop, melancholy and, above all, unconventionality. The effect? An exceptional record worthy of being set on repeat." - Brock Thiessen, GOOD NIGHT CIGARETTES
 
"UNBEAST THE LEASH, the Baltimore duo's Monitor debut, melds the jerky, over-caffeinated energy of Lightning Bolt and Oneida with '80s Euro-synth pop acts such as Erasure and Yaz. Undercutting the synth spazz are guitar-chord chops worthy of '90s revival punk. On tracks like "Bear Fight" and "Kool Shades" the mixture is hellacious and fresh--imploring dancefloor comers to shake it as fast as they possibly can." - CD UNIVERSE
 
"Unbeast the Leash is miles away from either the pretentious "too cool for sound-mixing school" style or the "not too broke for Pro Tools" local schlock that seems to plague music these days. Instead what we have here is a time-capsule, a rock-n-roll snapshot of ALF, Mrs. Pacman, and The Talking Heads all rolled into one: played as if the band were preoccupied with an endless game of "Duckhunt". – Jeff Guay, SLUG MAG
 
"...the most wilfully obscure yet satisfying albums of the year.  You see this duo have the capacity to pound sweet notes like they are going out of fashion without ever giving anything away through the use of nonsensical word chains. Sure they chirp and bounce vocal taunts in your general direction but they are limited to getting to the heart of the matter through a condensed sound that never overwhelms yet so utterly consumes. The best example comes by way of 'Lazer Jet', a frantic exhibition of light and sound that shall be cherished on these very pages in our Top 42 of 2007." - MP3 HUGGER
 
"Another from Baltimore's Wham City explosion, Videohippos unsurprisingly will leave you grinning. Comprised of Kevin O'Meara and Jim Triplett, Videohippos have built a name from celebratory live shows that combine noisy pop with insane video collage. Their awesomely titled Unbeast the Leash full-length is pure fun, combining the melodic sensibility of homies Ecstatic Sunshine with the goofy, thrift-store electronics of Wham leader Dan Deacon. Tracks like "Bear Fight" and "Koolshades" let their guitars guide them, while songs like "Lazer Jet" and "Narwhals" leave room for surprisingly sincere vocals. Elsewhere, "Sick Dolphin" combines porpoise noises with Nintendo free jazz. Unbeast the Leash is like classic Steve Martin: pleasantly stupid, with just enough heart to keep you addicted." - Josiah Hughes, XLR8R
 
"Projections of fucked up cartoons and home movies that would give Bob Saget an epileptic seizure round out the band's live performance. Videohippos take the punk aesthetic of not caring how it sounds or if you can understand the words and add Nintendo loops and Battles-esq chipmunk vocals to ultimately create a rich and animated album." - PARTYENDS.COM
 
"My first thought was to call this noise-pop, but that doesn't necessarily fit with Videohippos. First and foremost the melodies contained within Unbeast the Leash are just too goddamn catchy and intoxicating to simply write it off that easily. The groups sound is definitely one of the most intriguing and unique mashups that's I've heard in awhile, combining a crazy amount of churning synth, feedback, and thunderous drumming.  Really, O'Meara's ferocious battery to his drum kit is a driving force on Unbeast the Leash giving the group an almost mutant like essence to their already cartoon-like sound. Surround that with Triplett's wonderfully crafted melodies and then sprinkle in samples upon samples and you have Videohippos odd but highly tantalizing view of pop music." - BUILT ON A WEAK SPOT
 
"Kevin and Jim are all that comprise VIDEOHIPPOS, but after several times through Unbeast the Leash I'm convinced there is a genius, robot monster sitting in as the band's third member." - REWRITEABLE CONTENT
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Friday, July 27, 2007 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

STEREOGUM.COM, August 2007:  "Band To Watch" http://www.stereogum.com/archives/band-to-watch/band-to-watch-videohippos.html

PITCHFORK:  http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44291-unbeast-the-leash

SPIN Magazine, August 2007:  Unbeast The Leash review, 3.5stars/5 !!!

MAGNET Magazine, Summer 2007:  "Band To Watch"

SLUG Magazine, June 2007:  http://www.slugmag.com/ncdr.php?issue=222

BUILT ON A WEAK SPOT:  http://www.builtonaweakspot.com/2007/05/videohippos-unbeast-leash.html

XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/downloads/videohippos/kool_shades/

8^)

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Thursday, June 21, 2007 

Current mood:  accomplished
hey friends,
we are in the middle of an awesome tour to support our new album "unbeast the leash"
If we are making it to your town you can get the CD or vinyl straight from our hands into yours,
but you can also order it:

the vinyl is limited to 500 and available from our friends at wildfire records in baltimore,
click here to order from them.

the CD is out on monitor records
you can get it straight from jason on the monitor site.
It is also available from any fine stores that carry secretly canadian distro.
Support your local record store before they go extinct!

the internet has enough money already. Anyway, listening to the mp3 format will negate a lot of the work we did mixing the album-- but you can download the shit out of some mp3s, even convert them to aac and put them on your nano if thats your style. Not everyone has the patience to lift the tone arm and make sure the dust is wiped off in these days. these days. . .

see you in the United (police) States or canada this summer! ask us questions. we might have answers.

love, videohippos
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Sunday, February 11, 2007 

Current mood:  sick
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
god blammit we're home from another road trip, thanks everyone who helped us along the way. .
everyone at 321 college ave for making the best instant show i've ever seen. . .
Fake Lake, Bird Names, everyone at Shape Shoppe for putting helmets on our lions.
Clay, Kyle, the Wrap, and RocketStar, and everyone who braved the snow in kalamazoo.
juiceboxxx! and riverwest video for having the show despite it being 15 degrees below zero. milwaukee is tough.
little rock again blew my mind. why doesnt every city have community fridges? thanks casey, treehouse, browningham, jessi. happy fuckers unite. .
we had never been to asheville NC but we're definitely going back- thanks sam, eileen, ivy, 101 tacoma is my dream house. Holy shit EAR PWR! rad dance party at new french bar. . .
greenville was out of control. its like a big city underground scene inside of a sleepy southern town. As usual the craziest show of the tour.
Blast not but not beast, richmond VA. Brian Narwhals with the pom wizard total chaos rules!

And of course the whole thing was amplified 500 watts per channel by OCDJ and Santa Dads. Wham family.

-k
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Saturday, November 18, 2006 

Current mood:space chariots
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
unbeasttwo days to go, we're almost home, having survived wild america. lots of sleeping outdoors, broken possesions, bacteria, amazing people, bored people, insane people.
ocdj+commandR leg one
Kalamazoo started it off big and sweaty- in chicago we met the wizard of pizza and drank rotten milk- juiceboxxx repped snapple and terrior bute modeled tap lights in mke- MPLS was a friendly ghost- we crawled underground in the badlands- missoula was quality bro at the lab, thanks niki (and josh)
ocdj,cmdr,+dr.science leg two=
hitting the best coast we picked up a screamer named paul, and in bellingham we became wizards and gained evvery man's knowledge, because we were hard asses. then we drove to sleep near a volcano. Portland was a rest stop, we saw ecstatic sunshine rule the holocene and rode big bikes with ironman roberts- i slept in a fever through northern cali, but it broke in LA and we blasted some college kids. San diego was one of the best shows despite only having a fifteen minute time slot. amps broke and people seemed into it. Big ups to Marfa and Ne-af! what a ruling drummist. synergy cowbells! after
boocdj+altR leg three=
dropping off our erstwhile singer we stocked up on raw colostrum and headed into the desert and saw some homeland being secured, and former homeland being unsecured. tohono o-odham radio rules! Cactus and man ate each other, and we climbed into an abandoned mine to find some havelina carcasses. booyah.
dont mess with texas. trying to find the Rio grande at 4 in the morning, we gave up to sleep at a picnic table amidst a connecticut-sized beef ranch.
at seven AM the van wouldnt start and the satellites were hiding behind big hills. Dan had to walk seven miles and almost got killed by a loose bison. AAA came and towed us to the set of King of the hill, where the toon juice magically revived the van, and we sledded to austin. My aunt Mo made some delicious victory dinner while the van idled on the street, and we rattled emos with MUSCLES, ecstatic sunshine, and make believe. houston was a best beast , thanks to the hunter siblings, but we ran out of toon juice and had to break out the big plastic to get on the raod again. since when does a fuel pump cost as much as an 80 gig iPod? where's the obsolescence discount? next tour is on bikes?
some dude named Zeus tried to stop us from getting to little rock, but we rode the lightning.
ocdj, cmdr, and gurlges, leg four=
jim flew in on his GPS glider and we landed in the treehouse without spilling our drinks.
athens was actually in flames and we fanned them. secret shows are the best. ATL was a little empty but still ruled. Props to the family unit who stuck around, and the first actual bird to watch our whole show.
savannah, four thousand volts werewolf unit dan deacon playing outside and stolen equipment didnt stop pinky masters and waldorf salad from kissing god on the mouth. thanks justin!
north carolina is still steeping but we drank most of it. the spazz, the nightlight, soapbox, kings all quality! future islands like california.
tomorrow richmond then we've got to go back to bed,
SLEEP CENTER>

OH yeah, our ears are melting trying to finish our new record, its almost done and off to the mastering factory. It will be out next spring on CD/mp3 thanks to monitor records, and wildfire is dreaming awesome enough to put it down on vinyl. rulers, rulers, microns, ..11 blades, circle cutters, squeeges, mousepads. the works. artwork is still coming into existence. blast beats.
we're going to take it fairly easy in the next few months, gearing up for another USA tour in march/april, west coast via SXSW.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 

Current mood:  indescribable

pink/navy blue screened cover on black vinyl.  artwork by Nolen of Posttypography!  Awesome!! order it here:  http://www.rococorecords.com/

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Monday, September 11, 2006 

Current mood:  accomplished
unbeast the leash!
yes. we have made actual awesome recordings with our friend Hugh McElroy
(he did most of the making and the awesome)
chocolate, beer, bananas, runny shits, dukem kitfo, macarena, thumbs up, its all over now, baby blue. we feel much happier now. we're younger than that now.
eleven songs done (sans vocals) rider bearfight koolshades takeit downfall dollfin toothsub narwhals lazerjet wagesoffear thelist
these and a few others will be on our full length dropping february 2007 everywherewolf
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