Man-Cat "Yeast" video

Pop deconstructionists Man-Cat, whose mission statement reads: "We're just trying to feed pop music back to the consumers in the most subversive way possible," have reactivated their long dormant YouTube video for "Yeast."

And it's comprised solely of "pizza delivery boy porn" clips (insert "extra sausage" joke here). But it's not all "funny ha ha," explains a shadowy representative from the Man-Cat organization.

"[The "Yeast" video is] constructed out of clips from pizza delivery boy porn. You know, grandiose commentary about popular media consumption blah blah blah. Sorry we're so disgusting."

The idea to cover PJ Harvey arose when Stateside Presents' Charlie Levy asked the band to play Cover the Crescent a few weeks ago. Vocalist Robin Vining agreed and initially offered to play some Fiona Apple Songs.

"Out of the million artists that you can cover I don't know why we went with PJ Harvey," said drummer Steve Dueck. "I think we just thought it would be more fun.
There's a certain sense of androgyny. I think that's what I like about PJ Harvey too...there aren't many women artists who do the kind of things that she does," replied Vining.

It is not likely that "Hair" or any other PJ Harvey song will show up in a Sweetbleeders set any time soon--"If we're playing for three or four hours we might. If we're playing for 40 minutes, probably not," says Vining.

Sweetbleeders' next show is at The Trunk Space on Monday, February 13 with Parenthetical Girls.

We swung by bassist David Marquez's house in downtown Phoenix to hear Sweetbleeders' take on PJ Harvey. Check it out after the jump.

Boys and Frogs has once again struck gold with the carnival-themed video for its latest single, "Lay Your Wet Hair Down," which officially premieres on Thursday, February 16 at Madcap Theaters during a free geek-themed Third Thursday concert.

"Lay Your Wet Hair Down" is available as a free mp3 download on the band's Soundcloud page.

Boys and Frogs was kind enough to give us an advanced peek at the video. Check out colorful ferris wheels, waltzes on a bumper car track, and a fire breathing girl with a Skrillex haircut after the jump.

We've read plenty of liner notes and consulted a few experts (including you, loyal reader), but we've also spent plenty of time digging around on YouTube for exotic Arizona exports. This 1992 Flotsam and Jetsam electronic press kit is a perfect example of the excellent stuff we've found floating about on the Internet's waves. Over the course of the videos 6 minutes and 6 seconds running time (that's only missing a single 6), the band pimps its then latest record, Quatro on via KSAR's Metal Works program.

There's bodacious babes, discussion of bass players that have left the band (Jason Newsted, who famously went on to Metallica, and Troy Gregory, who left for Prong), a bunch of dudes who have never played bass in the band, and a glowing endorsement from a random dude shopping at Zia Records in Tempe: "The Beatles -- they were a really good band. They ain't no Flotsam and Jetsam, though."

"The arrangement that we came up with was specific to the instruments we play. We're not the guitar, bass, and drums band, we're a little less conventional, so to do something that kind of fit our style meant retooling the song a bit," said drummer Andre Gressieux.

"We figured it would be smart to just go away from the arrangement, like listen to it then just, I don't know, have a shot of whiskey and do something else," guitarist Jake Acosta adds.

Roll Acosta describes their stripped down version of "A Taste of Honey" as more rhythmic and chill than the original. Check it out after the jump.

I swung by Dustin Youso's backyard birthday/going away party to record Bogan Via's take on "No One Does It Like You" by Department Of Eagles. "I just love that they use their voices as instruments and there's so many great harmonies," says vocalist/keyboardist Madeleine Miller.

"They're probably one of the bands that I respect the most. The songwriting is ridiculous, there's just so much talent with the vocals. I've always been really attracted to harmonies and it's a song that suits our personality," adds Bret Bender (vocals, guitar).

Bogan Via's is scheduled to perform Friday, February 11 with The Madera Strand at The Trunk Space.

Check out Bogan Via's version of "No One Does It Like You" after the jump.

Next in the line of little girls doing badass things is "My First Hardcore Song" by 8-year-old Juliet. Juliet channels her inner Walls of Jericho to share her love of her dog and fish. The song includes a breakdown of Juliet picking up change, doing the windmill, and "opening up the pit" with stuffed animals on a trampoline.

Check out this brutally adorable video after the jump.

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And you'll be able to experience the groovy rhythms of this funky take on traditional Klezmer music when Flagstaff's Jerusafunk stop by the Lost Leaf on Friday, January 20.

We caught up with clarinetist Jessie Demaree and guitarist Chris Del Favero for the skinny on the bands first foray into funk/Klezmer fusion and the meaning behind "Bulgar from Kiev."

The song's pretty self-explanatory, but the video debut marks the first time the outfit dabbles in video production.

We caught up with rapper Knawledg for the low-down on the music video that starts with the disclaimer that, "all individuals in this film are medical marijuana patients."

Follow the jump for his take on smoking the sticky-icky, the new album and that other controversial state law, Senate Bill 1070.