Eric Huber – Memphis Flyer

Music Video Monday is back after a short, travel-related hiatus to bring you the finest in Memphis punk rock. Yeah, that’s right—we’re talking about HEELS.

“Dread” is the first song from Josh McLane and Brennan Whalen’s new album on Altercation Records, Pop Songs for a Dying Planet. It’s classic HEELS: The tempo is fast, the song structure is folky, and the emotions are a mixture of ‘who cares?’ irony and aching sincerity.

In true Memphis fashion, the video was something made from nothing. “Since we spent all the money on the record we had to come up with an easy idea, then beg Eric Huber to make it worth watching,” says McLane. “Which really fits, because the song and album are really about using what you have to get through what you need to get through. ‘Dread’ is kind of a rally cry to calm down, pay attention and regroup.”

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Music Video Monday’s got your goat.

Midtown rockers HEELS—the guitar and drums combo of Brennan Whalen and Josh McLane—have a new album hitting the streets this week. McLane says the lead single “Fontanelles” is “a song about the soft spot God gave us so that Satan could get in. Seriously.”

To create a video for the smart, shouty blast of folk punk, HEELS turned to Memphis filmmakers Eric Huber and Stephen Hildreth. “Eric and his company Stanley Justice Productions have made all HEELS videos and has also won some Indie Memphis awards for his shorts,” says McLane.

Perhaps intimating that HEELS are the Greatest Of All Time, Huber and Hildreth trekked out to East Memphis’ Alexander Goat Farm, where McLane says the inhabitants were “happy to see the crew, as long as they had food.”

HEELS will celebrate the release of their Willing To Fail CD this Friday, December 16 at the Hi Tone with Mishka Shubaly, David Heti, Katrina Coleman, and Jared Herring. “Oh, and a Tim Burton-era Batmobile will be parked out front,” says McLean.

Music Video Monday: HEELS

If you would like to see your video on Music Video Monday, email cmccoy@memphisflyer.com